In the mid-1800s aluminium was more expensive than gold.

Here is an article about it

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I didn’t know that about King Louis (n) … That’s a great fact!

In part it was because it was named out of standard through a misunderstanding but then it wasn’t corrected…

You spell it differently so that you can pronounce it differently, as I say, to make it sound like a rare and valuable metal.

It is pure marketing.

Aluminium used to be hard to obtain. It was a rare metal and then some smart bastard worked out how to extract it using electrolysis and it became as common as dirt.

Some people had invested heavily in it as a precious metal and overnight their investment was worthless, so hence the reluctance to rebrand.

Possibly because Americans were so keen to call themselves billionaires they lowered the requirement.

Similar to how they pronounce “Aluminium” the same as “Platinum” to make it sound like a precious metal.

This isn’t a criticism. If I’m being kind the real reason is that less separation between “million” and “billion” is functionally more useful, as well as aspirational.

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Yeah, but the assumption there is that folk assume I’m in the states.

There are literally more than three other countries.

But yes, outside of the law, that’s a surprisingly common practice everywhere.

Tell your Mother’s dealer that debt isn’t inheritable and see how you get on.

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Your account is 2 months old.

You called me “dense”.

Not really in a position to opine there.

Ok chief. Because it really reads like you just said that in the comment above.

How’s that working out for you, chief?

… But more sensibly, the argument you are using enables corporations to steal the work and labour of individuals.

It is the argument that means only middle class wealthy individuals get to make art.

It’s a shite argument, and it’s been debunked a ton of times.

I don’t think pithy means what you think it means.

So, something is only theft if it is profitable?

That’s a wonderfully liberating new definition.

I guarantee we are but months away from a senior labour politician resigning because they are found to have incest porn on one of their devices.

This isn’t piracy though.

They aren’t consuming media. They are reselling it.

They aren’t downloading a film to watch or “illegally” accessing a text.

They are using the unpaid labour of other humans as their product and will gouge the rest of society for it through entertainment media, civil infrastructure and healthcare.

Whilst your pithy, cliched statement is fun to throw around when we talk about torrenting a marvel movie, it’s completely useless in this context.

The most interesting thing about this is the fact that step siblings can have legal relationships and even marry under UK law, but depictions of their very legal sex lives are now illegal.

I think someone might challenge this as a human right to expression infringement.

For instance, you and your partner happen to be step siblings, but want to generate income on onlyfans. Now you can’t. Not because you are defacto doing anything illegal.

Also, and here’s where it gets fun…

Imagine you and your partner do make sexy videos but then your respective parents hook up.

The videos were made when you were not step siblings, but now you are.

Where does the law stand there? No one knows.

His bullshit excuse if “I was thinking about the red cross and healing people”.

As if the AI/intern had mixed up the red cross with the cross of crucifiction and for some reason no one noticed that he appeared as Jesus healing the sick.

I just wanted someone in that press conference to shout “bullshit” really loud.

And let’s say we believe him… What the fuck is he doing larping as a medical practitioner anyway? That’s just straight disrespectful.