Great job @ebay. Now my 1/1 has two dinged corners.
Unfortunately a $235 sale price after tax & shipping was just enough to notch the $250 threshold for unwanted authentication services.
Just so you are aware- if the card arrives damaged, “Yep, that’s a real card” isn’t especially helpful.
If this is the standard, I’d appreciate you removing yourselves from the equation next time.
At this point, I trust random sellers with bubble wrap more than the supposed “experts”.
@thehobby@ebaysucks
New York Times Reader with latest paper is charged with manslaughter
A front door video camera showed the copy of the new york times plowing into the house
See how silly that sounds? The human committed manslaughter, not the car.
The New York Times has blood on their hands
1. Idiocracy is not a film about television and fast food. It is a film about negative selection – what happens when a system, over enough time, consistently rewards stupidity and punishes thought. The mechanism requires no malice. It requires only that compliance be more comfortable than intelligence, and that comfort be the only value on offer.
2. Communism ran this experiment at gunpoint, in real time. The intelligent were the first problem – they noticed things, named things, remembered things. So they were removed. What remained was a civilization that had learned, across generations, that thinking loudly was dangerous and thinking quietly was exhausting. So it stopped.
3. The system then promoted accordingly. Loyalty over competence. Conformity over creativity. The reliable mediocrity over the brilliant deviation. This is not a side effect. It is the intended output. A society of obedient workers — remember Boxer from Animal Farm? — but without the sincerity – compliant units who had forgotten there was ever another option.
4. Brawndo has electrolytes. The sentence is repeated with increasing confidence as counter-evidence accumulates. This is not just stupidity – it is also the mature form of zakłamanie. The slogan replaces the argument because the argument was never the point.
5. The West is running the same experiment, more slowly, through screens, through the managed demolition of educational standards, through the replacement of argument with slogan and merit with grievance. Communism first used a gun. The new version uses an algorithm and a feelings-first curriculum.
6. The destination is identical. The Idiocracy is not a warning about the future. In some places it is already the second five-year plan.
Elon Musk just put a price tag on obedience. It costs $200,000.
Musk: “You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.”
Every lecture. Every textbook. Every framework ever written. Free on any screen in any country right now. The entire knowledge monopoly collapsed in a decade. Nobody updated the price tag.
Musk: “Colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they’re not for learning.”
Strip the ivy and the branding. What’s underneath is a four-year obedience trial. Can this person follow instructions on a schedule without asking why.
Musk: “There is a value that colleges have, which is seeing whether somebody can work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments, and still do their homework assignments.”
That is the entire six-figure value proposition. Not what you know. Not what you can build. Whether you can be managed. The establishment doesn’t need you educated. It needs you domesticated.
Musk: “If you’re trying to do something exceptional, you must have evidence of exceptional ability. I don’t consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability.”
The system doesn’t produce exceptional. It produces manageable. It takes the most creative years of your life and teaches you to wait for instructions. That is not education. That is containment.
Musk: “Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs is pretty smart, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out.”
They didn’t leave because they couldn’t keep up. They left because the ceiling was underground.
8 billion people now carry the same library in their pocket. The one these institutions charged a lifetime of debt to access.
The only product the university still sells is the belief that you need one.
Two friends ordered the Launch edition tonight. One of them with the image below just got into her first Tesla less than three months ago. She’s already upgrading and giving her 2026 to her daughter. She’s gone from zero to biggest Tesla advocate in less than 90 days.
GREAT NEWS! Mamdani has FINALLY cleared all the junkies from the sidewalks around Madison Square Garden
All it took was Taylor Swift getting married, as the junkies were in front of the “celebrity entrance”
They’ll all be back Saturday, I’m sure 🙄
What a joke.
“He said to me on the phone, it was supposed to be you, verbatim. At the moment, I just took it as poorly expressed grief. He was crying, I was crying. I thought he said, it was supposed to be you. It was supposed to be you. So I have questions about that now.”
“What scares me more is considering the world that our children will inherit if we stay quiet. We feel the squeeze. We feel the evil. We feel the cloud. It’s there. And you have a bunch of people who, whether it’s for money or for fear, are allowing it to happen. There are so many historical lessons about what can happen to a country when good men do nothing.”
@RealCandaceO