Why won’t Nvidia take a stance? What are they hiding?!
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Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
Staff at Nvidia, which is headquartered in Silicon Valley but has offices in other states as well, have been disappointed that the graphics card manufacturer has not taken a stance on their right to life-saving healthcare.
Now *that’s* how you euphemism!
You saw it too LOL
Actually the phrase “right to life” in a pro-abortion article…
Of course it was Kotaku. Die faster, Kotaku! Thank you for my daily trigger.
What a shitshow that place is. My eyes melted when I looked at the comments.
Here’s an idea… How about employers shut the fuck up about social issues and focus on preparing their companies to ride out the stagflation we’re embroiled in?
That’s just crazy talk.
“We’re your employer, not your mother. Or rather we were your employer as you’re all fired.” Obviously a fantasy but I can dream can’t I?
Can you imagine the repercussions if some middle manager in Nvidia’s Austin branch told Kaitlyn from HR “Use the birth control that’s free via the company-provided health insurance. Or don’t. Either way, it’s not our problem.”? Why, Kaitlyn might pen an outraged Instagram post, a furious Tweet, or… even a devastating TikTok video!
Tens and tens of twentysomethings would be temporarily unable to even!
That’s one of the things that gets me about the cowardice of companies towards these people. They’re relatively few and if they held their nerve for a week or two and it’d blow over.
Oh for fucking fuck’s sake.
Stick a fork in us, we’re done.
Fork, coat hanger, same result.
They give new meaning to fuck off and die.
I realize I’ve had 40+ years of practice, but crutches don’t make you take 45 minutes to go to the bathroom.
Daredevil is the best of the live-action Marvel superheroes. Can’t wait to see him in some new shows.
From the aborshunz article: “…the graphics card manufacturer has not taken a stance on their right to life-saving healthcare.”
Did they see what they did there?
Punisher was pretty good too.
Didknee pluth will probably fuck it up, but I have to say that they actually made Ms. Marvel better than the comic.
But… the comic was a bleeding pile of woke.
The TV show is more teen-angst with some intro into American-Muslim lifestyle mixed in, and not so much “Eww, Girl-Power! Islamaphobia am bad” that the comic was.
Have you seen The Punisher?
First season was great and the second season was really good.
The best Punisher episodes were in DD.
Yes. Punisher is a very close second. I couldn’t get enough of those series.
“…crutches don’t make you take 45 minutes to go to the bathroom.”
Correct. In every way. The things that make you END UP in crutches very well may…but as long as you’ve got enough upper body, just moving on crutches doesn’t.
This guy gets it. Without getting into detail, it does take me longer to go to the bathroom. But significantly less than 45 minutes. Same thing with all the hundreds of other disabled people I’ve been around.
I loved Jessica Jones.
Go on…
Hell, I had the task mastered in two days.
Today’s dominant strain of stakeholder capitalism is the doctrine known as ESG, which stands for “environmental, social, and corporate governance.”
One can only hope that ESG is the TQM of the 2020s.
Stakeholder capitalism is Giovanni Gentile style fascism with a new coat of paint. They did a good job with the contrived term though.
It absolutely will be. The signs are already showing. This devastating recession we just entered will wipe it’s ass with ESG.
This. Companies are starting to say “whathell, damnguy! This green shit you told us was all the rage is getting major pushback AND is leading to a recession.”
See Netflix and Tesla for the first rounds of this. See also how little the loss of RvW moved the needle.
I cancelled Netflix and am amused at their email attempts to get me back. Zero discounting or promotions but trying to sell their SD version as a cheaper alternative. Sometimes multiple emails a day. Or using some recently watched title to try to get me to come back (“remember watching Guns of Navarone? Come back and watch all of the other movies like it! Except we don’t haven’t any classic war movies any more because we lost rights to most of that catalog and now push our in-house crap”).
Some crazy big news just came in for me. I am going to have to figure/sort it out. Very exciting and terrifying at the same time. (In a good way. Job/life related.) I think I’d like to join zoom for the first time in the near future. Now that I’m on States time….sadly EDL…it is certainly easier.
