i think agriculture should transition to just in time model, after all harvest is always predictable, especially with ai
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The article itself does not mention AI at all, it's just something this guy made up. What is being prioritized is Taiwan's semiconductor industry over food self-reliance, not "feeding people". There is plenty to actually hate about AI stuff, why do these people feel the need to make things up?
AI is the newest boogeyman and people here also seem to fall for it.
ai chip manufacturinggpu accelerators manufacturing.The concept is funny, its obviously not starving taiwanese (its a rich country). We need water to make chips to better answer call support about chips behavior
Taiwanese people starving so westoid tech bros can generate pictures of anime girls with 4 boobs
lol, they aren't starving but its hilarious. Eagerly awaiting collapse of california pistachios regime
if AI is what gets Central Valley farmers to stop flooding arbors to grow almonds that they ship to China anyway then I'll take it.
Is growing food wasting water?
That's one of the slogans they'll have on signs around there.
I will DIE and starve to death for the chance to make an ai picture of myself as a chad viking with a wife with 6 boobs.
Is Taiwan even theoretically self-sufficient as per food with current population and civilisation, i.e., without sliding back into subsistence farming?
Major Major's father, yeah:
His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major's father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county. Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap,” he counseled one and all, and everyone said “Amen.”
It's a dumb take, though. The US used to have a subsidy program to prevent oversupply and overworking the fields. Farmers could incentives to fallow their land, which reduces erosion and soil nutrient depletion, instead of pushing it all into production. When Reagan's Secretary of Ag turned it around into production subsidies, commodity prices crashed, farmers got bought out by larger agribusinesses because they couldn't compete, and now the Great Plains is being plowed into the Gulf of Mexico. We're headed for a second Dust Bowl and it's a direct result of these policies.
What do you mean? We're not broke, the walls are full of that sweet sweet copper!
We can buy rice from someone else with all the microchip money.
Sir everyone also switched to the microchip money, there is nothing to eat.
Critical support to Taiwan for disrupting the ROC's staple crop supply chain
I mean EU also doing this, in some regions of Poland the best value crops is to plant trees and get money from EU while food prices rise
Literally humanity offering a sacrifice to its new God.
You can grow rice without so much water btw, rice isn't an aquatic plant, the water is just used for pest control
I mean, they’re being paid for lost crops, and now have a bunch of time to find something else to do?
Maybe they could find an actual use for all this generative ai bullshit
Those foundries are literally the only thing that keeps the whole world on their side and prevents PRC invasion. I'd pay those farmers hefty buck to spare the water.
The PRC's strategy with regards to the island of Taiwan is to politely wait until unification gains enough steam on the island and then peacefully reintegrate. They probably learned this strategy by watching the USA coup and invade nations across the world, only for US regime governments to collapse against local guerillas repeatedly, and deciding to do the opposite of that.
Yeah yeah, and Saddam is gonna launch his weapons of mass destruction any day now.
Done laughing, actual questions:
-Why do you think this is preventing that?
-Why did the PRC not simply invade before the factories were built, when there would have been no "deterrent"?
-If you think the chip factories are the ONLY thing keeping "the whole world" (
) on their side, isn't that a naked admission that they don't actually give a shit about the safety and well-being of the people in Taiwan, and see all of them as expendable should they stop supplying computer parts? Why should anyone trust any person or government with such an openly evil and mercenary ethos towards the value of other people?-Why are you so sure China wants to reconsoldiate Taiwan province by military force at all, when the current status quo is accomplishing the same thing economically?
-Given America's current position (backing literal Nazis in Europe and helping commit a full-on genocide in Palestine), what assurance do you actually have that you're not being hoodwinked into rooting for the wrong side yet again? What makes you think anything the US says about it's enemies should be trusted?
prevents PRC invasion
how can china invade itself?
Death to America
the whole world
and as far as pretending Taiwan isn't a province of China— much, much worse than that, it's only 12 countries and the largest one is Paraguay
