you'd be waiting several years. bitcoin wasn't "invented" until '08. but you're on the right track. by '09, you could have got 100btc for lunch money. sold today it would give you more than enough to live on.
If you started mining on the day the network launched you could have had thousands of bitcoins without even buying any. Mining difficulty was really low before FPGA miners (and later ASIC miners) were created
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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 domestically-developed cutting edge orbital rocket engine technology FOSS.
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.
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.
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.
if you're going to indulge in a fantasy at least make it fun. go to the far future where we have luxury space communism and everyone gets to have as many dicks as they want and live rent free in their own private space station. way less work and you can live secure in the knowledge that everyone has it just as good as you do, so no one will come and try to steal it.
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.
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.
Because it’s a meme about the present SpaceX IPO and not serious financial advice? I’m pretty sure the best financial option unironically would be to put it all into bitcoin in 2013
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.
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...?
73 Comments
toxicbubble@lemmy.world · 140 pts · 51d
in 2002, buy 100 btc, live comfortably as a millionaire in the present. don't have to sweep floors for nazi nasa
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip · 64 pts · 51d
In 2002 buy apple or google stock then use that money to buy bitcoin.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 55 pts · 51d
In October 2001, short all of the major US airlines.
EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 51d
Why wouldn't you do that in August? It didn't take a genius to do this after 9/11
SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu · 6 pts · 51d
I'm guessing they're European and thus misread the date as November 9th.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 51d
In March 2020 buy anything related to travel or leisure or fast food.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 51d
In December 2019, short guano futures
justaman123@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 51d
Research gourd futures in 2020
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 51d
Bro that was a crazy year for gourd futures
SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 51d
Are you European? 9/11 was in September, because American dates.
adarza@piefed.ca · 41 pts · 51d
you'd be waiting several years. bitcoin wasn't "invented" until '08. but you're on the right track. by '09, you could have got 100btc for lunch money. sold today it would give you more than enough to live on.
Anivia@feddit.org · 4 pts · 51d
If you started mining on the day the network launched you could have had thousands of bitcoins without even buying any. Mining difficulty was really low before FPGA miners (and later ASIC miners) were created
adarza@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 51d
too much work. may 21, 2010. just be the guy that buys some hungry guy a couple pizzas. you'd have 10k btc for like $25 worth of pizza.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 1 pts · 51d
More than enough for 3 lifes
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 20 pts · 51d
In 2002 there were no bitcoins. But there were Epstein island parties
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 25 pts · 51d
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.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 51d
No, it literally didn't exist until 2008, and even then only conceptually for another year.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 51d
That's why I said it didn't really take off until 2010.... As in people started to actually trade it for actual goods.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 51d
Well, it's a bit of an understatement.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 51d
Well, that's a bit pedantic.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 51d
Only a bit. I've been trying to tone it down.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 51d
It technically didn’t exist until 2009. Before that it was a white paper.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 51d
Yes, which is why I said "conceptually" for the time between the original paper and the first implementation.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 51d
You did indeed. My bad.
ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 51d
Hey, it took him a while to do both, he was a busy guy!
BillyClark@piefed.social · 7 pts · 51d
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.
Lasherz12@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 51d
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.
zakobjoa@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 51d
OP is just a famous shit poster account.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 51d
To sabotage the company right? Right?
uberfreeza@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 51d
They would have access to chemicals to make dangerous mixtures...
bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml · 32 pts · 51d
Lol I took this way darker than intended 🫠
Dagnet@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 51d
Same. As a janitor I could maybe murder Elon without anyone knowing
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 51d
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.
Dagnet@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 51d
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.
DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 51d
I'm convinced Elon did access a time machine, travel back, and set this shitty timeline in motion.
TomAwsm@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 51d
Elon killed Harambe??
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 51d
harambe was the divergence point between 2 different time lines.
DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 51d
No doubt about that
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 51d
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.
Katana314@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 51d
“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.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 51d
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 domestically-developed cutting edge orbital rocket engine technology FOSS.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 51d
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.
plyth@feddit.org · 0 pts · 51d
Give people an opportunity to support you and to join.
knife@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 51d
janitors aren't losers
Captain_Stupid@lemmy.world · 75 pts · 51d
But People, who dream about working for fascist trillionaires, are.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 14 pts · 51d
They were obviously talking about Elon.
knife@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 51d
no they weren't
cattywampus@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 51d
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 51d
Troll or sycophant. No telling anymore.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 51d
Actually there is, he's a fairly well known shitposter.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 51d
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.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 51d
I was referring to the image, not the OP.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 51d
Chase passive income shows up here regularly, they're absolutely satirical.
ZeroGravitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 51d
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.
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 51d
imagine getting access to time travel and only using it to win at gambling
ZeroGravitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 51d
Beats washing toilets for a quarter century delayed payday though, innit?
Time travel is a fantasy. Why so serious?
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 51d
if you're going to indulge in a fantasy at least make it fun. go to the far future where we have luxury space communism and everyone gets to have as many dicks as they want and live rent free in their own private space station. way less work and you can live secure in the knowledge that everyone has it just as good as you do, so no one will come and try to steal it.
ZeroGravitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 51d
I'm with you, mate. Give me Iain Banks' "Culture" any day.
TBi@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 51d
Then in 2026 you wonder why you never heard of Epsteins island. And then you take a closer look at the island you purchased…
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 51d
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.
pipi1234@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 51d
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.
ZeroGravitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 51d
Relax mate. You misread the assignment. OP would wash toilets for SpaceX equity, I just pointed out there's a better means to that end.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 51d
Did the janitor get stock?
lemongarlic@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 51d
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
jj4211@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 51d
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.
lemongarlic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 51d
Because it’s a meme about the present SpaceX IPO and not serious financial advice? I’m pretty sure the best financial option unironically would be to put it all into bitcoin in 2013
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 5 pts · 51d
Anyone who doubts the nobility and virility of the janitorial professions has never played Space Quest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Quest
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 51d
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.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 2 pts · 51d
You misspelled "watched MST3K" as "played Space Quest."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000
Burninator05@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 51d
Bold of you to assume custodial work isn't contacted and thus none of them are considered employees.
peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 51d
he was going to X him right? Right?
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 51d
Me with a time machine:
"Groucho? Get the guys together and come with me, I'm buyin'."
Janx@piefed.social · 5 pts · 51d
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...?
SecretiveSailor@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 51d
Wait I thought y'all were pro-working class?