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[-] brem@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

Sure.. the AI bubble pops, but can it lock....?

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 months ago

A lock is nothing but a precisely designed false-knot waiting to be tugged on in the right place.

[-] WellsiteGeo@masto.ai 3 points 2 months ago

@supersquirrel @brem
To quote a facilities manager of my past acquaintance : "a padlock will only keep out an honest man".
This from a guy who kept a metre-long set of bolt croppers in the hat stand in the corner of his office. Everyone knew that if you needed to "recommission" a unit of office space, you borrowed the croppers, and returned them with a note of which address your company was staying in, and what your new phone number was.

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago
[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 months ago

just keeping edding yourself with small strokes of zitron

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

But.. the line only goes up, now, right?

[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Temperature, days without rain, unemployment, measles cases, war casualties, tons of goods disposed as waste, child poverty, plastics production, mass incarceration, wealth stolen from the people, species extincted, bots posting propaganda.

It seems like the project of driving up the line is going great by most metrics. 👍

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago

sometimes you neet to transform the graph to achieve the expected results, but generally yes.

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

It ain't over until Oracle implodes and Larry Ellison goes broke

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

Oracle looks like it isn't imploding like a neat full rack of pins always look stoic and eternal the moment before the bowling ball hits.

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

I had to read that twice, but yes, exactly.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 2 months ago

Can bubbles pop slowly? 🤔

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago

yes, routinely. the CDO bubble of the 2000s took from 2006 to 2009 to deflate, with first warnings in 2005

[-] HailSeitan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Can a dam crack and leak before it bursts?

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Popping? We just reinflated that bitch today.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

Hot Air Moving Around does not equal The Puncture Being Healed

[-] nek@hear-me.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

@supersquirrel Very true and very much not a reason to rejoice, since everyone with a retirement plan or an adjustable mortgage, or really any participation at all in the global economy, not only the US', will suffer, and be forced into harsher living and working conditions in the aftermath - for several generations.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Very true and very much not a reason to rejoice

but a very good reason to read James Joyce!

If only for the rhyme of it.

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