I suppose I’d be the most interested in what people have to say. Maybe you’d get closure on unexpected things.

Solar here makes me so pissed since you know Texas could be a magnificent location but instead it’s such a libertarian shithole lmao

sure, they’re labor aristocracy jobs bc they’re at the tip top of the global supply chain, but most people do not partake in that at all, or management etc, or legal/medical/whatever other high end shit, and 50% of the US is in crappy service work like mcdonalds literally.

no matter what industry you work in you can only be pessimistic here lmao unless you’re like in finance or useless c suite shit

i’m not crying for the TSMC foundry or trying to work there. i hope the NATO+ intelligence services edge from high end chip production being under our control is unseated, it would be good for all of us

what’s going on with TSMC is indicative of wider issues with all kinds of US industries I’m in solar and frankly I plan to gtfo in the long term to a more interesting area of development. I don’t expect it to make my life easier per se but there are a lot of reasons.

Oh also insurance prices and shit like that here are a nightmare. Legal is too obviously. That’s why Nike could never just move all their production here even thought it would be trivial to teach people to make shoes. The convoluted global supply chain is the whole point

Yeah the casino bit is the most important part for sure. In light of how financialized everything is, huge costs, massively inflated financial asset & real estate prices etc, labor costs, it’s more likely for Detroit to spring back into being an industrial hub.

We focus all of our political energy on monopolizing the top of the value chain TSMC is a part of and we can’t replace it with our own production bc it’s so crucial for cutting costs down. They can’t even expand the production for lower end chips (ROI isn’t there) now so Russia and China are gonna scoop up orders from expansion in the many industries that use them (low end chips were like 20% of TSMC’s revenue recently, iirc). Which will help them develop their higher end foundries which they definitely can make I mean Rosatom produces super high quality Xray mirrors and the Chinese govt won’t balk at industrial investment or high tech training programs.

ASML’s whole position in this convoluted supply chain means they only make those shipping container sized thingies with the rube goldberg machine of mirrors hooked up to a gallium plasma light thingy, and that ultimately limits the minimum nanometer size of the circuits made in the fabrication units they ship out. If I’m getting that right 🤪. This is really futuristic stuff I’m talking about now but the next-next gen fabrication units beyond Russia and China catching up could even be hooked up to a particle accelerator. That’s pretty hard to export in the same way.

I just don’t see how we can politically or financially solve these problems in the US or EU lol. We’re kind of caught by the balls as workers no?

You are the one moving the goalposts with your boasts about how these companies make up LITERALLY an INFINITESIMAL portion of global chip production. Even if you cut out Samsung and TSMC they wouldn’t be global players.

No, we can’t just bring all production home lol. We’ve been saying we will for years. Where is the foundry in Ohio dude? Where is the Arizona foundry that’s supposed to bolster TSMC production?

Lol yeah sure go ask ASML how their business is doing rn in light of the US chip war sanctions. European manufacturing is in as dire a state as the US now due to financialization and now the skyrocketing energy costs.

People said this about our military production too. “Oh, Russia messed up now, we’re going to get serious and amp up our military production.” 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🗓️🗓️🗓️🗓️ (time loudly passing and nothing happening)

How many times is it going to take for people to learn it gets transmuted directly into stock buybacks lmao? We don’t have the electrical grid to build up our manufacturing base in the modern world yet. The US is a giant casino for the elite of our empire full of slums.

None of those companies even make a blip on global chip production though. Are they for research or something? Why should I give a shit about a tiny technically existing fraction of production that will never expand?

Go look at where there has been actual foundry production for decades. None of the companies you mentioned even exist in foundry. Who cares if they have A facility or two? That’s just part of figuring out what they’re going to order from TSMC.

Coding, like writing scientific papers, or novels, is only about randomly generating strings, silly human.

Trump is not isolationist you fucking idiot, not even reading the rest. Isolationist assassinations with cruise missiles, huh? Morons all of you.

Amazon is fabless for their chip design unit, there all little mini design units for shit like datacenters.

