I'm really starting to lean on the theory that this was not an rescue op, but a special forces mission to probably steal Iranian uranium. Explains why there were so many planes lost and why Trump is going apeshit rn with his movie villain monologue with deadlines. Why Hegseth also fired a bunch of generals, like gen. Randy George who likely opposed the idea beforehand. Trump is just obsessed on getting something over Iran that he could call a win and get a face saving option out of the war. Now his plan failed and he needs to double down.
Absolute financial parasitism. This is why we can't have nice things. People who own a license of something critical can just sit on their asses decades on end and collect unearned income from other companies who will in turn move to cost to the consumers.
Yeah and they will keep begin bought by AI companies, even if the production sags. If the prices were unaffordable now they will be even more so if there is a real production choke. They can keep tossing few extra billions to keep the bubble going, you and I cannot compete with that.
It's not like its really used on AI inference, but it's used in high grade semiconductor manufacturing. so helium shortage will hit anything with a modern semiconductors in it. So it's not "whatever".
As I understand it these government contracts basically go out to companies who have a monopoly on duopoly on the thing they sell and with anything at all complex their supply chains basically stretch down tens of contractors and subcontractors each. Each subcontractor puts at least 20% profit margin in their intermediate product and that scales the costs with each step. It infuses so much basically free government money into the private economy, when pretty much all other type of manufacturing is impossible in the US, thanks to inflated living costs and cost of labor. It only happens when there is a high value added product with a monopoly OR when its subsidized by the buyer of last resort with infinitely deep pockets, that is the government and the military. Without these contracts many big corporation (not just pure MIC) would become totally unprofitable and US would lose even last of it's manufacturing and basically collapse and american economy with it. They literally have to let the taxpayer be ripped off and let them produce everything with massive profit margins or the whole house of cards topples down.
Kuwait is 90% reliant on desalination and it doesn't have that many desalination plants. So is much of the middle east. iran doesn't really need nukes to destroy and depopulate these countries utterly. Most of the middle east is both figuratively and literally built on sand.
Almost as if nonsensical brutal aggression with maximalist demands unites even the most fractured country behind it's leaders and gives the hardliners legitimacy. The good old I might not agree with everything my government does, but I love my country more than I hate it's government effect.
I just avoid the AUR on Manjaro whenever possible. It still works 99% of the time. The few things I actually need to be bleeding edge I will just try to build from source.
I'm really starting to lean on the theory that this was not an rescue op, but a special forces mission to probably steal Iranian uranium. Explains why there were so many planes lost and why Trump is going apeshit rn with his movie villain monologue with deadlines. Why Hegseth also fired a bunch of generals, like gen. Randy George who likely opposed the idea beforehand. Trump is just obsessed on getting something over Iran that he could call a win and get a face saving option out of the war. Now his plan failed and he needs to double down.