Years ago, I was moving from one crazy, dangerous neighborhood to another slightly less dangerous, yet equally crazy neighborhood, when a mentally ill homeless person randomly tried to cut me with a box cutter. Just one of those things. One second he was trudging by silently, the next he was coming at me, also silently…

Like much else in the world, their value is based on people thinking they have value  

The best analogy I’ve seen for them is those “name a star” services, where some company has a list of stars and you name one after your mom and give her a little certificate with the star’s location in the night sky on her birthday or whatever.

‘Creators’ of NFTs claim that their products are Non-Fungible-Tokens. Non-fungible is a hipster way of saying that this token (this thing that is used for TRADING) is not tradeable. Tokens are a common way of trading this-for-that. Fungible refers to things that can be replaceable: a worker for another worker; one…

Imagine an Excel sheet. Row 1: “Person A owns Thing X”, row 2: “Person B owns thing Y”, etc....

If value is tied to scarcity, assigning specific ownership of one instance of an otherwise reproducible object (digital data) thus increases the value of that particular piece of data.

They offer no practical value in the real world, which is why they’re a completely unrelateable concept to people outside the NFT cult.

If you’re asking seriously, then AFAIK the simplest answer is people find value in original things like original works of art. NFT is a way to identify an original digital work and hence give it the value we associate with other original works.

Here’s a good explanation:

What’s the value of them? What position do they occupy in our workaday world?

His full name was Jabber Jaw and he talked sorta liked Curly from Three Stooges.

She has a surprisingly detailed description of the mechanics in this clip:

It depends on whether the other half is taller or shorter than her.

Well, except maybe Carl Sagan.

It's so frustrating because it's called "AVClub." It's supposed to be the nerdy judge kids that love cult movies. You don't need to be in LA for that. Hell, if you are, you're probably the wrong type of person. You don't need access or proximity, you need a dark room to discover the films, or perspective, others may…

That’s the part that jumped out at me too. “Hello and welcome to this Zoom call, where we can communicate over long distances perfectly adequately for almost every purpose imaginable to this publication. You will be required to move to within 15 miles of the new HQ so that you can stand three feet away from me when…

Yes, I’ve been saying for years I’m still around because I am too old to unlearn and relearn new sites. And I like the commenters here.

Cheers for the LAST NIGHT mention. More folks need to see that. (The McKellar one, not the Knightley one).

I wouldn’t worry too much about what some random nobody with a hot take for a name whose entire joke was “lol some people are old” tries to throw at you.

This is a highly ironic response.