The credible threat of violence is often much more powerful than violence itself. See unions, the civil rights movement, mutually assured destruction.

Society is very often an implicit contract of “do what we want or else.” Without the “or else”, the powerful have no reason to listen.

Then europe should have no qualms about footing the bill and doing it themselves.

I really hate to defend the actions of those POS nazi scumbags, but this is mostly on the rest of the world for standing back and letting americans foot the bill for everything. Europe being caught scrambling to invest in building up their defense industry is another perfect example of this. Or like how the germans decided nuclear energy was too scary so they started relying more on gas imports from russia.

protests represent the threat of violence. the threat went away and the rulers stopped listening.

omg, how did I forget BenHeck tore one down, ty!

i wonder how much hardware is added besides the CD drive…

it’s complicated. afaik asml has agreements with the us govt, and cross licensing with american companies. also, asml only makes lithography tools, there’s a LOT more to making semiconductors than just exposing patterns. and a few of the biggest vendors like kla and amat are american. kla in particular is essentially a monopoly in the metrology space.

afaik, risc and cisc are pretty much the same anymore. x86, risc v and arm all have bloated instructions sets, and they all decode to risc microcode under the hood anyways.

lol those are dram chips in the stock photo.

(more risc v investment away from the us is a good thing though!)

as always dns is the weak link in internet infrastructure. if they can takedown piracy domains they can take down anything.

legally no, but it’s not like the governor of colorado is sending ukraine weapons - they’re just words and as such do not violate the constitution. ianal, etc etc

I mean it’s easier and vastly more compatible than it was even a couple years ago thanks to the proton devs.

Gonna need a little higher density barcode lol