• Folstar@lemmus.org
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    4 months ago

    It really is the roaring 20s all over again! Hell yes! Even have Republicans in charge of everything again! Party like it’s 1928!!! /s

    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
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      4 months ago

      I called it way WAAAAY before Trumpocalypse. I said “they shut down services and fuck over customers all the time, why not fuck over a frail old man, who then won’t have the money for a lawyer?”.

      Platinum bars are the only retirement plan worth investing in.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    My controversial opinion:

    We did this with sci-fi.

    Too many people think their future actually looks like Star Trek or Mars terraforming movies or whatever, and buy Musk’s claim he’s going to make humanity an interplanetary race.

    But it doesn’t work like that.

    Space travel is impossibly hard. It is just impractical for human bodies, as they exist now, outside of specific scientific missions. Physics dictates that it is expensive. Quantify it, and basically, civilization woukd have to advance to a point where our Earth problems are already trivial to even begin mass manned space travel.


    Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for drone work in space, crazy science missions, and beautiful, hopeful speculative sci fi.

    But I feel like the population needs a cold bucket of water. Space travel is not going to save us; Earth is all we got for now.

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      As proven by the voting public, too many people live in a fantasy land where the impossible is possible, like making lying cheaters into honest presidents. I don’t understand what benefit anybody thinks they could get from a space station on Mars. It’s not like they’re gonna get to live there or get any of the benefits from it. It must be the same people that refused to place any restrictions on Billionaires, like taxes, somehow they think a billionaire based on Mars is good for them.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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        That’s exactly what they think. They literally think Elon Musk is going to take them to Mars and automate work with AI robots and such, because nothing in their information sphere ever contradicts it.

        It’s not fair to expect the average person to understand orbital mechanics, but putting them in an information bubble like Musk has is not fair to them.

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      4 months ago

      True, but at this point, I’m not sure if we even deserve the earth we are on.

  • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I have no economic knowledge or trading ability, here’s my very important prediction…

    …this is a huge rug pull and the billionaires in on it are going to make a lot of money.

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    4 months ago

    Man this is great! My theory is the simulation ends when the first person hits a trillion. If that’s the case then this hellscape is almost over everyone! Someone finally won the damn game and we can all log out!

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    4 months ago

    Here’s my theory; the volume of trading was tiny, Yahoo finance says $500M. This is chump change that any of the billionaires that bought into X can throw in without thinking about it. What’s stopping these people from propping up the value up until they can get it into the index funds and then dumping the bag on the consumer? Nothing.

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    4 months ago

    It really does amaze me how so many people give him the time of day. I’m not sure his presence in any venture has been a net positive for them at the end of the day.

    Every company he has ever touched succeeded at what they were doing despite his constant fuckery.

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      4 months ago

      For a startup.

      When you have a virtual monopoly and are the company with the world’s highest valuation, you shouldn’t be in growth mode anymore. This valuation is bananas