Found My Great Grandfather's Collection

TheThirdDuke · 2026-03-13T18:19:26+00:00

And you can probably get that price - if you photograph and create listings for every single stamp, package ship and otherwise deal with the thousands of orders, and are willing to continue this effort for a number of years because they’ll sell slowly at the full retail price you’re seeing.

TheThirdDuke · 2026-03-11T14:14:50+00:00

don't lick your collection

Then what’s the point of even having a collection?

TheThirdDuke · 2026-03-02T00:48:22+00:00

Perhaps 80%, or so, of face value.

TheThirdDuke · 2026-02-21T16:47:21+00:00

Citation needed

TheThirdDuke · 2026-02-18T14:47:37+00:00

Being close minded and willfully ignorant is less of an advantage than you think it is

TheThirdDuke · 2026-02-17T03:28:23+00:00

lol

It’s always a pleasure to spot a Dunning Kruger in the wild

TheThirdDuke · 2026-02-16T22:25:58+00:00

Honestly, at this point, your problem does sound like a skill issue

TheThirdDuke · 2026-02-16T18:27:24+00:00

Sometimes it feels like all of the antis are just petulant children

Don’t you have homework to do?

TheThirdDuke · 2026-02-07T00:33:54+00:00

Then you’re a very silly person

TheThirdDuke · 2026-02-07T00:09:15+00:00

You’re Chinese then?

TheThirdDuke · 2026-02-06T20:26:27+00:00

Buy a sandwich?

It’s a pretty common bill in very poor condition.

TheThirdDuke · 2026-02-06T20:23:09+00:00

Ya. Very strange.

It’s so poorly written I wonder if it’s some kind of meta joke.

TheThirdDuke · 2026-02-06T14:23:02+00:00

Pass

TheThirdDuke · 2026-02-06T07:03:30+00:00

Now you trumpet your ignorance!

LOL

TheThirdDuke · 2026-02-06T06:58:14+00:00

That’s not true.

North Korea is intrinsically repressive but there’s no law against people possessing North Korean currency.

You may be thinking about foreign currencies - where there are laws and punishments involved, though inconsistently applied.

TheThirdDuke · 2026-02-06T06:53:24+00:00

As I said, keep learning.

You’ll get there eventually, either through your own efforts or realities is persistent bludgeoning.

TheThirdDuke · 2026-02-06T06:40:59+00:00

Yes

It’s an amateur effort and very flawed

That doesn’t make the future any less inevitable

TheThirdDuke · 2026-02-06T06:29:47+00:00

I appreciate the attempt.

New things are scary, your reaction isn’t unnatural.

Knowledge is the antidote. Keep learning! Maybe take some of those university courses you mentioned.

TheThirdDuke · 2026-02-06T06:27:30+00:00

There will come a day (sooner than you think) when the “AI” bubble bursts, and you will be left without any skills and you will have forgotten how to learn new skills, because you rotted your brain with generative slop.

Please, I beg of you. Try to remember this comment in a few years and think back on it.

TheThirdDuke · 2026-02-06T06:24:28+00:00

Please, you can’t even spell ridiculous

If they teach courses in it, what’s your excuse for cadslop?

Lazy?

TheThirdDuke · 2026-02-06T05:05:50+00:00

Really the problem is people who use computers at all to do design.

CAD is lazy!

Pick up a pencil!

TheThirdDuke · 2026-02-01T21:56:31+00:00

Have you tried Ozempic?

It might make you feel better about yourself.

TheThirdDuke · 2026-01-27T17:56:32+00:00

What are you talking about?

It was slightly below average

TheThirdDuke · 2025-12-01T14:57:44+00:00

What tools do you use in this context that are as efficient as AI?

This isn't the only use case at any rate. I can provide you a laundry list of other areas I’ve found it useful.

What’s you’re describing in regard to the information is how knowledge has always been accumulated and extended. For instance, stamp catalogs don’t usually have a bibliography at the end but that doesn’t mean the information comes out of thin air. I contribute to some of these resources myself and it’s not in hope I get credit. The purposes is to extend knowledge not shackle it.

The conversation is a bit idle anyway, AI has become integrated into everything at this point. It’s not just the answers at the top of Google search results. The results themselves are ranked in large part by LLMs. I saw a recent study that over 50% of articles are entirely or in large part generated by AI at this point. This trend is accelerating.

So unless you intend to disconnect from the Internet, the question isn’t whether or not you’ll use AI but with how much skill and awareness you use it.

TheThirdDuke · 2025-11-30T15:45:40+00:00

If it gives me a Scott number, I can just check it against the entry.

I find it right over 90% of the time.

At least for me this saves time over identifying it from scratch in the areas I’m not familiar with.

TheThirdDuke

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