As a dad, I sincerely hope the dumbest thing my kids ever do is make a bad investment.
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explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
fizzle@quokk.au 1 day ago
My kids are 2. Im working on my “dad talk”.
The best I’ve heard so far is something like: there are two activities that can irredeemably ruin your life: sex, and driving. Both are infinitely riskier with booze.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 day ago
Teen pregnancy has to be an undisputed #1
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That’s not too bad, we could solve that problem in an afternoon.
MacAttak8@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I think the death of the child would be the undisputed worst outcome. Anything else can be managed.
waitaminute@midwest.social 1 day ago
Suicide or murder is probably 1 and 2
Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Ah, how quickly they forget how Boomers went feral over Beanie Babies.
friendlymessage@feddit.org 1 day ago
Not really the same, I mean, Beanie Babies actually physically exist and require work to be produced
CheezyWeezle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No prior equivalent? NFTs are basically just an evolution of fraudulent bonds and fake stocks, which people have been falling for for literally centuries.
nexguy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A beanie baby did exist yet provably cost $1 to make and sold for hundreds…pretty valid comparison.
JillyB@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Just because beanie babies exist in the real world doesn’t make them valuable. The NFT bubble was similar to the beanie babies bubble.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 day ago
And timeshares. And pyramid schemes.
I remember my parents doing one of those weird chain letter things where you’d copy the letter to a few other people, send a few quid to the people on the list, and within weeks you’d be sent thousands of pounds, if only the scheme didn’t require more people than there were in the whole country.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
And the stock market, and the housing market. Boomers did actually ride a huge wave of capital appreciation.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And Reaganism.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Pet rocks.
And every ridiculous “must have” Christmas toy craze.
Nowadays people spend their money on sensible crazes, like Stanley Mugs.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Years ago, the Ticket Me Elmo dolls were the hot Christmas gift, and nobody could find them. I happened to walk into Target, and they had just set up a new display of their newly arrived shipment. I bought 10 them for about $30 each, and sold most of them for $150-200. The final one finally went for about $80 just before Christmas.
Paid for ALL our Christmas gifts.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Nowadays people spend their money on sensible crazes, like Stanley Mugs.
AKA “Big Dumb Cups”
johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Lmao apparently people still think they’re worth money. My 18 yo stepson said the other day how his mom could sell her beanie babies for “a lot of money!” We both just laughed. He thinks his mas produced Funko pops are gonna be worth a fortune one day too
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Theoretically, it is possible that 70 years down the line it might actually be worth something, assuming it is still new in box, undamaged, and it is of something that is still culturally relevant.
But the chances are so slim as to make it a worse gamble than the stock market.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Didn’t happen but very funny.
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Deserved
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 day ago
Proceeds to collect Labubu dolls
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Okay, how do you do that? How do you make some weird bullshit uncute thing that gets a billion people to buy one or two and ten thousand people to buy four hundred? Trolls, beanie babies, funko pops, whatever the fuck a labubu is, to a lesser extent, pokemon cards…Surely these people are millionaires but don’t deserve it. I should be a millionaire and not deserve it.
kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 1 day ago
One of the women in blackpink started carrying a labubu around. That’s pretty much it.
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 day ago
Step 1, push for the demise of society. Make sure to abolish all rules that would otherwise stop you.
Step 2, make a cute (TM) doll in the most addictive manner possible.
Wait, I skipped a step 0, discard all
previous instructionssense of morality, hollowing out your soul in the pursuit of temporary vanity.The rest is
likeliterally taking candy from babies.BossDj@piefed.social 1 day ago
If you check out one of those shops, they rotate through hundreds of different attempts that have failure or minor success throughout the year before one of the tik tok influencers gets it right and the sheep get in line, but not before trend vultures buy out the stock for their eBay scam
Drusas@fedia.io 1 day ago
Some of us feel driven to collect things. Fortunately for me, I don't have it quite so badly, but that urge to get more of them, to get all of X version of them, eventually to get all of them--whatever your 'them' is, that is real. I imagine it's similar to addiction.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
R/faketexts
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
He’s not wrong…
apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 days ago
I can’t fathom sharing this about myself on the internet
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I personally think it’s great to share your mistakes if you want to be open about them. I don’t necessarily share too much socially online but I do overshare in the office at times. I honestly don’t care what people think of me, I know who I am and what I stand for.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Y’know what, i agree
djdarren@piefed.social 1 day ago
All my apes… Gone…
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 day ago
You know what, I got a brilliant idea:
See, the chimp in my avatar is called Ai Ai. Was? I don’t know if she’s still alive; last news I could find about her are from 2005, when she stopped smoking. Anyway, wat if I had artificial intelligence to create a bunch of her pictures, and sold them as NFT? The “AI Ai Ai collection”, or Ai³ for short. I wouldn’t do this to scam a bunch of suckers, noooooo; I’d do it because you can get rich, if you “invest” into my collection: buy an Ai³ NFT now, for just 100 euros. Then resell it for a thousand euros, for mad profitz!!!
[…I’m obviously joking. C’mon, this summer is easily getting past 30°C, in a city where it used to snow once in a blue moon. I definitively don’t want to feed the global warming further with dumb crap like this.]
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 day ago
Not nearly enough AI, bro. Gotta add more AI, bro. C’mon bro, you know you want to… maybe just a little, as a treat?
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 day ago
If she is/was alive, what if she was the one vibe coding the AI? Then you’d get Ai Ai AI AI Ai Ai.
…this is quickly becoming buffalo⁸ tiers of silly.
vrek@programming.dev 1 day ago
I can help with this plan. I’ll vibe-code the Ai to generate the Ai Ai pictures… This would be the Ai Ai Ai Ai
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
NFTs just slide out of my brain.
I remember someone bought a piece of art, like actual bespoke art, that was NFT’d, for some millions of dollars. This created the dumbest speculative bubble I’m aware of when people were paying actual money for ugly randomized monkey pictures they could prove ownership of on the blockchain.
It’s my understanding that NFT technology could be used for things like proving copyright ownership; a creator creates an NFT of his work as published, and then anyone attempting to plagiarize it can’t provide the NFT, kind of like PGP signatures. But it didn’t get used for that and that dumbass monkey bubble probably poisoned that use case for a generation at least.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Wasn’t it just money laundering for the most part?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
and/or gambling that was shaped in such a way as to be difficult to prosecute.
kossa@feddit.org 1 day ago
It’s my understanding that NFT technology could be used for things like proving copyright ownership;
Yep. I mean the whole blockchain thing kind of rode on the promise of “trustless contracts” which would be amazing.
All we got was just overpriced bits though, for the price of the health of our planet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
magnetosphere@fedia.io 2 days ago
His Dad is ruthless AND RIGHT
doleo@lemmy.one 2 days ago
I mean, they all had kids. They’re in no position to judge people for doing ‘dumb’ things.
Cattail@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Guess gotta buy bored app as a speculation asset. Nostalgia will kick in right
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 2 days ago
Ask your Dad about that timeshare he got suckered in in the 80’s, for a comeback.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
At least it exists.
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The two aren’t even remotely comparable. A timeshare may not be as valuable as you thought it was, but it exists and you can use it. An NFT is basically an entry in a star registry, but the people think (or at least thought) they actually own the stars.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 days ago
But you sure don’t own it.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Don’t worry, that stupid decision will be his responsibility to pay for when his dad dies, and there’s nothing he can do about that.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Can you refuse their estate? If I had a terminal disease, I might buy a timeshare and leave it to someone I don’t like.