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Andreas Oehler's avatar

No chips - no AI, 5G, robots, surveillance. What not to like? I am all for it, forever!

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Moriarty's avatar

There is always a bright side to everything. But also no electronics I like using the net for knowledge and etc, otherwise I would have never had the chance to learn anything T_T.

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Alberto Silva's avatar

Was literally typing the same:

Well, at least that will kill the CBDC's and ID2030, if there are no chips...

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Andreas Oehler's avatar

Let’s all go back to analog and telepathy/teleportation! Increases personal autonomy and security - worth the price of cloud computing?

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Alberto Silva's avatar

Well: that means walking to your field to plant, water & maybe harvest - your food, once a year. That's actually quite complicated, to survive on that, and you find your autonomy gets quite limited quite fast.

Geographic spaces where most Oehler's live (D) without Russian energy: sorry, will generally stop, burn, starve & freeze.

And, see lastest Stack: the US Naval academy has that forecast and on the books.

https://albertosilva.substack.com/p/the-reverser-of-world-commerce?s=w

Cheers.

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Andreas Oehler's avatar

You underestimate German frugality LOL!

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Alberto Silva's avatar

No, I anticipate the frugality of the German without the wisdom to NOT being still there.

Skinny does not mean healthy, as you very well know from heavily documented 1945 archives.

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Andreas Oehler's avatar

Yeah, there is one folk saying that goes something like this: "by the time the fat one loses weight, the skinny one passes away..." I dunno, we all live in a crazy world. The Portuguese being no exception: https://live2fightanotherday.substack.com/p/whats-up-portugal

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DudMuffin88's avatar

Play stupid games, win thermonuclear prizes.

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Moriarty's avatar

I laughed harder than I should on this one lol

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Martha's avatar

It seems to me that we are in for an extended period of "things breaking down" with no way to fix them. Just another mechanism to create more chaos and make our society more dysfunctional.

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Ray's avatar

there must be trillions of chips out there from old tech wasted

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Moriarty's avatar

I don't think there is a viable way (yet) to recover and reuse a lot of those, sure with massive investment it would, right now crypto is tanking, and graphics card are now finally coming down on price, and they still can't use the old cards to produce newer ones.

I lack the engineering knowledge to know why, chip manufacturing is insanely complex, molecular biology is easier (to me).

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JS's avatar

I don't think they have their heads up their arses there in Taiwan. They must realize no help is coming from the USA or EU. There is some other reason they are stirring the pot. They probably have a better idea about what is happening inside of China than anyone else, and maybe now is the right time.

Even if you could move silicon fabs to the US and Europe overnight, it wouldn't solve anything. Power outages, even very brief, can impact chip supplies for weeks or months, and we're expecting brownouts and blackouts to become facts of life.

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Kirsten's avatar

Have a great weekend. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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