What the NFTs are linked to is what is of value
No they're not, they're entries in a star registry.
All the NFT does is show who owns whatever it represents.
No it doesn't. Just like a receipt doesn't show who owns something, an NFT doesn't either. It just shows who spent money on something.
In some ways, but receipts are generally given for useful things you buy. Not proof that you threw useless crypto at an even more useless entry in a star registry.
Real currencies are far more stable and are unlikely to suddenly disappear. It can occasionally happen, but it's rare. Cryptocurrencies are a ponzi scheme.
Because it would be nice to have a card number that looked plausible that could be used in movies. Imagine if every phone number in a movie had to be (555) 555-5555. It would break your suspension of disbelief.
No, but for every real currency it's accepted (and required) to pay taxes somewhere.
Too bad the Visa and Mastercard ones are so obviously fake.
You're right that Bluesky isn't federated, but it most definitely is centralized.
There's an actual silver lining here: "will ask Congress".
Holy shit, they're admitting there are other branches of the government, and that they have to be asked for something, instead of simply ordered or ignored.
Funding for NPR comes from dues and fees paid by member stations, underwriting from corporate sponsors, and annual grants from the publicly funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR
The CPB's annual budget is composed almost entirely of an annual appropriation from Congress plus interest on those funds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadcasting
The big NPR stations in major cities get almost no money from CPB, but it's a critical source of funding for rural stations. Sometimes the NPR station is the only source of news available in rural areas.
If the government cuts funding to CPB, big city NPR stations will be fine, but rural listeners might go from 1 radio station in range to 0 radio stations.
Ponzi schemes sometimes take a while to collapse.