Sure. I'm just pointing out that "go get a warrant" isn't possible in this use case precisely because fishing expeditions are prohibited under the current rules.

Maybe but the corporate greed machine is never satisfied. After the first few shipments, they may cry foul.

There, the story if their datacenters:

https://www.technologyreview.c...

You sound like you really dislike China.

What's your problem then with them repeating their "housing boom" from a few years ago, which left them with an enormous sunk cost in the form of empty ghost cities and an economy riddled with bad debt?

You should be cheering that they are dumping good money into another bubble with no exit in sight.

The trump principle has always been to get his cut, nevermind what this does to the value of the overall business. He literally sees no problem in destroying $100B of value if he gets a million or two out of it in cash in his pocket.

Too stupid to figure out a better way than what he did as a "mogul" when he swindled small businesses, he married his daughter to a shrewder figure, who could come up with the "creative" ways to arrange "presents" from Qatar and "investments" from Saudi Arabia and the meme shitcoin purchases from putinland.

It is really the story of a desperate feudal at the end of the middle ages somewhere in Europe, there are at least a dozen parallels with royalty who ran their holds into the ground for a little cash.

No, no, no, you're taking it the wrong way. This as a reverse tariff, a very powerful instrument, more powerful than any instrument, it is going to be paid by the big, bad, bad communist Gyna, which by the way is a great country that we can do a lot of business with and we do have a great relationship with Gyna they now respect us much more than ever, and at the same time this reverse tariff will MARA! Yes, that R stands there for "Rich".

Don't be so bitter that you dislike only because your bad, rotten people who don't like these great achievements and by the way the best ballroom that was ever built, and it is completely free and look at all those low, low prices everywhere in the greatest economy with all wars stopped.

I know, but the label has stuck with me from the olden times.

We've been using nvidia video boards for sciencey stuff (mostly nuclear power calculations) long before anyone thought about burning them for shitcoins or "AI", back when the main use was still cool gaming graphics.

Of course. It isn't like I'm making a serious comment here, quite the opposite. If they've cooked the books, it is fraud.

The question is, will the people who need to max out the bubble (and they are now above any control mechanism) let this fraud be investigated or punished.

And you know the answer as well as I do.

Imagine, that used to be called "shameless" just a few generations back even among his base.

Although I guess it was used in the same sense and with more than a little envy.

Nah dude, difference country.

Cool. We agree,

Sure. That changes my position 0% though, it's irrelevant vibes.

Do you agree then that those claims are true though? Cattle ranching and steel emissions cause changes to the atmosphere, mining tends to be environmentally destructive and that car culture has many negative effects on health and society?

Not even getting prescriptive yet, no argument yet about what to do about that but can we agree those are true statements? Because if not then bringing up what some people think should be done is really irrelevant.

What if, and I'm just spitballing here, the news media barely covered this and certainly didn't cover the corruption angle at all because the news media is now completely owned by billionaires like something like literally 90% of the news media is owned by billionaires.

So almost nobody hears about this and then the news cycle eats the attention of anyone who does and we all just move on and forget about it. Does that work for you?

In project 2025 they call it shock and awe. Everything is a distraction from the previous terrible thing Trump did and everything Trump does next is a distraction from whatever he's doing at the time. Meanwhile the economy is continuously collapsing due to mismanagement so you're too busy trying to keep your head above water to care about anything else.

Then you mix in a little voter suppression and the fact that a billionaire Trump sycophant just bought the company that controls all of our voting machines and maybe do a few hundred billion dollars of propaganda right before the election and Bob's your uncle Trump gets a third term or at least JD Vance gets his term.

Then we had 25% unemployment, world war III takes off and goes nuclear and we Fermi paradox ourselves. I don't think the billionaires are planning on that last one but I don't think they are thinking any of this through either. They're just too busy trying to set themselves up as feudal Kings.

If you have this sort of shopping problem, you should move to a tiny apartment. Nothing kills the joy of buying stuff like having to throw other stuff away to fit the new.

I'm no lawyer but this sounds suspiciously like an export tax. I think Nvidia now has a solid case that A) it's illegal (only congress can tax stuff, right?) and that B) a ban is unwarranted because of the attempted illegal export tax.

Kinda seems like the grifter just shot himself in the foot again.