Remember that video of protestors taking over a press conference she had and she was like "excuse me! excuse me!" without any effect and then just had to leave lmao
it was posted here a few weeks ago but having a hard time finding it. it was definitely after Paul "Grossy" Pelosi had his DUI
This is the water, this is my husband's stock portfolio
The one where people were chanting "democrats deport" that got posted here a while ago or a different one?
If the US goes down because Nancy Pelosi decided to fuck around and find out about Taiwan, an occupied territory that holds the vast majority of fabrication technology for western computing technology, I will be laughing with glee all the way to my early grave, fuck yeah.
Not to mention it takes years to get them back online you have to build an entire factory minimum of 3-33 billion to start a computer chip fab. Did i mention the margins are 3-1% depending on the year?
It's funny really, all the things people will make up conspiracy theories about, and then chip fab just...exists. It is an absurd amount of technological capital accumulation, and is the actual part of tech that can't be bootstrapped really. And the capitalists are just addicted to building them in settler colonial regions of conflict. I think if the average Joe understood it would freak them the fuck out.
It's mind boggling amount of tech the entire process is virtually automated entirely, its a 4 year degree just to get into the fab masters minimum to touch let alone configure the machine phd required. To your point all the fab at the moment are in conflict zones, Isn'treal or colonized Palestine, occupied Korea, loser of the Chinese Civil War island.
All of this doesn't even touch on how much water these places need, ever hear of ultra pure water? They need thousands of gallons of ultra pure water in-between etching silicon plates. Doping silicon, vacuum centrifuge forges holy mother of power consumption Might as well build a nuclear power plant just for the factory alone.
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Oh absolutely it's fucking ludicrous. I hadn't considered that they'd need something like ultra pure water specifically, but it makes sense considering what I know about like, run of the mill materials science processes. Watched some of the recent LTT videos fellating Intel and their occupied Palestine fab just to see what it looked like in there. The most advanced capital on the planet, ultimately.
Watching linus over the years is a case example what money does to someone who isn't aware of ideology but yeah watching him suck that much cock in that isn'treal was hard.
As entertaining as he can be, Linus is still a small business tyrant at the end of the day.
Sorry my bad 33 billion for the latest tscm plant. I half rembered.
The US continues its plan of "we'll fight China till the last Taiwanese"
This has to be viewed by smaller states as another Libya, even if Ukraine manages some sort of pyrrhic victory. Whatever security agreement with the U.S. you have is maybe worth enough guns to get you an indefinite stalemate.
Her husband also bought between $1-5 million of stock in chip makers last week 👁️
Which chip makers? The US has been strongly hinting that they want to move chip manufacturing to the US. Honestly think America is closer to dumping any dependence on Taiwan than a war with China, despite anti-China posturing.
There was a hackernews post about purdue university offering a Semiconductor Degree Program in the US and the comments were full of people talking about how the pay for this type of highly skilled labor is extremely low and how people shouldn't do it, but then in the same breath praises american exceptialism and how great it'll be to break foreign dependence. This whole semiconductor investment bill is basically a jobs program and the only people buying those chips will be the US government because they are the only ones who are xenophobic enough to actually care where chips come from.
Want to be chip independent but don’t want to put in the work. Lol, anyway, they probably going to give green card to tsmc employees so they could relocate after seeing the island is untenable.
Nvidia, Apple, and Visa, but only Nvidia is a chip maker (unless Apple makes them too?) I think https://www.yahoo.com/video/nancy-pelosi-husband-just-bought-151000595.html
Interesting timing on the visit too:
The bills are aimed at making the U.S. more competitive against a rising China, whose chip industry has grown rapidly over the last five years to account for almost 10% of global sales. The measures include $52 billion in subsidies and an investment tax credit to boost U.S. manufacturing.
But a rift had emerged last week within the chip industry itself, with some players concerned the final language of the legislation would provide disproportionate support to manufacturers like Intel while doing little to support chip designers like Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.O), Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) and Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O).
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-chip-industry-split-over-chips-act-benefits-intel-sources-2022-07-18/I feel like it's all an attempt at some grand power play to bring high tech manufacturing to the US, but in real end of empire style it's just grift at every level. Im interested to see how these bills ends up and will be keeping my 👁️ on how it affects Nvidia.
I'm pretty sure these giant chip plants take over a decade to build and that's with Chinese construction speeds not American. I cannot see how Pelosi pushing China into cutting off American access to Taiwanese chips benefits the US at all.
Apple makes the arm chips used in their phones and macbooks in house I believe.
I thought they depended heavily on Taiwan, but that could possibly be only the newest chips.
