Nah dude, difference country.

I don't think that's a uniquely Russian strategy, but I perhaps have experienced too much of the 20th century as an American.

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.

no problem.

He suffers no consequence for anything and all the judges he appointed rule in his favor. Republicans could hold a vote tomorrow morning to end his little tariff tirade but they're massive pussies and won't.

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.

It's not the Taiwanese that are crying censorship, it's the Chinese. The KMT are just wannabe CCP members who are just as truthful as the real CCP. Actual Taiwanese people don't want something that China controls.

That's the exact problem I have. Windows does it without even asking. My second monitor is actually a 4k tv for watching movies. Supposedly you can tweak xrandr and make it work but frankly it's not worth my time.

This is conservative/right wing agitprop clickbait bullshit of the absolute lowest quality.

no, social media is not creating debt laden people low wages and monopolies raising prices is.

Fuck what a particularly nasty piece of clickbait. But you got me I clicked it and I commented so you win I guess.

When the species of super intelligent raccoons or beavers take over from us after we drive ourselves to Extinction through sheer stupidity I wonder what they will think of this crap.

It's very clear that you didn't read the article, don't understand the arguments involved, but SOMEHOW feel entitled to spout your opinion.

Why?? Why not just read the article and become smarter? You don't need to show your ignorance off to the world, you can easily read the article, become non-ignorant and say something informed.

I'm actually responding to the AC above you. He is arguing that the attack wouldn't make any sense for either country to make, based on *national* interest. I'm pointing out that's not the only framework in which *regimes* make decisions.

People who complain about the US dollar and oil are people who've never taken an economics class.

If you're too lazy to learn economics, then do a simple search to find out the world's oil production compared to the number of dollars in the world, and that should give you an idea of how much influence it actually has.

LLMs are far less useful than promised, but they're a great bargaining chip...oh, you want a raise? I can replace you with AI and pay you nothing...how does that sound? Is it true?...no, but you're probably not going to call their bluff and find out as either way, you're out of a job. We saw this with offshore outsourcing 20-25 years ago. I'm more scared of what people think AI can do than what it can actually do.

It's a bit like a jar of jam. You can keep scraping it for a little more for quite a while, but eventually there isn't going to be any useful jam. Then you'll have to buy new jam. This is how depreciation works, you figure out when it's time to buy new jam and write off the "loss" of your asset over that predicted schedule.

Because of the accounting and the second hand market, sending those graphics cards to the dump is going to likely be a bigger net benefit than trying to sell used compute cards with no display output. Most of them aren't ordinary videocards even if the chips in them are basically the same.

What do you do when the deck runs out while building this house of cards?