• eurodyne@piefed.world
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      Is it… Reaganomics?

      Or, more specifically, Ponzi scheme?

      There’s probably a more contemporaneous name… Something involving Elon Musk I’m sure

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          Hmmm… I think it needs to be something with more ‘bite’. “Musking it up” sounds like a 90s sitcom dad-move. Like something Tim Allen might have tried on Home Improvement.

          “Livin’ On the Eggs!”

          “Just can’t help myself from breeeeding!”

          Ok, fucking yikes— no, that was somehow even more 90s, and incredibly terrifying. Apologies to anyone who gets the reference. and to literally every member of Aerosmith.

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            I actually came back to ask “is that an Aerosmith ‘Livin On the Edge’ reference in the wild?!”

            I loved it.

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              Lol, sorry Al, I got there first!

              Edit: but I love that dude so much, he can fucking have it

              Edit 2 [Nov 5, 2056]: As the legal representative of [NAME REDACTED / username: eurodyne] our previous comments are hereby rescinded.

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        It’s exactly a Ponzi scheme, with the one difference being that there is no product with a true Ponzi scheme, but this one has a product. It’s just a worthless mechanical Turk designed to hornswaggle the rubes.

        It’s an Altman scheme.

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          I know. It was a joke.

          But, at least for now, ai doesn’t really do anything, either, at least not anything particularly meaningful. It’s a McGuffin for billionaires to slush money around and profit from others investing in bunk stock. They’re making trillions in a gigantic pump and dump scheme, and right before the bubble bursts, they’re gonna cash out and fuck off leaving everyone else to get screwed