Expecting companies to build their own chip foundries and manufacture their own chips to avoid tariffs is as unrealistic as expecting poor people to singlehandedly use nuclear fission to create atoms from nothing to materialize into existence all the food they can’t afford. Even if these American “use AI for everything” megacorp regimes that can’t even write a mouse driver that’s under 1gb actually put their big swingin’ dicks back into their pants long enough to actually figure out how they could be efficient enough use the more achievable 90nm and 65nm chips, even that is so unachievable they’d never find a way to mass produce them affordably. Russia supposedly managed to diy their own 350nm chips which is barely even mid 90s Pentium 1 era bullshit and even that’s probably fake propaganda that, best case, followed some half successful low volume experiments in a lab.

The only purpose of this is to cause mass calamity and force people further into poverty while corporations have an excuse to make everything even more expensive without giving anything back to society in return.

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All I know is that I hate these bigots, everyone who supports them, and everyone who doesn’t disagree with them with every ounce of my being. I don’t think I truly understood the meaning of “hatred” up until the last couple of years when the majority of the fucking population decided engaging in ideological warfare for the fascist agenda was what they believed in.

Death to fascism.

I have never in my entire life paid for a streaming service. I didn’t stop pirating when Netflix was the only game in town and cost $8 / month. I didn’t pay for streaming even when every normie started getting internet access and “everyone was doing it”. Even during the high point of my life where I was not only gainfully employed but also able to accumulate savings I STILL never had a streaming service. You could count the self hosting spotify clone I made as a “streaming service” but I’m not paying extra money or probably supporting people with different ideological beliefs than me in order to use it so that really doesn’t count.

Whenever this get posted people comment about ACKTUALLY this is bad because no food/water/electricity or whatever but I think we’re missing the point. If you magically woke up one day and had rightful ownership of this land and this house, presumably getting out of paying housing costs or rent, well, if that happened to me that would be the highest point of my life so far. Solving the problems of all the other stuff you wouldn’t have is still a more realistically solvable problem than trying to make a sustainable income in the face of rigged housing costs in this absolute clown show of a society we live in.

Ah yes. the rise of neo-communism. Soon the circle will be complete.

Computers and phones that don’t have locked bootloaders. You know how North Korean phones and computers alert the State every time a disallowed file is accessed or the user does something that doesn’t align with The Ideology? It’s going to be like that. Civilian ownership of machine tools will of course be banned on a “possession = incarceration” basis and not just banning sales. Air conditioning won’t become all-out illegal but it will be regulated as rigorously as gun ownership in countries outside the US are, most people wont have lawful access to it anymore and the ones that do only get to cool things down to survivable temperatures and not comfortable temperatures. People will be running illegal refrigerant labs in their basement and making illegal thermostat modchips and everything.

There’s no way the US isn’t going to eventually criminalize all positive drug tests (like many other shithole countries have done including Japan, China and Singapore) once they reverse the last 40 years of marijuana reform and then punish everyone who had any part in it. Having been involved in the cannabis industry is going to be like having been a Jew in 1930s Germany. Same with being transgender, lgbt, or neurodivergent. It goes without saying that not being a maga christian will someday become a “get sent to a torture camp” offense as well. All porn will become as illegal as csam currently is. Cars won’t actually get banned but the non elite class will lose access to them all the same because the government will enable corporations to continue colluding to do price fixing and generating fake scarcity. The lucky ones with prestigious State Approved science or military jobs may be able to petition to be allowed to buy one under government assistance (which is really just an unfairly priced loan in disguise) with a multi-year waiting list similar to how the car situation in the Soviet Union was. Driving rights will likely be tied to ideological alignment in some extent. At the very least, testing positive for nonphysoactive metaboltics of any banned substance will be treated the same as a dui but being lgbt, neurodivergent or non-christian may be also be punished the same as a dui becuase they’d argue it’s “moral impairment” or some shit.

Voting for anyone outside of The Party during our fake elections will of course be a big no-no. The delusional decisions leading to all of this are also going to result in food shortages and mass starvation. People living in strategically important population centers may experience less hardship on average, just like in the Soviet Union. Of course toilet paper is a thing we’ll all have to learn to live without sooner or later.

A long time ago learning skills like machining and chemistry while stockpiling guns and ammo would have been the thing to do but good people have become such a minority that I fear the best we can do is make the most of the time we have left before things get a lot harder and a lot less… worthwhile.

drug laws are going to be drastically different 50 years from now. EITHER people at power are going to be sensible (LOL yeah right) and make the beneficial ones less illegal OR everything will be illegal and testing positive for anything will get you the death penalty or sent to a torture camp.

We might see alcohol banned again, this time with the might of enshitification and modern technology to back it up. It’s going to be a lot more ruthless and cutthroat next time around. Boy oh boy I can’t wait for the absolute chaos that will unfold when companies start firing people left and right for testing positive for alcohol metabolites after they spend zillions of dollars figuring out how to make unbeatable alcohol drug tests with stupidly long detection windows instead of actually using the technology of modern medicine to do anything useful like cure cancer or help people.

Wow I would never admit “recreational” drug use of any kind to any medical professional. Many years ago I admitted to smoking marijuana to my doctor and it turned into a major catastrophe. They threatened to report me to law enforcement for using illegal drugs and kept extorting me with bogus bills for months afterwards. I never trusted any medical professional again. Fuck the bible belt.