From: jeroen@nospam.please
On 2/5/26 23:38, john larkin wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2026 23:23:24 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> No. People dislike him because he has common sense and Enlightenment
> values and puts the USA first. He has zero megadeaths to his credit so
> far.
>
Common sense? Promising drug price reductions of 500% or even 1000%
does not strike me as common sense. Menacing allies doesn't either.
Jeroen Belleman
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