All it took was a Taiwanese billionaire tech mogul sticking his dick where he shouldn’t. At this point, im willing to crowdfund his prostitutes.

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    I’ve been following the reporting on this situation, and I think people need to make an important distinction here.

    As of right now, there is absolutely no publicly substantiated evidence that Jensen Huang used his position as CEO to pressure, coerce, or threaten any of these women into having sexual relationships with him. There have been no reported allegations of quid pro quo arrangements, career advancement being contingent on sex, threats of retaliation, or employees being punished for rejecting his advances.

    What has been reported is that he allegedly had multiple extramarital relationships, including with women who worked under him. That’s certainly a corporate ethics issue, particularly given the inherent power imbalance between a CEO and his subordinates. But it is not automatically evidence of sexual exploitation.

    As far as the publicly available reporting establishes, these were relationships, and there is no established evidence that they were anything other than consensual. We shouldn’t manufacture victims or invent allegations simply because we disapprove of someone’s personal conduct.

    You can criticize Huang for infidelity, poor executive judgment, and potentially serious conflicts of interest without escalating the story into sexual coercion allegations that nobody has actually substantiated.

    There’s a pretty significant difference between having an affair with an employee and holding someone’s career hostage in exchange for sex. Let’s not pretend those are the same thing.

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    He has so much money he could literally hire someone to find him a different girlfriend for every day of the year and hire one additional person per girlfriend to make sure the girlfriend is happy. But no he has to fuck the girls from work.

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      100% its because of the power and authority he has over them, and the fear they have of losing their livelihood.

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      This right here.

      In evolutionary psychology terms, there is nothing more attractive than having a child that is legally guaranteed generational wealth.

      I don’t know if you’ve ever met anyone with generational wealth, but after a few generations they become extremely attractive.

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    It’s more than obvious that this scandal is now being used to explain the complete failure of the financial system through such a trivial matter. These people apparently still think they need a scapegoat—this time they’re even presenting someone from their own ranks (presumably because he isn’t white).

    I cannot, for the life of me, understand why social media is still buying into this. This is obviously the buildup to the inevitable crash, which was by no means caused by LLM technology itself, but rather by the ridiculously inflated expectations of the “financial experts.”

    This may be amusing right now, but soon all of this will cost the little guys all their money. That’s as certain as death and taxes, since the U.S. is obviously incapable of even beginning to rein in its degenerate financial system—which is screwing over the entire world—as it’s controlled by the very few people who have a stake in this absurdity.

    This has nothing to do with a CEO or his affairs, but with a failed system that is dragging everyone—who, absurdly, still clings to it—down with it.

    This is not the fault of an CEO with Asian heritage and his mistress; it is what the U.S. system ultimately boils down to. Pinning it all on this case is absolutely indicative of the degenerate white supremacist oligarchy that the U.S. truly is.

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    It’s crazy how after countless controversies, what finally takes them down is infidelity. Like the Klein guy recently.

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      I mean, it was probably the part where China was getting sanctioned technology…

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        A patient choosing to end their life is more morally wrong than the death penalty? This must be the conservative “they deserve it” mentality.

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        The problem with that is morality isn’t binary. People will find some things more wrong than others without ever considering them moral.

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        Eating meat not being a moral issue according to a majority of people and only 4% of people condemning it? Thanks, ignorance and cognitive dissonance!

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                Well how deep do you want to go?

                Because one way or another, people seeing “eating meat” as not being a moral issue either don’t understand the moral implications of it (industrial livestock farming for the most part) or don’t care about it, and I suspect cognitive dissonance is doing the heavy lifting in the latter case.

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                  I was going to become vegan if I couldn’t handle personally raising and slaughtering an animal. Turns out… I can. The first time I killed a goat, one of the other goats gave birth to twins at the same time. I had a moment… individuals die, but the herd persists. These goats eat a bunch of naturally occurring grass and weeds. I can totally ice one and turn him into tacos a couple of times a year and it’s pretty much environmentally neutral. Absolutely morally neutral

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                  People eat meat because they don’t value animal lives like human lives. You can make a moral argument against that, and you’d have a good case for it, but it’s not cognitively dissonant.

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                  They don’t care. I don’t think you are wrong for caring, just that you aren’t being realistic. The life of a chicken has little value for 99% of people.

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                  Aren’t you the guy that criticises parents for feeding their children meat despite having no kids or any background in pediatric nutrition?

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      Infidelity might be the headline, but clscratch a penny and you’ll find support for a genocidal apartheid regime.

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    I thought the R/I format was dead and buried ten years ago

    Edit: Man I really looked at this image and didn’t have a single neuron fire in my head. One image and its reply statistics is not a meme. The “format” I had in mind is when someone would put two images next to each other with different stats below and the joke is that idea X spurs more discussion/horny image posting/whatever. The stats tell a story when you compare two sets of stats. I am a fraud. Forgive me.

    This is through pure osmosis, never used the site.