A meteor or some natural phenomenon can be a coincidence. But especially so in industry, especially the same industry... with the respective CEOs as family, i wholeheartedly reject "coincidences".

The C word that should be used instead is "conspiracy".

Also my understanding of many Asian cultures is they tend to have a much more tight-knit large family structure. And doubling that is the fact they're 2 heads of world-level hardware tech companies.

And, well, there's no such thing as coincidences. Having all of this line up, and for "some reason" AMD keeps missing when they could have owned a big chunk of the market has a certain family oligopoly smell to me.

Jensen Huang (Nvidia CEO) is related to Lisa Su (AMD CEO).

A decade ago, I saw a demo of some AMD skunkworks GPU datacenter tech, that could execute CUDA natively on AMD/ATI graphics cards. Initially was half speed, but having the flexibility was crazy amazing. Created a big buzz in the big iron and educational markets.

Where'd it go? Buried. You cant even find articles about it. Its a few comments on edtech datacenters.

Now look at AMD's graphics line. Where's their ROCm LLM tooling? It's a fucking joke. Its like they're intentionally sinking it for her Nvidia uncle Huang. And Su takes the cheaper CPU market and offers better features than Intel.

Gee golly, I have no clue how the pole ended up being cut and the solar and cameras ended up smashed.

Must'a been an "accident".

The process stank, wasted my time, and got HR slop form letter as a result months later. A deny is normal. The way it was done was a big FU.

One when I was 19 was for a 3rd shift stocker at a "family business". Guy straight up asks "Are you married?". Sure, its illegal to ask. Not like a jobless 19 year old could do anything.

Ive had a few jobs claim "pay band was from x to y. And surprise it was x-20000 to y-50000.

One interview (an HN company) did the interviews. Got back round 2, seemed interesting. The "third round" was do like 20 hours of github work to prove me. Told them my going rate was $100/hr. Never heard back, surprise surprise. Cant remember the company.

Applied to Oxide. They want a whole litany of crap filled out. And what do you get? A form letter 2 months later. Should have slop'ed it. I guess this doent really count, since it wasnt EVEN an interview.

And because the capitalists run the show in a lot of countries, https://ruinmyweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/live-laugh... is a good image that explains why lots of things kept going on as usual.

A world-level 6 week pause would have burned covid and a whole lot of other diseases out. But no. Poor capitalists need their 3rd yacht, 13th vacation home, etc etc etc.

As for me, my SO worked in health care. And Covid is a SARS. We have decades of effects and response. The shit's airborne. WHO knew that. CDC knew that. But they lied and lied and lied.

We take our healthcare in our own hands. I'll critically listen to the "experts" and deal with med doctors for prescription drugs. And Im definitely interested in my own manufacture of pharms https://fourthievesvinegar.org/ . But yeah, the wider and general the message, the more propaganda it likely is.

And we also have a good stock of PPE now, including a few tyvek suits. And everclear is 95% alcohol and $30 here for a handle. Best sanitizer you can easily acquire and food safe to boot.

EDIT as comment to WarmWash:

No. The WHO and CDC lied about Covid being an airborne infection. They refused and refused, up to then redefining what an "airborne infection" is.

https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q985

Covid is a SARS. Airborne. SARS requires BSL3 to handle properly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety_level#Biosafety_leve... "Biosafety level 3 is appropriate for work involving microbes which can cause serious and potentially lethal disease via the inhalation route."

I dont need international experts to tell me a stream of bullshit, when I can look at the type of disease and go "wellll fuck, airborne. time to wear masks outside the home and no parties or events. and go to store when its not busy."

Was Covid as bad as SARS? No. But is SARS response something that can be compared to what we should have did for Covid? Hell yeah.

I was thinking that Covid and widespread antivaxxer mentality would have.

But no. This will be the latest ladder-pull by the boomers and silents to extract the last bit of wealth from all the younger generations. And this will impoverish gen-x and all younger generations even more so than we already are.

And most of these types NEVER read past, say, page 20 of https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38194/38194-h/38194-h.htm , Adam Smiths treatise on capitalism. Here's a few failures that Smith wrote back in his initial treatise in 1776. I think so far, we're failing every one of these, and basically speedrunning all the terrible warnings Smith wrote about as accomplishments.

Gross inequality was even mentioned there as something to significantly avoid. Book I, Ch. X, Part II; ~p. 50

Principal-agent problems in joint-stock companies. Managers of other people's money "cannot be expected to watch over it with the same anxious vigilance" as owners, leading to waste and negligence. Book V, Ch. I, Part III; ~p. 312-313

Mercantilist policy distortions. Protectionism, export bounties, and import restrictions enrich narrow merchant interests while reducing national wealth by intentionally misallocating capital. Book IV, Ch. II-V; ~p. 183-213

Underprovision of public goods. Markets fail to supply infrastructure (roads, bridges, canals, harbors) and institutions that benefit society broadly but yield no direct profit to private actors. Book V, Ch. I, Part III, Art. I; ~p. 303-305. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-cities-...

