Would need an escrow agent probably who would provide contracts for buyer and seller for a specific dollar amount the crypto is worth at the time the contract is signed by both parties. No surprises and the escrow agent makes money through fluctuations by taking a cut. The precious metals dealers online have massively cut the amount they are willing to pay for silver. Used to be that you could sell Eagles at spot since eagles have some collector value beyond the metal. Now they can be sold at 90% of spot. The middlemen in crypto transactions would pull similar tricks in times of high volatility to guarantee their own profits. Current difference online between buy and sell prices for silver is 25%. I guess these guys are making plenty of money even through these fluctuations. And that assumes the customers are acting intelligently by buying low and selling high, which is not necessarily the case. I bet the metals retailers profits have spiked enormously through all these fluctuations simply because they dictate the spread, and demand for transactions has spiked.

@jon-nyc said in ICE kills a US citizen in Minneapolis: Not the forum I’d expect this in. https://x.com/headquarters_67/status/2019486222029037719?s=46 Having said that I have no details of city or venue. Yeah, I generally more class and decorum, as well as a more intelligent crowd at a WWE event than at a random Democrat rally…

The irony of a New Yorker speaking about the fine state of Massachusetts in this way may be lost on some of our more unsophisticated posters.

lol

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@Doctor-Phibes said in Florida couple sue fertility clinic after being implanted with wrong embryo: I'm not convinced that trying to trace the biological parents is a good idea - what are they hoping to achieve? Better to just accept the kid as theirs. Better do some due diligence, at least rule out the Zamunda-Joffer bloodline or the Wakanda-T’Chaka bloodline.

@Mik said in In other news…: [image: 628011225_1219314263705646_1183473734092212067_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=FnptP-mBItsQ7kNvwGDA1If&_nc_oc=AdnaQTOkYlCf_r3w8kQCLjTAVAdkcdGjeaojv6-1PTHEOx8jDJSI0QMRFEArKIopB1sHJmwc2MAZ4uKq58SFNKvc&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.fluk1-1.fna&_nc_gid=t8xp3HLUUvguxYeII4q50w&oh=00_AfudPwI0WhpBxE92gY9PSP0CY4G8JUu0yB0_9XcYiGH_3g&oe=698A5042] And those same plastic surgeons endorsed 18 months ago.

I know what the 6.8 doesn't mean. Err umm, I mean I'd be guessing. I definitely do not KNOW.

Damn you get our hopes up just for this?

Different state, but Supreme Court makes decision on redistricting. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-02-04/supreme-court-rejects-gop-challenge-to-californias-new-election-map The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that California this fall may use its new election map, which is expected to send five more Democrats to Congress. With no dissents, the justices rejected emergency appeals from California Republicans and President Trump's lawyers, who claimed the map was a racial gerrymander to benefit Latinos, not a partisan effort to bolster Democrats. "Donald Trump said he was ‘entitled’ to five more congressional seats in Texas. He started this redistricting war. He lost, and he’ll lose again in November," Gov. Gavin Newsom said in response to the court's decision.

@89th Star Trek: Is this an unlimited buffet?? The replicator in 10 Forward can cater to all tastes and appetites.

@taiwan_girl said in Artificial Lungs Kept a Dying Man Alive For 48 Hours—Until He Was Well Enough to Receive an Organ Transplant: Medicine is amazing. But I am sure they were saying that back in 1926 and look how far it has come since them. eople in 2126 will look back at 2026 in the same way probably. or in 2126 maybe the population will be decimated from measles and other preventable diseases and people will wonder how ingenious people were in past times

I don’t know that I’d go quite that far. The title that is.

Ahhh, I didn’t look at the timestamp on the tweet! The jury came back yesterday. They found him guilty. Apparently, he and the Au Pair planned to kill his wife and blame it on a total stranger that they also killed. So they created an account for his wife on some whackadoodle website, invited this guy to the house for some action, then shot him and stabbed her when he showed up…

said in The marketplace is changing: I cut cable in 1994. I did buy a real diamond for Mayla. I joke that it’s the smallest car I ever purchased. Agreed re stocks - 20-somethings have app-based trading accounts at a higher rate than my peers had (say) Schwab accounts. Though many probably buy more crypto than stocks. Re paper napkins young people probably have a stash from take out orders. I bet they rarely buy condiments either. Creepy. I got Facebook ads for selling diamonds after posting this.

We have some smart people here!!!!

A couple more of those "predictable" developments ... https://newrepublic.com/post/206049/ice-agents-whine-massive-bonuses New hires at Immigration and Customs Enforcement are complaining that they haven’t yet received the massive bonuses promised to them for agreeing to brutally arrest immigrants. https://newrepublic.com/post/206029/ice-arrests-right-wing-influencer-trump-immigration-crackdown “A Brazilian influencer who openly backed President Trump’s hard-line immigration policies was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Saturday. // Junior Pena, whose Instagram account boasts almost half a million followers, was detained in New Jersey after missing a court hearing related to his own immigration status, ...