# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 5, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657 "2024-01-05T16:15:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 196
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3901 "2025-02-16T01:06:23Z")
Whenever I see DOGE I think of Venice. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3902 "2025-02-16T01:09:18Z")
I’d like to see Elon in a canal, face down. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3903 "2025-02-16T01:38:03Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Whenever I see DOGE I think of Venice. But the Doges of Venice were authoritarian oligarchs, and Musk is… Oh, wait… ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3904 "2025-02-16T04:32:16Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I’d like to see Elon in a canal, face down. When I first read that, I thought it was going to be a palindrome. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3905 "2025-02-16T23:53:17Z")
Behold, the fruits of Facebook burning $100 billion on “the metaverse”; a dead VR game with PS2 graphics, populated by AIs and small children shouting the N-word. > **[Meta Has Spent Over $100 Billion On VR - Aftermath](https://aftermath.site/meta-horizons-sucks-so-much-shit-we-could-wipe-out-medical-debt-for-100-billion)** > > One hundred billion American dollars. Keep that in mind as you watch this. That video was made in 2025. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:tbnrtasq73cfnuwyl6in3rhl/bafkreichtr4bcrxgj5xynffgkhwcnqack7gzeyzuiwk4utnuaooe5omiji@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:tbnrtasq73cfnuwyl6in3rhl/bafkreichtr4bcrxgj5xynffgkhwcnqack7gzeyzuiwk4utnuaooe5omiji@jpeg) [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:tbnrtasq73cfnuwyl6in3rhl/bafkreicjqpf62ejvbtxi35c7garecdmlsi6tog7tnsytloqxrpqeliv2nu@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:tbnrtasq73cfnuwyl6in3rhl/bafkreicjqpf62ejvbtxi35c7garecdmlsi6tog7tnsytloqxrpqeliv2nu@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3906 "2025-02-16T23:55:13Z")
A while back I heard that Mark Zuckerberg had spent something like $20 billion on the metaverse. That was bad enough. But $100 billion? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3907 "2025-02-17T00:04:58Z")
If most of that $100 billion was spent on salaries, then I’m perfectly fine with it. Better programmers have all that money than Zuckerberg and his cronies. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3908 "2025-02-17T00:17:24Z")
If Zuckerberg hired a thousand world-class metaverse engineers five years ago and paid them a million bucks each for salary and benefits, that would only account for five billion in spend. I’m trying to imagine how he spent $100 billion, though part is surely for the data centers, servers and Nvidia hardware. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3909 "2025-02-17T00:23:31Z")
Maybe some of that $100 billion got lost in crypto fraud. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3910 "2025-02-17T00:23:59Z")
_Star Citizen_ space ships! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3911 "2025-02-17T00:30:40Z")
I’m pretty sure that there are free standalone phone apps nowadays that can make better videos than that. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3912 "2025-02-17T00:49:59Z")
I am more than a bit amazed at this level of spend because I worked for a very small company in the 1990s that was trying, with little funding, to get somewhere in the virtual reality craze of the time. I think the entire industry at the time wasn’t spending more than $50 million. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3913 "2025-02-17T10:14:14Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > though part is surely for the data centers, servers and Nvidia hardware. Data centers and servers need to be installed, hardware needs to be assembled. I have no doubt that most of that money went to other rich people, but surely some of it went to people who earned it. Besides, it’s always a good thing when a fool is separated from his money. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3914 "2025-02-17T12:19:50Z")
It’s only partially his money. It’s also that of his shareholders. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3915 "2025-02-17T12:29:47Z")
And I should have sympathy for them, why? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3916 "2025-02-17T12:31:18Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > It’s only partially his money. It’s also that of his shareholders. That’s _just_ what he wants them to think. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3917 "2025-02-17T12:43:24Z")
Well anyone investing in one of the index funds probably has some money in Meta stock. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3918 "2025-02-17T13:20:10Z")
I know - and that includes me, too. But it’s worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3919 "2025-02-17T13:43:07Z")
To billionaires, investing in controlling the narrative is worth the loss in revenue. See Elon’s purchase of Twitter. See Jared Kushner buying _The New York Observer_ so they wouldn’t say so many negative things about his real estate ventures. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/3920 "2025-02-17T19:00:55Z")
Apropos of nothing, the daily shitstorms have got this sort of punchline stuck in my head. “_Then he raised his tear-stained faced from his hands and said, ‘the worst part of all of this is, the goat wasn’t even very good.’_” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=195) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=197)