>New episode portrays Lisa as such a trend chasing pseudo-intelectual fake nerd that she simps for the Theranos woman
What the frick? The simpsons is based again?
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>New episode portrays Lisa as such a trend chasing pseudo-intelectual fake nerd that she simps for the Theranos woman
>trend chasing pseudo-intelectual
>Theranos
Could you please explain your thread, young man?
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos
>Maniac psycho chick creates company based around a machine that can magically do thousands of health tests based on a single drop of blood in seconds
>Becomes a maisntream icon of femminism and receivers millions in government funding and support during the Obama administration
>Later is discovered that she is just a rich chick that lied about every single aspect of her life, from education, origins and she was even faking her own voice
And the machine didn't actually work.
I remember this now. Bet it was all real and the CIA shut her down.
Yeah it sure would upset the world order if we could get results back on drawn labs sooner. have a nice day moron
They could create Targeted Medicine
>but she must be a genius, she even dresses like Steve Jobs!
"Muh hero, Steve Jobs" was a huge part of the persona iirc. He had died 4 years prior right after kickstarting a huge tech boom 4 years before that. So he was kinda just the techie icon for a bit
>Steve Jobs
>Genius
Haha, nah
He did have a talent for recognizing what people would want and pushing his engineers to make it smaller and better.
More like Steve Handjobs, am I right?
>Theranos woman
No fricking idea what that is.
Oh frick I remember reading about this. By the time I heard about it it was already known that it was a scam and I still saw billions of posts praising here as an icon when I searched that name or company don't remember.
Wasn’t this a Hulu series?
Pretty sure there was a Netflix series or something based on her after the whole thing was caught, people love grifters if they can be framed as a underdog and make the Grift "empowering" or "Fighting DA MAN", like a frickton of Trickster based Fairy Tales are basically the main character doing a grift to steal shit and the like.
Just like Anita Sarkeesian.
Plot twist. The machine actually works! But the pharmaceutical industries would have been destroyed.
They should have simply told her to hand them copies of the schematics and manuals so they coudl reverse engineer it to launch their own competing services
I don't think you thought this conspiracy theory through. The pharmaceutical industry would love a machine that can in the blink of an eye you a million things wrong with everyone on the planet that they can sell 83 medications to fix it.
now deconstruct the cia one
You can't falsify tinfoilhat ramblings about glowBlack folk.
Why?
Big pharma would probably love to start selling you drugs more quickly. I don't think testing isn't their main source of income.
Pharma ha nothing to do with Phlebotomy, insurance companies would maybe oppose this but as others have said it really doesn’t remove any revenue that wouldn’t immediately be recovered with diagnoses and treatment plans. Big Pharma would specifically love this.
Big pharma loved it actually cause then they wouldn't have to hire round the clock teams of lab techs.
>Plot twist. The machine actually works! But the pharmaceutical industries would have been destroyed.
The machine wasn't even claimed to do anything related to pharmaceuticals it was supposed to be able to simply blood tests by testing the blood for multiple illnesses at once with a single blood sample much smaller than what is traditionally taken.
It couldn't obviously but that wouldn't be a threat to pharmaceutical companies, hospitals maybe.
Pharmaceutical companies would have loved for this to be real. An easier way to do blood tests would mean that more people would do them and more people would find out that they need medicine which pharma would be more than happy to supply.
This whole debacle made it clear to me that billionaires know absolutely nothing about money. She got literal billions, with a B, in funding by simply claiming that she had a magic machine from Star Trek that analyzed your complete health from a single drop of blood. Just claiming that, no proof offered whatsoever. She had no medical background at all, no technical background worth speaking of, nothing. And "investment geniuses" who guide the world economy threw money at her.
I worked as professional services which means I would go to executive boards and talk with them about how outside tech could be made into a solution or product for their company.
No one in C-suite or on the board of any company has the remotest fricking clue how anything works. The investors are rich dipshits that shotgunned their money at a hundred different investments and called themselves brilliant when one succeeded, and the C-suites are all literal con men whose entire job boils down to lying to the board to keep them placated.
