[–] 15 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

The alleged Chinese spy, Alice Huang, was an executive of Nvidia customer Megaspeed, a Singapore-based company that U.S. officials suspect of helping route advanced Nvidia chips into China. The Democratic inquiry comes from Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. As the minority party, they can ask questions but can’t compel answers.

In two months they can make him answer, for now they can just ask and write the letter...

Like, what would you rather they do, that they can actually do?

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  • [–] 3 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

    (its more like having stakes in companies that compose 60% of their GDP, and a lot of that is concentrated in the commanding heights and the rest is often minority stakes through state linked investment firms),

    Nope:

    The overarching goal was to weave the party “comprehensively” into the fabric of the economy's private sector (Central Organization Department, 2012). Local authorities were directed to establish special agencies to support this goal and firms were requested to seek guidance from local party leaders on important managerial decisions. Further, governments were mandated to use firm-based party cells to advance party-related policy beyond the reach of formal state institutions. The service-oriented character of party organisation was also underlined in a Central Committee document from 2014. While mainly addressing party cells in public organisations, it stipulated that company-based party cells should assist corporate production and operation, and serve as the central mechanism for political leadership of a company's development (政治引领, zhengzhi yinling) (General Office of the Central Committee, 2014).

    The 2012 central regulation was personally endorsed by Xi Jinping in several speeches (Xinhua, 2012). The intervention of the top party leadership contributed to a rapid increase in the percentage of private businesses with a party cell embedded in their organisation: from 21 per cent in 2010 to 73 per cent in 2017 (Koss, 2021: 229). Among China's top 500 private companies, 92 per cent had established party cells by 2020 (Chinese Private Enterprise Survey, 2020). Nevertheless, implementation efforts encountered various challenges, including the lack of clear and specific guidelines, instances where business owners co-opted party organisations for their own benefit, and a significant number of inactive party cells (Yan and Huang, 2017).

    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/18681026261445459

    They literally have to have government official embedded in their corporations

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  • [–] 3 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

    Cable TV needed to fill timeslots...

    Streaming has to put out enough to not lose subscribers, and they know most people aren't going to ever bother canceling.

    It's this weird market where a streamers best customer: is someone that never launches the app. Too much content and they have to pay for the bandwidth.

    Not even getting into how monopolization is limiting competition.

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  • [–] 8 points 21 hours ago (8 children)

    The problem with that, is China had to have been aware she was smuggling Nvidia chips out of Singapore thru her company...

    China holds a stake in every Chinese company, and it's not just on paper, government officials get access to everything.

    Which is why the line between corpo spying and government spying is virtually non existent. Especially when the Chinese government doesn't hold anyone accountable.

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  • [–] 21 points 22 hours ago

    Not even sure why the main thing they’re complaining about is the “dirty tricks”,

    The article you posted explains it:

    Furious Democrats accused Republicans of playing “dirty pool.” They said Republicans pulled Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, away from the podium, where he was leading the Democratic side of the debate, in order to discuss changes to the bill. It was during that parley — while Takano was away from his microphone — that McDowell fast-tracked the proposal, they said.

    “After publicly announcing a recorded vote on the TCAVA legislation, House Republicans asked if RM Takano and Democrats would agree to last minute engrossment corrections,” a Democratic leadership aide said.

    “While members and staff were evaluating these changes away from the podium, House Republicans called the vote up and passed it by voice within seconds — depriving Democrats of the ability to even evaluate the proposed changes and ask for a recorded vote so Members could vote against the biggest cut to veterans benefits in US history,” the aide added.

    “On Veterans Day of all days, using dirty tricks to steal from Veterans is a disgrace.”

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  • [–] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

    lost 1/3 since the high a month ago

    And I'm saying that drop may have been because people found out he'd pulled a Winny the Pooh and got stuck in a Honeypot...

    And that investigations need to be done to find out what was happening here.

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  • [–] 1 point 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (5 children)

    I didn't make allegations...

    You said he only had sex with adult women...

    I said you don't know that, then you started trying to say I was saying he definitely raped kids.

    How are you still confused here?

    Only one person has definitively said they know if he's having sex with just adult women or not, and that was you:

    He only had sex with adult women.

    You made that claim, and all I've done is point out there is no way for you (or me) to know if that was true.

    I even explicitly said this already:

    I’m not saying assume they all have, I’m saying none of them should be getting explicit benefits of doubt like you are.

    Like, I legitimately don't understand how you're still not understanding this. Why are you trying to say I'm the one acting like either of us know?

    Are you even reading these comments?

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  • [–] -1 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

    It's more likely the prior crash was due to signs Republicans would lose the midterms...

    If the crash months ago was because people found out he was banging a spy, that's a huge fucking deal because it was either insider trading as governmenta found out, or people found out and just never reported to governments.

    Or shorted the stock then reported.

    Regardless of what happened, there needs to be a shit ton of investigations over this.

    This isn't just profits, it's national security for a shit ton of separate countries.

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  • [–] 26 points 23 hours ago (8 children)

    He's not resinging because of side pieces...

    It's because one was a spy for the Chinese government.

    Multiple countries should be doing independent parallel investigations, it will likely all be swept under the rug to save the AI industry.

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    Title is cringey but the guy was/is a Marine who fought in Iraq and then volunteered to go to Ukraine when it first popped off.

    But he ran drones in Ukraine, and has driven thru the same tunnels the Houthis are still occupying and were building drones already a decade ago.

    So there's not many other people better equipped to explain why the Houthis capturing the Bab al-Mandab Strait isn't the same as any random militia doing it.

    No one is going to be able to bomb them out, someone is going to have to send a whole bunch of troops thru miles and miles of tunnels filled with explosives and fighters who will die for their cause with zero hesitation.

     

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    Spoiler:

    Mamdani spoke at a pro-cop event in Staten Island. Obviously not in support of cops, probably just standard for the mayor to show up.

    Got booed like crazy, but laughed it off like nothing.

    And some crazy MAGA "artist" booed so fucking hard and screamed so loud at Mamdani that he gave himself fucking a heart attack.

    Stops being political like halfway thru.

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    Video is from Desus Pieces, and some random co-host I didn't recognize because he tries a new one every show still

     

    So if McConnell had to step down before today, it would have been a special election with Maisse eligible.

    Now that it is not the case, how long do people think before he resigns or is ruled medically incapable?

    Or do people think they'll just pull the plug?

    Personally, I think they'll save it for when they need to distract from something. So it may be a week or two.

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