Skip to content

Comment on The Egg, an at Home Nuclear Reactor

Comments

Umm..... Enron??

someone bought the name and logo and has been doing little parodies

Looks like the Enron crypto token/coin is not a parody.

https://cryptoslate.com/enron-is-back-now-focused-on-decentr...

But a lot other s*itcoins beat them to it. And is flooding the crypto market with "fake" Enron coins.

Does this even rise to the level of parody? This is just... A thing. Just kinda lying to people and then saying gotcha.

I guess the implicit humor is just mocking enron as the image of a failed company who would do reckless things?

it doesn't seem very sophisticated but I'm not sure what else you'd call it.

I got that sense too, but after watching the video, I felt like it was more of an indictment of American tech culture (especially with the recent block chain, crypto, and now AI hype). As I watched the video I felt increasingly scared of the thought of home nuclear reactors made a company solely motivated by increasing profits YoY. Honestly it was more scary than funny.

Is it a hard requirement for a parody to parody something else?

Pretty much.

Man, some people really are no fun.

One of the parodies is a “hot takes” interview: https://digg.com/digg-vids/link/enron-ceo-connor-gaydos-subw...

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.