I once spent an hour trying, in vain, to make the heads of Overstock.com understand that our AI could take natural user input (like a text message) and normalize it into an item search, but it couldn't also perform the search if they had no tags on their products. They couldn't fathom that it was a limited machine and not a human intelligence
Any other stories from your job, anon? I can sympathize in general with trying to explain things to people with giant logic gaps, but haven't heard stories from your particular side before.
Honestly it's mostly just variations of that. We'd go in to talk, they'd make pie-in-the-sky pitches of some kind or another and I'd bring them down to technical reality (as much as I could) and try to offer something sort-of kind-of like their vision but that might actually work. We sold AI products before LLM's hit the scene but after Siri got all these old-ass morons to think a glorified phone tree is a literal person
Probably the funniest meeting I was ever in was with a production start-up that we realized afterwards was basically just an artist I won't name's cousin with 50 grand in startup funds - he wanted us to build a site with a Jarvis-like personal assistant that would basically do the jobs of a director, producer, and manager all in one. Even offering feedback on your art as you uploaded it to the site.
It took a lot of effort not to laugh in the guy's face. No AI is ever remotely close to that level of sophistication and if it were we wouldn't be trying to sell B2B we'd be ruling the fricking world. And that's besides him basically having no concept of server and storage costs.
There was also the time we made a fantastic SMS-based personal assistant that could be integrated into whatever workflow management suite a company used ("Schedule a meeting with X in meeting room Y at 9:00 AM next thursday") that could take just about any input in any order and the company that wanted it demanded we rebuild it in their ancient call flow software which removed everything good about it
>Billionaires know absolutely nothing about money
They don't have to. When a billionaire shits the bed with godawful investments even the morons on Cinemaphile wouldn't touch, the government just takes your tax money and gives them all their losses back. When you frick up on an investment, you just need to git gud.
We've seen so many other instances of millionaires and billionaires throwing a shitton of money around and acting fricking stupid while doing it. The dotcom boom, the crypto/NFT craze, and Musk buying Twitter and running it into the ground.
Then you are in the Billionaire tier you literally cannot lose anymore
Look at Elon
rent free
its a write-off for them
if they lose money, they just write it off
>gets raped at a frat party
>coping mechanism is literally "I want to build a tech company!"
>have nothing of value to offer so just defraud and waste everyone's time
>get 11 years in prison
>just end up fricking a hotel exec and having kids with him as your future meal ticket
Unironically an inspiration to women everywhere. Living example of the Woman Moment
I'm with her
>gets raped at a frat party
"He was ugly when I sobered up."
Women don't suffer
Why are her eyes so huge and close together
I love how Centaurworld took the absolute piss out of this woman.
only on a surface level, her advice was good and everyone followed it and was better off for it
Only because the plot needed it, it still played off the whole unearned cultlike devotion to her as part of the joke.
>that VA
holy shit
Centaurworld was too based for it's own good.
That is the fakest looking birch I've ever seen.
Remember, they don't bet on the horse they bet on the jockey. If you sound like you're telling the truth, and sound like you really believe it, people will buy into anything you're selling.
All fundraising is a con game, but the biggest thing here is that her idea was obviously impossible to anyone with even the slightest knowledge of bloodwork.
I'm not a doctor, I get regular bloodwork done for an autoimmune disorder, but even I can tell that you can't cram a bunch of disparate testing equipment into a tiny box without heat that would destroy your sample even if it was the proper size
Not with traditional machines, no. This was not attempting to do this, however. It was looking to essentially sequence a gene profile to identify anomalies.
>Not with traditional machines
Not with any machines
It takes different physical processes to perform different bloodwork tests, often requiring separation of the blood elements in a centrifuge. The process of performing one test makes performing another on the sample impossible, excess heat destroys samples, the idea was moronic from the beginning and so are you.
>It was trying to sequence your genes!
That was one of 240 tests it promised to run including other more traditional tests like sed rate, cholesterol, TB, white count, etc.
