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Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
Don't let these people know that Zapier exists.

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Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

EMoney posted:

AI agents will want to transact with secure digital value...this is not that controversial a statement but I can understand if a decaying Boomer mind can't summon just a moment of creative thought to imagine how this future is coming.

LLM's became the fastest adopted apps ever and the largest global asset manager in the world just declared on live mainstream TV that BTC is an "international asset" and "digital gold"...if you don't think these two technologies won't synergize at some point, you are in for a bumpy ride.

lol this isn't satire?

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

Pham Nuwen posted:

Of course these days the odds are that all 3 of those things, except maybe the toaster, contain a tiny computer. Not running Windows, but either Linux or just a custom firmware if it's a microcontroller.

Turns out for applications like "check this sensor's value every second, and if it crosses a threshold, set this pin low" it's easier to drop in a computer vs designing a digital circuit. Plus you can hire people out of coding bootcamps instead of actual engineers.

And this is why your toaster can now be part of a botnet.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
hay guys i tried to send my monthly mortgage payment to the bank but instead i sent it to some guys in jakarta, whoops oh well learning lesson lol

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

zedprime posted:

No, the cancel button is also the send money button. You have to close the pop up.

Actually when you close the popup the send money button is executed via a JavaScript listener. The only thing you can do when that happens is throw away the computer forever.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
The amount of inside terminology and acronyms found in that sub rivals anything on the web.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

HappyHippo posted:



They also think the taxpayers are going to give them their billions once the "hedgies" go bankrupt.

(from a thread where they're predicting $100,000 a share)

So what, you're saying BBBY isn't going to suddenly have a market cap of $73 TRILLION????

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

evilweasel posted:

Upon confirmation of a plan of liquidation that cancels the stock certificates.

I doubt that would convince these people.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

Ghost Leviathan posted:

And it was only ever gonna be so specifically because it was a freak occurrence, because hedge funds aren't gonna fall for that trick again. Just that everyone who's smart enough to realise that moved on immediately afterwards and all that's left is the bagholders.

Pyramid schemes are pretty close and have a lot of overlap with cults for a reason. Something about how the deliberate miseducation about money, economics and capitalism that's been standard in most of the world for over a century has resulted in people getting particular blind spots and complexes over money that are incredibly easy to exploit if you know how.

The specific fixation on brands to a degree that gets cargo cult in multiple senses is the bit I find morbidly interesting. Despite the whole 'free market' ideology being built on supposedly being Darwinistic where only the strongest and most suited to the conditions survive, a considerably vocal subset of these weirdos seem to be unable to comprehend a big company that was once seemingly omnipresent going out of business simply because their business model became untenable, let alone bad management or deliberately ran into the ground for tax bullshit reasons.

And not even brands they have any reason to be attached to- like goddamn, you can at least understand the TaleSpin guy was just fixated on a reasonably good if uneven and occasionally hella racist 90s Disney cartoon with some characters some people find sexy, and some cool planes. He clearly has the common nerd thing of mistaking his intense personal attachment for universal appeal, but at least there's genuine energy there. But it literally just seems to be that they recognise Bed Bath and Beyond from pop culture references, even if they've never chosen to enter one, and think it must be always there, like a kid who doesn't yet understand mommy and daddy can't read their mind.

The idea that Bed Bath and Beyond is going to rise from the grave and take on loving Amazon is just a galaxy brained moron idea. Amazon spent the last decade slowly murdering BBBY and every other brick and mortar retailer but somehow they're actually an 800lb gorilla waiting in the wings.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

HappyHippo posted:

There's still a reddit for Sears hangers-on: https://www.reddit.com/r/SearsForever/

Guy comes into this sub and asked how to buy Sears stock.



Should have sent a poet.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
If those BBBY guys were around in 2008 they'd still be holding onto Lehman stock.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
These guys are one step away from divination using chicken entrails.

https://twitter.com/kaismaalej/status/1676330585202016257

quote:

Since the bankruptcy filing, investors have spent almost $200 million trading “theoretically worthless” shares, the Financial Times reports.

lol

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
How much money are these BBBY suckers actually pumping into this stock?

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

Herman Merman posted:

Except not in reality since it's so easy to DOS it or fool the users into installing a malicious client

The flaw is always in the implementation that creates a vulnerability. And without a centralized source to appeal to, there is no recourse. And woops, now I send all my money into the void.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

coolusername posted:

Why bother with AITA fanfic when the world of likely legitimate ape twitter sprawls before you offering such delights as actual rich man ape begging microsoft-senpai to answer his calls.

https://twitter.com/ryancohen/status/1681000252533518336

Followed by his loyal contingent.





For bonus points, can you identify all the crypto references in the twitter usernames?

haha holy poo poo everything about this is so loving pathetic

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

Lammasu posted:

I mean, Xbox probably has a retail relations office. I'm sure they could contact Microsoft though that.

He doesn't wanna contact Microsoft he wants to contact the CEO for some dumbass reason I'm sure.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
That is appropriate because his face and body make him look like a giant dumb baby.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
lol

https://twitter.com/SearsForever/status/1682382278977003520

https://twitter.com/nickong1205/status/1682278663906099200

Impossibly Perfect Sphere fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Jul 21, 2023

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

Push down shorts and fill gap to maintain strong bottom, got it.

Everyone knows a strong bottom generates most of the power.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
If that watch was an NFT this never would have happened.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

BigBadSteve posted:

unique person online while remaining completely private

lol, sure

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
I sleep in a Lambo bed, do you??