Dehumanizing effects of extreme division of labor. Repetitive specialized labor "renders [the worker] as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become," impairing civic and moral capacities. Book V, Ch. I, Part III, Art. II; ~p. 324 . Even in the 1800's this got so bad that Karl Marx wrote about this in both of his critique of capitalism AND the communist manifesto.

Merchant collusion and monopoly power. Smith warns that "people of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices". Book I, Ch. X, Part II; ~p. 54 . Hello, eggs, meat packers,oil products (gasoline), grocery chains, electronics (RAM), health care. Collusion after collusion, and almost no enforcement.

Im not communist, and probably not socialist. But its clear as day as to the failures of capitalism. And as a stopped clock is right 2x a day, capitalism does handle some problems better than any previous system. But we can do better. Lots better. But the entrenched power holds on to capitalism as fervent as a religion, and not dispassionate analysis.

But no, US citizenship, like everything else in this country, a cost.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/travel/renouncing-us-citizens...

And if you have unforgivable student loans because you believed the k-12 propaganda, then you can never "leave". You might be done paying them by the time you, uh, die.

Found that scam out cause im going back to learn SQL properly. And had questions about the spec. Thought it would be like an RFC. LOL NOPE.

Its the "International Scam-dards Organization", aka terrible decisions by committee and charge corporate-corporate rates.

Fortunately, Library Genesis has them all.

Sure, they were initially bought BY the billionaire philanthropists, or were from their private collections. Books were bought on the open or used markets to initially fill these libraries.

And some libraries weren't free. They charged for a library card as a subscription. This was before they were bought into city/state governments. So technically they were making money on loaning books, but it was fed back in to sustain (without tax dollars). Carnegie came in and offered to build and populate books in a library IF the local govt would staff and maintain.

Now, copyright owners have also completely lost the narrative. A book can survive years in a library with only moderate use. But that single book can cost the government-funded library 10x the cost of the real book. And if you want to see a real scam, look at the DRM infested online libraries. Cost the same 10x but they then turn around and say "this internet book can ONLY be rented out 26 times (2 week rental over a year) before you have to buy another virtual copy".

Fuck. That.

It was only because libraries were made 120 years ago BY billionaires of their time (Carnegie, etc), and was a a way for those billionaires to sanitize their history of abuse by philanthropy.

On the reverse, we have Annas Archive, Library Genesis, Sci-Hub, Archive.org and others. Made by average non-billionaire humans sharing knowledge in the largest free libraries. Except they're demonized and criminalized.

There really isnt a difference at all with physical in person library, and an online free library. And using a phone camera, is also trivial to copy a book within a span of 10 minutes. You dont even need to borrow it - just sit in a carousel and scan scan scan.

This appears to be the norm for US based scifi now. Glad I'm watching movies like The Wandering Earth and Alienoid instead.

It had a good premise. But it also fell apart immediately. Like, they only sent 3 people, 2 whom died on this UBER CRITICAL SAVE THE PLANET idea?

And Ryan Gosling's character is a fucking moron. You're supposed to be a molecular biologist, and you're basically a reddit-gag line?

Edit: lol -4 , like seriously, its a pretty bad show. I listed movies I compare it to. But no I get shit like "You must be fun at parties." Personal attacks, sigh.

Product naming is not a problem. Anybody interested in these devices knew the differences and the plans for each product.

Ive been using translation tools a bunch these last few years. Nobody seemed to have any hate for better accessibility.. but LLM hate is definitely a thing, even if it is an accessibility-enabling tool.

Communism is this weird monopoly/monopsony structure. Dont like what you do? Too bad, its the same owner you're working for.

Whereas with a worker cooperative, there could be 10's of thousands of them. You dont like one? You can go to a different one.

The CEO class thinks their lives matter more than the masses. But talking about history or giving a nudge that violence did work certainly makes the CEO fellators come out en masse.

The reason why we're seeing firebombing, shooting, arson, etc is because the public feels they have absolutely no legal way for grievances. And with the NLRB at 2/5 and no quorum, and inequality so extreme, its true. So its illegal. And violence absolutely does work - just you cant ever admit it. Violence is how the USA got the NLRB, and a decent legal process for grievances.

I still look at unions and companies, and the real problem is still the unresolved split between the 2. And the only counter to massive resources and money is violence. And we're already seeing it. Only good solution is worker cooperatives. It the only path that solves the arbitrary dichotomy of owner/worker, democracy in the workplace, and allays feelings powerlesness leading to mass shows of violence.

No, I had a reason why I asked the way I did. You're just too arrogant and think only your procedure is the "right" one.