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A typical gem is an structure of many different minerals. Even Diamonds are worth because of their form. Due to the characteristics of the gem, it can be identified and traced. To remove that traceability, you'd need to completely destroy the gem and remake it. Which kills all of the value of...

Last year I saw a documentary on the largest gold heist in modern history. They claimed most of it will never be recovered because being an element, gold is notoriously impossible to trace. And lots of stolen gold circulates through official channels multiple times over.

I made an oral presentation on Greek Mythology for an English course. All of this basically pre-internet. (Ok, there was internet, but it was before Wikipedia was a thing)

Plus, the world is your shopping mall. Not all countries have the same maximum amount for cash transactions. And you can always recurr to straw buyers.

Apart from Greek and Norse, others I haven't mentioned other mythologies and where I learned them from. "Aztec" Mythology. Mostly because the myths are widespread in the National textbooks, I also read one book where it explained it for children. Motifs are important in national archeology...

Not saving $10 on a baseball card, I mean saving $300 on shipping $100 collectibles, plus an undisclosed amount in taxes and tariffs. Shipping and taxes can be as high as 100-400% when shipping stuff from Europe to Latin America.

I'm still convinced this is a phenomenon in the making. In the lead up to Epiphany I've seen tons and tons of unlicensed merchandise, between toys, plushies and lots of billboarding in clothes. (In my country, Epiphany is the top day for toy gifting instead of Christmas which still sees heavy...

The idea would be to sell some stuff that is more readily available and only rare because it is more common in one place than in another. Less rare Japanese Gold foil Black Lotuses (I made this up) and more European Spectrum clones to American collectors. Heck, just selling Japanese Nintendo...

Money is easier than taking a shovel and going digging through random strips of land. Just take advantage that you can move very fast across the planet to engage in lucrative arbitrage. Buy collectibles and trading cards where they are cheap and resell them where they are more expensive. For...

Some people just keep rolling 1s, constantly... Self awareness isn't so common anymore. And this is coming from someone who openly declares lacking common sense.

Not today, but last year I learned that aparently Archimedes already knew calculus or more accurately a version of integration. He always did demonstrations to make proofs of his solutions, but never publicly revealed the sources to his solutions. And we only know of his method because a book...

I'd leave it as subtext. Will make ir more popular.

Last night sleep functioned with Minecraft rules*, I normally cam live with that, but not when the server is all of the neighborhood if not the whole county. I hate firecrackers... with a passion. Gunpowder was a mistake. *You can only sleep when everybody else is sleeping.

My city and metropolitan area in the other state are covered by hundreds of cameras in two government systems (called c5 and c4) that are mointored 24/7. Doesn't really stop crime, but it will pick on a conspicuous figure that keeps popping up. And of course that's not counting the hundreds of...

Just a week in BG3 and have had two TPKs.

Just remembered more stuff. There was (is?) a series of books that abridged the classics. (Polidoro) One of these was about Greek Myths. I read it at around 9 or 10 in a local library. Later on there was an animated series about Greek Myths on Discovery Kids (before they revamped the channel...

Can't say which was first. I remember an episode of Casper which retold a portion of the Oddissey and this thing called Saint Seiya (there was a companion series of magazzines that were a mix of comic and coloring books that retold the series and each included a myth related to a Constellation)...

The apple salad of Thesseus Day one. This salad needs more pineapple. Day two. It needs more apple. Day three. we added too much apple, we need more cream. Day four. It needs more craisins and pecans...