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I personally consider myself a feminists and strongly believe in equality and women's liberation as well, and I doubt you'd find those beliefs commonly in MRAs. While I'm not particularly familiar with MRA spaces, from the outside it seems like they often feel that women owe them something, and should perhaps even be subservient to men. I certainly find that view rather repugnant.

I haven't personally experienced anyone considering me bigoted for talking about men's lib, and also haven't seen it much, if at all, inside our communities. I think that's because men's lib discussion tends to stay in men's lib spaces. I recognise that women are the main victim of the patriarchy, and raising men's issues in other spaces seems disrespectful. That's why I think we don't go out of our way to proselytise the way many other social justice movements might, so participant's engagement is purely at their own choice.

Thank you for the detailed response! That's absolutely fascinating!

So does TSMC have some kind of exclusivity agreement with ASML, or is it for financial reasons, or is it mainly a personnel/knowledge issue that gives them their edge?

I suppose any effort to spin up a new fab is going to be behind the 8-ball immediately for a while while they deal with all the issues that arise.

One last thing: could you give some advice on how to get more educated on the topic? Any favourite news sources, or recommended readings, or is it just a matter of "seek and ye shall find"?

Sometimes a goose 'as gotta do what a goose 'as gotta do.

I'm providing my thought's in a separate comment, so the source can stand on it's own.

To me this doesn't exactly read like a hit piece. If anything, it reads like commentary on well intentioned legislation that wasn't thought out thoroughly enough, and ended up providing perverse incentives that were in many ways worse than the problem they set out to solve.

Now it wouldn't surprise me if somebody took advantage of the situation, but it doesn't necessarily implicate the Obama government.

The following text is reproduced from the YC comments, because I didn't want to click through to twitter either:

Not interested in clicking twitter either but in the name of progress I went there and what I found was a pretty disgusting misuse of the platform.

Basically a “hate on Obama” hit piece. Fucking snore.

Ever wonder why sedans disappeared and every car is huge now?

"Thanks, Obama!"

His administration changed fuel economy standards in a way that had the perverse impact of making cars even bigger.

Here are all the vehicles for sale by the 3 largest US automakers. 62 vehicles, 4 sedans (6%). 20 years ago this chart would have been ~50% sedans!

What happened?

Obama administration changed auto fuel efficiency rules to tie fuel economy targets to vehicle size.

Under the new system: -The bigger the car's footprint, the easier the MPG target was. -Light trucks (including SUVs and crossovers) had far lower requirements than passenger cars. -Crossovers were quietly reclassified as "trucks," giving them a huge regulatory advantage.

Instead of building lighter, more efficient cars, automakers simply made everything bigger, and made more trucks and SUVs.

Notice that cars that used to be sedans are now crossovers? They do this so it counts as a light truck - they raise ground clearance, square off the rear for cargo capacity, and meet off-road approach minimums so they get qualified as a light truck. Think Subaru Legacy > Subaru Outback.

As you can see in the chart, it's a LOT easier to meet MPG requirements if your vehicle is classified that way.

So cars got LARGER to meet fuel efficiency goals. The new Honda Civic is 20 inches longer and 4 inches wider than it used to be, about the same size as an old Accord. By making the Civic larger, Honda slightly shifted it into a more favorable regulatory category.

...and smaller cars disappeared. The Honda Fit was a great little car, but would have had to hit 67 MPG in 2026, which would be nearly impossible... so instead, Honda stopped selling them.

So, the only way to make small vehicles now is to make them EV's (Chevy Bolt).

The Slate truck that is all the rage now is only possible because it's an EV... otherwise its footprint would have demanded an overly onerous MPG target.

So in short - Obama era CAFE standards had the opposite of the desired impact: sedans died, vehicles ballooned in size, and America's streets turned into an SUV parking lot.

All thanks to a policy that accidentally incentivized bloat instead of efficiency.

Don't get me started on "cash for clunkers!"

Thank you for the clarification!

Yeah, any US based chip fab associated with tsmc will be years behind by design. Keeping their competitive advantage is the only thing they haven't been on the nasty end of a full coup.

That said, the image of setting comparable fabs in the US can go a long way politically.

What I don't understand is that there are a lot of billionaires with deep DEEP pockets. Why don't they invest in a competitive chip fab elsewhere? Why doesn't the CCP make their own equivalent chip fab?

Catching up when you can reverse engineer is usually much much easier than innovating. This has been part of China's business model for years, so why doesn't it work for advanced chip fab?

yesss, I guess we'll have toooo

*laughs awkwardly in totally not already vegan*

I, for one, hail our robot overlords. 🥰

^^^please ^^^don't ^^^kill ^^^me.

"Dey took ur jerbs!" 😡

"Ew, not those jerbs." ✋😒

I choose none. That cow looks a little too late to be saving..