• troybot@piefed.social
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    3 hours ago

    What I’m gathering here is that CEO is a bullshit job that requires no effort because how do you have time to keep up with cheating on your wife with at least three different women??

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      19 minutes ago

      He’s run Nvidia for 30 years, pretty sure you can find a little time at least once every ten years

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    6 hours ago

    I posted this elsewhere but in the spirit of the season I’m going to do it again, whether or not my partner approves.

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    Apparently his wife, who he met in college, was quite a successful electrical engineer but gave it up to stay at home and raise their kids.

    And he repays her servitude with being a sleazy pos.

    He could have had the decency to divorce her if he wasn’t dedicated to their marriage anymore.

    But obviously, he has no respect for the mother of his children. Or the woman that put her own career aside to help him succeed.

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      He’s a CEO of a multinational. By definition, he is not a good person. Being a good person is incompatible with the role of CEO.

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      4 hours ago

      He did make them tens of billions of dollars. I think that from a purely financial standpoint, she probably did pretty well.

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        As someone in academia, being able to pursuing my own adventure and development is very important to me.

        I would be incredibly unhappy to have to give that up.

        And it’s not like you can take an 18 year break and go back into it. Your knowledge is outdated.

        If you aren’t actively working in the field, you quickly become obsolete.

        So giving it up once is giving it up forever.

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        Money doesn’t always (or maybe even usually) give a person purpose or satisfaction in life. We don’t know if she wanted to keep her job or was passionate about it or not, but if she did and she was, simply making lots of money doesn’t always fill that void. Money doesn’t buy happiness, but sometimes it pushes you into unhappiness just as effectively as lack of money does. Financial success is only one facet of feeling like you’re successful. Some people might be completely happy living a domestic life to a rich man, but not everyone, and we probably shouldn’t assume that it’s one way or the other for Jensen’s wife.

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          “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.” - Jim Carey

          I think it is fitting coming from him because he lived that and saw how hollow it can be. Also explains why he went down the whole anti-vax route for a while desperately trying to find a purpose.

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            2 hours ago

            Fascinating. As someone who also has lifelong depression, that perspective from him is valuable.

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              1 hour ago

              Lifelong depression cohort assemble! But seriously, it is an odd existence. I dont dislike it, I dont like it, don’t know anything else.

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        3 hours ago

        Affair me once, shame on shame on you. Affair me you can’t get affaired again.

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          There’s actually a theory that dubya changed it up mid sentence to avoid getting quoted as saying “shame on me” which would make for an excellent sound bite.

          Whether that’s true or not, I don’t know if even he himself knows at this point.

          Fun fact, Dubya, nearly two decades out of lettuce office, is a month younger than the current POTUS.

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            Yeah. He sounded dumb on TV, but it’s like one of those “ordinary person vs Olympian” things. He sounded dumb on TV partly because you’re comparing him to excellent speakers. Most people would sound dumb next to Obama. Accounts from people meeting Bush in person generally agree he’s smarter than he seems.

            Of course, none of that has anything to do with being at best ineffectual as a president and at worst a war criminal waging wars of aggression. Keeping people like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld around certainly didn’t help.

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            Absolutely he changed it mid sentence. Also by comparison with the sad rape sponge they have in office now, Dubya seems moderate!

            I cannot find it now but there was a clip of Bush sitting with Obama and Clinton at Trumps inauguration, he points at Trump and whispers something to Obama and Clinton and they all start killing themselves laughing. I so desperately want to know what he said!

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      5 hours ago

      Yes. This story has the potential to be huge. Now that all of media is aware of it, they’re going to start pulling at threads.

      Rough summary for others: Rubio straight up told Trump that Huang’s girlfriend was a Chinese asset, Trump dismissed that and invited them both on Air Force One with him. Trump’s old friend and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick also dropped her company, Megaspeed, off any blacklists or investigations, and Nvidia sold them chips. All this is happening at the same time Trump is bellowing about how we can’t regulate AI companies for fear of Chinese competition.

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        This demonstrates, btw, how Trump is technically not a Russian agent, or a Chinese agent, or an Israeli agent… He is just very good at being bribed by organisations who bribe people for a living. You gotta bribe correctly, but if he’s bribed, he is worth it.

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      Wow, mirrors of Covid (where he basically killed the pandemic response team of GWB/Obama a few years before).

      Dude breaks everything he touches.

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    6 hours ago

    He’s 63. Married for 40+ years…so since well before he was rich. Three affairs and counting. One with a Chinese spy.