Why Microsoft and Its 'Hey Hi' (Slop) Frenzy Fail While Sinking in Deep, Growing Debt
Microsoft's debt grew $8.2 billion in just 6 months!
"Microsoft is spiraling," Ryan said yesterday after the press had confirmed the upcoming massive round of layoffs at Microsoft. "This is a collapse playing out in real time," he argued. "I think you'll see that the vassal states can't go on very long without the sponsor."
He was referring to the deeply debt-saddled "open" "hey hi", which now leans on the Pentagon (or DoD) for bailouts while Scam Altman showers the sex pest with compliments. Remember that Scam Altman himself was sued by his young sister for sexual abuse. These are con men and crooks, not normal people. These are the sorts of people Microsoft gets along with.
"OpenAI and Microsoft are already having some serious disagreements," Ryan said, "that are starting to boil over. So there's going to possibly be some infighting there too. Meanwhile, their "investments" in OpenAI "tech", aren't really producing anything worthwhile. Mostly just pissing people off. Like the GitHub CoPilot bots going around filing fake bug reports and writing broken "pseudo-code". They cost a lot for the workload and the workload produces crap. Not necessarily anything reliable."
GitHub appears to be losing many projects/users over this. Its former CEO, who left GitHub with a 9-billion-dollar class action lawsuit, is in headlines again because of Facebook ("Meta") and he's a super-shady individual whom we'll be dealing with in the future.
"Good," an associate said about the chaos at Microsoft. "But more needs to be done about the Microsofters left over who remain embedded in the institutions which they have infiltrated and subverted."
This includes the above former CEO, who may be directly implicated in the SLAPPs against us. He may look like a nice person, but he's evil, greedy, utterly sinister. Just look at his best friend: a man who strangles women and tells women to kill themselves!
"It's pretty clear OpenAI would be dead meat without Microsoft cash," Ryan said. "They're a lot like the "false state of Manchukuo". Technically they're a company. But they can't go on without the other one."
"During the Second World War, the Japanese invaded China. To legitimize their occupation of Manchuria, they installed the last emperor of China (who had been deposed and driven out of the Forbidden City) as a puppet emperor of a false state of "Manchukuo". In theory the false state had everything. A government, its own laws and officials, a post office, a currency. Except it was the Japanese running everything. They had Puyi signing their decrees. He didn't make his own decisions, he couldn't do anything on his own. The Japanese basically were sucking Manchuria dry. They were using Chinese slave labor, extracting raw materials, and promoting drugs and organized crime to raise cash for their war effort. They were so brutal and they flooded the country with so much opium, that by the time the Communists managed to take over, things IMPROVED."
"OpenAI *is* Microsoft," the associate said, "so any "disagreement" is internal to Microsoft and most likely theater" (c.f. Daily Links about Microsoft having purchased Altman and OpenAI).
"OpenAI is really just a quagmire," Ryan said. "They're stuck in it now and all it does is cost money. But they also need it to attract investors to keep Microsoft stock propped up. With the promise there will be products. Investor patience is not infinite. It may go on for 5-6 years, but not forever. Bubbles usually don't go on for much longer than that."
"Debt is difficult to service. The only hope to keep debt serviceable forever is at zero interest. The reason why credit card companies usually offer a 0% period for 18 or even 24 months is not kindness. They're not loaning you money that is always going to be free. While the 0% period is in effect, you can run high balances and they're not obviously hurting you. You could spend $20,000 on the damned thing before that period is up and your minimum payment will only be $200 a month. But once that period is up, the card is maxed, suddenly you owe them what? 24-34% APR. Your minimums spike to $600 a month, right? No easy way to keep it up. You can probably pay that but it's all interest. You never make any progress at that rate, so now you're just paying them not to hurt you for a while longer. The minimum payment crushes you and then what happens to that $200 a month you're paying off the balance? Well, you are making room on the card, but all the room you make on the card is available to spend again, meanwhile they suck you dry so you have no money. So you get 3-4 months, and have $600-800 paid off at a cost of four times that. Then you need a new car battery and the only way to pay for it is the credit card."
"Debt is bad. The main reason of course, is, it's not always immediately obvious why. Until you've got a lot of it and it's crowding out things you can't have now. The US government is paying almost a trillion dollars a year now in debt interest. A few years ago it was $450 billion. Then a few years before that it was only $200 billion. It's a big ugly monster that gets bigger, and it gets bigger faster than you can even believe. This quarter, the federal government took in 15% more tax revenue than last year's first quarter. It didn't matter. The deficit was still up by $368 billion dollars, and it all gathers interest. If 5 more years go by like this, the feds may have to spend $2 trillion a year on debt interest. And nothing stops it because hyperinflation will set in."
"They don't run out of money, they just make it your problem. That's how public debt works. The government is like a drunk going into a casino and nobody will make them stop gambling, and you have to pay the bill."
Right now, like Twitter around the time it was sold to MElon, "open" "hey hi" is a big pile of debt with a lot to pay for that debt (interest payments). Will the company survive? Well, for at least two years already some publishers said it was untenable and that "company" was insolvent. It dragged Microsoft down deeper and deeper into debt. █