That wouldn‘t be very democratic now, would it?

I TOLD you, we’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune! We take it in turns, to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions OF that officer must be ratified at a special biweekly meeting, by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, or by a TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY in the case of more immediate…

I’m curious. Economically speaking, what would happen if Nvidia pulled a “Steam” and had a “February sale” where some models of video card were discounted enough to lead to a massive spike in sales numbers? A big enough discount to generate a greater total net return on sales for the quarter despite the fact that they were sold at a lower profit margin per individual sale? Assuming limitations like “you must create an account with a residential shipping address that can receive no more than x cards at the discounted price per street address” or some such to limit scalping, would simply showing increased profits do them any good?

Or is the problem due to a lack of product quantity?

If nobody can afford anything with more than 8 gigs of ram for their office workers, they’ll all just pay for more AI tokens because otherwise the 900ms keystroke latency in MS Word would make it impossible to work, right?

I would be shocked if that wasn’t on some AI company’s brainstorm board as a positive side effect (for them) of all of this.

Knowing that poem meant I got chills from the opening lyrics to the Mayans M.C. theme song when I heard it for the first time:

Mother of Exiles, the torch of hope.

In the toss of the tempest, threw us Madison’s rope.

But the brazen giant, with limbs astride, blocks the golden door to the US of Lies, screaming:

Fuck your huddled masses, scrub our floors, cut our grasses.

I am a wolf, a wild cur, cut from the pack, with blood on my fur. Every howl marks the dead.

Cause a beaten dog never forgets.