Happily, I have tix for a AAA Indians game here facing the AAA Cubs. Funny how they haven’t changed the AAA name isn’t it? Still the Indians? Ah. That’s right. We get it. It’s all monstrously over-the-top bullshit that people still fluff and slurp up. Well. Sell what sells.
Unhappily, it very well may get rained out. Been raining all day, though not hard, but it’s stopped for now. Still overcast and predictions of rain. We’ll see.
Evan!
How the hell are you?
Actually doing….uh…well I’m doing. Things are actually going quite well, but there are a lot of things to juggle. The big news, received 30 min ago, adds another ball to the mix. I probably will be bouncing soon, so I might as well post it now.
I read all of y’all every day! I’m always here checking things out. Timing just never seems to work. (Mostly my fault.) Hope you’re doing well!
Good to hear, gotta keep moving.
Dude!
Yes, hope to see you on the zooms.
Yes! Zoom!
What I don’t get about ESG… there is already public welfare accounted for through law, etc.
I guess the problem is that their supposed beneficiaries never voted in the right politicians.
Just another form of knowing what is best for everyone else, when you really don’t.
ESG is just more expansion of the state, whether there is any real justification for them to exist or not.
ESG is an attempt to codify all the leftist shibboleths.
It’s another way for the “elites” to get their way and get around the “democracy” they keep touting.
ESG is the one thing they do that scares me the most. It’s a “suggestion” now, which will turn into a mandate. And then it won’t be just for companies, it will be for individuals, and you’ll be locked out of all financial transactions if you think the wrong thing. See: Canada.
Fuck Canada.
Yeah I just think of it as a social credit score for companies. Just another cog in the globalization racket. The little guy can drop dead.
It’s already going in the mandate direction. My CEO and chief DIE officer were both out doing the media circuit touting how we need to hold ourselves accountable for ESG and DIE goals…
*preps for yet another interview in 3 minutes. Hopefully at least one of the two this week pan out*
As you know Trashy, it’s all fun and games until the numbers come in. Then shit gets real.
This will be the first real downturn in the social media era. It’ll be interesting to see what happens to SV.
This is about control of assets. The big private equity firms use this to control access to capital and punish those who step outside their system.
If you need any proof of that, just remember that they recently yanked Tesla’s ESG certification. It was purely to punish Musk for Twitter.
OT–Sorry! Gonna have to bounce soon and don’t want this to get further lost in the shuffle. I wrote this a couple of nights ago:
@Trigger and others from last night’s thread: Ev is mostly fine. Big things abound and many all at once. This morning…I had my second interview with a newspaper. It’s tiny, in Peru, IN. I’d pretty much be the entire paper. Write 5-10 short articles for the paper a week. Edit and check press releases. Apparently I’ll be quite busy.
Much to think about. It’s yet another Big Thing. New country…but Indiana happens to be where I was raised. However, I was down south. I’ve never been to (either) Peru. I’m going to be covering all sorts of things. No real beat. Just the town/county. Town hall meetings; local politics; sheriff; press releases…straight news. Not feature work. Maybe, after I get the reins, one a month for something with my style. Speed and accuracy is what’s important. Not flair or anything where the Writer is at all important.
They seem quite interested in me. Small town probably doesn’t get too many Journalismus attention. Hrm.
This might be too much at once. I’ve made that mistake before. Hit by car; legit brain damage; coma; epilepsy/seizures; interrogated/investigated in a foreign country; homeless/unemployed for 3+ months; finally off of alcohol (the first rung of many, but today is the 14 (th?) day of sobriety and haven’t had an issue yet)…I’m MAYBE going from that to pretty much being a one-man shop, pretty much running the content part of the paper in a small town. Oh. I’ll also need to get a new apartment and a car. Yep. That’s a pretty damn big step. Lots of change. But I’ve done that before! I’m actually quite good at it. This time, it just happens to be in English. Hrm. It’s also by far the gig I’m most interested in. This new adventure would at least be done in English…
Hrm. Many things. Thoughts about. He has other people to talk to. I don’t have the gig yet. But we’ve talked twice and it was the first interview/talk I’ve ever had where I didn’t have to plan/fake questions/answers. Just talked shop. Easy peasy. Hrm.
