The idea that a new product aligned to my interests and designed with me in mind would be advertised to me instead of feminine hygiene products or mesothelioma lawsuit ads seemed awesome.

Broadly speaking, the problem with modern American advertisement isn’t the content so much as the volume. Tried to watch a football game a few weeks back and I barely saw any football being played. Every millisecond of screen time and every pixel of screen space that wasn’t a moving football was consumed by ads.

I was at an actual game a year ago, foolishly thinking being there was going to be a better experience. NOPE. Ads on the announcements. Ads at the endzones. Ads painted into the turf. I got solicited to buy shit as I was loading up my ticket and right inside the gate once I was scanned in. The whole interior of the stadium was a mall full of overpriced crap. Seats were branded. The food was branded. I was buying something and I was drowning in people trying to sell me more shit.

I don’t care if every single item on offer is something I might actually want. I can’t fucking breath for it all.

I would not hold my breath

Anything bad?

Most people aren’t celebrating the killing of Kirk

I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure

Okay, but what if we just repeal or ignore that rule in order to conduct a pogrom of WrongThinkers?

Basically why the grid exists to begin with. You’re not supposed to be solving these engineering problems on a household budget inside a single home.

You’d be better off simply reducing your consumption or finding alternative methods of power (nat gas or maybe wind or geothermal) during the longer winter nights.

If you really want to go crazy, you should consider investing in a bigger home with better insulation and roommates. An apartment/condo block can at least leverage economies of scale, if you’re dead set on DIY. More people benefiting from the setup dilutes the cost per person.

Italian Unification but it’s everything from Hadrian’s Wall to Istanbul.

Sartre was no fool.

An end to the war appears no closer, despite months of U.S.-led peace efforts.

Is that what was going on?

They’re some of the world’s biggest landlords. This is just aristocrats rubbing elbows.

Made up ceremony

Wait till the Brits find out its all made up and the nobility doesn’t matter.

There isn’t anything to discuss, really.

What if we talked about only doing the fascism in the red and purple states? Maybe create some kind of Vichy Republic for the liberals, off to the side aways, once the reactionaries have come through and purged them of anyone too threatening.

Surely you can just let Barack Obama continue his #blessed influencer lifestyle out in Martha’s Vineyard, at least? He’s a mega-millionaire! He’s in the club now, you guys! They can look the other way while you do your pogroms. You can look the other way while they do their Netflix autobiographies and Burning Man festivals. Comme ci, comme ça.

There is nothing to discuss with a fascist.

There’s always room for discussion. We just need a strategically managed surrender. Let the poors go into the meat grinder while the elites can install the AI chips that do all the prole work for us. Then we just segregate ourselves into partisan enclaves and rule as miniature local despots together.

Just so long as the fascists don’t become greedy and try to take further ground, things should be fine. And if we’re rhetorically clever enough and sensible enough and rational enough, they won’t do that.

It’s not like countries aren’t doing anything. Israel might not be admitted to the next season of So You Think You Can Dance.

a few months we’re going to see an article saying China has bought record amounts of H20s and NVIDIA’s stocks are going to go up again. This is because the smaller companies are still going to be buying and at MSRP because the big boys can’t.

I would not bank on it, but I guess we’ll see.

At the moment, NVIDIA and CoreWeave are busy swapping spit while Trump is throatling the export economy at record speed.

But hey, time will tell.

Huawei’s 910c is about 30% slower and 1/3 more expensive.

NVIDIA H100s are currently going for around $25k to Huawei’s $28k. And that’s before you get to the secondary market, where NVIDIA chipsets will inevitably jump in price based on availability and relative demand. Without Huawei in the market, I guarantee NVIDIA’s chips would be even more expensive.

At some point, its just a matter of what is available. American tech companies are demanding more chipsets than NVIDIA can currently produce, which is why the company’s still considered a growth investment play. Chinese competitors aren’t going to be able to import NVIDIA to meet their own internal demand. They’ll buy Huawei units because that’s what is on the shelf.

If no one develops on Chinese chips, then they’ll never actually be competitive.

People will develop on Chinese chips because they’re cheaper and more open-sourced. Also, because their specs are written in Chinese rather than English and that’s their native tongue.

But today, it’s able to run the domestic game Black Myth WuKong at 4k at 40 fps.

That’s not because of a chip import policy the state issued last week. Someone’s obviously working on these things, even without a bunch of state-issued trade restrictions.

What this has rang through out China I am sure is, China has to do everything on earth to fix their software. If that means banning NVIDIA, so be it.

NVIDIA does not have the export capacity to feed the entire Chinese state’s demand for new hardware. Never did. The real reason for a domestic Chinese investment in tech is that China is also a global leading consumer. They need to fab their own chips for the same reason they need to build their own cars and grow their own rice. Their economy can’t work as an import economy when they represent 16% of the global population.

This change in policy will undoubtedly accelerate domestic investment in new software. But it wasn’t strictly necessary.

Thiel’s so high on his own supply that his brain is failing him. Any of the more recent videos of his public speaking show a many who is less and less cognizant of the world around him and more up his own asshole than any human has a right to be.

The guy was always a libertarian-flavored fascist, going back to his early Paypal days. But now that he’s fully enmeshed in the national security state with his Palantir project, he’s getting the weapon’s grade Reagan Era anti-communism directly from the firehose. That, plus the drugs and the orgies and the crazy sleepless jet-setting schedule all topped off with his flirtations in digital immortality. Dude’s brain is cooked like hamburger.

This is more a tit-for-tat with Trump tariffs and trade embargoes. I don’t think the Chinese state leadership cares about going heads up with NVIDIA in the public market, even if they’re hosting the inferior brand (for now). They’ve been operating as a second-best option in manufacturing and tech for decades as they built up their capacity.

But this kind of power move is a kick in the teeth to some of Trump’s wealthiest supporters. It gives Chinese diplomats enormous leverage as they go into another round of trade negotiations with a country whose economy increasingly revolves around making and selling chipsets.

Edit: Incidentally, NVIDIA has $165B/year in revenue and a $4.5T market cap. Just think about that for a minute.

Are you not trusting the police in Mississippi to be honest about when a black man seeking education found hanging from a tree is suicide?

Apparently, Emmett Till “commuted suicide” just thirty miles away