this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
34 points (100.0% liked)
US News
2161 readers
34 users here now
News from within the empire - From a leftist perspective
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Bro is so dumb he doesn't understand his actions have consequences that will destroy the US empire faster. First USAID and now this! It's beautiful.
To be fair, CHIPS act was dead on arrival, and it failed to achieve much of anything.
Was it? I'm just glancing at the wiki, but this looks like a start, especially for a high-tech industry where manufacturing takes a long time to ramp up:
Even looking at this with a skeptical eye, it looks like companies and universities were doing real projects that took advantage of the program.
this was a really good run down of how absurd the whole thing was https://compactmag.com/article/fighting-a-chip-war-on-the-cheap
As a dude that got a BS in Computer Engineering only to give up on the industry, yeah. That tracks. AMD and Intel were like "got a PhD and post-doc work? No? Maybe go fuck yourself, work in verification/validation for a decade at 40k/year, and then maybe we'll consider you." So I said "oh well" and wrote code instead. If I could tell my decade-younger self one thing, it'd be: Learn Chinese.
Same, I really wish I started learning Chinese sooner. I'm making up for that now though, it's never too late. :)
And the CIA too and I hope that whatever replaces them isn't worse.
I highly doubt that Trump is actually a threat to the CIA. It's all smoke.