• JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
    hexbear
    69
    1 month ago

    The factories the US will bomb at the first sign of Taiwan uniting with the mainland? Those factories?

    • Awoo [she/her]
      hexbear
      28
      1 month ago

      I heard that they literally have bombs in the buildings already that can be set off. Not sure how true.

        • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
          hexbear
          19
          1 month ago

          i think there's a defcon talk from a decade ago about what it would actually take to have a "self-destruct button" like in movies just for some servers or hard drives and i don't think any capitalist would justify the expense when they can have somebody else pay for aerial bombardment or some shit.

          • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
            hexbear
            10
            edit-2
            1 month ago

            Sure, absolutely. But, otoh, if it's the US Military behind it, then money's no object. My initial thought on something like a self destruct would be that if I could use it so could my enemies... But, that was also my concern about massive data collection and surveillance states, and that didn't stop them so...😅🤷‍♂️

            Edit: but yeah aerial bombardment is what I would expect.

          • Egon [they/them]
            hexbear
            10
            1 month ago

            Pressing the comically large self-destruct button, but nothing happens because Raytheon cut corners and skimped on the fuse

            • keepcarrot [she/her]
              hexbear
              2
              1 month ago

              Sort of, there's a lot that can go wrong with long term self-destruct systems that mean that it's unrealistically expensive or a huge risk to the thing you're trying to "protect".

      • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
        hexbear
        11
        edit-2
        1 month ago

        They were.....ahhhh...they were 'weakened' by the previous earthquake. All those mini flashes and free fall you saw on video was just coincidential office fires that ravaged the building from another seperate event. Oh and the recent new owner that took out comically massive insurance policies on the building with a very unusual terrorism, war, and acts of God exception clause was purely coincidential.

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    43
    1 month ago

    Those factories were actually destroyed by Hamas. Ok, turns out they were not, but they were Hamas combatants, or if a semiconductor factory cannot be a Hamas combatant for some reason they were being used as human shields.

  • Des [she/her, they/them]
    hexbear
    39
    1 month ago

    when i first heard of the quake and googled it, i think maybe cnn or another was first pop up and yes one of the short bylines was just "Semiconductor industry says everything is ok"

    that's all that matters.

  • itappearsthat [he/him]
    hexbear
    32
    1 month ago

    this guy riding the Taiwan HSR flying past endless miles of rice and sweet potato fields: uhhhhh is this that EUV 3nm process

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
    hexbear
    26
    1 month ago

    Panicking because I finally realize the externalities are a liability because they are external

  • Crucible [he/him]
    hexbear
    24
    1 month ago

    They know that if the manufacturing capacity of Taiwan is destroyed the west won't back their independence anymore

  • JustSo [she/her, any]
    hexbear
    5
    1 month ago

    Guys you don't understand. Clearly.

    These. Are. The Video Game Hardware Factories. The Crypto Hardware Factories. The AI Hardware Factories.

    Okay?! HM?

    Starting to understand the magnitude of the crisis that's been averted?

    Yeah I thought so. joker-gaming