avidamoeba

Break this story into more manageable ones.

RBMK-1000

What are you gonna do with a 9800X3D without RAM? Upgrade the existing rig instead.

FTFY

Yeah, I saw that and assumed they'd be torrents of the metadata.

Does anyone see the torrent links?

I'm not going to disagree.

I don't think so. We say and do things depending on interactions between people's prevailing attitudes, corporate interests and economic pressures. Some things are easier to say and do than others. Some things are desirable to say by more Canadians than others. Corporate interests are more aligned with some actions than others. I'm not making a moral judgement as to whetger we should be vocal about Venezuela. Personally, I'd like us to be but I'm not sure it's a good idea for Canada as a whole. I'm also making a suggestion on how we could put ourselves in a material position to be able to say and do more for people under threat.

Not quite. We're not much in a position to say much on this. Until we get out of our economic dependence on the US, being too vocal could make things worse for us without making things better for Venezuela. If we want to be able to do something we could perhaps send aid to the region. But more so get out of under the US'es thumb. If we gain independence, we'd be able to do material contribitions in events like this.

To some, it's the same picture. It's especially tone-deaf in the current geopolitical env, given what the imperialusts have in store for the Venezuelan people, should they succeed in toppling Maduro.

Was saying this ever since the technoligical transfer to the US began. The more is transferred, the less the US has an incentive to defend Taiwan in any domain. Also TSMC's interest is not the same as Taiwan's. The leadership and ownership of TSMC, a capitalist corporation, will focus on their own profit growth. If that profit growth goes through technological transfer to the US, they will transfer technology. In the medium term, for them it doesn't matter whether it's Taiwanese workers producing semiconductors or American. Taiwan's sovereignty interest is in conflict with that.