captaincranky
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Listen you two, it's fine to say things like this here, but please don't go to Tic-Tok with it. Kay?
Chinese newspaper claims the US "tricked" TSMC into building Arizona fabs, is stealing...
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Nicromancer
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US supporting Taiwan is not simply because of TSMC. Its a strategic location and it connect countries around whether is it for trade or military purpose.
captaincranky
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To be fair, the US did help with driving the Japanese out of China during WWII.
Flying Tigers - Wikipedia
US workers are not blameless with respect to China's "industrial revolution".
You, they, we, want maximum wages and minimum prices, yes? What other choice do you have but to send jobs overseas?
captaincranky
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Diplomatically, YES. Philosophically and existentially, not so much.
Having TSMC build fabs on US soil, amounts to signing a mutual defense agreement with Taiwan, which bypasses diplomacy and politically stated policy.
And that, more than likely, is what China is so afraid of.
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yRaz
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What's a tok?
captaincranky
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My Prince, it's what comes after, "Tic-". You must know that. I'm sure you're testing me, but for what reason?
(In fairness though, my spell checker doesn't know either).
yRaz
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captaincranky
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Sure, as long as I don't have to make a 15 second video of me genuflecting in the meantime, I can wait..... Um, Your Magnificence
godrilla
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The CCP is 1 Biden gaffe away from conquering Taiwan. Obviously they don't want any semiconductor fab competition outside their jurisdiction. That is why I jumped on the 4090 at launch. Not taking anything for granted due to instability in the world especially in Obama's 3rd term!
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captaincranky
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Wasn't it Trump that started the current trade war with China to begin with? And of course, "the Great Pumpkin" would have handled this much better if the "election hadn't been stolen", from him.
Just out of curiosity, WTF, does you owning a 4090 have to do with world politics?
And mods, if you're wondering, I didn't "fall of topic", I was pushed.
godrilla
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If we extrapolate what is happening in Ukraine under your favorite old fart and see what happening to energy prices and this can be applied to any goods coming from Taiwan if the CCP attempts anything. Also can't Biden just reverse them tariffs? Or is he keeping it to remind you it was Trump's fault like a Pavlov experiment to trigger a checkmated response?
captaincranky
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Biden is respecting the policies of the previous "administration". Take the withdrawal from Afghanistan for example. Look how well that went. Trump set that for date certain.
As for the tariffs. The American consumer is so ungodly stupid, they think China is paying them. OTOH, the tariffs place the prices of Chinese goods closer to that of good old made in the USA stuff. Isn't that what everybody wants? They're just not willing to pay for it.
At then end of the day, it goes like this, "you can't have your cake and eat you video card too".
godrilla
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Politics aside, I predicted the extreme monopolization of energy like on a chess end game especially when on one side we had cryptomining farms buying out energy plants and on the other side we had the green new deal being pushed hard. Then the war in Ukraine starts and my paranoia came to fruition. The silver lining is cryptomining is dead for now and hopefully stays that way. I use the rule of probability if this then that. Hopefully my paranoia about Taiwan is wrong. In the end I don't need cake I have eye candy!
captaincranky
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OK, I'm one of those Luddites who don't believe you can put up strings of numbers on the internet and have it magically turn into money. I know, backwards thinking, right? That said crypto mining is bad for the environment. As for the green "new deal", haven't you been watching the weather reports? That should tell you that maybe the "green new deal", is late in arriving. Contrariwise, we have a pack of power mad baboons claiming it's "fake science".
As for Russia, the running joke there is, "it's a gas station with nukes". With respect to Ukraine, we aren't involved in WWIII, Russia is exposed for what it is, a predator state with not all that much to back it out, save for veiled nuclear threats..
The question becomes, it we don't give the Ukrainians aid, will Russia stop there? I doubt it. The next thing you'd know, is that we will be fighting WWIII on Polish soil. Poland is a member of NATO.
A president's job is a dirty, thankless task, of taking the blame for everything that everybody else has , either with intent, or (??) inadvertently caused.
The inflation here in the US, is not as severe as Great Britain, and it's worse in other countries.
As for China, they're in the process of catching up with the US They now have 3 carrier groups to "project power". We have either 12 or 13 more powerful entities.
