I think a very important thing to understand about the current industrial situation is the complexity. Like back in WW2 the Soviets rapidly grew in industrial capacity as did others during the war, and while its not impossible to do that in some areas even today certain industries are so complex that theres no way to just blitz it. Like a smart phone isnt a car. You need dozens of highly complex supply chains to make so many different teeny tiny parts and until you have all of them theres no market for any of them. The only way to do it in any feasible timeframe would be to start at the top end, and import the parts and assemble them domestically. Then slowly over decades build out the lower and lower levels of the supply chain.

Refining rare earths isnt the same thing as melting steel. Steel requires resources and scale which sure isnt childsplay but is way easier to pull off than the insane purity you need for processing rare earths just to get a tiny amount.

Plus theres the human element. The volume of expertise for something like this in the US just doesn’t compare to China in the slightest. They’ll probably try to import expertise too, but idk who in their right mind is gonna move to the US right now.

This seems to be a pretty niche use case brought about by changes in the available hardware for servers. Likely they are having situations where their servers have copious amounts of RAM, and CPU cores that the task it is handling don’t need all of, or perhaps isn’t even able to make use of due to software constraints. So this is a way for them to run different tasks on the same hardware without having to worry about virtualization. Effectively turning a bare metal server into 2 bare metal servers. They mention in their statement that, “The primary use case in mind for parker is on the machines with high core counts, where scalability concerns may arise.”

The US has been moving to remove their military support from the baltic region and I think this is their way to try and stop it. Its just Euros whining for attention from the US, and the US is too busy trying to invade Venezuela to care.

uh oh Afghanistan famously isnt known for putting up a fight against massive countries. What are they gonna do?

Oh also to any new to lemmy people who see this if your looking for a mobile app Jerboa is on f droid and made by the same dev who made lemmy. Theres lots of different front ends but thats what id recommend.

How is lemmygrads hosting situation? If we get a big flood of new active users are we good, or could we hit capacity?

The spectral form of Comrade Stalin smiling down at them.

Lets hope so lol. I think theyd use the 5000 as like a starter force and move more in once it got going tho. Im thinking ICE and The national guard will be used as a manpower pool for wars going forward. Or they could even try a roman Auxiliaries thing and offer people theyre deporting citizenship if they serve in the military for a decade or so.

Ive got this feeling that theyre looking for a way to pay off the whiteys. Like the unrest domestically has historically been solved with treats. What treats are they willing to offer though? Im thinking immigrant labor camps could be a way to offer cheap goods to keep the AmeriKKKans happy. Like here take your 100$ PS7 made by slaves in Tiajuana and shut up.

They did TRY to build a wall though. Despite it being impractical, expensive, and destined to fail. This shows they are willing to commit fully to these ridiculous solutions in order to avoid doing the logical thing. Which would be to dismantle their empire.

Yes, but this also directly mirrors the situation in the USSR when the Germans invaded to get their oil. Imperialist nations tend to just go for it, and not really think about long term feasibility. Like this is what i think the US is planning, but i doubt it actually works out for them how they want it to if they try. Once they commit to it though they’ll keep going to avoid embarrassing themselves. Until theyre forced to stop.

The oil prices now are kind of weird. The companies want them high because its currently expensive to extract it. All that fracking for example is more expensive than a traditional well. But the govt wants it low.

I think what they want to do is shift production somewhere itll be cheap, and just let the oil companes have free oil basically. Then the govt can get prices really cheap like they want to, and the companies still make a profit. Because the reason they wont lower prices now is they wouldnt make a profit if they did.

Plus theres a huge energy demand in the US right now. Theyre pushing the grid to its limits with AI shit, and theyre not about to build solar. So they have to get that extra energy somewhere.

Also important to note the US may be the largest producer right now but they arent the largest reserve. Which means if things stay how they are the US will run out of oil before the rest of the world. Not good for the war machine. Venezuela has the largest reserves in the world. So if they can use that instead they can keep production high and not tap into the US oil as much.

The way i see it those arent really major problems for the US. All it needs is distractions. It doesnt need the EU, or Israel to win.

I see their current use of national guard and expansion of ICE as them laying the ground work for it. Getting the extra personnel ready, and getting people used to a militarized lifestyle.

Well the vast majority of Venezuelan oil infrastructure is right on the coast. Thats why i think they wont do a full invasion. Just grab the oil stuff, and bomb the shit out of everything else. So all they have to do is secure a few coastal areas. Theres a lot of islands off the Venezuelan coast they could use as safe places to stage their actions in the region from. Once they get air and naval supremacy.

There are very few times i will come out with something positive to say about a company, but i do have to say i have a Dell laptop from 2020, and to this day i get regular firmware updates via the gnome application storefront’s update utility from Dell. It is an enterprise machine that was originally sold with Ubuntu as an option which i believe is why. I don’t run Ubuntu but they just push the updates out to all linux distros that check for them i think. It’s really nice to have i just download it, reboot, and it installs the update in a few seconds. I even get to look at my pretty plymouth splash screen while it installs. So hopefully I’ll have the new key from that.

thats for gnome

Huh? His handlers as in who? Isn’t this exactly what the republicans were saying about Biden? Trump isn’t being fed lies any more than any other US President is steeped in lies because of their twisted imperialist and capitalist world view. He’s just evil, and so is every other American politician.

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