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[–] 53 points 3 months ago (14 children)

If only there was a name for that kind of money making scheme...

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago* (13 children)

    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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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    No apologies for Steven Tyler. He paid a family to make him the legal guardian of a 16 year old so that he could take her cross country and live with her.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I thought it was a Weird Al reference...

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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2 [Nov 5, 2056]: As the legal representative of [NAME REDACTED / username: eurodyne] our previous comments are hereby rescinded.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Reaganomics recalled something from some forgotten box.

    Elon-gate?

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