Fisting for Freedom

It’s 100 guys, I don’t think anyone is especially concerned.

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

They’d benefit by letting Russia get stomped to death, then taking Siberia for themselves.

Ukraine started it by attacking the bridge, which is never ever ever ever ever used for anything other than transporting holiday makers and fuzzy kittens to Crimea for rest and relaxation. Russia was forced to do this, and also the church was secretly the biolab where NATO scientists are working on reanimating Hitler’s head and attaching it to a killer robot body to rape and murder Russian civilians in their villages.

Oh, sorry. Ignore me, then.

Why does Russia hate the Global South?

I’m not sure about that. The trend in the industry overall has been towards separate designers and specialized fab operators, in part because the capital costs and expertise for running a modern semiconductor foundry are incredibly high. ARM, AMD, Qualcomm, IBM anre all fabless. Samsung makes their own chips, but they’re essentially ARM reference designs. Apple’s expanded their own in house design team, but even with their enormous piles of money don’t want to take on the risk of running their own fabs.

Then look at Intel’s constant stumbling towards newer process nodes vs the guys who do contact work. AMD and IBM spun off their chip manufacturing into GlobalFoundries, and AMD now uses TSMC for their CPU cores and chiplet packaging. Even Intel is talking about using TSMC for producing some of their chips.

(I know technically Intel now counts as a contract foundry, but all of the major names that were part of the IFS announcement have backed away. I’m skeptical)

Yeah, desecrating people’s religious texts or symbols is an asshole move, but that’s the point - they’re being assholes because it reliably gets a rise out of large swathes of the Muslim world. If everyone just ignored them, they wouldn’t bother anymore.

That doesn’t really seem like a problem, except maybe for the Russians.

What the fuck are you even talking about?

I think they used to include RADAR in their cars, which is probably better for handling weather conditions that would interfere with light based systems (fog, snow, rain, etc.). They took it out, with Musk claiming they could do FSD with just cameras. Probably it was about cost or supply, and I think they decided to add it back recently.

Projection so powerful, you could show movies on the moon’s surface.

Russia would be (and has been) doing that, regardless of what Ukraine actually does.

Absolutely! This is why, even though the political compass is a memey oversimplification at this point, it does get a the inadequacy of a single dimension view of political ideology. The authoritarian mindset is a human trait, and while some ideologies seem more prone to attracting people with that particular trait, by no means does it only occur in those cases.

Some people just want to rule over others.

Yeah, but they’re also doing their part to kill off the Russian population with tobacco, so maybe they’re playing the long game.

Oh, Mellonhead is definitely a fascist, I’m just pointing out that you get the same kinda of oppression at the other end of the lef-right spectrum, too.

He really wasn’t, though.

All fascists are authoritarians, not all authoritarians are fascist.

all that just to say “nuh uh!”

Look up how her grandfather died.

The USSR would also persecute people for criticizing the Soviet state or its leaders, but they weren’t fascist. Authoritarianism is something people on the left and right both get up to.