It was never even remotely viable and anyone with even the slightest knowledge in the field knew that. Investors are dumb as rocks.
>It takes different physical processes to perform different bloodwork tests, often requiring separation of the blood elements in a centrifuge
That’s a traditional machine, like I said. I get blood work done probably just as often as you. Saying “centrifugal” rather than “spins the blood around” doesn’t make you more informed and you’re specifically ignoring the proposed difference in their technology which I have no defended once.
I love how the second half of this post is admitting I was right about their goals which, again, I didn’t say we’re achievable.
>th-that's a traditional machine
There's no other kind.
>y-you're not smart!
projection
>I was right!
Not even remotely
Slink back to your hole now.
Of course this is no other kind, because they failed. I accept your concession. When you inevitably reply it will be because you dance to my drum.
>y-you’re a homosexual
Yeah sure thing kiddo. Totally a homosexual. Meanwhile. In reality I know you’ll be dead before me thanks to the AIDS your homosexual ass got from being totally not a homosexual.
I would also like a (you).
This chick proves that the media conglomerate is fricking moronic and should never be taken seriously.
>media
She's a clickbait headline in human form you fricking moron. The media gave her attention because even big name conservatives were throwing money at her, hoping to get in on the next big healthcare exploitation.
You keep mentioning conservatives throwing money. Are you a card carrier?
>Simpsons Simps for a shit person
>Hey, remember the totally not ratings Ratings trap episode of Homer totallyseparating from Marge for Lina Dunamn
>Lina Fricking Dunamn!
>The blobc**t who diddle her sister and admited it and got away with it because IMMA WOOMUN!
>Oh, we also banned the Michael Jacksom episode cause Leaving Neverland!
The show is run by the shameless
>lied about every single aspect of her life, from education, origins
qrd?
She was telling people she was educated somewhere she wasn't actually educated and that her background was one thing but was, in fact, another.
She LARPed as Steve Jobs. She wasn't even rich or experienced at all. She was using some richer homosexual's money and connections, also. The machine that she kept insisting they were close to releasing legitimately never existed ever. Years of saying "it's almost done!!" and they didn't have anything that wasn't just another company's existing machine.
Her story isn't even unique. She's part of the generation of super grifters and tech start-up stars that never once had anything to show, but were miraculously getting billions in investments and endorsements from experts and authorities all around the world. The entire financial system is run by morons. You may find yourself thinking "I just don't understand it. They must know better than me, right?" and the truth is NO, they absolutely don't. They're dumber than you and they wield trillions of dollars in other people's money to prop up companies that do nothing and generate no value!
life becomes a lot more terrifying when you realize that almost everyone in the financial system was dumb enough to pay for a degree
>Becomes a maisntream icon of femminism
That never happened. Feminists so give a shit about CEO girl bosses especially tech bro b***hes. Conservative investors also gave her money. Defense contractors giving her money was just a sort of dibs based courtesy, they weren't among the largest investors.
I love how you post "conservatives gave her money" as if that's some kind of absolute proof that feminists didn't like her
I'm just not understanding what qualifies as a feminist icon. A headline celebrating a girl boss isn't a sign that feminists approve or are involved, just that there's something else to write a headline about. I don't know what work she did with feminists orgs and who was kneeling to her there. I think her gender helped market the con, I have my own cynicism, but in following the story I didn't see anything uniquely feminist. It's like to call this feminist is to call every instance of female success feminist. At some point it just becomes "done by a female".
>DEFLECT DEFLECT DEFLECT!!!!
truly a pathetic display.
deploy the copes
Wasn't she the one who put on a super fake deep voice?
Yes
Excellent post.
see
this, I don't understand anything he said
see
Well, I just took the Theranos story and replaced the old Indian guy with Mr. Burns.
Whomst
If I remember right, she made a company and tried to have the whole tech genius image along the lines of Elon Musk or Steve Jobs but with added girl power, but it turned out the tech her company was built on didn't actually exist.
>turned out the tech her company was built on didn't actually exist
Didn't stop the other two you mentioned.
