“You did everything great, but you failed immediately when you drove down the middle of the road.”

Personally, I find it more likely that an intern wrote up an inaccurate product description. But who really knows. That said, I can see a few scenarios where Shepard is somehow brought back despite dying:

A “Diet Phil”, as it were.

True. He certainly has the highest “money to sense” ratio. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if already has a stake in the crypto space, but at the top end that doesn’t really own much but takes peoples’ money to mint things and approve transactions.

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Right? They’d need to cash out, and who’s going to buy it all?

An E-spot, if you will.

The claimed purpose is bragging rights

Fair. It’s more accurate to say that the unregulated space made various financial and fraud crimes available, but didn’t necessarily prevent LE from eventually wising up to the crypto space and tracking down the info they need.

Mmm... Yes, I agree that’s what many enthusiasts claim. But in practice, it works out a lot like those “Buy a star” programs. In both cases, you are claiming ownership of something you can’t practically own, or even do anything with. The value comes from an organization recognizing you as the owner of a thing.

It’s a valid point, though. At the heart of NFTs is the claim that they are a unique, finite, object. Essentially recreating ownership of a physical object, but for the digital space. And the counterpoint is that data objects aren’t unique finite objects, and never will be, because they can be copied infinitely. The…

The example you gave for contracts isn’t great. It has the same flaw as any NFT, in that someone can just copy the tree model and distribute it for free, and there’s little recourse to sue the copier or prevent the copying. Without legal support of ownership, an NFT has nothing backing it up. But once the NFT has…

Like, technically they can be used for a few things, but they provide basically no improvements or advantages over existing technologies (the key advantages seem to lie in fraud and crime, as opposed to actual technologies). I liken it to trying to use a Smart Car for long haul trucking.

I’m guessing it’s projection, considering most NFT proponents usually have an agenda to sell NFTs and make them look valuable. 

Oh, but don’t forget the ways NFTs have innovated fraud and financial crimes! /s

NFTs are QAnon if it were stock, if believing in a flat Earth could be bought and sold. They depend on the belief in their own existence to exist, requiring faith and religious notions of “worthiness” in order to flourish.

“For the husband cannot be guilty of a rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife for by their mutual matrimonial consent and contract the wife hath given up herself in this kind unto her husband which she cannot retract,” Hale wrote.

I feel like Bladerunner could also be on the list, just based on how much discussion is put into whether or not Deckard is human or not. As with Inception, the movie’s themes fit better with that question being left unanswered (or just not asked at all, depending on which version you’re watching).
(And if anyone wants…

Wow, that would be amazing. Like with the Old School Loki from the Loki show, Bruce could be 1960s Howard Hughes styled Tony Stark.

I missed the pics. I’ll have to check those out. I could see Bruce in the role, though it feels like a missed opportunity not having Jeffrey Combs as Dr. Mordrid.