Newton said, "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Hence why you'll hear all these threats coming out of China about "hypersonic missiles". Is it a bluff? Are you absolutely certain we're not working on them too at "Area 51", or maybe the Lockheed "Skunk Works"? It's all jab and feint, or global chess in some cases. If we fail to aid Ukraine, China will absolutely feel they can get away with invading Taiwan. But, TSMC is now, more or less, a US company. I would think that would deter, more so than encourage, China to invade.
At the end of the day, I'm so thankful for a government that allows us to argue at Techspot or play video games all day, in relative safety.
Trump managed to make us a laughing stock on the world stage, which Biden, (whatever you may think of him), has largely reversed.
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godrilla
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I agree mostly, except if we put a tight grip on energy carbon footprint on the western hemisphere, with a blind spot for the side effects of those policies and still ignoring the Eastern hemisphere; from polluting the same world; so that the western hemisphere can have cheaper manufacturing. I say if you are for being green apply it across the board. There is definitely some bad actors that rather profit from it all and push their one time use solar panels made in ch!na that they have interest in, hence the lack of promoting less profitable energy renewable resources like Geothermal energy which is imo more safer than Nuclear, more reliable than solar and wind combined and has less waste than others as well. Being virtues just on the surface without looking at the bigger picture of, macro economics, policy side effects, and guaranteed end results for the cost of it all is not being responsible and sets up one for criticism and doubt on intent. If the elites use 1000x the carbon footprint as us just to meet to talk about being green annually what is this exactly if not hypocritical? What happened to leading by example and not by force?
wiyosaya
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To be fair, Captain, the US does have a hypersonic missile program and is working, successfully, on them.
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US Navy touts hypersonic missile progress ahead of 2025 fielding
Though two flight tests had been called failures, Vice Adm. Wolfe said the Army and Navy are learning fast and still poised to meet their fielding goals.
www.defensenews.com
wiyosaya
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It helps to keep up with current news when discussing energy prices https://www.autocreditexpress.com/blog/gas-prices-estimated-to-drop-under-3-00-by-end-of-the-year/
But go ahead, blame Biden for this, too.
godrilla
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You reference an article from 2017? Da faq? Wait wasn't orange Man in office then? Please don't check mate yourself!It helps to keep up with current news when discussing energy prices https://www.autocreditexpress.com/blog/gas-prices-estimated-to-drop-under-3-00-by-end-of-the-year/
But go ahead, blame Biden for this, too.
AlaskaGuy
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A trade war that was called for isn't comparable to the braindead ***** we have now.
AlaskaGuy
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What drop in prices? Gas is still $2 more a gallon than it was in early November of 2020. As far as Biden killing drilling for oil and gas .. yes it's happening but it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone with an IQ above a turnip seeing how putting the screws to the oil & gas companies is one of the things Biden ran on.It helps to keep up with current news when discussing energy prices https://www.autocreditexpress.com/blog/gas-prices-estimated-to-drop-under-3-00-by-end-of-the-year/
But go ahead, blame Biden for this, too.
captaincranky
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You're paying for it, so I guess it's OK, right? And please stop comparing apples to, pumpkins. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go dye my hair red, and put on my orange spray tan. A guy likes to pretend he's important once in a while. Can't argue with that, now can ya. <(Note, that's a period, not a question mark).
I did see the press conference where Biden cancelled 13,000 oil leases. I think his "excuse" was, "the oil companies are just sitting the leases, and not bothering to drill or prospect for oil. Let somebody else have them. Use them or lose them".
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AlaskaGuy
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Yes because killing leases after raising the price on them is a good thing right? Anyone who voted for that zombie asked for high fuel prices. Funny thing is those same people don't have a problem kissing China's arse RE Paris Climate Agreement Scam.
captaincranky
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-Well, gas is about $3.70 a gallon here in PA. So, for it to be "$2.00 less", it would have to have been about $2.00 a gallon. Note that I'm charitable with the $1.70 differential. Even stiil, my math skills aren't anywhere near as poor as yours.
Note that when the pandemic hit, the bottom did fall out of gas prices. But that was a transient aberration, not the price before covid. Now if you're trying to pass off $2.00 or less as the norm, spare me.
AlaskaGuy
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I know what the price of gas was at the pumps before the china virus and I also know Biden campaigned on putting the screws to the oil & gas industry all while kissing China's arse.
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