The tech for those two did exist they were just shit, but people thought it could be better and therefore pumped billions into it
To the point it reached meh instead of shit.
Elon's literal whole gimmick is buying companies that ARE already producing something and putting his name on it and showing it off to journalists like its his own initiative, so its the literal exact opposite
Nu-Simpsons is depressing to watch
Talk about striking while the iron is hot.
How long does it take for an episode of this shit to be made?
at least 6 months
You can't fool me, anon. That shit was made with AI.
All of the simpsons is made with AI
https://ew.com/tv/the-simpsons-will-parody-silicon-valley-star-studded-episode/
The new episode is titled "Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story," and will feature a slew of star cameos. Two journalists who have covered Silicon Valley in real life, Kara Swisher and Andrew Ross Sorkin, will appear as themselves, while documentarian Ken Burns returns to the show. Director Peter Jackson, journalist Christiane Amanpour, and actor Peter Coyote will also appear in the new episode.
Check out exclusive first-look photos below. The episode will air Sunday, Oct. 29, on Fox.
I mean, plenty of people love worshipping scammers and buying into their schemes because of the whole hustling culture and "Scamming people is hard, so it is impressive", like before Theranos there was the whole Wolf of Wall Street thing, i think that guy is a paid speaker these days, once a scammer is "caught" people can start seeing them against the underdog fighting the system, even if the victimized a lot of people, often with "the victims deserved it anyway" self-justifications because the people doing so are the ones with Hindsight 20-20 Hell i personally have soft spot for John McAfee, may his soul rest in peace.
Kinda weird to consider Lisa one of those though, she strikes me more of a Coffeezilla viewer.
If the only thing the Theranos woman had done was scam the VC dipshits out of their money, she would be my personal hero.
But, you know, she also developed a fake product that gave inaccurate medical test results, and there may very well be actual normal people who died (or spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on unnecessary treatment) as a result of it.
If you were a celebrity, would you accept an invitation to appear on The Simpsons?
Be sincere.
probably, but only if i can say my own lines
Depends on the bells and whistles of the the whole thing, but realistically yes, because i would likely be paid for it and get free promotion for relatively little work, and it isn't like anyone would actually hold showing up on The Simpsons against me. they would hold me showing up on the The Simpsons against The Simpsons going by how these things usually go.
Yes but only if the Simpsons version of me dies in a freak accident at the end of the episode
Only on the condition that a character is restored back to their original persona
I'd have to see a script first.
I would never want to be a celebrity and no.
Sure, but I wouldn't want to be myself directly. I'd like to be more like Michael Jackson
90's simpsons yes, modern simpsons no way in hell.
Only if I get to be head writer of the script, don't worry I wouldn't appear as myself and I'd have my character die at the end of the episode.
Only if like with Michael Jackson, or other shows like the first few South Park seasons, they have the celebrity doing the voice for some other character that isn't just them copy and pasted with jaundice. I'd voice some talking bee or anything else frankly, sounds like it could be fun.
Yes
yes, because it's a paycheque, and nobody would even remember the episode.
only if I could do it James Woods or the Critic style and have the episode be written with that character as part of the plot and not just a stupid throwaway gag that untalented writers pulled out of their ass to fill time.
anon they've made episodes like ypu're requesting
they were Elon's and Gaga's episodes, the absolute worst episodes
If I have a not-so-subtle jab at shows that have gone on for way too long
Only condition is that they make it the actual last episode of the entire series
Only if I can get a michael jackson, patrick stewart or at least markiplier-tier gig, voicing a character that isn't just an animated version of myself, but a mental patient, sentient poop or a boskov ripoff.
I can't imagine how fricking lame it must be to be told you're gonna appear in a cartoon but you'll be voicing yourself. You can't even do a funny voice you're just expected to talk normally.
no. i have too much integrity for that.
Yes definitely. But like many have said, I'd want to play some random character and not myself. Unless the version of myself is relevant to the plot like James Woods.
i hate everything about this image
cheeky
Lisa NO!
>What a fricking philistine
Hey now. She was born when Trump announced his presidential candidacy.
