https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-science-of-ultra-pure-silicon/

As I said, we can make nine 9 silicon. But not eleven 9. China makes billions of nine 9 silicon chips per year. But they can’t make eleven 9. Everyone is trying to create lab made eleven 9, it might not be possible. The natural stuff formed over hundreds of millions of years with basically no exposure to water. Which means no contaminates.

So yeah, we’ve not succeeded in recreating that.

Another factor here is that to make the most advanced chips, you need something called eleven 9 silicon. That’s silicon that’s 99.999999999% pure.

We can only artificially manufacture up to nine 9 silicon.

Eleven 9 has to be mined, and there’s only one spot in the world were it exists. A little town in North Carolina.

That’s why the US gets to say who can even attempt to manufacture advanced chips.

On a completely different note… Have you ever heard of Point Nemo? It’s the point in the ocean furthest from any land. Somewhere in the south Pacific.

Also there’s a type of nonsense that crops up among right wing jackasses every few years called sea steading. It’s a bad idea for a lot of reasons unless done in some very specific places and in some very specific ways.

Point Nemo would be a very bad place for sea steading.

I never said where the jail was. My idea for that will also get you banned.

Girls, it also undresses young girls.

And apparently the grok website/app or whatever will generate explicit and/or violent videos of anyone.

So yeah. One more reason to take all of Elons money and put him in jail forever.

Hitler actually did both. Several of his “girlfriends” were 14 when they met.

He also managed to become the guardian of his 14 year old niece at one point.

It’s an opinion that’s not completely unique. I’ve heard the same a few times.

There’s also a group who will not let the Bureau of Indian Affairs change its name, not because they like it, but because… well, complex reasons but one of them was a sort of “fuck you”.

I’ve been gaming exclusively on Linux for a few years now, and I can say Bethesda games, and specifically modding Bethesda games. That shit works a well as can be expected on windows, and if you keep the mod list light, can actually run better than vanilla.

I will say, the free Fallout 4 creation club content good enough as far as light modding goes, and runs extremely well.

Skyrim on the other hand, would honestly probably be fine if their creation club had half the mods that I want to play with.

Which is sort of wild.

Marx was very clear that communism could not be delivered by heroes on horseback. But then again, Tankies don’t like Marx, they like Lenin, the man who lost an election to actual communists and then had them all killed. He seized power via coup, and then made himself a king, and wrote how kings (vanguard parties) were somehow vital to communism, and how democracy was not.

I did that for my entire time in school.

I used to think I was just very smart. Now I know that it was mostly attention deficit and a near perfect memory. A memory that I had trained by with this beat up self-help meditation book that I found. It taught a real method of meditation, but also promised magic mind powers. I found it when I was like 7, so I practiced the fuck out of those basic techniques.

These days, I train my memory by reading 20-30 different webnovels that update anywhere between daily and once every 2-3 months. Still haven’t gotten a real handle on that attention deficit though…

Except for the subtle Chinese propaganda constantly fed to the rest of the world. Now the propaganda is blatant enough for people to abandon the app, so the world is technically better for the US seizure. The app went to shit, but it was already pretty bad, so no net loss there.

Eh, it’s actually a wash. China did the exact same shit with different key words. They were just smarter about it.

And most of the censorship was in China.

Because China is a totalitarian dictatorship, and is no ones friend.

Just because the US is shit, doesn’t make China any better. The world isn’t black and white, it’s mostly black and dark grey.

Putin would play a part in the scenario. he has recently reiterated that Russian nukes are still Launch on Warning.

But there’s A difference between a monster waging a war of naked aggression and the end of all life on Earth due to a system built by lunatics and monsters in the 1950s.

Putin could end the world, yes. But that would be a deliberate choice to end the world.

And the scenario I hinted at does require Russian nukes, but it doesn’t require a North Korean nuke to start things. A conventional missile on the wrong trajectory is more than enough.

They’re already doing that. There are reports that content from the DNC isn’t being served anymore, even to subscribers.

And Tiktok isn’t the only place for that exact type of content.

People are already jumping ship to other platforms.

Ah, but that’s the thing. There are always new platforms.

The current winner seems to be a new one called Upscrolled.

The guy behind it is a Palestinian out of Jordan, with Australian citizenship?

Anyway, that’s all I currently know about it, the app is being hugged to death by tens of thousands of new users over the last day or two.

To be fair, Kim Jong Un could easily an order, what he thinks is a limited response to South Korea fucking around, which they’ve been doing, which would lead to a somewhat automatic chain of events that could end all life on Earth in nuclear hellfire. And this all could happen in less than 30 minutes.

They aren’t Microsoft anymore, they’re full on Microslop.

I’m calling all of it microslop. So there’s that.