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[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 1 points 29 minutes ago* (last edited 25 minutes ago)

When that screen came up, as I was reading, I literally said the name of the book out loud.

All white, all mostly middle class to PMC jobs, and 2 of them wrote in Mike Bloomberg and Larry Hogan because they couldn't hold their nose for Trump.

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

This practically means nothing tbh. Social networks when they gain economies of scale due to the network effect will effectively shed all the pretense of open source and open platform etc.

We've seen it with Facebook, Google, etc, during the 2010's with closing of chat standards and destruction of XMPP. Reddit 3rd Party API access is another example of this. We'll see it again.

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

They're the same answer.

You need money to market applications to users. Bluesky is sold the same way that Twitter is, your favorite moron celebrity might hit like or retweet on your stuff.

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 32 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Yep. The only people I know that use that term today as a descriptor and not an epithet are conservative Jewish families who are typically rich. To put it in your reddit dot com user name is literally just signaling privilege among what is a essentially just a pool of NYC/Westchester County/Fairfield County Jews that understands it.

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 25 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (12 children)

This article should be the coffin nail for people thinking the kids are gonna save us. I screenshotted this as I read yesterday. Also I swear to god the casting call for this focus group had a question about how much you love Josh Shapiro that NYT filtered everyone out on.

Here are my favorites:

Some of the few good points:

The liberal ad campaign is grating:

"Amazing" zoomer media criticism:

Young undecided voters are just a reddit comment section:

The dumbest white woman you know:

Megyn Kelly style women are the most oppressed people in America:

I'll add more later when the rate limit on uploads resets. There's some more amazing garbage in there.

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 43 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

As a Jew whenever you see someone self describe as a JAP prepare to hear the most insane self absorbed privileged idiocy spouted at you until you simply give up.

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Because if you break down the cost to unit economics, the biggest pieces of the pie are labor, profit and overhead. If the price of processors cannot go up, the pie needs to be adjusted for the workers. TSMC claims that in Taiwan it averages $76K USD yearly per worker, a country where the average wage is $21k. So roughly this translates to the employee mix for TSMC being 3x more expensive than the average wage. In the US this translates to $59k USD population average to $177k USD TSMC average, which is 2.3x the cost. In reality they'll get that down to ~2x because ASML median salary is around $132K. So now you have to shift that pie to be less profitable or cut into overhead. Some share of overhead is actually executive perks/salaries/inefficiency so we get into the agency problem. Some share of overhead is the maintenance of favorable political connections which are more expensive in the US. Some share of overhead is maintenance on loans for capital expenses such as the buildings, machines, training, etc. Profit is obvious why it can't be cut. They demand the same or increasing rates of profit.

This also assumes that the output between the two countries is comparable which is not true due to workforce mix and may never actually be true due to labor laws and cultural expectations of workers.

This doesn't get into the more complex financial realities like, training and retaining a workforce who has no experience fabbing chips, the differences in work culture and expectations of workers between the two countries, etc.

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 18 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

The one thing Gaetz is good at is knowing how to break the law and get away with it. He defeated the FBI probe simply by picking targets and collaborators that would be difficult to use for prosecutors. This is because prosecutors now typically rise to their position involved using the weight of the state to roll over people who didnt know how to do crime. It's all a numbers game to prosecutors so they don't have enough experience dealing with the politics of criminal court, plus the fact that anyone who understands how the system works can simply set up their crimes in a way that benefits them in open court.

The sad reality is prosecutors look for perfect victims which allows imperfect victims who are often actually more vulnerable people in society to be abused at greater rates.

Remember how Democrats can't figure out why people think that rich and connected people can get away with breaking the law? They just have to look at the failure of the Biden DOJ.

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 13 points 16 hours ago

It's antisemitic to talk about how Israel developed its nuclear capacity.

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 23 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

the CHIPS act is the grift that keeps on grifting

These problems are often presented by Americans a cultural but in reality they are the problems of global capital.

Taiwanese and Chinese Bosses think that the US system of bribery is too inefficient and that US workers are too expensive compared to their lack of skill and dedication. (See American Factory, it's really good at laying this out)

These economic realities are different in China and Taiwan because they are not the imperial core. This experiment was doomed to fail because reindustrialization is fighting against the direction of the market and regardless of who controls the coin purse, nobody is going to take on that risk. The CHIPS act and things like it, give away free money which incentivizes failure because in order to derisk the proposition the US government has to make it profitable regardless of the success of the venture. It's almost like reindustrialization of these key industries needs to be based on a nationalized industrial capacity, especially if we're going to view it from the basis of national security.

But alas Americans are too capitalist brained to even understand 20th century nationalist logic anymore.

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 26 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

BECAUSE CHEETO WORSE

Trump is such a weather vane that this statement literally means nothing until it actually happens. Biden actually did it. Trump just talks shit. Trump talks about a lot of different shit. Remember how he was supposed to build a wall? Remember how Harris gloated about how the Biden admin had to actually build that wall in some areas?

Trumps incompetency is literally the biggest reason that people shouldn't forgive Democrats from taking on his positions. They actually did these things in a competent way. Trump fumbled the bag. That actually makes him better on these points.

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