TSMC makes them, mostly in Hsinchu Taiwan at the megafab or whatever they call it. All the smaller ones in other countries are there for diplomacy reasons basically.
Facebook/Meta is spinning up a FAB in silicon valley. Samsung has chip foundries in Austin IIRC. TSMC is building a FAB in Phoenix.
The US has been strongly hinting that they want to move chip manufacturing to the US.
That's not how shit works. The US doesn't have the technology to do cutting edge chip manufacturing anymore. Without TSMC they're probably on par with China, doing 14nm stuff. And that's while "losing" money.
The process "sizes" are 100% marketing. They don't correspond to any real sizes, they're just using it as a proxy for which generation of chips/processes they're using. Intel's transistors are of similar size to AMD's, even though AMD claims theirs are smaller. I'm not sure why Intel insists on advertising larger sizes still, but it's probably their slavish obsession with "Moore's Law," which they also invented as a marketing device.
Some of the market is still using comically large processes though. I read that TSMC is urging a lot of automotive industry clients to update from their ancient processes (I think ~350nm) because economies of scale are making them really uneconomical to keep in production alongside cutting edge techniques. Maybe the US sees value in extorting that stubborn part of the market when TSMC inevitably stops catering to them.
If they do it I wonder if there will be a market for tacky "Back to back Chinese Civil War Winners" shirts on the mainland. He'll, I'd wear one.
Does the PLA have any weapons still in use today that they also used in the civil war? China is extremely behind the US in gun nuts chanting "Two world wars! Two world wars!" about the 1911.
The militia arm of the PLA can probably dig up some old mausers? Maybe a captured Japanese tank museum piece. Otherwise the oldest stuff still in use by the militia would be 50s stuff like the SKS and Type 59.
If she does I hope China responds by doing to a major US company what they did to Sony. I guess after they released 7 Years in Tibet the head of the Film Bureau told the head of Sony Entertainment they weren't welcome in China. And if you do another movie like that, you can pack your shit and get the fuck out. Not just Sony Entertainment, all of Sony: Semi conductors, music, Play Station, all of it. Capital simply can't do without that massive market.
Brad Pitt, John Williams, Yo Yo Ma, 1997
How have I never heard of this movie?
A Nazi SS Officer (Brat Pitt) befriends the slave-owning feudal theocrat ruling Tibet, while on a Nazi invasion of Tibet, and they become bros, and the Nazi teaches the slave-owning monarch about Western Civilization. But then the evil Communists take away the Dalai Lama's slaves and the Nazi has to flee back to Austria, where his son doesn't care for him at first, but then he does, the end.
Oh.
We had to watch that in class.
I was internally cheering for China and the PLA in their effort to liberate the Tibetan people from theocratic feudalism and slavery :mao-wave:
Additionally, during the scene at the train station, Harrer appears hostile to the Nazi Party, taking the Nazi flag with reluctance. The real-life Heinrich Harrer was in fact a Nazi Schutzstaffel NCO, and stated in his 1938 book that "We climbed up the North Face of Eiger over the summit and up to our führer" while as a member of the German Alpine Association.
lol
Instead of fighting for women right, for wages and for a lot of thing that Brandon promised. She go to Taipei to invoke another front for the US. This ***************************************
Sane answer - start shipping shitton of solar to cuba, it’s rounding error considering their consumption, stops black outs, lessens burden of embargo and various venezuela shenanigans.
Cuba population is around 11 million, to give everyone one kw they need to ship 11 gw. China installed 50 gw this year, so they can ship 1 gw a year kinda easy
Can a Mandarin speaker give me a good translation for based? Its a difficult word to translate with computers lol
Death to America
yyds: pinyin acronym for 永远的神 (yong3 yuan3 de shen2) “a deity forever,” mostly used for individuals but can be applied to institutions or things as well. This is a more recent one, probably the closest to “based” I can think of.
牛逼 (niu2 bi1):literally, the genitalia of a cow, it’s an exclamation for things, situations, or phenomena that are thoroughly marvelous and magnificent. This is a classic, kind of a National Swear Word.
I know it’s not likely to happen, but what happens if Chinese fighter jets intercept and be like “you are making an unauthorized entrance into Chinese territory, please leave”?
That'll be classified as a "dick move" by the US and its allies.
The two countries would instantly be on an imminent war footing. And they would unambiguously be seen as the provocateurs. It would be the stupidest thing China has done in its foreign policy history.
i know everything that would come after that would be shit but imagine getting to see this :bloomer:
Actually I bet 90% would care
That being said, having 10% of chuds think China is based because it hates liberals is… good????
One day the US government will have to retreat to an island fortress and they will see just how useful an ally Taiwan is over China
