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Comment Re:The missing detail is the split percentage (Score -1) 41

I've played this dance in other industries.

They will buy just enough from Arizona to keep it viable and show diversification, while buying most of it from Taiwan.

Arizona will probably be running a few batches a week, which keeps the processes in place and ensures that the knowledge is maintained and it is a viable source.

This might be 5% (made up number), 95% remains with Taiwan. The higher price impact is minimised, impacts on market etc. They might even be able to sell most of them as premium US products for defence and friends, or into the general US market to avoid tariffs.

It provides the safety net. If something happens they can relatively easily turn to knob and rapidly shift more production to Arizona because the initial set up work has all been done. But until then they will be minimizing quantity and maximising headlines.

So you're saying that we will have the capacity to quickly ramp up domestic production of an absolutely crucial strategic resource on demand (in case the world decides they're done sending us nice stuff in return for paper printed over with green paint, or if Taiwan gets invaded), while paying minimal costs for that? Oh absolutely. Except, why are you saying that as if it was a bad thing?

Comment Re:Absolutely terrible idea. (Score -1) 82

This is only good for the large investment firms. It's terrible for us little people. Terrorist attack at 3AM? All the institutions will have systems (and people) up at 3AM and immediately sell off. All of us regular joes will wake up to being broke.

I'd say this is something the administration should fix/regulate... but well, we know that they don't care about the little guys.

I think you have no idea how modern trading works. Even if that terrorist attack hits at 2PM instead, even supposing you happen to be listening to news at the moment, and rush to computer immediately, the institutions have already sold off, and you're already broke some 2 minutes before you're finished logging into your trading platform.

And as "little people" you just shouldn't be trying to speculate on the market, you should be investing, then you'll be perfectly okay.

Comment Re:Mozilla asleep at the wheel (Score -1) 42

>"The fact that Mozilla allowing this to happen tells me that they are no longer effective at their mission."

1) They aren't "allowing" anything to happen. There is no setting in Firefox or Thunderbird that says "yeah, please record all my stuff." This is/was a Microsoft decision. No such problem on any other platform. 2) Why should it be up to the APPLICATION to decide to block this privacy raping? 3) How long has this option to ask this specific OS not not record been out? It is a little soon to "condemn" Mozilla for not having this single-platform hackery option yet. Recall, itself, is still just a preview. For all we know, the entire thing might evaporate in a few months. 4) If you are really concerned about privacy, I would first point at the OS this whole thing is about.

No. If Mozilla wants to play the "we are the user-oriented, privacy-focused browser who won't sell you out to corporate interests" card, they need to not only not rape said privacy themselves, but also to protect it from common threats, such as this. As it is, yeah, I'll stick with Brave, thank you very much.

Comment Re:Internet is the problem and solution (Score -1) 34

Can't have WW3 if everyone is busy arguing on the Internet. *taps temple knowingly*

I've never seen so many 3XL tactical vests until Jan 6th. I really don't see a reason to be afraid of most of the alt-right and far right these days.

If you want to fight fascism, just open a fried chicken restaurant and pay for weekly regular ads on Doordash. On Friday nights, offer a free 2L of Mountain Dew Code Red with every double bucket order.

Yes, that's totally how the partisan divide goes, considering RFK's push to rein in the food industry, push for promoting physical activity, and rest of MAHA, contrasted to Fauci's "you're perfectly fine eating all the hydrogenated fats the food industry pushes on you, as long as you're on your 17th covid booster. Also, weightlifting is toxic masculinity!!!111oneone"

Comment Re: I remember what I was relieved... (Score -1) 276

Define communism.

Have you actually read Marx's manifesto or any of his other works? Did you understand them?

I have... a translated version anyway... and I did... the English translation, though I admit it may not live up to original German. And I would guesstimate that maybe only one in twenty people who use the words communist or communism have read Marx's little manifesto, much less understood any of it. And I don't just mean you and the rest of the MAGA types with your empty accusations. I also include the actual self-labeled "communists" and "socialists" I have known or met in my life. In fact, I would guesstimate that even fewer of the people who call themselves communists know what it means than the people dishing out false accusations. To most of the ones I have ever encountered; "communism" and "socialism" entail buying a $40 Che Guevara t-shirt from store or vendor on Telegraph Ave, entirely missing the irony, growing out dreadlocks, smoking a lot of pot, and hanging out in front of Blakes and Fat Slice pissing off their parents by throwing away their tuition money.

Communists and communism are stupid, sure. But so are the accusations of, hysterics about, and feeling threatened by, them.

No, the thing in Marx's manifersto is called "Marxism". Communism is a much wider term, and is *very* appropriately used as an accusation. Because yes, "true communism has never been tried", but we've had hundreds of attempts to build it, they ALL ended up in catastrophe, and we still have morons running around trying to make a yet another attempt, whitewashing it as "socialism".

Comment Re: I remember what I was relieved... (Score 0) 276

I debate the word "communism" in my mind all of the time. To me it represents the values of give what you can, and take what you need. To me it is what the Star Trek Universe is made of. I would like the Human race to get to the Star Trek Universe. All that we would have to care about is the choice to become an Engineer, a Captain, or a Botanist. But... that is communism.

No, that's not communism, that's a "post scarcity economy". You do know that the entire Star Trek economy is premised on the existence of Universal Replicator, i.e. a literal device that can make any shit you want out of nothing? So yes, once you do invent that, feel free to build your utopia. And not one second earlier, because THAT's when you get communism. And out of hundreds historical attempts to build it, not one, NOT A SINGLE FUCKING ONE didn't end in widespread misery poverty and mass murder.

