Enron was bigger than the Theranos scandal, before Theranos existed.
    • Tetsuo@jlai.luEnglish
      20·
      5 days ago

      I’m confused by this Birds aren’t real book.

      Is it satire? Is it a “real” conspiracy that real people believe in?

      And yeah in this timeline both options are possible even simultaneously.

      • psudEnglish
        24·
        5 days ago

        It’s a parody conspiracy theory, in the same way as the flying spaghetti monster was a parody religion. People participated “eyes open” (aware it was parody, doing it as a joke) others adopted it “eyes closed” (believing it)

        • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          Does this Connor dude believe in it?

          I should start some imaginary conspiracy too, then write books about it, and earn loads of money from these suckers

          • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            All the countries are really very close together and the airline industry is just in on it. They’re really just flying around in circles to make it seem like the trip takes a long time. The Atlantic is only about 200 miles across, Europe is basically just over the horizon.

            That’s what happened to Amelia Earhart, she found out about it and was going to tell everyone so they had to stop her.

            The flat Earth conspiracy theory is really just a false flag operation to make conspiracy theorists look stupid. So that if anyone ever finds out about the close countries conspiracy no one will believe them.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    554·
    5 days ago

    Ok…see this??? See this shit??? Let’s recap. Connor Gaydos, the “birds aren’t real” guy, bought the name “Enron” in order to use it for a company that deals in cryptocurriencies. You know. That thing that was hot for a bit until it became obvious they were all scams.

    And now this is happening.

    This sequence of events, is so long in the making you’d have to back to the days of Elian Gonzalas being held at gunpoint in a Miami closet, to cover the whole debacle.

    And with all this in your face absurdism, with this much history of being untrustworthy and corrupt, we live on a planet where people thought “Yeah. Yeah this is what I want. Thismay as well happen.”

    Do you see why I say I’m surrounded by morons? I live on the same planet that these events transpired. Even The Onion is like “GOD DAMNIT!!! STOP STEALING OUR ROUTINE!!!” as they scream angerly into general society.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    Is crypto still really a thing? I thought that scam had sailed.

    Hell we’ve had a whole other GPU sink since then.

    • tb_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Every other few days there’s “news” of another meme coin rug pull

  • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    4 days ago

    Crypto is one of the only businesses where use of the Enron name could conceivably improve their reputation.

    • BreadstickNinja@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      It’s like intentional misspellings in Nigerian Prince emails. Anyone dumb enough to buy in is already a promising mark.