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[-] ramsorge@discuss.online 98 points 2 months ago

I’m pretty sure this million that everyone is paying is protection money so they don’t get a shake down

[-] socsa@piefed.social 27 points 2 months ago

It's called a racket. This is literally racketeering.

[-] ramsorge@discuss.online 8 points 2 months ago

Oh… so, “business” got it.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

As in waste management business.

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 months ago

I'd say this is more like kissing the ring.

[-] ramsorge@discuss.online 7 points 2 months ago

It must be a very tiny ring.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I'm sure the oligarchs in Putin's system do the exact same thing.

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago

fucking gross

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 months ago

From Trump's point of view, this is his new subjects lining up to pay tribute.

From the perspective of the wealthy people making these donations, it's like stuffing a twenty dollar bill in the doorman's breast pocket.

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 months ago

From everyone else's point of view it's also his new subjects lining up. There's no reason to excuse these companies regardless of what percent of the bottom line a million dollars is.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It's also obeying in advance. Altman is Jewish. Just saying.

[-] threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

What does him being Jewish have anything to do with it?

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

To the NatC's that adore donvict it means quite a bit. The fact that he's obeying in advance won't mean a thing.

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 1 points 2 months ago

From the perspective of the wealthy people making these donations, it’s like stuffing a twenty dollar bill in the doorman’s breast pocket I think you misspelled hooker and G-string

[-] WaistGunnerPug@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

Bribe. It's a bribe.

[-] nimble 27 points 2 months ago

Corporate fellacio

[-] PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

This is fucking bullshit. What happened to our country? Remember, you chose this fucker.

[-] TherapyGary 1 points 2 months ago

Wish people would quit spreading this misinformation

[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

Sam Altman really has the most punchable face.

[-] Rageagainstbelief@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

There seems to be some precedent in place for this unfortunately https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/09/biden-inaugural-donors-major-corporations-456907 I don’t know what prior amounts have been given though

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

US is a joke

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

What the fuck is an inauguration fund?

[-] Spezi@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

It‘s a ticket to bribe Trump, so he continues to serves the upper 0.0001%

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

A way for captains to kick something up to the mafia don.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

of course he will, because that is the kind of presidency Trump will be running

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

The captains have to make sure to kick something up to the donvict.

[-] ATDA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Is there any non pos I can give my AI money to to get coding advice?

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Sure, use local ones - see ollama.com

[-] ATDA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I've fiddled with a few models but my woeful home server gets like 20 words a min. Maybe my setup is the issue.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

You might be able to use some of the spaces on huggingface.co?

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I hope to try out a local rig I have that I once used for mining a little bit and then later for folding@home - but I need more disk space on there. That host has the tiniest drive on it - 128G. Once I solve that problem, I hope things like ollama can make use of the cards I have in it...for now, I'm using a 2022 macbook and it seems to do okay-ish with some models anyway.

I hope I never have to give one red cent to the likes of Altman.

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