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by AlexC04 3383 days ago
I hope you've trademarked the term "epochalypse" because it is really catchy! I love it.
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I will be just 5 years away from retirement, so I will use this as an opportunity to shore up my 401k.

Of course, the singularity will be here by then and fix it for us just before turning us all into paper clips, yada yada.

I will advertise with the slogan "Epochalypse... NOW."

Sell manual water filtration systems. I heard people made a fortune on those before Y2K.
Make sure your 401k is the first thing you certify as 2038 compliant
> I will advertise with the slogan "Epochalypse... NOW."

or you can do the same as the y2k people did: Y2K... TOMORROW!

> turning us all into paper clips

A paperclipocalypse?

Paperclipalypse works for me
2038: Odyssey 2.5
He didn't invent it. It's been around about as long as people have seen this problem coming.
Maybe he can title himself an epochalist.
The epochstle.