• vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    It’s anti-china slop in preparation for the next round of hostilities from the war mongering US government. It’s also, ironically, pro-AI slop.

    The belief is China cannot possibly develop anything on their own, they have to steal everything. And that AI is such an invaluable tool for “innovation” that it being in the hands of China would allow them to develop things that could hurt the US. Such as the most recession proof economy the world has ever seen, cheap standardized nuclear reactors that can be deployed in 5 years instead of 30, anti-drone technology, and drone technology that could take out US warships and could easily fly past the best US and Israeli defenses.

    It would be crazy if China had literally all of that since no other country comes close to any of it, so the US must work to prevent that at any costs.

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      11 hours ago

      I mean… the sentiment may not be wrong, but how is this a conspiracy? Or “slop”? The affair appears to be real, and the sell-off was real too; it exists without anyone inventing this story.

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        11 hours ago

        Because it’s just not news, or important. If the CEO of Stellantis slept with a Canadian CEO to get better prices on steel, is that news worthy?

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          11 hours ago

          Indeed. I guess the question I’m asking is “what leverage was exercised,” as it appears Nvidia has always acted in their own interest.

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            10 hours ago

            Nvidia has always acted in their own interest.

            Legally. But those chips were illegal to directly sell to China. Huang and Huang have put nvidia at huge risk, which has lost people billions in investments, which places nvidia at a legal liability from stockholders. There will be a class action, whether a corrupt DOJ does anything or not about the smuggling.

            You can’t just fuck around with side hustles as CEO of a public company. Does Huang think he’s the President?

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          10 hours ago

          If the CEO of Stellantis slept with a Canadian CEO to get better prices on steel, is that news worthy?

          Poor analogy. It would be newsworthy if Canada had a sanction to not sell the steel to Stellantis. You seem to be glossing over the criminal activity pretty thick on your agenda of an innocent affair.

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            10 hours ago

            ‘Criminal’ activity usually involves a victim. There is no victim here. There’s a good chance the sanction was in fact not legal anyway, but even if it was… do we really need news every time someone commits a minor civil offense? Should I be publishing a newspaper every time someone in China uses the pirate bay?

            • wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              9 hours ago

              ‘Criminal’ activity usually involves a victim.

              Criminal is defined as violating laws designated as crimes. Not if there’s a victim.

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                9 hours ago

                Crimes without victims are pretty much always looked on as unjust when that society falls; and generally speaking have no place in modern society.

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                    6 hours ago

                    In the trans panic defense, there is still a victim alleged. (Wrongly) the man believes he is a victim of fraud, which lead him to harm the trans woman.

                    In victimless crimes, there is no possible victim to allege. There is no actual victim from sanctions violations that are designed to cause indiscriminate social harm.