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Engineer, permanent pirate, lover of all things mechanical and on wheels

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  • Obligatory “I’m not European” but have quite a few online friends from euro land that I yak with regularly.

    Remember their grocery shopping habits are (typically) much different than Americans. Where US shoppers may go once every week or two, and make large bulk purchases to load into their car, it’s more common there to stop by a market every day or two on the way home from work or another errand, just to get a single light bag that is enough for the next couple meals. “Carrying home groceries” for a km or two is less of a chore if it’s not 25kg of groceries at a time.







  • One, it completes one of their long standing policy of “one China”. They still view Taiwan as a rogue rebellion state to bring back into the fold, not an independent country to conquer.

    Two, it would cripple a lot of the west’s high end silicon industry. TSMC is the only one that can make the worlds most advanced nodes, as well as Taiwan holds chip packaging infrastructure that any other nodes require on to be useful.

    To that end it is a geopolitical chip that China can use to pressure the west, but likely will never act upon until a real hot war breaks out.