From: jeroen@nospam.please
On 2/5/26 17:11, john larkin wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2026 14:52:49 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
> (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
>
>> Don Y wrote:
>>
>>> I fully expect this to happen during Trump's administration.
>>> He probably realizes he won't be able to do anything about it,
>>> especially after his designs on other foreign countries and
>>> alienation of his main allies.
>>>
>>> ["No, you haven't been ATTACKED by China so Article 5 doesn't
>>> require us to come to your aid..."]
>>>
>>> Of course, more and more manufacturing is TRYING to be on-shored.
>>> But, I suspect that is nowhere near enough to address the
>>> potential of Taiwan going off-line -- even briefly.
>>>
>>> I'm thinking back to how screwed up the supply chain got during
>>> COVID and wonder what manufacturers and investors will do when
>>> the future is far less certain than a "pandemic".
>>>
>>> Opinions?
>>
>> We have sleepwalked into this and the few who have raised the alarm have
>> been (and still are being) ignored and ridiculed.
>>
>> There is a wider problem: we have become 'travel junkies' and rely too
>> much on transport. "I can get it cheaper from..." doesn't take into
>> account the hidden costs such as liability to supply disruption, loss of
>> control over the design and the fundamental need to teach underlying
>> principles and train people in making things themselves.
>>
>> We haven't got the factories.
>> We haven't got the machines.
>> We haven't got the people who know how to operste the machines.
>> We haven't got the machines to make the machines.
>> We haven't got the people who know how to make the machines
>> We haven't got the material.
>> We haven't got the undustry to make the materials.
>
> We? Does that refer to the UK?
>
> I think there is a trend in the USA to not going to college and
> getting an expensive degree in something useless, but going to a
> 2-year community college or an apprenticeship and learning to do
> something useful. Last night we sat in on a class at City College SF
> and I was impressed by the campus and the kids. We gave away some AoE
> books. I might do a lecture now and then.
>
>>
>> In the thrall of Greenwash we have simply exported the 'dirty' jobs to
>> other countries and then added to the pollution by shipping the goods
>> back.
>>
>> If Russia could do to the UK what it is doing to Ukraine, the country
>> would have to surrender within a week.
>
> TSMC and Intel are building world-class semi fabs in Arizona.
> Louisiana, of all places, will be an AI hub because it has water,
> energy and land and is close to 90 degrees longitude.
>
> The US is making plans to both stock strategic rare minerals and
> develop new non-Chinese sources.
>
> Since Xi is as insane as Putin, nobody knows what he will do, but he
> should be getting the message that he shoud be more collegial or
> things will get bad for China.
>
> Why do communist countries all wind up with homocidal
> lunatics-for-life in charge?
>
>
> John Larkin
> Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
> Lunatic Fringe Electronics
Goof grief! Haven't you got a lunatic as president or what?
The guy isn't even able to utter two consecutive coherent
phrases and *still* got chosen to be at the helm of the US!
Shame!
American voters are imbeciles! Churchill was right when he
remarked that the best argument against democracy is a two
minute conversation with the average voter.
Jeroen Belleman
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