yogthos

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (14 children)

I really think we're entering an inflection point where there is sufficient critical mass that makes it possible for countries to band together and resist the empire. And the war in Ukraine has been the catalyst for this. The west ended up being sucked into a conflict on a scale it simply wasn't prepared for. A huge chunk of the existing western military assets ended up being committed to Ukraine which necessarily weakened western grip on the west of the world. Meanwhile, the economic war on Russia resulted in the creation of a whole new economy that's operating outside western control. BRICS is now a bigger economic bloc than the entire G7, and this trend will only accelerate now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I don't think TSMC has much interest in building fabs in US because it's one card they hold over the US at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think most people realized that China would catch up eventually, what's shocking is the sheer speed of it. I thought it would at least take 3-4 years before China broke 5nm barrier, but here we are less than a year later.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I recommend reading what people who actually have a clue have to say on the subject https://www.russiamatters.org/analysis/whats-ahead-war-ukraine

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's a war of attrition that Ukraine is losing because they have a much smaller population to draw on and rely on weapons from the west. Ukraine is already conscripting children, women, and the elderly now. It's absurd to think that such conscripts are going to be able to hold off a seasoned professional army for long.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

the url in the article looks dead, but here's one with a working llamafile https://huggingface.co/jartine/llava-v1.5-7B-GGUF/tree/main

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

People who've become invested in a propaganda narrative that's now falling apart.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No we have not been making any great strides in any tangible reconciliation. Liberals have been making great strides in convincing the feeble minded that there's any reconciliation happening.

A far cry from how Qatar treats regular people. But keep trying.

Great way to let us know that you're a racist.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

One has to be embarrassingly ignorant to believe that.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Indeed, trade between Russia and China is at over 200 billion already and it's only going to go up.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

China should really be thanking the US for taking the initiative on doing trade protectionists measures for them. All the sanctions end up doing is creating commercial vacuums that are filled by domestic competitors. If China started passing protectionist measures on their end, there would be a huge stink about it, but since US is doing it for them the government doesn't have to take any heat domestically.

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