Silicon Shield

So, let’s pretend the end goal of the Chinese state is a full scale amphibious invasion of Taiwan (it’s not, as evidenced by the soft economic takeovers in Hong Kong, Tibet, Xinjiang, and assorted border nations, but lets pretend).

Now, let’s consider that Xiaomi has already designed a 3nm chip and Huawei is close behind with an expected 2026 release. Economically speaking, who benefits if TMSC blows up its own facilities and hands 70% of the global market share to these two companies (plus Samsung and maybe Intel if they ever get their shit together)?

This feels like Nancy Kerrigan putting a baseball bat to her own knee and threatening to ruin Tonya Harding’s career.

Maybe there can be some kind of NFL style trade.

All y’all thought there was going to be a US Civil War, but it turns out the first shots are getting fired across the Alberta/Saskatchewan border.

Hard truths

Two years

2026 - 2 = 2024.

No no, that’s impossible. That would have been under a President who Respects the Constitution. No way they’d just ignore the 5th amendment like this.

Damn, dude. Whatcha gonna do about it?

It’s been sliding all month.

It’s slid 8% over the last month. But at a 282 p/e, it could lose 90% and still be overvalued.

I believe this is how the Klan operated, back in the day

Plenty of 3rd spaces exist in Texas. You just have to pay to play. The hyper-capitalist dream is alive in the Lone Star State.

I always imagined thats why there were so many drunk people out and about. Because the only habitable place outside of homes were bars if you didn’t have a gym membership.

I gotta wonder how much of the decline of alcoholism in the subsequent generations boils down to affordability.

Gym memberships are way cheaper than bar tabs.

Sure. How do you think I’ve been watching it to begin with?

But ffs, why is it so hard for Apple to figure out how to get those numbers up? Every other company knows how to bundle their shitty products. You’d think they would know how to bundle something halfway decent.

Tiktok’s user base is quite large

875 million to over 950 million daily active users (DAU) globally as of Jan 2026.

It is a shame people don’t choose better alternatives though.

TikTok was the better alternative. That’s half the joke. As soon as it caught on, the plutocrats stepped in and seized control

Not unlike how Facebook bought out and gutted Instagram or JP Morgan took over Reddit and cleaned out all the lefties before taking it public.

That’s before you get into the marketing budget that social media needs to build the kind of massive userbase you’re asking for.

How about we abandon ragebait shortform slop/garbage aggregators entirely

In my day, we listened to AM Talk Radio! 16 hours a day, to and from work! None of this prissy little short form phone slop, no sir. It was three hour long shifts of Rush Limbaugh, Don Imus, Doug “The Greaseman” Tracht, and Sean Hannity. I earned my hate honestly, by fiddling with a little dial on my walkman and getting five commercials about cigars and dick pills every eight minutes. I got to hear bad riff tracks about how Japan was taking over our economy produced on a AKAI S900 that had been dropped down a flight of stairs. I didn’t know these people even had faces until Limbaugh showed up as a talking head for the NFL for a few months.

The very fucking idea that these stupid petulant spoiled woke lib fuck-around find-out kids are getting their news from a five minute long vertical visual display? OOOOOOOOoh it makes me SO MAD! I hate 'dem kids. I hate’m!!!

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal in December, Trump said within a year he wants interest rates to be “1% and maybe lower than that.”

So you’re not far off.

They’ve got a bunch of genuinely good content, which is a bit ironic given their dismal subscription numbers.

Apple TV runs circles around Netflix, HBO, and Hulu. But they’ve got a meager 3% of the streaming market share. It’s infuriating.

So we’ve confirmed exactly one person has seen the movie.

Dropping the rate a quarter point isn’t going to produce run away inflation.

But climate change drying up the Colorado River and decimating the US West’s agricultural industry might.

Love to demolish 30 years of accrued institutional knowledge to save a few bucks at a multi-trillion dollar company.

There’s a big river by the same name, if that helps.

It’s so funny to see this pushed out as a marketing campaign for DuckDuckGo AI and it totally flopped.