What, Lisa wearing headphones? What's wrong with it?
They're weirdly detailed
I can't explain it but something feels wrong about this image
I wonder if there's a reason they changed Lisa from the "rational voice of reason in the family" to a screeching intolerable liberal. Was it the voice actress? Some writer with an axe to grind?
Reminder Lisa has been screeching about being labeled as a PC thug as far back as the late 90s. This is nothing new
They aways had this
>Lisa: So much people paying to see sports, why can't they pay to see a teacher inspiring a student?
>Homer: Oh! Haven't you heard? That happened... Yesterday... ON CRAZYTOWN!
I've been watching the thr series and you can see the changes starting pretty early. By season 6 and 7 she stops being the thoughtful but still naive little girl and begins morphing into the writers mouth piece. Which is jarring because they'll still be episodes where she acts similar to the rest of her family.
Flanderization
>Most people featured in Forbes magazine are now either bankrupt or in jail, people actually call it the Forbes curse
let me guess, they spin it as some girl power thing to scam people and get rich
No, she goes to jail, Mr. Burns of all people saves the day and gets depressed for failling in love with her (He thought she was pure evil like him, but she is just insane) and Lisa adimits that she only followed her because she was given free merch
Who the hell watches the Simpsons in 2023?
Anon get a new tv show to watch what the frick
>again?
OP, where are you going to end this charade? The Simpsons was never good, take off your nostalgia googles already.
kys Tracey Ullman
The Simpsons is beyound c°u•ck▪ed and fricked.
They will NEVER be good again, it will never, EVER be, frick youtube leftoid shills FRICK EM.
please auto sage this thread, now! N0dwd
The writers think Nintendo Power is still in production.
>the Theranos woman
You have to be 18 to post here.
they might not be american
Neither am I, it was global news that had new headlines for years.
that really means nothing if you're not seeking it out
it's not really their fault that the writers of The Simpsons are more than seven years behind on current events
They used to be ahead of the time.
this one is weird b/c it came even before the 1993 attacks on the WTC
It's a reference to the movie The Towering Inferno, which the episode was partly a parody of.
It's hard to tell what that is from that obscured angle, but couldn't it be a reference to "Towering Inferno" or any real skyscraper disaster prior to that? I know it's hard to remember historical things happened before 9/11, but I assure you they did.
I find it funny that people feel the need to point out that the painting is decipting the Hindenburg Disaster like this was not the intended joke
I'm 31, homosexual.
Why would you announce that? Are you proud of spending so much time watching cartoons that you never heard of fricking Theranos?
How is """Theranos""" in any way linked to cartoons, though?
learn how to read, dumbass
Why are there people genuinely defending the super recent seasons (33 onward)?
There's nothing else to do and they're not as bad as some of the season 20 episodes.
After years of shitty episodes, people will defend anything that is slightly better. Although I don't think there's really an improvement, the current episodes are between meh and painfully bad.
>the Theranos woman
The what now?
> turning Lisa into Brian
Would they?
Nah, they'd make her more like Steve Smith
>the episode making fun of fricking Theranos
That shit crashed half a decade ago, what the frick? Are they so out of touch, or so out of material?
Paul Gilbert was grumbling in an interview a while ago about how he lost money on this lmao
How do you put money into something without even a proof of concept? I mean did she even have a fake prototype to fool investors with or was it all done just on her word?
No there were fake studies and trials. Or theoretically they tested the device in a legitimate trial and the fake trials started after they realised it wasn’t going to work.
In fact much of the court case hinges on her getting told that the trials came up as negative and that she decided to keep going to keep the investor cash coming in.
>How do you put money into something without even a proof of concept? I mean did she even have a fake prototype to fool investors with or was it all done just on her word?
Yes. They had prototypes. They had trials and
they had test results that proved the machine worked. It's how she got caught, she was outsourcing the tests.
wtf is wrong with lisa's face, she looks like homer
Who cares, post more Lisa.
>Lisa overlooks a black man getting unpersoned and continues to stan the girl boss behind his disappearance because muh soggy knees