@millerman@brianchau57 China’s? Yeah.
The plan of institutional shareholders and U.S.-based decels & radical leftists is more likely to weaken NVIDIA to seize control/influence over it.
A strong pet peeve that I should get over is when someone emphatically states, “Nobody could possibly enjoy [thing that any reasonable person would agree is likely appealing to some].”
“Nobody could enjoy [x]? No, YOU don’t like it. And you should probably meet more people.”
“Pick another day.”
That’s the first thing retired FBI whistleblower George Hill says when two FBI agents from the Philadelphia Field Office show up at his door on Ring camera — over a tweet.
The agents themselves indicate on the video they know it isn’t a real threat. They still came within 24 hours of Laura Loomer running to the top of the federal government. George is a 26-year military intelligence veteran and Marine (the FBI showed up on the Marine Corps birthday, no less), with five years at the NSA and 11 years at the FBI as a Supervisory Intelligence Analyst.
This is the “Good German” problem in real time. These agents, "Will" and "Brian," are just "ordinary men" who drove to knock on a door despite knowing it was wrong. No principles to push back and say: “this is protected speech and not a threat.” Just compliance and "following orders." (They didn't even have the courage to leave a real business card with their names - just a blank one from the field office.)
The FBI showed who they were during the Biden admin. They knocked on doors over politics, protected speech, or thin pretexts. They sent a SWAT team over politics, religion, or your criticism of whatever admin approves their budget.
Nothing in that culture has changed. The institution didn’t change. You CANNOT do reform when you keep the same people.
Hill has testified about the Bureau’s handling of Jan. 6 data. He has spoken out about the role the FBI has played in creating the modern American "police state."
Now they’re at his front door proving they haven't addressed the problem... over protected speech in a f-ing tweet. And even the agents on video seemed embarrassed about complying with the order.
The "following orders" will continue until the Bureau's gutless management has been completely dismantled.
I’m going to oversimplify bc it’s social media, but mental health & prison facilities have poor conditions in large part because they’re only lightly monitored.
If you want good treatment & rehabilitation of incarcerated people (I believe most people do) then we should incentivize the smartest, most resilient, and most ethical people to take on those jobs.
Most people literally couldn’t stomach what happens in a basic county jail, let alone state/federal prison or an old asylum. They’re VERY quick to ignore the problems.
None of this addresses light-on-crime policies, but that’s largely an ideological thing and I suspect the solutions there would get me kicked off X, at best.
@willchamberlain There’s nothing more predictable than your premature elation. Any casual observer noticed that 11 D-Bags “missed” the vote, but you’re practically Pavlovian when it comes to Massie derangement.
WNBA players dunk better than you, Twink.
@JoePompliano Awesome summary.
This story feels like it has a lot of “just don’t get rekt” / “infinite games” themes to it.
Look forward to reading more.