These might be the good old days. Go outside, feel the grass, say wassup to your neighbors,… whatever you do that means community, because sh*t might get bad for a while.

    • Miaou@jlai.lu
      111·
      6 months ago

      Most American comment, talk about the end of democracy for millions of people and death of thousands, worry about the price of their iphone

            • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              11·
              6 months ago

              Remember when the US government gave the telecoms billions to build gigabit internet infrastructure nationwide and they fuckin just didn’t do it?

              me too, i also remember in 1930, when the great depression happened. I don’t see the relevance here though.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act#Impact

              shit in r&d is not like throwing money at big corpo and hoping they do what you want. If you don’t turn out results in r&d, it’s a dead field.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act#Project_announcements

              plenty of project announcements, idk if you think the government can’t like, build buildings or something, even though they can make the interstate highway system. But in defense of the CHIPS, building fabs is really fucking hard, costs billions of dollars, and takes many, many years.

                • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  1·
                  6 months ago

                  Which of those projects will be ready by the time China invades Taiwan in early 2025? And how will those factories absorb all the global orders for chips when they’re not ready?

                  for one, there’s no guarantee. Trump should want to protect taiwan, as it’s a strategically convenient point of interest.

                  You are agreeing with me. Fabs are hard. Our people are stupid.

                  well sort of, your argument is “well its hard and difficult so why should we ever try” my argument is “doing literally anything at all is going to be a better move.”

                  Their people are smart. If their people are tied up in a war and dying, and their fabs are destroyed, and our fabs are half built

                  yeah idk i think they would probably move to the US. The place where they are most likely to be able to fabricate again.

                  you are unironically concern trolling with this post.

          • oatscoop@midwest.social
            7·
            6 months ago

            The CHIPS act? You mean one of the things the Biden admin bragged about?

            Good thing the incoming administration isn’t petty enough to nuke anything associated with the previous administration…

            • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              You mean one of the things the Biden admin bragged about?

              yeah.

              Good thing the incoming administration isn’t petty enough to nuke anything associated with the previous administration…

              that would be unfortunate.

      • Krakaval@jlai.luEnglish
        121·
        6 months ago

        Whatever device you use to post this message is impacted.