And exactly how many zeroes was behind nvidias ‘well thought out and reasoned argument for exemptions’?

Thanks Trump!

And what is THAT supposed to be?

I’ve been screaming about the republicans since they made it clear they were going for pure obstructionism with Obama.

I’m genuinely surprised Trump killed the CHIPS act, when he could’ve let that roll through and taken credit for it as the whole POINT of that was to improve US manufacturing.

Also reintroduce the build back better with whatever re-branding.

If he were truly interested in american manufacturing he’d have gone all in on these.

But no. he wants company owners and worldl eaders to come to him and beg for exemptions.

Same playbook of abusers everywhere. Always threaten punishment. Leave it as a potential. Leave it on the table as a stick to beat with, but never quite reach for it.

Don’t talk about doing the thing and do the thing.

To quote GreyStillPlays.

ROOKIE NUMBERS.

Well, there goes disability for me, my full time care twin, and my siezure prone full time care sister…

Thus the price of collaboration. You are not rewarded, you simply draw attention to yourself as someone with wealth they can pillage.

Still not interested in a fucking printer.

Yea, we can’t just write this off as satire. It’s real life.

Laugh or Scream. Or both.

Then it should not be done. I laid out my conditionals for it not being terrible.

…I’m…

In full agreement with this*

*with the provision that there are ways to ensure this isn’t weaponized so that dissident or oppositional speech/photos/art isn’t flagged as AI so that it can be filtered out.

Not familiar with the current crop of actors, but Honestly I’d love william shatner and nicolas cage be in this one. Cage getting to go full tilt as the CEO who’s put offensive lasers on his satilites marketing them as an anti kessler syndrome measure but really jsut wanting to fry competitors.

Shatner even has the bonus of having a REALLY nice ranch they could use for location shots of shatner’s home as he’s talked into helping train the group of loonies that are going up there.

Still a ratfucker, but … not as high a priority target as the one activly throwing out nazi salutes.

Yea no. This company might even sincerely want to do its own constillation yet I doubt that. This is just to give the optics of ‘see! Musk isn’t a monopoly!’ along with ‘see! we’re not trump’s puppets! We’re fighting against President Musk!’

Same as their halfhearted attempts at laying fiber.

My desktop is a 2012 lenovo office machine. Fresh SSD, wifi card, and an… OK graphics card have had the thing purring for me since 2018.

Pick a newbie friendly version. I’m going to suggest linux mint, but there may be better options.

Yes let’s not go after the south African literally fomenting the rise of a fashist takovet. Let’s go after the guy selling bootleg DVDs.

Good.

Say what you will about faceless corps, but toyota won’t send some jackass out a the public face to do sieg hail, and be the gleeful butcher of government programs.

You have to be nestel levels of horrific before it breaks out of the corporate bubble.