Comment Re:How it's made (Score -1) 215

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... This is an excellent and mostly to the point demonstration of just how simple it is to generate AI slop that would not sound at all out of place on a top 40 radio station.

I'm not sure "slop" is an appropriate term for this, when you desperately need warning tags to decide you don't like it, and can't without them.

Comment Re:Trump has expanded the high skill work visas (Score -1) 235

H1B visa requirements should raise the minimum amount of pay to $500k a year. Currently it is a minimum of $60k with a difference in cost of living. This is why you see a lot of H1B workers in lower CoL areas. If you can't find a person in the United States that can do a job then the non-American person(s) taking that work must be top-talent and/or have skills nobody possesses.

Gotta love the leftist hypocrisy at play here. If a brown person jumps the wall and steals some redneck's job, you're all "no human is illegal, bring down the wall, refugees welcome etc etc etc". But! When a different-shade-of-brown person lands in LA with H1B visa in hand and heads for Silicon Valley to steal a leftist hipster's job then that is absolutely scandalous and he must be booted immediately. For his own good of course!

You'll of course dress it up in words differently, "we're fighting for minimum wage of $0.5M for H1Bs", as if making such a law and removing those H1B's ability to compete on price with American worker isn't going to result exactly in them all being booted.

But I guess Trump shouldn't have said he's deporting illegals, he should have said "we're only deporting people who can't land a $0.5M job". Would result in exactly same thing happening, but this law you'd support I guess?

Comment Re: Morons (Score -1) 235

If Trump were a Russian asset then he'd not likely allow Ukraine to have any military aid.

He already tried that. The problem Trump is facing is juggling the expectation of the wider international community with that of Putin's hand up his arse.

LOL, Trump caring about "Waaaah Ewwoupe is gwonna cwwwwy" :DDDDDDD

Best joke I've heard in quite a while.

Comment Re: Simple... (Score 0) 199

Because someone else got the alert and recognized the vehicle pulling up to the store and just saved a life that way.

Saved a life? Questionable, most amber alerts are in context of custody disputes, so more likely just "saved" some kid from spending bit of time with its father, against some Karen's wishes.

But anyway, I'll be charitable and give you that one. OK, that's score one for you. TFS just lists score 27 against you. Thoughts?

Comment Re:We already know what the cause (Score 2, Insightful) 199

Trump slashed staff to FEMA and other emergency alert systems which delayed the response. We have also had 20 years of cuts to the data that FEMA and other federal agencies are allowed to access because they were very inconvenient to the oil companies. So for example the kids that died at that camp eight of the 17 cabins were in a known high-risk area according to government reports but the government reports didn't include current climate change related data so 9 of the cabins that were all so at high risk weren't included in that. of course this is all include point because if you've got 8 cabins in a high risk flood zone the other nine are probably not safe either. But the right wing is already splitting hairs to blame FEMA so they can shut it down. Oh and the governor of Texas is currently working hard to get money from FEMA while also working hard to shut down fema. He is literally on Trump's board that was set up to disable and destroy FEMA so that the money from it could be pocketed by billionaires. Bottom line this is Trump's fault. And the fault of the Republican party that let him do it. We all know it and we're all going to sit around here while disingenuous assholes derail the conversation in a variety of ways to deflect blame from Trump and his political party. If you live in a place that disasters can strike just know now that you will have little or no warning and little or no help to recover. If you're a child I am fucking so sorry that my generation fucked up so bad for you. If you're a Democrat or even a non-voter given what I know about voter suppression you did what you could. If you voted republican, well have the day you voted for.

I see your TDS is going strong. If you actually read TFS you'd know the problem wasn't "TEH GUBBERMINT (reverent bow) failed to predict flooding cus Trump cuts and DOGE and stuffs", it was FEMA fucktards having long cultivated alert fatigue in people by overuse of amber alerts, and reaping its inevitable consequences.

Comment Re:Not surprising it's more toxic (Score -1) 85

Congratulations. You're the reason pests creep into other people's homes or invasive weeds overrun people's properties by forcing out native plants.

If you don't care about your lawn then move to the desert where you don't have to worry about such things. There are those who want a nice green lawn or lots of flowers for pollenators.

Or maybe YOU should move to someplace with a fascist HOA, and let other people live the way they do. I have a feeling you'd fit right in, you could possibly even out-Karen their own local Karen!

Comment Re:questions about use (Score -1) 58

Sure, Jan.

It is totally credible that an outfit that uses "AI" for everything else isn't using it to also fake the papers.

Tell me more about that bridge that you're also selling.

"it's totally credible that a butchery that uses knives for everything doesn't also use them for killing people". Ummmm, yes? It's called ethics you know. Either you're unwilling to fake research and using AI for editing in no way forces you to do so, or you *are* willing to do it, and AI also changes nothing, people have been faking research long before AI was a thing.

Comment Re:Europeans follow rules? (Score -1) 25

As an American, I find this concept offensive.

Europeans "follow rules" they themselves make, so it's not particularly impressive. And in this case, the rule is "If you're an American industry, fuck you. Why? Because fuck you, that's why.".

Oh well. They're going to get smacked down hard for trade barriers masquerading as "following rules", such as this one. July 9th is 4 only days away.

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