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0 pointslabster4y ago0 comments

Robinhood had legitimate, if hard to understand, liquidity reasons for stopping trading on $GME. As far as I can tell Lee has no strategy at all for Freenode, and just keeps trying different fuels to extinguish the fire.

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Clewza3134y ago

Spraying kerosene onto the fire doesn't seem to be working too well.

arp2424y ago

What if we would try to take away its oxygen by covering it with dynamite?

MartinodF4y ago

I know you're joking, but dynamite is actually used to extinguish oil well fires: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_well_fire#Extinguishing_th...

arp2424y ago

Ah yeah, I actually knew about this; there was a MacGyver episode about it! Weird that I remember this after 20 years...

kunagi74y ago

Well, this network reset (pretty much, suicide as the link says) seems like covering everything with dynamite and starting over.

But the new thing will have fires appear anyway.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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Clewza3134y ago

Spraying kerosene onto the fire doesn't seem to be working too well.

arp2424y ago

What if we would try to take away its oxygen by covering it with dynamite?

MartinodF4y ago

I know you're joking, but dynamite is actually used to extinguish oil well fires: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_well_fire#Extinguishing_th...

arp2424y ago

Ah yeah, I actually knew about this; there was a MacGyver episode about it! Weird that I remember this after 20 years...

kunagi74y ago

Well, this network reset (pretty much, suicide as the link says) seems like covering everything with dynamite and starting over.

But the new thing will have fires appear anyway.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse