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ZipperTits says

Nobody else wants yuan or rubles except these two fucked up losers. He'll, the Chinese don't want any yuan for the shit they sell us. They want dollars.

So long as they can trade those dollars for goods and services.

Once that ends, nobody will want dollars at all. It's just a medium of exchange.

ZipperTits says

The fact that they want them proves that is the case.

Do they want them?

Look, you know our government lies continually, all the time, about everything. Are you sure that Europe announced sanctions against Russian energy because it's just as possible that Russia announced sanctions on Europe.

Are you certain Russia was kicked out of the SWIFT system? Are you positive they didn't ban it themselves?

Are you positive that American companies ABANDONED all their assets in Russia, and Russia didn't just kick them out?

I know, how often, and SEVERELY, the Western governments like, not just American, but the Western ones lie.

Over time I've learned to ignore any statements from any government, and just look at actions, causes and effects. I don't care what the US government says, they lie about literally everything, they tell even trivial lies that people obsess about. "Inflation is temporary". How many months did people obsess over that? Just ignore them. Pay attention to what they do, what they say is nothing more than to placate the sheep.

ZipperTits says

richwicks says

Look, you know our government lies continually, all the time

So what? Irrelevant.

I have demonstrated to my satisfaction, perhaps not yours, that nothing the US government claims, and nothing that the US media parrots, or even the "western" media parrots, should be taken as true.

I'm entirely comfortable in the zone of "I don't know", and more than comfortable in the zone of "the assholes you just told me to listen to, have zero credibility".

We're all mushrooms now, they feed us shit and keep us in the dark. You think there's a demand for dollars, but you have no idea, neither do I. It's just a currency, as long as it can be used to do trade - nobody gives a shit which currency is used.

ZipperTits says

Might I advise that you stop hitting the booze when commenting online at night?

That's not going to happen.

I'm again, pointing out that you're making an appeal to an authority that has ZERO credibility.

How can you not understand this? To me, you're basically saying "This compulsive lying fuck said this, and he's important, he has some power" - who gives a shit what a compulsive liar says? Why do you?

Why do you still trust these people and repeat their bullshit?

I don't care what my government says, because it has no credibility. We just went through a pandemic where we all had to get worthless vaccines that don't work for a disease that didn't need vaccine because it had a survivability rate of 99.8%, across the ENTIRE population. Why are you still pointing to these assholes as people I ought to listen to? Why do you still believe them?

How much do they have to lie to you, before you realize, it's a complete waste of your time to even listen to them? This is what perplexes me the MOST - people keep going back to fucking liars as authorities. Our government has ZERO credibility. It doesn't matter what they say, just ignore them. They lie more often than they tell the truth, and in fact, may lie 100% of the time by now. I don't give a fuck what they say. Why do you?

Our government, and our media, won't even mention that Ukraine was OVERTHROWN by the United States. They ignore that there was a civil war that broke out because of that, they'll never tell you that Eastern Ukraine has been at war with Western Ukraine since 2014 and they have. They certainly have:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas_(2014%E2%80%932022)

If you know what to look for you can find it, but it's NEVER mentioned in US "news" - our propaganda. Everything is there, if you go through the effort of finding it. Think the article is fake? Here's the earliest entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=War_in_Donbas_(2014%E2%80%932022)&action=history&dir=prev

The first people became aware of it, before it became a political issue was June 15, 2014.

History on Wikipedia is useful, because there's a point in time, it's not subject to propaganda, they'll fix that in time. Clearly we see book burning today.

jykiodfgr says

5 years ahead of schedule thanks to sanctions.

There's already 7nm chips.

Size reduction has more to do with cost reduction than it does with higher performance at this point.

We're nearing the limit of size right now, we probably (?) can't get to 3.5 nm, but if we could, that would quadruple the number of chips you can fit on a wafer. Makes it roughly 1/4 the cost - less than that because of the non recoverable engineering cost (NRE) but it will be cheaper.

It's so weird today, you can get a super computer today built for a couple of dollars, at least what was a Cray Supercomputer in 1985.

Unless you're in this industry, and are OLD, you have no concept of how much power you have today. None. My phone is more powerful than all the mainframes my university of 30,000 students shared to do their work. My PHONE can do all that work just 30 years ago. All of it. Spice simulations, email, MUD, whatever - it can do it all, no problem. $250. My phone can replace millions of dollars of equipment from 1990.

If the jab works as suspected, and hundreds of millions of Americans die, China could easily seize control of the world. If we have barely 100 million citizens left, we can’t field much of a military and our existing military will be mostly jabbed to death. We will be as open as the legs on a Bangladeshi prostitute.
China didn’t use mRNA jabs. They will retain over a billion people who do whatever they’re told to do.

Wonder where that LNG is going now?

China’s Chip Industry Is Doomed

"Every wafer fabrication plant in the world uses equipment from one of those three companies. Applied Materials and LAM Research (along with Tokyo Electron) have their fingers in almost all areas of chipmaking equipment (PVD, CVD, Etch, etc.), while KLA (formerly KLA-Tencor) dominates the wafer inspection equipment segment. Add ASML in the Netherlands, and those five absolutely dominate the semiconductor equipment market....
This is where things get tricky. SMIC claims they can do 7nm, but everyone outside China doubts they can do it reliably, repeatably and profitably. SMIC announced they’re about to start manufacturing 14nm, and that they can probably do. Practically, they’re the only semiconductor manufacturer in China that can do sub-14nm, as just about everyone at the top of the next biggest semiconductor manufacturer, Tsinghua Unigroup, just got arrested in July.

There’s even talk that they’re going to ban sales of older chipmaking equipment as well, and that they’re actually zeroing in on FinFET technology specifically.

Without a continued stream of machines, spare parts and technical know-how from those five semiconductor giants, China’s semiconductor industry is doomed. China’s domestic semiconductor equipment industry is essentially garbage, and they’re so far behind in so many areas that they can’t even steal their way to parity. The knowledge gulf is just too vast."
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=52684

jykiodfgr says

But with that said, there are also videos of the Chinese dropping dead so I'd expect at least a 10% reduction in Chinese population as well.

For the US it's technically a net positive with covid. Less to pay unproductive people. Now if the vax is killing young people in noticeable amounts, that's bad. I'm no conspiracy theorist, but it would make sense to knock off all those obligations like SS and Medicare/aid or whatever it's called. Pensions as well for government and big business.

Besides some hipster spots, no one is building homes. People are just trading used homes from what I see. I'd guess 90% of new construction in suburban IL is all just 200 townhome rental type developments. 10% one off primary residence. Most people cannot afford to buy in metro areas. So they rent. If you can/could borrow at 3% interest rates and build 200 units, you should. Construction labor is the biggest factor though depending where you're at.

socal2 says

China’s Chip Industry Is Doomed

In either case, world is going from optimized to de-optimized model to counter recent geo-political moves to minimize supply constraints. But it comes with raise of production cost and risking over supply. Semiconductor manufacturing is a capital intensive business and lead is important to make profits like some of the industries otherwise it falls back on gov to offset losses to sustain. Have been seeing sales restrictions started from Trump time, it will only get more restrictions on imports and exports going forward at least for coming few years for sure.

jykiodfgr - you cite (screenshot) the same source for everything. Makes one wonder...

Maybe look into different sources. All are corrupt, but some tell the truth occasionally.