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
Slight bump in the road for BBBY. Turns out they are firing everyone and all stores are closing this weekend.



The mental gymnastics in that reddit post is fantastic.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
Reddit guy confesses he spent a $100k on BBBY stock which is all worthless now.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
Vaccine?

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
They actually enjoy it.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
Is there any current commercial use of blockchain for something other than stupid financial scams? Does anyone actually do anything useful with the technology?

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
lol

https://twitter.com/GME_BBBY_TEDDY/status/1685263664964661248?t=J2EE0Z5i2gMlwavu7fZR8g&s=19

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
If I were inclined to put serious money into crypto I would only perform transactions from one device which was dedicated to that purpose and was air gapped and shut off the rest of the time. I sure as poo poo as poo poo would not engage in any kind of loving crypto communities or post about my investments on social media. Talk about putting a big loving bullseye on yourself.

These people all have garbage op sec.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

kw0134 posted:

Instead of rewriting a whole bunch of stuff I'm gonna steal a post from the yospos version of this thread:

To add, bitcoin doesn't have to be a commodity, it just has to be itself, that is it represents nothing but a single bitcoin. I can buy and sell actual Monopoly™ money all day long, and since they don't represent anything except the slips of paper that has MONOPOLY printed on them in various denominations, it's not a security. It's a game token, it's a collectible, it's whatever, it's irrelevant to the SEC's jurisdiction. That's essentially bitcoin.

Other tokens? They've been failing the Howey test since forever. A typical coin is ShitcoinX a project that will revolutionize fart huffing, you'll buy it because people will need ShitcoinX for various reasons and then up Up UP!!!1 That classically fails all four elements of the Howey test: you buy it because it's an investment of money, the ShitcoinX comprises some sort of coherent "enterprise," it's for a profit, and it's predicated the ShitcoinX devs will do work and you'll gain profit when people transact in the shitcoin.

But bitcoin issued a white paper, someone implemented a toy protocol, people traded it around literally like Monopoly money to show it can transact value if you believe real hard (which to be fair is the basis of all transactional economics!) Satoshi didn't promise you would become wealthy if you buy butts and in fact said the direct opposite, but people brought and sold because people were also buying and selling them. Even bitcoin maximalists implicitly say it's not a functional economy because there's no "enterprise" that purports to drive its value, it's all speculative gambling.

the actual reason is because important people with real wealth and power have stakes in buttcoin not just crypto morons

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
It doesn't require believing in illuminati conspiracies to understand that the wealthy people of this country wield incredible influence.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
https://twitter.com/shortdestroyer/status/1685680150115926016

I put my life savings into a meme stock because of a moon emoji!

Plan R posted:

The Illuminati were a secret group that discussed science and nature. They had to do so in secret because they'd be murdered. They were a thing for like a few decades and then dissolved. But their legacy endures!

that's what they want you to think

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

BigRed0427 posted:

The shares still mean nothing right? The relaunch by Overstock has nothing to do with the company they hold stock in.

Their shares are virtually worthless right now. The company has no stores, no inventory, no employees and massive debt. The only thing that's keeping them from going to zero is a circus of morons continuing to trade them. At some point in September the stock will be made void when the bankruptcy process is complete.

Bullish!

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
lol the panic in this thread as the price drops.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BBBY/comments/15f3jfr/daily_discussion_thread_august_01_2023/

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
Price still falling lol. Apparently this was the last straw for many apes.

Edit: omg now these morons are all buying.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

nomad2020 posted:

RE: The evil hedge funds

What happens to shorts after the stock dies? I assume there's no real point in holding a short to much less than a quarter for a fund with real money sloshing around.

nothing, they made 100% profit and don't need to buy anything back

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
So during yesterday's BBBY bankruptcy proceedings the judge had the some misleading language removed that made it sound like sounds like stockholders would receive *something*, the yellow part highlighted below. He wanted to clarify that under the current plan stockholders get el zilcho, nothing, nada.



Big brain genius knows what this really means...

quote:

This now has a complete different meaning! As before, each Allowed Interest will still be extinguished. HOWEVER, not in full and final satisfaction of them anymore.

So the Interests will still be extinguished, but in part and not final satisfaction of them, meaning that there is room for something to happen additionally. The holders of Allowed Interest in BBB are still entitled to something else. At the end, the Allowed Interests will be extinguished, no question about that, but there is something else possible now.

That is why the K&E lawyer did not lie when he said that all interests were still being extinguished and discharged. True! But not anymore in full and final satisfaction of them!​

Now let's enter the speculative part of the post.

What can be this additional thing that can happen? Well, new equity, for example. The old equity will still extinguish, but additionally to that the holders of such can receive new equity.

The company is talking to us! The dialogue between the Judge and the lawyer yesterday is flashing on our faces! They are bringing attention to this exact wording. It is not simply to "clarify", but to make us aware of this change.

Had the company written this from the start as it is now, there would have been no way for them to bring this to our attention. However, by having done so, with first an initial version of the Plan with "full and final satisfaction of" and the current version without it, they are bringing this to our attention in a very smart and completely legal way.

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!

The comments on that first link are amazing. So many dummies.

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Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
So I got sucked into the rabbit hole on behindmlm.com website and it's pretty amazing how some of the perps behind the pyramid schemes - and occasionally the victims - comment on the articles getting real mad at the author for calling them scams.

Check the comments at the bottom of these.
https://behindmlm.com/companies/keep-it-100-collapses-website-maintenance-exit-scam/#more-89959
https://behindmlm.com/mlm-reviews/empowerlife-review-10-a-month-pyramid-scheme/#more-90248

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