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:FEMA disaster response official Gregg Phillips teleports behind Vegeta:

Nothing Personal, Kid

At Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan mansion in 2011, from left: James E. Staley, at the time a senior JPMorgan executive; former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers; Mr. Epstein; Bill Gates, Microsoft’s co-founder; and Boris Nikolic, who was the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s science adviser.

I thought he was wearing some crazy shoulder pads for a minute.

Our current system is a risk to our very existence.

i'm just not 100% sure where the morals/ethics line is supposed to go.

I'm not amoral it just seems like people arbitrarily draw lines and they seem so certain.

You have to draw your own lines, ones that are important to you. You shouldn't let others tell you where does lines are.

As Martin Luther King Jr said:

Ultimately you must do right because it’s right to do right. . . . You must do it because it has gripped you so much that you are willing to die for it if necessary. And I say to you this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and so precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live.

"side loading" == installing

I think these are all good questions to ask ourselves.

Is it first order disagreements like this NVIDIA boycott, or is it second order as well ? Meaning any company that willingly works with NVIDIA or explicitly buys new NVIDIA gpu's ?

It's going to depend on your interest or ability to research. However, if one were to simply buy used items when possible, or choose a brand one thinks aligns with themselves after some research, I think that's a good start.

GPU's right now are ridiculous which means the secondhand market is tight, if your timeframe/need is also tight then it might not be possible to always do the "right thing™".

If one thinks they might need compromise their morals, I think they should really consider their options. I'd rather pay full price for an old used GPU than give nvidia any money, but that's my personal opinion.

Why pick 2014

I think this is just because car companies weren't yet starting to surveil their drivers as part of a new revenue stream until 2014. You can read more about it.

• It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy
• How to Figure Out What Your Car Knows About You (and Opt Out of Sharing When You Can)

Personally, I've removed myself from the American market about as much as I can while still living in the USA.

I've divested from American stocks.

I try to make/grow my own whenever possible, and rely on my local community more. I even started a community regenerative farm.

If I do think I need to buy something new, I try to either buy European, Japanese, or from a few other choice markets depending on the product, like South America for specialty wood and coffee direct from as small a manufacturer as possible.

Homespun movement

I don't expect everyone to live like this, not everyone has the luxury. But I do hope people atleast try to not pay companies that harm them.

It's possible to need a GPU for work and other functions. But you never need a new anything.

new

New is the key word here.

Buying new boosts sales metrics, incentives investors & management, and is blissful consumerism.

We should be boycotting all companies that we don't agree with. And NVIDIA is a department of war contractor and American Regime mega donor.

If you actually need something, and it's possible to need a GPU, then you can buy second hand from within your community. Try to buy as local as possible, look for things like surplus office equipment or at local repair shops.

In your example of a car, buying a used car is also better than buying a new car in many ways, especially since cars made before 2014 were not able to surveil you.

Boycott bad companies / practices, and stop consuming the latest slop they put in the trough.

It's optional to buy new gpus and games that require them.