It's possible this is a hedge against AMD putting out genuinely useful integrated graphics. The 780 is okay for fortnite on the lowest settings but not much else. And the 8060s requires a very expensive purchase because it's not really for gaming or even video encoding it's for AI use as a workstation for programmers playing with their models.

AMD is clearly avoiding putting decent graphics in their integrated gpus so that they don't cannibalize their GPU market which is I suppose understandable. Once you hit GTX 1080 grade performance or roughly equivalent to a 5700 XT that's enough for most people. Especially if you support modern upscaling techniques. You can get most games to 60fps with that if you're willing to play at low or medium settings. Borderlands 4 and stalker 2 excepted

But it would be just like Nvidia to want to nip a potential competitor in the bud.

I see absolutely no way that could be a problem.

Jokes aside modern techno feudalism can probably contain them. At least as long as they mostly have food.

The problem is factory automation has gotten so cheap that we are at the point where borderline slave labor probably isn't worth the cost.

From what I can tell the Chinese government has been ordering companies to hold off on factory automation for just that reason but I think they're hitting the point where it's getting harder to do that.

One thing I know for sure if you get enough young men without wives and jobs it's only a matter of time before you have a world war. The only problem with that is we have nukes now. I mean the only problem besides the horrific Carnage and all that but that's never stopped Us in the past.

They also like to control the child. That is part of the attractiveness of the arrangement, and their obsession with it. These are people who take a special joy in manipulating others.

Is just now starting to dip its toes into serious competition in the GPU market you would think maybe a $5 billion dollar investment from a competitor would get a little more scrutiny from regulators...

I am not saying that the investment would get blocked but it's not unusual for these kind of large investments in markets with very little competition to come with some caveats. Antitrust law is fairly broad for a good reason.

If you sit down with a table full of Nazis and you realize you're at a table full of Nazis and you don't get up and leave congratulations you're a Nazi.

You don't get to make your bed with Nazis and then say you're not a nazi. And you don't get to do the same with right wingers and pretend you want the right winger. You are the policies and people you support whether you like it or not.

Keep having the day you voted for.

This doesn't mean they can't do hypocritic things this means they are physically incapable of experiencing the emotions of shame and self-awareness that form hypocrisy.

If a republican accuses someone of hypocrisy it's because they recognize a pattern that they don't actually understand.

This is why Republicans can engage in perfect double think where they hold two ideas contradictory in their head at the same time.

This is because the Republican party is a fascist party and frankly it has been for at least the last 30 years debatably since Nixon.

The change happened when Barry Goldwater lost. They switched to using classic fascist tactics so they could have the power and money they wanted. Anyone who cares about America was gradually sidelined.

The thin is, the artists WANT to keep the prices down because they (or at least their managers) understand that fans able to get tickets and see concerts is a driving force for their fandom. You don't get big or even stay big by only being seen by a few wealthy patrons (or their kids).

Because he hired people that were readily corruptible.

Believe it or not it isn't that hard to hire people who aren't easily corruptible. There are lots of competent people who enter public service to actually be in public service. Revolving doors do suck but they aren't universal.

It's about the culture and yeah when you've got Trump at the top then shit's going to rot from the top down.

But I think you're mixing up a class action lawsuit from a private attorney with the actual FTC bringing a suit. Those are very different things with very different outcomes. If you have somebody who is planning on leaving a government position for a cushy private job in a quid pro quo they don't usually bring lawsuits they usually just rubber stamp things behind the scenes quietly.

So my point is if we are seeing these kind of lawsuits from an administration we already know is corrupt then it is likely that the administration itself is fishing for bribes.

Actually, they own a few and have a contractual lock on many many more.

With what we just saw with Jimmy kimmel, regardless of what you think of him, it's pretty clear the FTC is for sale and is a wholly owned subsidiary of King Trump.

So if they want this to go away all they have to do is buy some more Trump coin just like the United Arab Emirates did.

Seriously the UAE gave Trump 2 billion dollars through his cryptocurrency nonsense. And it didn't even make the news. Never mind that plane guitar gave him

We are at the point where Ticketmaster is going to do a calculation whether they should bribe Trump or fight it in court. Maybe they will fight it maybe they will bribe maybe they will do a little bit of both. But the fact that that calculation is going on is fucking insane and we should all be freaking the fuck out right now

One of the things that makes TV so crazy cheap is that the TV manufacturers have deals when they let guys like Roku put ads on the TV.

For me it's a okay because my TV is really just a monitor for the living room PC and handful of consoles hooked up to it. So I don't really care that if I used it for Netflix I get a bunch of ads. The TV itself never gets connected to the internet.

Where it becomes a problem with some of the appliances is that they sometimes don't have proper controls so you have to connect them to the internet so that you can access an app that lets you control the appliance.

There have been a couple of washing machines like that where there are features you just can't access unless you install the app. And yes when the app inevitably stops working you can't access those features anymore.

Just one more thing you have to watch out for while buying crap now. At least with TVs because I'm just using them as a monitor that hasn't been an issue.

The big problem with these "smart" things is that it's getting hard to avoid them. Several years ago I was looking for TV. A few dozen "smart" TVs to choose from but exactly 2 non-smart TVs. I don't mean 2 models, I mean 2 TVs in the whole store. Luckily one of them was suitable.

Am I the only person to recognise his name and know that he has a decidedly mixed record when it comes to predicting future Apple products? He gets it right about 70% of the time, so a little better than a coin toss, but not something I’d use for making money.

How many credit checks on your account? Do you have an amex without preset spending limit?

In the last 12 months my score has been between 650 and 810*, really just depending on when things hit the credit card. Now I make a game of it... seeing how low I can get it by doing a bunch of purchases and charitable donations all in the same billing cycle.

* I have no debt; it is just credit card balances that are paid off in full every month.

I suspect it's like when people invested in amd, it's there to make sure that companies don't end up with one supplier for x86 CPUs.

Nvidia is still heavily dependent on x86 CPUs to pump data into their gpus. That is changing a bit with arm but it's still a thing.

It also helps Nvidia when the European governments come sniffing around about antitrust violations. I say European because God knows American government's not going to do anything. We might shake them down for some bribes for the current administration but that's about all.