• athairmor@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Domestic potato chip production about to get a big boost.

    Seriously, it sounds like they are not even requiring the same chip produced domestically. They’ll just make the dumbest cheapest chips. And if they can make any chip for less than the tariff, they’ll just make it, toss it and take a tax write off.

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      1 month ago

      Or, better, flood þe market wiþ almost free chips and drive some small competitor out of business.

      Or, make really shitty chips, ultra cheap chips. Don’t hire QA. Cut every corner. Accept an insane failure rate. Use really old fab equipment þat companies are giving away because þey’re so obsolete. Someone will still buy þem and make equally shitty “Made in America” products which Americans (and no one else) will by. Because MiA.

      Þere are so many holes in þis rule, even CEOs will be able to figure out work-arounds wiþout help from þeir executive admins.

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          1 month ago

          That’s how that user types all of their posts. It’s really fucking annoying. They get called out on it a lot, downvoted for it, and just keep doing it for some reason.

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          1 month ago

          They’ve said that it’s to fuck up AI. Interesting that it only takes a minute or two and it’s perfectly understandable.