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[–] 131 points 4 months ago (15 children)

in 2002, buy 100 btc, live comfortably as a millionaire in the present. don't have to sweep floors for nazi nasa

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    In 2002 there were no bitcoins. But there were Epstein island parties

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Yep.... Bitcoin didn't really take off until 2010. I had a buddy who was an early adopter and had mined/bought hundreds of thousands of coins at one point. Spent it all on the silk road, he always used to say it was just a way to turn electricity into drugs.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    No, it literally didn't exist until 2008, and even then only conceptually for another year.

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

    That's why I said it didn't really take off until 2010.... As in people started to actually trade it for actual goods.

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

    It technically didn’t exist until 2009. Before that it was a white paper.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    You could travel back to 2009 and impersonate Satoshi Nakamoto. There are already conspiracy theories that Nakamoto is a time traveler because he did what a time traveler might do. He anonymously created Bitcoin, and then he disappeared. He has tens of billions of dollars of bitcoin sitting there unused. Or maybe it's just waiting until he gets back to his time.

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  • [–] 55 points 4 months ago

    Space x existed for 2 years before Musk bought it. He just provides money that was stolen from market manipulation or PayPal when it desperately wanted him gone.

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  • [–] 51 points 4 months ago

    OP is just a famous shit poster account.

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  • [–] 47 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    To sabotage the company right? Right?

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

    Lol I took this way darker than intended 🫠

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

    Same. As a janitor I could maybe murder Elon without anyone knowing

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I mean if you got a time machine there's much easier way to do it.

    He was likely conceived in October of 1970. Just cock block his parents problem solved. Or just find his dad at any point and just kick him really fucking hard in the nutts, cuz he's a piece of shit.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    Well, in theory if you want to reduce unforeseen changes in the future you want to make changes as late as possible. Also, murdering him after he is a billionaire/trillionare would send a message.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I'm convinced Elon did access a time machine, travel back, and set this shitty timeline in motion.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Shit. Maybe that's what completes the time loop! Musk is a bootstrap paradox. He's going to spend a trillion dollars building a time machine. He knows how to build a time machine because his future self told him how to build a time machine. Nowhere in this time loop dusk Musk ever actually discover the science of how to do this. He's just passing a pdf of detailed blueprints around. It's like something Arthur C. Clarke would pen, except incredibly stupid.

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

    “For helping our space company reach the stars, I will be granting you, dear janitor, a $1mil bonus and a generous stock option!” said Nolon Moosk, the complete polar opposite of popular Nazi Elon Musk.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    I actually yearn for a transnational workers cooperative space company that collects startup capital from crowdsourcing and fundraising.

    Would probably have to host the physical operations somewhere in the global south, as the big authoritarian nations would likely be a bit hostile to the idea of making any cutting edge orbital rocket engine technology FOSS.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    And that's what's tragic about SpaceX. It built real technical wizardry on the backs of some of the most talented minds of a generation. Yet, what will the funds from this IPO be used for? To fund the company's operations for years to come? No. It will be used to fund shitty AI development and to pay off the money Musk borrowed to buy Twitter.

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  • [+] 17 points 4 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Troll or sycophant. No telling anymore.

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

    Actually there is, he's a fairly well known shitposter.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    You act as if there are people who live in the actual reality that is being parodied.

    LOL it's just a joke guys, this guy this posts satire! Meanwhile there are legitimately people out there who would unironically say they'd scrub Musk's toilets for a handshake and a lottery to sniff his ass.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Did the janitor get stock?

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    Yeah I think the joke is that he’s trying to get rich off the SpaceX IPO in 25 years. Not a huge Musk fan but the joke is funny

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

    Anyone who doubts the nobility and virility of the janitorial professions has never played Space Quest

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Quest

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    So for some reason I keep trying to write out a comment about how the janitors at the schools I went to (and also the janitors I've met at the schools my wife teaches and has taught at), like aside from just being the coolest adults on campus they are all metalheads (if you live where I live and love music, you get into metal. It's disrespectful to the town's history to have any emotion towards metal less intense and/or less positive than love) and people I still think of as good role models. They knew everyone on campus by name and would use humor to defuse and deescalate conflicts (not just between students, also between staff and faculty) which are both something I've always wished I could do (I suck at names and I'm only moderately funny).

    For some reason I don't understand, the comments I've attempted involve Flaming Steve, which is the name Steve's boyfriend gave to character Steve pretends to be when he sees homophobia. Sometimes in order to beat Crazy, you have to out-crazy Crazy. Steve got that. He's dude I admire and look up to. He's not a janitor though so I don't know why I keep thinking of him while writing this comment. Maybe he has the same energy as those cool janitors we have, I am going to figure this out when I get a second for navelgazing.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but it is still pretty stupid.

    Why dream about a scenario that would not pay off for 25 years? So many other companies would be getting you rich quicker, or you would just get a lottery ticket. Or get some Bitcoin in 2010, or Nvidia stock in 2018, or any number of scenarios.

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

    Bold of you to assume custodial work isn't contacted and thus none of them are considered employees.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Me with a time machine:

    "Groucho? Get the guys together and come with me, I'm buyin'."

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    If you have a time machine, you can invest in Microsoft for pennies and end up with more money than Warren Buffett without doing any work.

    I thought the implication was the guy was going to assassinate a global threat when it was most convenient, and before they destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives with their illegal cuts to vital government programs. But at least we're all now paying less for vital necessities, right...?

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    FFS. If time travel was a thing, buyingNetflix, Amazon or Apple shares in 2002 would see you retired on an island beach this year. Depending on the sum invested, the beach could even be on your own island.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Beats washing toilets for a quarter century delayed payday though, innit?

    Time travel is a fantasy. Why so serious?

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Then in 2026 you wonder why you never heard of Epsteins island. And then you take a closer look at the island you purchased…

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago*

    St James? That place disappeared in an accidental nuclear explosion caused by a rogue stealth bomber crash landing there with an armed nuke. They said it was a tragedy, something like 20 world leaders and several billionaires where there for some kind of conference.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Some people would try to change the world for the better if given a time machine.

    You would only make yourself wealthy.

    Do you even realise how egocentric you are?

    Please try to develop some empathy.

    We don't need more hollow soulless people like Elon Musk.

    Be better.

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    [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    he was going to X him right? Right?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Wait I thought y'all were pro-working class?

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