I think the wafer is dominated by the Japanese. The Dutch company you are thinking of is ASML and they manufacture 90% of the precision machines that manufacture chips in the world.

It will take maybe two to three years before China could do that. The cheap Chinese RAM manufacturers are only starting their production.

Progressives need to prepare for the worst if it comes to it. If a civil war comes, the antifascists better form a more organised and unified resistance than the Spanish antifa ever did during the Spanish Civil War. The Spanish antifascists made up of liberals, communists, socialists and anarchists were more busy shooting at each other than at actual fascists.

I notice Grokipedia is getting put up more on search results even on duckduckgo.

In theory it should be the party the politician belongs chastising those who don’t toe the line. But alas, the Democratic party is just as corrupt.

Criticising Israel is widely popular even on the right (barring both the antisemites and MAGA with their delusions to bring Jews into Israel to fulfill their doomsday fantasies).

And the people who thought they could time it and ride it lost so miserably. I was going to but I have enough experience to know you can’t beat insider traders. So I stuck to my guns and earned more.

And boomers wonder why Gen Z and millennials aren’t having kids.

After reporting how much the Steam Machine costs, I could tell already. RAM manufacturers are in paradise right now!

I have a bias and say I already have a good impression of Andy because of his evidently good policies as the previous mayor of Manchester. Though of course, being a mayor is different from being the prime minister of the country. We will also see if “Manchesterism” could scale up on the national level.

Yeah, from what I can tell, Andy’s policies sound very much alike the 1930s and '40s social liberal/FDR-style “business-friendly socialism”. Andy believes in public investment, which not only helps ordinary people but also businesses such as improving roads to make transportation easier for businesses and commuting for workers. In lieu to this, improving public transport also means those who don’t drive not only allows them to commute easily to and from work, but also encourages people to travel more during off-working hours in or around the city for shopping, entertainment etc. As a result, this encouraged people to use more public transport in Greater Manchester which is the city he had been the mayor of. Telling businesses how his policies help to assuage right leaning folks. After all, to become prime minister, Andy ran in a constituency that is right leaning and yet loves him. He easily won 55% of the votes.

I really won’t be playing any soulslike games in the foreseeable future until I am retired. I simply don’t have time to be playing hard games now I am a working adult. I used to play more hard games because of the satisfaction of beating a challenge, but if I only I have enough time. I play games to unwind nowadays.

Mom kinda thinks like this. I told her that no one should even be asked to prove their identity like that in public. She’d be more firmly on the right if my father isn’t tempering her.

Friends say he passed away at home after eating mushrooms he found in the yard of his home.

Though he was a mushroom expert, the mushrooms he collected turned out to be poisonous.

This is such a "wink, wink " to readers if I ever see one

I see on social media and Reddit of Israel-apologists and obvious Hasbara accounts saying the white phosphorus are for smoke covers. Like, sure, the smoke from burning bodies of victims of white phosphorus provide smoke covers.

Netanyahu is also getting the backlash from his country and his allies for losing the war in Iran.

Because of inflation, about 1/3 maybe? I am lucky that I use a family member’s staff discount and plus the discount vouchers so i pay half of what I would spend otherwise for my weekly shopping. But it could be less since every month, I visit my parents and they give me packed food to go home with, which sustains me for three to four days.

People are not rooting for Iran, but more like everyone knows attacking Iran is illegal and distraction from the Epstein file. This made Iran look like a less shitty looking shit.

I spent my formative years living in a pretty poor small town that is disaster prone where I woke up in my bedroom being flooded. The adults in the house love watching primetime news and thus at an early age I am exposed to politics and news about murders and so on. It’s not that I don’t care, I really do because my parents and having been raised Catholic taught me empathy, but the wars and killings (although I’m aware that the rate of homicide is gradually decreasing over the course of human history) has become non-news to me. So I have been made aware early in life that not everything is always roses. There are something’s one cannot have control of but i participate in things I could change like with protests, even if it’s little. But broadly speaking, I am desensitised of the news on the conflicts in Middle East or Africa. So when the market reacts, I’m like: “how are you guys not used to it?”

Quantum computers are more secure but could also be used to break that security. That’s why the major customers of quantum computers are banks and governments. It is not really for wide mass consumption. Although I heard quantum chips are better and more environmentally friendly but i am not a tech guy so i could be wrong on that or the quantum chip itself.