Never trust a man in his 70s wearing a new shiny leather coat.
Everybody knows this, right? It's a general rule, like never accepting a ride in a white cargo van.
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2026
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I hope this looser and his little leather jackets get fired no golden parachute and lives the rest of his life working retail
He's already filthy rich even if he got fired tomorrow.
Just a great guy doing great things.
Rock stars doing this stuff somewhat makes sense, it's all in good fun, and who hasn't had a crush on some celebrity singer or actor?
but a CEO? Seriously?
Elon's gunna be so fuckin' jealous when he sees this.
And this CEO?
I mean, seems like that's what the person wanted, no?
Sure, but as the CEO of one of the most valuable companies in the world, shouldn't he think about how bad the optics of this are?
literally the coolest thing he's done
should sign more tits instead of begging people to stop complaining about AI, maybe stonk price would go up more
Closest this guy has ever felt to being a rockstar
Celebrating nvidias big investment in Israel didnt help either. Daily killing of innocents continues while he ships pallets of money over. He's not unique in tech CEOs being arseholes, but he's definitely another trash human being. The world would instantly be a better place without most tech CEOs.
eh, from a pragmatic business perspective...i see why they all bend the knee. capitalists are by their nature universal opportunists. they will show loyalty to israel up until the moment it looks like they don't have control over the US's collar, the moment that happens though they do a 180.
same way so many "pro-lgbtq" businesses flipped to anti-dei narrative the second it looked more profitable.the only thing sacred under capitalism is your line going up, everything that doesn't directly service that goal day-to-day is performative
Yeah. Pretty fair analysis even though I dont enjoy that conclusion. I thought even capitalism was better than that. I would love to go back to my ignorant beliefs in the good of the common man again. And the basic instinct toward good of my fellow Americans. But you cant go backwards in life.
This feels like similar energy to getting outraged about a tan suit.
Were all involved parties consenting? That's the only thing that matters.
Plus on the optics side, we've yet to see if being in the Epstein files is bad enough optics for CEOs, so I think "signed something on an adult woman's boobs when she most likely specifically requested/offered it" is entirely a non-issue.
Good luck with your morals. Glad you're fine with billionaires flexing societal norms. Go sign them boobs in public.
Puritanical bs has nothing to do with morals, as much as some like to pretend it does. What harm are you trying to call out or prevent?
He jealous of tiddy writers
That's the closest I've been able to think about for why people turn to puritanical values in the first place: jealousy that others can do fun things they think they can't, plus maybe a second layer of being upset that some aren't also upset about it.
Oh wait, I almost forgot about the control angle, where if you can convince enough people that some normal and ok aspect about humanity is actually wrong, then you can catch people "slipping" and manipulate them via guilt or blackmail.
I know the meme is older than I am, but I'm clearly not going to win an argument on the Internet Enjoy your ambivalence.
Hm gotta be honest, I don't give a shit about optics, especially since that asshole is plenty bad regardless.
This guy has kids right? I would be so embarrassed
操你妈. Going over his fucking head after years of overpricing GPUs and ruining fun.
Gross, I’m throwing my leather jacket into the donation bin now.
I guess my next PC will have a Nvidia pro card instead of the cheap af GeForce made for poor people.
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It's fiiiiiiine.
The whole thing some like some giant check kiting scam or some weird looping Ponzi scheme. I’m going to invest money into your company so you can buy more of my products. Where is all the money coming from in the first place? Neither of these companies should be worth as much as they are.
This has got to be some sort of tax fraud at the very least. That or money laundering.
Snake oil salesman says snake oil market is stronger than it’s ever been
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Looks at numbers.
Subtracts money being spent, from money being earned.
Huh.
Are you sure?
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The issue with lies, and any good liar will tell you that, is that once you lie you need to maintain that lie forever. You keep adding new lies, new layers, new context, and this house of cards becomes more and more convoluted, large, and fragile. It takes one piece to fall for everything to come down, yet, because everything is a chain of lies, you can't stop.
So imagine what happens when you take the most valuable GPU company and go all in on AI, creating insane investments into everything that happens to use those two letters, purposely entering into circles where one company invests into another that invests back into the same company.
You can't get out, you're too far deep into the web of lies. You are so deep you must convince yourself with your own lies, because you added so many and everything is so fragile that your own mind is now an obstacle.
Good fucking luck when it crashes down.
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Let hope it not only stalls but vaporizes.
I hope Nvidia fcking brokes and back on his knees begging for his old clients who used to bought their gpus to buy the shitiest new version of the non improved but twice as expensive product.
If your talking about gamers, let's be real here. They'll lap up whatever scraps and bullshit Nvidia will give them and then thank Nvidia for gouging them.
I mean look at the recent stream surveys.
AMD is an option and many are switching. More support for AMD in linux too.
I switched.
i really wish we had more that two fuckin graphics card options to choose from but that capitalism for ya.
Intel Arc = 3
We are officially at the denial stage of this developing economic disaster.
At least they already fired everybody, in anticipation of their wild AI success. Hopefully, some of these companies will pivot, and figure out how to actually survive, and they'll have to hire a lot of people to replace their AI.
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