environmental effects
Fortune article last year just talked about water and power in just the chip sector: The chip industry’s dirty little secret: It’s very dirty
“At Intel’s Arizona campus, where the new facilities are still unfinished, the company already emits about two tons of hazardous air pollutants quarterly.”
the kicker will be when new-from-China plus 100% tariff is still cheaper than American made …
not to mention one of the reasons we eagerly off-shored electronics fabrication in the first place is because it’s a toxic nightmare
whataboutism – as long as you’re distracted by “China!”, you aren’t paying attention to the far more egregious privacy violations happening right here at home
(until they get a new lead dev, Ladybird is definitely not any type of “Good”)
“There are two types of people: those who back up and those who haven’t lost data … yet.”
You get a Bhopal! And you get a Bhopal! Everyone gets a Bhopal!