Once you dismiss most of science Yeah every actual scientist I know is 100% ready to change opinion based on facts, but anti-science folks tend to decide based on feels and nothing will ever change their

Yeah I don't mean the legit anti-spam folks, I mean the more vocal ones who hound people off the platform for breaking unwritten rules. I had various people pile on me just for posting more than once during

beware of being seen as spammy as the 'Hive police' could get on your case Those folks already drove a ton of people away, I think if they take offense at useful content that happens to link out once to

Yeah that is what I was thinking, I know some scrapers will turn out to be toxic links, but overall if it just helps indexing ...

Do you think art can be valuable without someone placing monetary value on it?

I’ve no idea since we moved back to the UK. Wish I could buy using PayPal or some other convenient option since I can’t get a credit card yet while mortgage applications (being out of the country for a

The only necessary purchases were the book and cars yeah but we also got the special dice out of convenience rather than making a set :)

It’s great fun but I’d check the cars value before chopping them up 😁

What did you mean by the uk nuked the British pound? We didn’t join the Euro so it can’t be that

I guess outside of the games it’s really still a small community :)

Wish I had massive hive $ to fall back on but my $0.40 per post isn’t going to keep a roof over our heads. My fate is in my bosses hands for a while yet :(

OMG yeah so much regret. 90% of my original hardware I collected as a pandemic/mid-life crisis thing ;) Nothing of my original hardware exists any longer, I would love to have my original vic 20 especially

Love it, I have originals of both of those now (I have to Beeb and a master) but I got my buddy a Pi 400 for Christmas so he could relive his BBC/Electron/Amiga days :)

I am sure they do, companies will at least want to avoid injury/liabilities but I imagine if they are spending that kind of dough they are knowledgable too!

My main concern with Wall St getting involved isn't so much the greed, which I think is baked in now at this point, it is the whole "embrace and extend" side where they push their partners in

I hope so. One thing that I’ve thought might improve the overall quality of content here would be long term rewards rather than capped at a week. Another could be advertising with revenue share.

The hive communities have been trained to produce and vote up bare minimum thin content and relationships determine who get the rewards not quality. It’s not as bad as steem where a stolen graph and buzzword

Sometimes the right thing to do still feels like a kick in the nuts :(

That’s a shame but totally appreciate your position

We moved from Canada back to the uk so I only just got around to changing my location yeah