Its still very much a thing in the US. Maybe not as popular as it was 10 years ago, but people are still posting to it. A local radio DJ used to read off some of them as part of their talk show for laughs…some are pretty entertaining lol 😂

Post this on Craigslist’s missed connections?

I can get behind both of these 🤠

We can only hope…but his family can spend it.

Yah, but that was before the llm/ai bull shit. Some companies even touted a do no evil slogan back then lol

Hahahaha, damn, thats fucked but so true.

Exactly, presumed value based upon future worth

Ahh good point, it is certainly a method that works for them since they really don’t have much else to campaign on.

I don’t know, they all pretty much suck at this point. Is there any single one out there that is actually advocating to help humanity?

Greetings again 👋

Yah I agree, I don’t think it will be a traditional bailout like the auto industry though which was forgivable loans, I think it’ll likely come in the form of additional stock purchases by the US government, which is wild when you think about it.

They’re not a huge employment/manufacturing concern like autos and they’re not the backbone of our financial system.

No but they (AI companies and those claiming to be one including chip companies) directly influence the stock market, and this administration is having its day manipulating the hell out of it making a ton of money along the way. So if there is a way for the to make money on it, it will absolutely happen. Also the chip companies have national defense interests and so it’ a similar scenario as the DOD’s mission can not ever be hampered lol. The line must go up lol.

Ha! And thank you.

Man, there is something really fishy about your question? Lol

Ohh absolutely not excited at all. Its a pending shitshow…I didn’t vote for any of this and have already cast my vote to have all these idiots removed from office.

It is, but there is no reason to be coy about it.

Ohh absolutely, it was devastating to watch, and then to see corporations being bailed out because they were too big to fail. The big question is, is this really the start of a serious crash where the circle jerk of circular money pumped between 4-5 megacorps comes to an end, or do things really go crashing down from here. You need sanity to stabilize…the nuts have spun off the lugs that were holding the wheels of the economy to the hub…i think one wheel just wobbled a little…

It is quite possible, the giant hiring spree during covid and immediately after was never going to last unfortunately. Maybe after the midterms things will change in a positive direction.

You would assume so…but who knows. We have a wanna be dictator at the helm in the US that has the mental capacity of goldfish, so fiscal responsibility isn’t exactly this administrations forte!

Yah at this point its all already in their models sadly, at least anything that was posted historically.

It’s all funny money that never existed to begin with lol.

Fuck /u/spez

Loved Clarion decks back in the day. Then it became a toss up between Clarion and Eclipse tape decks in the 90’s for me…ahh fun times.