Next week:
“Beijing announces outlawing of ‘academic pub’ spaces in major metropolitan areas”

Losing advanced semiconductors is more than a market crash led by the tech majors. It would be the partial collapse of western industry and most of our way of life. Every single fragile tendril of modern infrastructure is run by a computer or microprocessor that has a 100% chance of using components from Taiwan or China. The second any of those controller components cannot be easily replaced, that system goes down for weeks, possibly months if not a year, before a suitable replacement can be conjured or re-engineered to use a different domestically produced system. We are talking power plants, water plants, sewer plants, any and every kind of factory, everything.

I guess Trump’s weekly marching orders chat with Putin doesn’t count

??? i was talking about car engines? Hyundai’s Theta engine series has been cursed with design flaws and horrible machining quality for so many years now that I don’t really trust any of their vehicles enough to even consider switching to one.

Now if only they could start building usable engines, it’d be great.

promote traditional family values *produce more meat for the imperial meatgrinder

Stopping now would make it worse actually. Russia has retooled for wartime production and is currently running massive government deficit spending for war goods, which is why inflation and interest rates are so high… if they were to back down, their interest rates would drop, but the bottom falling out of government spending would really crash things because almost every private enterprise is catering to those needs. Putin can’t stop now or his country riots in breadlines.

If by “frowned upon” you mean a felony via the Logan Act… then yes.

Yes that is true in an absolute sense, but I am expounding on how Sweden’s government looks at the math: “We are already green, this lets us and our neighbors also become even more green; but in the process it negatively impacts our ability to maintain sovereignty.”

No government will be willing to give up the security of the citizens it is sworn to protect in order to improve the lives of citizens in other countries not under their umbrella. And they should not be expected to.

Maybe if Russia weren’t such a ugly dystopian bear, this wouldn’t be a problem… They are a clear and present danger far above any other, and Sweden is justified in these decisions. Perhaps the farms will be relocated to shoreline less critical for defense.

Sweden’s domestic energy mix is already extremely light on fossil: https://www.iea.org/countries/sweden
Most of what they use is still transport/industry related oil and little, if any fossil is used on the power grid. These wind farms would have probably been primarily for export, so the climate “loss” on CO2 isn’t that big of a deal for them compared to these legitimate defense concerns.

It might, after years and years.

Thr problem with snap tariffs is it doesn’t give the economy time to reorient. All of that overseas industrial capacity providing those imports has taken decades to ramp up, while US capabilities have atrophied badly. It will take many years for US manufacturing to fully catch up, and in the mean time the 50% or more price increase on tons of basic goods would become baked into the price of said goods and only drive additional crazy inflation.

And even if you ramp them up over time, there is not much business incentive to jump into the water immediately, and you have the same problem.

The article mentions consumer devices but this would also smack basically every single piece of commercial and industrial electronics hardware too and have a lot of knock on effects.

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And how long do you think that will last? They only changed it to opt-in after millions of enterprise IT cybersec directors screeched in agony. And with all of these monopolies, getting a backpedal concessionis only hitting a temporary pause button for them to wait two years and try again.

“You don’t have to use it” has never worked as a defense against Microsoft ever, Recall exists as the greatest possible privacy violation and should not even be a legal feature.

Too hard to manipulate the algorithm with ai spam, disguised ads and propaganda if users can see all the videos at the top of their recommended feed have 20 views.

You must only view what the Corporation approves.

Me too, I need to order fuel for the ranch bulk tanks too. We have a couple 300gal bulk tanks that usually get filled in the fall and I’ve totally forgotten to so far…

Just after the markets close, Monday is gonna be interesting

Unfortunately not until 2027. They are appointed by the council for 5 year terms. His was renewed 1st January 2022.

But, Calling and threatening “I want to cancel” is the only way to get them to lower the $120 fuck-you price back to the market accurate $40 I signed up for.

Moving goal posts!

more like growth for the past 60 years has been easy to come by via free money injection and giving industry a growth mandate to build up for exports. But their economy and population is now maturing, wages are rising, urban housing demand is no longer voraciously insatiable, services are taking over from sheer industrial output, and the rest of the world has begun to look twice at their “cheap” labor that isn’t actually that cheap comparatively speaking. The CCP’s financial policy has not adapted to this new world in the slightest and they have some very tough reckoning to go through.

“Narcissistic domestic abuser claims the exit doors that are locked from both sides are just for the protection of their spouse and its in their best interest to be secure”