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They had a stepper manufacturer, Silicon Valley Group (SVG), and ASML bought it, that's how ASML got the EUV license from the US.

Operating on US soil, in US jurisdiction under US laws.

That's why they were anti-EV for so long, since that threatened their lucrative ICE dominance.

They .. ARE?

Dacia Spring is essentially a Chinese EV from Renault's joint venture with eGT New Energy Automotive.

VW's Cupra Tavascan is made in China and is the product of VW's joint venture with Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group.

And many EU EVs that are of domestic design and production use Chinese developed and manufactured powertrains and batteries.

EU EVs are using more and more Chinese tech.

For example, for my home lab, I bought a used Intel 12th gen industrial PC from a specialized Taiwanese embedded systems company, whose BIOS allows very granular control of all sleep states plus individual power control of most peripherals, probably because that's a must-have for customers in that space over stuff like benchmark scores and bang for the buck.

So technically, IT IS possible to do, just probably not very cost effective for consumer devices.

Just "seems"!? Name me a recent US president or candidate that wasn't very pro-Israel. JFK is the only one I know and he got a bullet in his head.

Then you have the fact that about 80% of congress are AIPAC members. That alone tells you everything.

Then at the debates for NY mayor elections, all candidates were asked insistently if they support Israel and if they'll visit the Holy City as if it were a requirement, which is a very weird purity test for a job that has nothing to do with that.

So I don't know how Americans can look at these facts and still deny that Israel is not running their country or at least having controlling influence over their political system.

You underestimate how addicted the US is to cheap energy and how wasteful it is at the same time.

Remember how your lifestyle always expands to fill the available resources no matter how good you have it? Well if tomorrow they'd have to pay EU prices, the country would have a war.

When you lived your entire life not caring about the energy bill or about saving energy, it's crippling to suddenly have scale back and be frugal even if that price would still be less than what other countries pay.

SWAT officers also wear masks when on mission, for their own protection, so why should ICE have to unmask by law?

2. What does this have to do with technology to make it front page on HN?

This is the goal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Israel

If you're gonna buy at face value whatever Scam Altman claims, then I have some Theranos shares you might be interested in.

And what is that post-AI bubble "next big thing" exactly?

If there were, you'd already see people putting their money towards it.

I can empathize, but necessity has made me adaptable to all UXs at work. I wouldn't be able to put food on the table if I told my employer that their desktop environment that IT chose is not to my taste.

At home I can be more picky but I still went with KDE and XFCE because that's what fits me best.

Numbers prove we aren't. Sales figures show very few customers are willing to pay $200 per month for the top AI chatbots, and even at $200/month, OpenAI is still taking a loss on that plan so they're still loosing money even with top dollar customers.

I think you're unaware just how unprofitable the big AI products are. This can only go on for so long. We're not in the ZIRP era anymore where SV VC funded unicorns can be unprofitable indefinitely and endlessly burn cash on the idea that when they'll eventually beat all competitors in the race to the bottom and become monopolies they can finally turn a profit by squeezing users with higher real-world price. That ship has sailed.

When you follow the progress in the last 12 months, it really isn't. Big AI companies spent "hella' stacks" of cash, but delivered next to no progress.

Progress has flatlined. The "rocket to the moon" phase has already passed us by now.

Is CachyOS better now?

The AI hype train was built on the premise that AI will progress linearly and eventually end up replacing a lot of well paid white collar work, but it failed to deliver on that promise by now, and progress has flatlined or sometimes even gone backwards (see GPT-5 vs 4o).

FAANG companies can only absorb these losses for so long before shareholders pull out.

Where KDE is better than Gnome whose UI looks like its was designed for tablet use or 4K+ displays. So yeah, on that front I do care, which is why I prefer KDE.

I don't think you read my comment properly because that's not what I said.