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  • didnt say musk couldn’t be assassinated or otherwise disposed of. Im responding to the commenter that wanted him homeless and poor.

    Like virtually everything else in life, this is not a binary decision…

    They can literally just fly away.

    They can abandon all their possessions that are stateside and try to flee, and maybe some do. But we’re talking about the type of people medieval dragons were based on, they ain’t running to save themselves over what they’ve hoarded.

    Not to mention they effectively control the minds of the population that would take up arms against them.

    Loads of shit wrong with that statement, but most obviously that only conservatives have guns.

    Tldr:

    You said one thing is possible.

    I said not only is that thing possible, but more extreme things are.

    Logically I don’t understand how I can help you understand this, and that’s the only way I know to explain things, I’m sorry.


  • France used to have kings bro…

    Kings with so much money they not only funded but sent their own seasoned commanders across an ocean for a revolution against their rival just so they couldn’t have it.

    You think a week before the first head came off that the average French citizen believed one day the monarchy would be dissolved?

    Like, none of this is new, we just need to look at it on a timescale measured in centuries and not just since we were old enough to remember.

    The wealthy don’t have to control the government, and they don’t even have to be wealthy if the rest of us don’t want them to be. That’s how modern wealth works, it’s 1’s and 0’s. If the next US government says “that’s mine or your cut off from US banking”. They’re gonna fucking transfer that money, be ause it’s not even the banks to begin with.

    We have an absolute shit ton of options to work with


  • The answer is when enough people get tired of them hoarding everything…

    Gluttony was always greed, and the stories about dragons sleeping on gold were just allegories for people like Elmo.

    We need to stop acting like this is a new problem and we don’t know how to fix it.

    It’s human variation, some people are wired to do anything for as many resources as possible. Which is fine as long as we get them treatment instead of giving them the keys to the planet.

    All we gotta do is stopping letting the wealthy make all the decisions, because they’ll keep deciding that they should have more of the money.





  • It’s wild that the first generation to do LSD in mass

    I want to say hippies were less than 1% of that generation, but for some reason I think it was recorded as 2-3% which would be a gross over-estimate.

    But for every hippie you think of sticking daisies in rifles, there was 100 spitting on Black kids for going to the school they were legally required to go to.

    It would be like if in 2080 they think we’re all catboys with blue hair and 37 facial piercings.

    Sure, those people exist as a fringe demographic, but they’re not the norm.

    Bmost hippies had more issues with peers their own age than their parents age, that part of the folk tale gets left out tho, because the people who want us to think they were hippies and “grew out of it” were the ones beating hippies for being different.

    All they were ever trying to do was lie to younger generations in the hopes they’d confirm to decades old social norms. Like, it’s weird how many people still don’t understand the boomers just lie about shit instinctively. They grew up in a world filled with lead and are literally incapable of caring about logical inconsistencies. They want younger generations to think they were cool, so they just fucking lied about what they were like as a generation.

    If you ever run into a real deal old hippie some day, ask them what the majority of people their age was like back then.


  • 2k is 1440p.

    720 doubles to 1080.

    1080 doubles to 1140

    1140 double to 4k.

    Companies all skipped 2k for the most part because all consumers cared about was resolution. That’s why the jump to 4k took so fucking long, for the most part we skipped an entire resolution generation. So even with 4k, all the other stuff wasn’t caught up.

    Pretty much the same thing happened with 4g, the telecom corps agreed on a set of requirements to say they’d reached a new generation, but the numbers needed to go up before the tech was ready, so they all agreed to just claim 4g arrived, that’s why there was so many different flavors of 4g.


  • People really need to understand a lot of what “smart” TVs do is upscale the “4k” signal to something actually resembling real 4k.

    Like how some 4k torrents are 3GB, and then a 1080p of the same movie is 20gb.

    It’s “worse” resolution, but it looks miles better because it’s upscaling real 1080 to 4k instead of taking existing shitty 4k and trying to make it look better without just juicing the resolution.

    So we don’t need 8k.content for 8k.tvs to be an incentive. We need real 4k media, then 8ks TV would show a real improvement.


  • Boomers economic policy is like if Issac Newton saw an apple falling from a tree, and came to the conclusion it would always accelerate at the same speed no matter what, even though the ground with the entire ass planet behind it is right fucking there.

    Numbers can not constantly go up, it’s just that’s what was happening their whole lives and they can’t accept that their childhoods was a blip and not how things always were and always will be.

    They just can’t wrap their heads around it. They have such shit tier empathy they can’t comprehend that they’re an exception.







  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldIs OpenAI dead yet?
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    Not really…

    The reason it will domino is AI companies can’t afford the hardware, so Nvidia “invests” in AI companies and trades hardware for shares.

    They have like 100 billion just in OpenAI, which they’re leveraging into loans to make more of the chips no one can afford.

    If openai goes down, the banks call in the loans Nvidia has openai for collateral. So then Nvidia will have to sell all their other shares of other AI companies to cover the loans, and likely will have to drastically cut production of AI chips, driving the cost up.

    Now all those other AI companies that Nvidia just sold, can’t afford the higher price, because they couldn’t afford a subsidized price along with shares.

    As those companies fold, it makes even less people who would even want to buy those AI chips at any prices, driving Nvidia further down and maybe all the way to bankrupt

    That’s when it starts fucking with index funds and the wider market

    But all those shadow banks won’t really get hit. They’re not holding stocks to make money, they’re buried treasure chests filled with liquid assets in case of emergency. The only way they’d be hit is if the currency they’re held in collapses. Even then, that method almost always includes safety deposit boxes with precious metals/jewels to account for that




  • Well nVidia just sells the hardware to the AI companies, so even if the bubble pops, they won’t go bankrupt.

    Except all those companies are in an investor circle jerk with each other…

    If AI bursts it doesn’t just hurt nvidia’s sales of products used by AI.

    Nvidia has over $100 billion invested in OpenAI:

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/26/nvidias-investment-portfolio.html

    And even more billions invested in other AI companies. Because the AI companies can’t afford to buy what Nvidia is selling at the price.

    This means Nvidia “owns” a bunch of those AI companies, and can take loans out on the valuation…

    If AI goes bankrupt, all those investments are worthless, which means banks call in the loans that used it as collateral. It could easily wipe out Nvidia.

    It’s not just one surface level thing, even tho that’s all you seem to have thought of. You’re worried about a couple hundred million in sales like it’s not sitting next to 100 billion dollar loan.

    Like bro, come on man…