Quote from: Hydrogen on October 15, 2022, 11:53:42 PM

Facebook's cancelled cryptocurrency projects libra and diem were better than anything metaverse has to offer.

I remember Libra, but for some reason diem is only ringing a low-volume bell in my head. Anyway, if you're comparing those two against whatever their Metaverse turns out to be, I'm not so sure the cryptos were better ideas or not. Maybe for Facebook, but not for the general public--but I guess we'll never know since the US government wouldn't let them get off the ground.

Quote from: Hydrogen on October 15, 2022, 11:53:42 PM

Those who follow finance and business know exactly where the money went. The same precedent has been an ongoing theme for other large US corporations for years.

Am I reading between the lines correctly here? Are you saying Meta might be pulling an Enron or something illegal of that nature, like accounting fraud, quarter-stuffing, and all that crap that corporations do to make their stock look attractive to big investors and/or line the pockets of the corporations' executives' pockets?

I honestly hadn't thought of that, since Meta/Facebook hasn't shown any evidence of doing that in the past (or at least I haven't picked up on it). Then again, a lot of financial chicanery doesn't get detected until the house of cards comes tumbling down--just like in Enron's case. Don't know if you're right or wrong here, but it'll be interesting to see what comes of all this money Meta is throwing into the black hole.