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I mean, you can joke about circular financing, but it's revenue until someone's check bounces.

What we're looking at is effectively how governments operate with currency. The state extends credit to financial institutions and spends money into the private sector, then demands the money back as taxation. This milling effect incentivizes employment, capital expansion, and improvements to land, as residents attempt to leverage the state incomes/credits to produce more material value than they'll pay in taxes.

NVIDIA / OpenAI / Oracle are in the same relationship. And the cycle will continue to accumulate value virtuously until the output of the system is no longer recognized as yielding value. While OpenAI is definitely the weak leg in the stool, Oracle's physical infrastructures and NVIDIA's consumable chipsets are going to have value even outside of this relationship. The only question is whether OpenAI tokens can justify the liquidity the firm has received.

Sure? But now you're just arguing with the doctors at the NICU

The Hallmark of the Maoist Revolution was guaranting every citizen owned the land they lived on.

Also what kicked off the Tianamen Square riots. Deng's privatization reforms went against the Maoist principles of public ownership, in pursuit of a modern urban industrial model. And the public backlash erupted into street fighting in the capital that killed tens of thousands of people.

Likewise, the fall of the American empire started with Reagan

A bit early to close the book on American Empire. It took over a century for the UK to come off it's Victorian Era peak. Along the way, they created modern computers and jet engines, which they used to commit multiple genocides.

break the bonds that bind family

Nine months in utero counts for more than your first 18 years of life?

I'll need to break my adopted brother the terrible news

Okay, but this is Chinese technology, so it can only be used for evil

McConnell's governor is a Democrat, so they're having to sit on his ahem condition in order to prevent Beshear from replacing him.

Trump dying would just give us President JD Vance, which the Silicon Valley / Wall Street plutocracy are perfectly fine with.

God: "Someone said to kill the big orange... truck? Weird request, but I'm on it."

You might think 9-5 is more illuminating, but you can really club the shit out of the bourgeois with Marx.

Anyone regularly using LinkedIn is already a lost cause.

Like, 95% of LinkedIn is slop.

I have to assume someone noticed and is trying to swat out the fire with a wet handkerchief.

Republicans had to explicitly grant an exemption to the industry back in 2005, in response to a wave of lawsuits successfully pinning manufacturers with responsibility for proliferation and criminal misuse.

Even despite this liability protection, Remington Arms' four insurance companies paid a $73 million settlement with Sandy Hook plaintiffs in 2021 regarding its alleged violations of state law (specifically Connecticut's Unfair Trade Practices Act). Although PLCAA protections had been raised by the manufacturer in Sandy Hook negotiations prior to the settlement, a similar but entirely separate case had been declined by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019 (Remington Arms Co. v. Soto).

So there's ample precedent.

You have to wonder if NVIDIA should suffer any kind of liability for its hardware being used in these strikes.