Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Nostimdamus

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At the end of every year, I take upon myself the massive task of going through the thousands of posts I’ve written and gathering together the very best of them. I’ve got to say, my jaw is sort of hanging open at how good the content at 2022 has been. The predictions I offered were eye-poppingly accurate, as you’ll discover when I roll out the “Best Of” series, but what shocked me just now was the item below, which I published on May 1st. I actually didn’t remember even knowing the NAME Samuel Bankman-Fried, but it turns out I wrote the following rather prescient tidbit in this awesome post.

Cliff’s Notes of Awful

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This is me bein’ pissy but………..looking at these now-laughable FTX commercials starring Tom Brady, whom I’m led to believe was some kind of big football star, I can’t help but reflect………

Conveniently, SO many things that I despise are in this one nifty package:

  • Worship of athletes;
  • The use of “I’m in as an affirmative;
  • Guy quitting his actual job so he can, I presume, day-trade crypto;
  • Female fry voice (Giselle)
  • Charts showing prices flying higher

Anyway, it’s heartening to see how this entire thing has been laid waste, as have the people within it. 2022 was a great year. I suspect 2023 is going to be even more fantastic. Here’s to the crypto collapse!!