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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
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@Soyweiser they don’t have anything bleeding edge, but they don’t need that if no one else has them, and energy is cheap.
That certainly is an opinion.
E: also I honestly dont know the current US situation re chip factories, I know a little bit about our situation in/near the Netherlands (which depends on chinese input) but also very little so it partially was a honest question, and partially going ‘yeah dont think that is how it is going to work out’.
@Soyweiser I mean, there is a larger trend of moving computing into datacenters where you have to rent computing power, away from personal computers you can buy, so the big tech companies are not exactly unhappy if home computers become slower and more expensive.
The American public will also just take it.
Sure, that seems not totally related to the US having an internal chip industry. (The second problem is, which I know from our local issues, that fabs need Chinese inputs to work. And while some tech journalists/pundits think China will continue selling the rest of the world stuff because they can’t take the financial hit, I’m not so sure esp in our new world where economic warfare has spread to the ‘first world’).
Also this wrecks parts of the video game industry. Unrelated, while talking about stupid moves wrecking industries, I also wonder how much Microsofts recent moves will wreck their business. I have not seen so much people move to linux in ages. (And so many people actually be content with it as well).