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paulkienitz

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25. "others success"? There is no success to profit from in AI.

Reply to Melon (Reply #21)

Thu Jun 4, 2026, 12:04 PM

15 hrs ago

AI is popular only because it's been massively subsidized by suckers. The data centers they're building will never pay for themselves. That's the key difference between true investment and a ponzi bubble.

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longshot prediction: the AI bubble gets popped this month by the SpaceX IPO, so get out NOW [View all] paulkienitz 23 hrs ago OP

Sold my last 3 stocks. Moved money to a multigraincracker 20 hrs ago #1

You may be right edhopper 20 hrs ago #2

If the Democrats win back Congress this fall I predict a stock market correction. yardwork 18 hrs ago #4

Trump will still be President edhopper 16 hrs ago #22

There are no crashes anymore. Market is rigged and irrational GreatGazoo 19 hrs ago #3

That kind of rigging can't hold forever paulkienitz 17 hrs ago #11

and yet here we are GreatGazoo 17 hrs ago #15

The issue is how many times have we been told to leave the market? Melon 18 hrs ago #5

Yeah, that's where I am ITAL 17 hrs ago #8

It took six years to recover edhopper 16 hrs ago #23

Six years isn't that long for me ITAL 15 hrs ago #24

Or get out now and edhopper 12 hrs ago #28

Preferably you are cost averaging. Melon 5 hrs ago #32

There are other investments edhopper 4 hrs ago #33

No it's not "just as risky". paulkienitz 17 hrs ago #9

Ill gotten ponzy...huh? You mean investment returns. Melon 16 hrs ago #21

"others success"? There is no success to profit from in AI. paulkienitz 15 hrs ago #25

Go read what Sam Altman is saying. Uber and Melon 5 hrs ago #31

WSJ and Gallup did a story looking at how Democrat voters are losing money GreatGazoo 17 hrs ago #16

"Democratic." The adjective form is "Democratic." ColoringFool 17 hrs ago #17

I could have put a hyphen in there but noun GreatGazoo 16 hrs ago #20

No Johnny2X2X 18 hrs ago #6

I've heard that song before. paulkienitz 17 hrs ago #10

We've been waiting decades for a bubble Johnny2X2X 17 hrs ago #12

Index funds are like 50% AI bubble now. paulkienitz 17 hrs ago #14

People are predicting the market is holding on Johonny 18 hrs ago #7

I turned some investments into a newer and larger house CanonRay 17 hrs ago #13

I'll just keep my NVIDIA,TYVM. ColoringFool 17 hrs ago #18

Jensen Huang is pulling sooo many circular-financing fast ones... paulkienitz 16 hrs ago #19

Heard the same shit from Thom Hartmann a few years back Ziggy Beans 15 hrs ago #26

That same lie was told before the last two crashes. paulkienitz 11 hrs ago #29

imho Fat gains should be pruned. Rotation is underway. bucolic_frolic 14 hrs ago #27

Simple.... multigraincracker 9 hrs ago #30