There was a big kerfuffle in my community because a bunch of these popped up in the children’s playground at the park so it’s entirely possible

I used to live near there and the cars were an afterthought too. It is sketchy AF driving there and it has a weird post-apocalyptic feel too.

Nah I’m pretty sure he’s a true believer. The basically believe with their “seven mountain mandate” that if they control the seven “mountains” (media, government, education, economy, religion, celebration, and family) they can bring about the rapture and the return of Jesus. After the apocalypse and all that.

Johnson is part of the New Apostolic Reformation and is therefor “Baptist”

These people legitimately tried to go to the top of Mount Everest to kill Mary Magdalene, the “queen of ice” to bring Jesus to the Middle East, amongst other things.

Every time I see Cheryl waters on KEXP my soul heals a little bit

I’ll stop discriminating against him about his height when he stops discriminating based on skin color

Hey now, you gotta watch what you say.

He is 5’4”

Same killing, got the age wrong originally

One of my favorites is Dread, a free horror based TTRPG that uses a jenga tower. It’s a great way to traumatize your friends and I would highly recommend it

Even Russia holds elections. We just have to make sure it’s fair and people are held accountable.

I live just over the river from Canada near a tourist town and you could really tell this past year. This year is probably going to be even worse, and most of the tourists we have been getting are rednecks convinced we are “taking America back” or some shit so the local businesses hate them too.

Just because they are at war doesn’t mean the shitposting stops, and shitposting is Russia’s prime export.

Dont you dare forget about Dijongate either, my geemaw still can’t show her face at the ladies auxiliary at the indignity of non-MURICAN mustard

Kind of? Except the lenders with the largest amounts of loans in order are: 1.Blue Owl (USA) (remember this company, it’ll be important as a canary probably) 2. Mitsubishi UFJ financial group (Japan) 3. JP Morgan Chase (USA) 4. Deutsch Bank (Germany) 5. BnP Paribas (France) 6. Morgan Stanley (USA) 7. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (Japan)

So kinda like 2008 but you need (at the very least) Japan, Germany, France, the USA, and possibly South Korea to all coordinate and do bailouts cooperatively together to maybe have a chance.

Good thing we haven’t pissed off our allies or disrupted trade in general, and we also haven’t fucked with interest rates or bonds or anything so we have plenty of tools in our arsenal (god help us all, puts on all of our collective livers.)

There is no saving the AI companies because it is mathematically impossible for them to make money. You would have better luck investing in your local meth heads trying to make alchemy real using nothing but books published by Wizards of the Coast.

As an additional note if I am right and this bubble pops (if a single startup goes under, literally any one) then it’s pretty much the collapse of the global financial system and an economic crisis at the level that the world has never seen before.

Literally, and I cannot stress this enough, the entire current system is built on the belief/sentence/mantra “number go up” with no regard for literally anything else.

Oh no it’s far worse than that. Private equity is heavily invested into data centers, and so are most large international banks. Private equity is playing the fun “volatility laundering” game where they are deliberately not reevaluating assets to make them look like they are worth more on paper than they actually are. They are basically saying this asset house is still worth the $50,000,000 it was valued at 5 years ago, never mind the fact it burned down and is now a superfund site and uninhabitable.

International banks are also issuing loans based solely on “just trust us bro” paperwork, using the AI companies paperwork as gospel and not looking at anything other than what they are presented with. The average cost of renting a Blackwell CPU is now $4.41 an hour, and that’s before the vast majority of these data centers have even come online.

Something something supply and and demand just trust us tho.

Currently, with data from all AI compute companies and services COMBINED in 2025, revenue comes out to 0.5831% of expenditures.

So for every $1,000,000 spent, you will make $5,831.

The only way out of this mess is if the banks either get paid back for their loans (see previous figures) or private equity gets a lot more capital… and starts paying back banks again (see previous figures comment about previous figures)

Powell’s term ends May 26th anyways, so them/trump trying this now means that things are SUPERFUCKED^TM and he is trying everything in his power to keep the crash from happening before the midterm elections.

Even that isn’t going to be enough. OpenAI has to start making payments on some (most) of these deals and startups starting this fall. If they don’t make these payments (it’s mathematically impossible for them to do so) then everything gets wiped out and the bubble pops.

Pro tip to all you investors here, if your hot new thing can’t do anything other than net360 terms and has double-pledged collateral, it’s not a good investment.

As far as it being like the dotcom crash, at least the few companies that were actually viable and legitimate survived and it “separated the wheat from the chaff” or something along those lines.

There is no viable AI company here, and the market will quickly find out that there isn’t even chaff to be found here, it’s mostly floor sweepings of post processed MDF sawdust and dirt.

I’m not glorifying ford and I’m pro union. This is actually pretty much why happened, just the same as ford realizing if he paid his workers enough to afford his products he could sell more of them.

Unions are there to help business owners remember that people need money to buy things and time to relax and enjoy life, and that the alternative to that is violence.

Something that seems to have been forgotten by most business leaders today.

I think you are underestimating the amount of them that are just so fucking stupid as well.