Makes juggling more difficult. Such strange, yet familiar shapes. Hrm. Dude said he’s be in contact with me tomorrow. May start in a couple weeks, if everything goes well. I technically don’t have the job yet. Lots to think about. I think taking the gig is hands-down the best play for me to make right now. It happens to be big and hard, but most things worth doing are that way for a reason.
Onward. Upward. Always. “
Dammit, I’m always sorry I type too much. Hilariously, this is well-may be…MY NEW JOB! I just received, though haven’t yet accepted, the job as the editor for the Peru Tribune newspaper in Peru, Indiana. It’s tiny. Newspapers are a terrible long-term investment and we all know it. I would be pretty much in charge of the entire thing. Write 5-10 pieces a week–short stuff I can find; cover police/court/etc; press releases; NOT SPORTS (dammit); maybe getting freelancers down the stretch.
No real office. I’d have to be in Peru three times a week to get stories but I’ll move there or Kokomo, I think. If I DO take this gig…rehab/therapy and a new apartment, a car, all sorts of Adult Shit that I’ve done plenty of times but never in the US. Their systems will be a process to learn, but learn it and it’s done. Stories, press releases, the WRITING, doesn’t scare me. It’s FINDING them that will be tricky.
Hilariously, if I DO take it…it’s pretty much the same job my dad had, but he had it in Evansville and wasn’t in charge of the whole damn thing. He just had a column to write. I have a tiny, shitty paper, but much of the content is my responsibility before it goes to the managing editor.
Gonna have to think (re: strategize) about how I should play this.
No, I didn’t reread what I wrote before I posted again. Sorry for repetition. I am quite high on this balloon and others, and thoughts erupt forth.
Ev! BREVITY. Shorter=better. Edit. *Hint hint*
Good rule of thumb that I’ve recently found: If you’re just doing it for money, think twice about it. If you’re going to learn something valuable, do it. Sounds like you could learn a lot from this.
Great news! I actually want to be doing this. Writer/editor is what I generally use on indeed/ziprecruiter/etc. This is a nice re-entry, as in small-town, and is also incredibly challenging, as I’ve never…per se done this. I know HOW TO DO IT..just have to learn their system. Same same. Just will just take a bit of time. I’m actually thinking of a crazy plan that may involve non-pay training so I can start at a time that would most likely be best for me, and was one that he even offered as an idea.
I plan on using this to step up in one way or another. Hopefully, it gets me off my ass to put together the Book of Evan. This is another fun chapter to it. (Note: Not trying to make an autobiography. I suppose that’s what it is, the documentation of my tales. Act II will be devoted to The Incident and III is the Re-Entry Experience, as it were. It has been a strange life. Good for me to have a record of it, for a variety of reasons.)
@Gustave: Kokomo is only about 30 min south and has better housing opportunities. It also is a bigger town and more stuff/people for a single man in his ’30s. Family is in Carmel, so Kokomo would be midway between them and work. Pretty nice safety net while purposefully getting away from them.
DO IT!
Way down in Kokomo?
He’ll get there fast and then he’ll take it slow.
Maybe he’ll meet a pretty mama.
PAYroo! (After doing time in Fort Wayne, Richmond, and Muncie, I know the proper Hoosier pronunciation!)
^^ this
Oh, and if you say car-mehl, we know you’re not a local. It’s car-mul.
Famous for their corn (because, you know, Indiana. Duh.)
West/SW Ohio local pronunciation test for local status:
Versailles
Russia
Bellefontaine
I always remember this joke from the 80s:
Where did Prince Charles spend his honeymoon?
Indiana!
I know/knew a lot of good folks from the greater Kokomo area. Never have been to Peru, but I know of the town. Good luck! (don’t) Break a leg!
You can Kokomo in a China cup
Kind of love I need come from deep inside
Feel so good, oh so right
Oh so good and tight
Kokomo with me yeah, Kokomo with me yeah tonight
/Little Feat, long before the Beach Boys
https://youtu.be/BOMmvtWmcYQ
I don’t know much Little Feet, but I love this one.
