The credible threat of violence is often much more powerful than violence itself. See unions, the civil rights movement, mutually assured destruction.

Society is very often an implicit contract of “do what we want or else.” Without the “or else”, the powerful have no reason to listen.

They both are? I’m not in favor of this move, but it’s a bit hypocritical to blame the us for discontinuing aid if nobody else is willing to provide it.

Then europe should have no qualms about footing the bill and doing it themselves.

I really hate to defend the actions of those POS nazi scumbags, but this is mostly on the rest of the world for standing back and letting americans foot the bill for everything. Europe being caught scrambling to invest in building up their defense industry is another perfect example of this. Or like how the germans decided nuclear energy was too scary so they started relying more on gas imports from russia.

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Frankly, we need an alternative to DNS that isn’t vulnerable to this kind of censorship.

protests represent the threat of violence. the threat went away and the rulers stopped listening.

Last I checked there are about 107 million americans bearing arms right now. Sorry we haven’t started a civil war soon enough for you.

omg, how did I forget BenHeck tore one down, ty!

What would you have us do? The election was rigged, and the rule of law has been completely dismantled. Citizens who disagree are being disappeared by ICE. We’re all broke, and decades of union-busting means we have no power in the workplace. People are protesting despite it all. Loudly. Our media just isn’t covering it.

And need I remind you, until trump started waving his dick around, you very nearly had your own maple-flavored fascism. And may yet. Except you already gave up your right to bear arms, so you can’t even fight back when it happens.

i wonder how much hardware is added besides the CD drive…

that’s not exactly true. volunteers have archived most of the old government websites and public data.

i mean, it’s not overthrowing the nazis, but frustrating historical revisionism is a start.

I miss fujifilm so much. I much preferred their color chemistry over kodak’s. sigh

the 7900xt/xtx were/are also decent products, tbf, but $1k for a single component was, and still is, a STEEP ask - outside the budget of most. the only difference is we’re used to getting fucked over on gpu pricing so $600 for a mid-tier card now seems reasonable by comparison.

maybe now that the us itself is being sanctioned, the rest of the world can stop the embargo.

datacenter electricity is subsidized by every household in the area, they pay fuckall for their electricity.

i can reduce it by 100% by flipping like two breakers.

it’s complicated. afaik asml has agreements with the us govt, and cross licensing with american companies. also, asml only makes lithography tools, there’s a LOT more to making semiconductors than just exposing patterns. and a few of the biggest vendors like kla and amat are american. kla in particular is essentially a monopoly in the metrology space.

afaik, risc and cisc are pretty much the same anymore. x86, risc v and arm all have bloated instructions sets, and they all decode to risc microcode under the hood anyways.

lol those are dram chips in the stock photo.

(more risc v investment away from the us is a good thing though!)