• vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works
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    8 hours ago

    According to US intelligence, which also believes fishermen have magic invisible fuel tanks 10x the size of their boat; believe Iran is two weeks away from a nuclear weapon; believe Iraq had WMDs; and believe antifa is the largest threat to the United States.

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      7 hours ago

      So Nvidia didn’t recently get caught selling $2B in chips to China? This is just a coincidence? She was an executive at MegaSpeed, buying $4.8B in chips, then selling $2B to China. It’s her company.

      You seriously thought she was romantically linked to a 63 year old executive?

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          7 hours ago

          She committed fraud for the sole benefit of the Chinese state. Sure, you can just frame this as an “open relationship”, but there is some serious fraud and smuggling going on here for the Chinese state.

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            6 hours ago

            She committed ‘fraud’ (aka making a normal private business deal) for a private Chinese company. The Chinese state is currently fully invested in their own hardware which is only a few years behind (and catching up incredibly quickly on the compute side).