The key phrase for a small-town newspaper is “A good time was had by all.”
The readers really want gossip.
And Family Circus one-panels to pin on the café bulletin board.
They want their kids’ pictures in the paper for good stuff. So and So was accepted to X college, got a scholarship, took third in wrestling, etc.
For some reason I’m thinking of the post I did here on Miloš Forman’s The Fireman’s Ball.
So, first thing to do if you accept the offer is stop referring to the paper in a disparaging or demeaning manner.
Great news. You might want to wait before printing reader submissions from Sugar Free though.
It’s a slow news day, he’s only got 4 articles, and the deadline is minutes away. Evan glances over at Joemala…
Oh, look, another letter from… Su Garf-Ree. She seems nice.
Fed report finds 75% of $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program didn’t reach employees
I’m shocked I tell ya shocked!
A wasteful, inefficient government program? That’s got to be a first.
Now do all of our foreign aid.
75% is awfully bad even for a government program.
That gizmodo article got me to thinking that quantum computing is very similar to controlled fusion. Every five years we are told it is only 20 years from realization.
+1 Tesla “full self driving”.
+1 AI/machine learning
Good Lord, Florida Man, maybe throttle it back a little.
He’s not naked. He has shoes on.
I said “Don’t look, Ethel!”
But it was too late
… She’d already been Eye-Ninety-Fived
(Boogity boogity)
America. We’re so rich, that while some in the World starve, our cat’s shit in corn.
https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petcostore/product/worlds-best-original-series-unscented-multi-cat-litter
Maybe it was inedible corn? Still…standard sand works just fine.
This guy did pretty well and he started out just putting clay from outside into bags.
I love his picture. Posing with a cat.
Sensei-
Have you watched the new “I Do Cars” update on the blue BMW? If not, you might find it interesting. No spoilers.
But- rod bearings are routine maintenance? Come on, BMW.
Rod bearings?
Wut?
Did someone forget to put an oil channel or two in the block?
In BMWs of a certain era rod bearings are a maintenance item.
When maintenance requires an engine pull or dropping the oil pan, it’s no longer maintenance.
Part of the reason I hate modern cars.
I can’t recall which motor, but it has two timing belts…next to the firewall.
Fucking Audi makes such wonderful new, under warranty cars.
Never buy an Audi.
I always leased them.
Well, except for the 5000, but you get the idea.
+1 German Vanos.
One thing went well today: I got a dolly with surge brakes for $800, only used once. Retail new: $2700
Like a moving dolly?
When you first saw it, did you say…
Hello, dolly?
/rimshot
You better tow the line or Swiss will be along to gaze at you.
*strongly narrows gaze*
I’m here in Kissimmee at a Tom Woods gathering. Should be entertaining. Dave Smith is supposed to show up as well.
The wife is getting thrown headlong into the ancap underground. We’ll see how well she does or how much grief I’ll get for years to come.
I wish I could’ve made it. Cool stuff!
Would love to hear how it goes. I listen to Dave Smith’s podcast and occasionally Tom Woods.
👍 Most excellent!
Did someone forget to put an oil channel or two in the block?
No idea. It’s probably some sort of “Let’s cut parasitic drag by making the rod bearings too small” wizardry.
IT SAVES THREE OUNCES!
We need that to accommodate another cup holder.
But I don’t want my camshafts to time themselves. It just seems like a bad idea.
Like a moving dolly?
Like a “tow your Fiat 500 behind the motor home” dolly.
Ah.
We bought our Cherokee to flat-tow behind our motorhome and had the Blue Ox equipment installed for an additional $5k. Now that we’ve sold the motorhome I’m going to have to spend more bucks getting the stuff un-installed.
Our girl KK would never have a Fiat. She knows she’d always have to be asking me to fix it.
OMG this made my crappy day brighter!!
KK prefers asset backed vehicles to Fiat vehicles?
My husband laughed.
“This past April, the Biden admin sold 950,000 Strategic Petroleum Reserve barrels to a Chinese gas company that a private equity firm co-founded by HUNTER BIDEN owns a $1.7 billion stake in.”
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1545144022326460416
Nothing to see here.