It’s hilarious you’re saying that because Intel labelled itself an investor in USA foundry projects you think they are exempt from this. Okay man, go work at the plants in Ohio and Arizona. Oh wait, they don’t fucking exist bruh

Except what NVIDIA is doing can be done by numerous other chip design firms, TSMC cannot be replaced.

I’ve read the book. Was still confused, but could kinda see how that could be what you meant

Wait, by Frank Herbert? Or…

Nvidia is such a stupid fucking company. It’s just slapping different designs onto TSMC chips. All our “chip companies” are like this. In the long run they are all going to get smoked. I won’t tell you by whom. You shouldn’t need a reminder.

Support for US wars is bipartisan. The GOP merely pretends they would have managed Ukraine better to pivot to China as an electioneering tool.

It doesn’t make any difference, we have no industrial production to fight a peer enemy in a war. All we have is overt nuclear threats and targeted missile assassinations (Soleimani’s fate) or WWII-style mass strategic bombing civilian populations (Palestine, Syria, Yemen). Look at you, fools. You’ve been obsessing over cherry-picked footage to convince yourselves Ukrainians experience only tactical successes. Where are your tactics videos now? You ignored economics and politics.

You thought Twitter could win this war? Tying Russians and their families to trees with saran wrap and pulling their pants down in broad daylight on Telegram? It only enraged them. They won’t stop now.

You have zero understanding of operations, let alone strategy, I will speak nothing of the political goals of NATO or Russia alike. LOL. You are completely useless at anything other than smugly cheering for death.

PS - I can almost relate to people who say things like this, or speculate about how every country in the world engages in torture.

Almost. I can almost remember what it was like to dream like you of a world where everyone is as evil as USA, EU, Japan, NZ, Aus, SK. But thankfully it isn’t. It’s a historical process in motion. Not a static idealistic element of all nation states.

The truth is that modern torture practices were invented and codified by the colonial empires through systematic concentration camp butchery in the Congo (devices which castrate people faster, etc), other colonies, then the British invented torture which didn’t leave marks for domestic use, the Five Techniques. The US has further innovated torture by electrocuting people in the testicles and other such things related to our military hazing culture that creates so many serial killers famous in our country.

You can watch TV shows and pretend the world is all Guantanamo Bay, but we have the training manuals slappy. Going back to the torture methods of the british in malaysia and more. We have all the operation condor torture manuals and SERE. I have seen everything slappy. :-) It will always be out there now. Just like 24 taught me what I can do with a lamp wire in a few moments. We opened pandora’s box to try to control the world. We tried to rip the human soul apart and reassemble it. But we failed. And now we have to pay the price of watching our empire crumble.

The Ukrainians are part of a trail of forensic evidence going back to the British empire in Malaysia slappy. For want of all the evidence but the torture they would be marked American American American :-)

I actually appreciate your wholehearted bewilderment instead of calling everyone a Russian bot. I know a guy in Oregon who just fishes all the time and works shit jobs who wrote an epic series on the Maidan if you ever decide to give a shit about what happened.

To tell you the truth, I have no confidence any redditor could take the ride he and I took, back to WWII. Back to Stepan Bandera. Back to the Breton Woods conference which began the motions which positioned the US to grasp at total financial, military, technological, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, caloric, you name it we weaponized it economically on a scale the British and other little piddly “empires” could never dream of.

Back before that, to the development of capitalism itself which was delayed in Germany resulting in its peculiar backward traits. How it indirectly affected the irrationalist philosophers which inspired Hitler.

There is no hiding the coup in Ukraine slappy. It was well planned. It was heralded with a bipartisan tripartite of congressional emissaries you surely know and love: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bmaakY-PIAc (this video is search blocked on youtube and duckduckgo but is accessible). A paratrooper from north carolina helped orchestrate the false flag attacks at the Maidan. You’d never believe it all. The Russians can’t even believe some of the shit I know about Ukrainian history.

Did you know Stepan Bandera was assassinated by the KGB with poison gas

This is not true by the way

It’s time to pay up, big boy. Watch them pay

If only someone had warned them