It's kind of the problem with plotting CEO decisions to an individual. Maybe if there weren't a Jensen Huang nvidia wouldn't have leaked whatever they did to a chinese spy. But it's just like when united health was Luigi'd, There was the chilling effect sure but new CEOs in, and everythings back to business as usual.

Bottom line, NVidia's making a killing, I find it hard to believe that the shareholders would ever tolerate someone who wouldn't have also sold out to the AI bubble.

AI in general, IMO it's actually a very useful tool, Had it not been shoved into everything that makes no sense to... if we didn't have an absurd amount of companies trying to make "frontier models" that require carpeting the country in data centers, If we put more focus on... self run AIs where people could train it on their own stuff, in their own environment, without leading into a dependency on outside cloud resources.

US is basically doing the cellular race all over again, except on something so much more stupidly environmentally destructive and expensive.

(IE when the cellular race went on, we had basically 8 or so companies building towers that only were compatible with their own networks... rather than just making the towers public infrastructure and allowing providers to compete with 1 array of towers, instead of everyone making their own).

We lose money on every sale we make... but we make up for it in volume.

Well yes I wasn't eliminating them, I was noting the 15% of them. you've got selfish people who are really rich that benefit from the tax cuts... and you've got morons who will get a lot worse off.

Will we see a GOP fracture, or a new post-religious right?

No there will never be a significant post-religious right. There overall views aren't popular, without being able to turn to homophobia, transphobia, abortion, there numbers would be under 15%. Only borderline issue I can think of that isn't highly dependent on religion is guns.

I'd put the analogy as... selling someone a knife that you already know they plan to stab someone with. Yes obviously they are going to find a way to stab the person anyway unless you actively take the role of warning the person, but it's hard to argue that it isn't being complicit in a crime.

For me I suppose I fall onto the far other end of it. I've had 3 different situations where a friend has informed me they were cheating on their partner. All 3 resulted in me, contacting their partners. For me even having the knowledge when I have had zero participation in the situation... is an overwhelming sense of guilt. While all 3 resulted in a loss of a friendship, and one was ineffective because the cheater succesfully reweaved the lies. My only regret is taking too long on the first one.

I do agree with you in the gist of it... something I find flat out stupid is how many people define the "homewrecker" as the outsider that was willing to have sex with a married adult. (hell some of the time they weren't even aware that the person was married at the time).

Don't get me wrong, anyone who knowingly has sex with someone they are aware is in a committed relationship is still IMO 100% garbage of a human. But the actual blame for the marraige falling appart is the one who had trust to betray. I view that as the difference between stealing $20 from a stranger on the street, versus stealing $20 from a close friend or relative that absolutely trusts you.

I would say if you haven't seen it, DanDaDan kind of brings me back to that. Similar levels of crazyness absurdity and almost juvenile humor, with the same kind of deep expressive real feeling characters underneath.

I do wonder if the reverse is as plausible though... psychologically people tend to view the president as a god and congress as nothing. Hence the strategy worked amazingly in turning people against the democratic party in the obama era. I do wonder if it will work the other way around though.

and now I've got to listen to "crazy sunshine" by the pillows.

Yeah seems like it's stupidly obvious. He used to talk as a strong progressive. Then he realized really fast that progressives don't have a history of having sympathy or sticking by rapists, and he realized that if he wanted any hope of having any one on his side, he needed to change to the people that will stick by a rapist as long as he attacks the people they want to attack.

It's stupid on so many levels... yeah first and foremost basically everything about space is terrible for data centers.

What are the 3 things a data center needs.

Power, cooling, good internet connection. Obviously power is complicated as heck, yeah solar is a bit more direct, but also hits total blackouts when it winds up in the shadow of things... and shielding etc... from all the radiation is a pain and a half, solar pannels will need to be drastically bigger and heavier than their earth counterparts, which is expensive as hell to send up there.

but the harder part... cooling. People think of space as cold, but that's innacurate... there's no air to be cold... things stay at the temperature they are... if you have something constantly pumping out heat... it's insanely difficult to get the heat to radiate out.