I half suspect this was done behind his back to bury him. Not that I excuse it, but this sounds like back-stabbing DC politics.
Nope. Biden really is that corrupt. I have no doubt he thought he could get away with it. And he probably will.
Agreed minus probably
I wonder what the price per barrel was when it was sold and what is was when re-sold?
https://twitter.com/HighTechLowIife/status/1543830762557808640
LOLOLOL
SugarFree, is that you?
Ammosexual
That is totes funny. Someone owes an artistic debt to the “Deadpool” movie. NTTAWWT
Now I want to do the HK Slap.
That is awesome.
Apparently Elon’s just backed out of the Twitter deal, citing material breach of multiple provisions of the Agreement and Plan of Merger.
Twitter’s gonna be on **SALE**!
(And the lawsuits flying back and forth are gonna be epic.)
I wonder if now he can talk about why he backed out. I almost thought that was why he tried to buy them – either he would succeed, or he would know all their horrible secrets.
He did some kind of analysis of bot percentage. Likely it was mostly that they were way underselling those numbers.
I’m actually bummed about that. Elon taking over the platform would have been an incontrovertible good thing for free speech.
I’m uncertain of protocol in all of this, but mebbe he can come back with a low-ball offer. {shrug}
https://www.streetinsider.com/13Ds/Elon+Musk+Terminates+Twitter+%28TWTR%29+Merger+Agreement/20308163.html
This is the specifics.
LOL
Yeah, that is interesting…and fishy as hell. No reason to do that unless you’re obfuscating. Only a fool would buy that company unless it was at a hefty discount.
I read enterprise customers to include government agencies, here and abroad.
I’m going with: Musk was trolling them from the beginning. Prove me wrong.
Not that he’s exposed them as corrupt and fake, maybe he’s done. Do a big news network now.
I think he already offered CNN $5. Probably an over-estimate.
This could be a negotiation tactic especially given how share prices have fallen lately.
Party of freedom and personal autonomy
“What we’re witnessing wasn’t a constitutional judgment, it was an exercise in raw political power,” Biden told reporters at the White House. “We cannot allow an out of control Supreme Court, working in conjunction with extremist elements of the Republican party, to take away freedoms and our personal autonomy.”
And then they all laughed themselves silly.
Jesus, that’s what he said? We’re in trouble.
Well we know what their November campaign message is going to be.
Personal autonomy huh? Man, I don’t even….
Fuck Joe Biden.
Fitting…
Biden’s Ron Burgandy moment from the same press conference.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jason_howerton/status/1545443401402826753
Lying sack of shit isn’t going to change any minds with this hocus-pocus.
Is this some of the “unifying” we were promised?
Zoom tonight! 8pm ET! It’s tradition!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84929272380?pwd=VFBIZEE2Z1B3K2d6QU5wendrREt5Zz09
Thanks, Tulip!
I’ll be there.
I am here.
I won’t. I stand alone.
Box of bugs recieved.
Ladybugs, lacewings, and praying mantises.
Die aphids!
You old bugger, you.
@Tonio- I sent you an email. Hope it’s not out of line.
NTTAWWT
An interesting vid on Pope Benedict’s military service:
https://youtu.be/xcI0y7UuWZo
Too Long Didn’t Watch: He didn’t have much of a choice.
If preliminary reports and photos are correct, the weapon used to assassinate Shinzo Abe was an over-engineered double barreled zip gun.
Just wait for the calls for “Common sense two-by-four and pipe safety reform.”
Electric ignition, no less.
One more law
DOOM!!! How are ye?
Who gives a fuck?
How’s BabyDOOM?
Who gives a fuck?
How’s LadyDOOM?
🧐
You can tell that guy was up to no good – look at the sloppy face-mask etiquette.
Sure, Jan. 🙄
And there was much rejoicing.
Your daily dose of Sanford & son:
https://youtu.be/eITAqESu2nc
What the fuck is wrong with people. Two piece of shit teenagers (one male, one female) beat an 73 y.o. man to death with a traffic cone in the Philly ‘hood. Fair and speedy trial, followed by the guillotine? That’s what law-abiding people are going to start demanding if this kind of mindless violence keeps up.
