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[–] [email protected] 69 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The factories the US will bomb at the first sign of Taiwan uniting with the mainland? Those factories?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I heard that they literally have bombs in the buildings already that can be set off. Not sure how true.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago

Probably not true at all.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't know that I'd believe that, but it also wouldn't surprise me.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

i think there's a defcon talk from a decade ago about what it would actually take to have a "self-destruct button" like in movies just for some servers or hard drives and i don't think any capitalist would justify the expense when they can have somebody else pay for aerial bombardment or some shit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sure, absolutely. But, otoh, if it's the US Military behind it, then money's no object. My initial thought on something like a self destruct would be that if I could use it so could my enemies... But, that was also my concern about massive data collection and surveillance states, and that didn't stop them so...😅🤷‍♂️

Edit: but yeah aerial bombardment is what I would expect.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Pressing the comically large self-destruct button, but nothing happens because Raytheon cut corners and skimped on the fuse

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Sort of, there's a lot that can go wrong with long term self-destruct systems that mean that it's unrealistically expensive or a huge risk to the thing you're trying to "protect".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They were.....ahhhh...they were 'weakened' by the previous earthquake. All those mini flashes and free fall you saw on video was just coincidential office fires that ravaged the building from another seperate event. Oh and the recent new owner that took out comically massive insurance policies on the building with a very unusual terrorism, war, and acts of God exception clause was purely coincidential.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago

sending thoughts & prayers to the economy

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Those factories were actually destroyed by Hamas. Ok, turns out they were not, but they were Hamas combatants, or if a semiconductor factory cannot be a Hamas combatant for some reason they were being used as human shields.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

hamas-base So THAT'S what those tunnels were for! They're a massive earthquake weapon using ancient Khamehamamas rituals. spirit-bomb

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

i'm shocked i haven't heard about Xi having an earthquake gun or some deranged shit like that

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

You wouldn't have heard that. China controls all media and since they are Hamas they control what you hear. I only consume non-Hamas media (strange visions and omens granted to me by the gods of Olympus) and I alone know the truth. I will put this truth on TV soon. It's really easy to find sponsors for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

His cheeks cause an earthquake every time he walks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Hamas caused the earthquake by stomping their feet in unison

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Surah 99 guys, surah 99

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago

when i first heard of the quake and googled it, i think maybe cnn or another was first pop up and yes one of the short bylines was just "Semiconductor industry says everything is ok"

that's all that matters.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago

They said the loud part loud

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago

this guy riding the Taiwan HSR flying past endless miles of rice and sweet potato fields: uhhhhh is this that EUV 3nm process

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago

One million people perish in the quake

This liberal dumbass: Thank god the factories are safe and CHYNA didn't get them!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

Tornado in the Midwest. Pray all the people and corn fields are okay.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

Panicking because I finally realize the externalities are a liability because they are external

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The earthquake is a seeseepee plot to weaken Taiwan

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

Damn communists manipulating the tectonic plates

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They know that if the manufacturing capacity of Taiwan is destroyed the west won't back their independence anymore

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Nah, we put the manufacturing capacity there so we could back the independence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Guys you don't understand. Clearly.

These. Are. The Video Game Hardware Factories. The Crypto Hardware Factories. The AI Hardware Factories.

Okay?! HM?

Starting to understand the magnitude of the crisis that's been averted?

Yeah I thought so. joker-gaming

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago