I’m sure TSMC would become untenable if either the US stopped buying or selling to them, though I tend to disagree and think that not licensing US tech would kill them faster. I’m pretty sure that many of that tech is not available from anywhere else and would just cause a full stop of their business, at least for some time. It’s easier to survive on lower revenue than it is on a fully shuttered assembly line.

There is likely a lot of US tech in that chip. TSMC is just a fab, they don’t have a lot of their own technology, they buy thousands of pieces of tech from all over the world to make their chips. A lot of that comes from the US.

A smart businessman would make sure to tell them they need to leave anything pointy on the ground.

I am curious how you decide to make the leap from pianos to automobiles, though…

I know :-(. Let the enshittification proceed.

I’d much rather have upgradeable RAM and SSD thanks.

I did.

Well done, you are a better internet sleuth than me!

It’s more the news media they are referring to, I think.

If they are using GPL code, shouldn’t they also release their source code?

Putin is a former KGB agent. He’s good at the things that the KGB were good at, because that’s how he was trained. Foreign influence is one of those things that he’s very good at thanks to that training, and Russia has been good at for a very long time, actually. So it’s kind of one of Russia’s core competencies.

Lots of reports of massive funding by Russia in influence campaigns.

This post won the quote usage world championship of 2024 in Liberia.

Have you never met one of these self proclaimed “empaths” who are so busy telling you how you feel that they forget to actually listen to you telling them how you feel? I sure have met a few in my day.

Now you know why.

The choice between a traditional up-down vote and a new non-up-down vote must have been a tough one.

But according to the joke it still does represent two types: Binary and nonbinary. Which itself is a binary set of choices, albeit a different one.

I’m really curious how you see this as transphobic.

I demand perfect real world accuracy in my comics and nothing less! He should have listed the pros and cons of being a frog including statistics about time running from predators, a full list of predators, life span, climate issues, etc. With citations of course.