Seems to be the theme in urban areas across the US.
Or, common sense cone laws?
Philly’s gun control laws worked!
They’ll demand it, and then pull the lever for the Dem in November anyway.
“Elon Musk Backs Out Of Twitter Deal After Realizing He Can Read The Babylon Bee By Going Directly To Their Website”
https://babylonbee.com/news/elon-musk-backs-out-of-twitter-deal-after-realizing-he-can-read-the-babylon-bee-by-going-directly-to-their-website
“The Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery.”
https://twitter.com/btaylor/status/1545526087089696768
Complete with a dig at his fecundity. Pretty good stuff.
“committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon blah blah blah”
Now THAT’S funny.
What would be even funnier if the SEC & DOJ actually started investigating the apparent fraud… yeah right, Twitter is a useful tool for certain parties.
“BREAKING: Republicans melt down after The Babylon Bee — Elon Musk’s favorite deeply unfunny conservative knockoff of The Onion whose satire mostly consists of mocking the transgender community — gets banned off TikTok. RT IF YOU’RE GLAD TO SEE BIGOTS HELD ACCOUNTABLE!”
https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1542920192551821312
Surprisingly, the comments are pretty pro-BB.
Apparently silencing one’s political enemies comes up pretty high on their list of favored things. Looks like it’s third right after killing kids and, um, diddling them.
There are Republicans on TikTok?
Damn. How ever is the Bee going to reach the teen moron market now??
Reading the comments is hilarious. Progressives are really dumb. “Oh, sue him and FORCE him to buy Twitter!!!” Weren’t you idiots mad that he wanted to buy your beloved censor-land? Also, they seem to think Musk is breaching a contract to buy Twitter. Right! The riches guy in the world with a team of lawyers, walked away from the deal without understanding the legal implications. SMH.
You do see a few less dumb progressives who state, “Just take the 1B walk-away fee and move on.” Bingo.
I’d be shocked if they get half of the price that Musk was considering.
RE Nvidia: I may have or may not have jerked off with their lotion.
From your fingers to your toes
You’ve got just one set of permanent clothes
And with a little daily care
They will last through years of wear!
Nivea, Nivea, Nivea!
*narrows gaze*
We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery.
I read that as “Delaware Court of Chicanery” on the first pass,
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/2OVPfQzMS-G4h-kCagEbew.GMUf9a_GTg51yYRgdh-_Fb
I picked two big Krakens and two runty Trinidad scorpions. The tiny ones happened to fruit before transplanting.
Oh, the scorpions are the cappuccino variant.
I am seriously looking at some hydroponic stuff to grow peppers year round here. I fail miserably outside in dirt pots.
⬅
My former neighbor, a sweet Laotian lady, had a ridiculous talent growing all kinds of amazing peppers in pots. She gave me a bunch of these tiny, tiny red ones and warned me to be be careful.
I wasn’t and paid the price. WTF, southeast Asians?!?
I have some lovely Carolina Reapers that are ripening just now. Want some?
Lovely!
I’m good, but thank you for offering. I think there’s 10 pepper plants out there.
*counts*
Make that 12.
This Week In Quordle- Turns out MikeS doesn’t care enough for you people to spend five minutes a day every other week to keep the DQR running, oh well, guess we’ll never know how long Sean can keep his no-chump streak going. Anyway, I care so next week I will gather scores for the purpose of seeding the July Glibs Quordle Tourney (here on, until further notice, we will hold one tourney a month). So don’t give up and keep those scores coming, the Tourney will start the following Monday.
Also what the hell I went back and did MikeS job for him – 149 entries, 30 different players, 16 of which played at least 6 days, of those Sean had the best Average (19.42857413) and low score (17), JG43 and Ozy managed 213’s. Full stats here.
Sean’s cheating! HE’S SOME KIND OF **ROBOT**!
Actually, I had an 18 today (in the morning links) and tied Sean for the week. (Thanks for doing this, it must be hard considering scores get posted all over the place.)
Ah, sorry, and it’s really not that hard but MikeS is a damn near Canadian and I am incompetent.