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So it is because they mandated very high levels of diversity hiring from the foreign tech companies to help. Lots of the cosntruction has had borderline untrainable people/low skilled workers on the projects. Also a shit load of the moneg ahs been skimmed off the top down the chain on these projects. None of this either gets into the state and local districting & permitting level. It takes about 5 years for most factories to be built and permitted. Longer for production at meaningful scales. If you think this is crazy just looking into mining as an example it takes 15-20 years for a similar process. Oil refining is even more rediculous as no new refineries have come online since the 1970s. Also the government has been taking backdoor stakes into intel slowly and effectively nationalizing it

But this whole process has gotten so bad to where almost all the build crews, engineers, ect have to be importes and permitted fully before work cam be done because the lack of broad domestic expertise and the federal government mandates with the money being so heavily focused on ways to skim the money and push it into "diversity" mandates

It's crazy how we can't even reshore stuff anymore. It's extremely fucked

Saying corruption and grift is half the story, and yeah construction/infrastructure is especially hard-hit (on-top of regulatory BS)

I meant more that I don't think there is a public "official" reason being given at all

Not even mentioning choosing intel of all companies to try and make the head of all this reshoring is wild due to how poorly they've done.

Oh yeah absolutely not.

I have no love for Intel, and on the tech side they've fallen way behind cutting edge wafer production for years anyway

but it's alarming to see them just walk away

even if everyone sorta knew the project was behind schedule and fucked from every which direction

It just reflects the real economy. It is all so badly fucked

canceling it feeds that creeping dread that a larger systems collapse is coming

hey, nice, same conclusion lol

I have been hard on the train since 2023 bc the banking collapse

They bailed that out in real time and printed so much backdoor cash I stopped following it in 4 months

Obvious 2020 as well with those issues, but that was the hard crash in 2023 and it has just been pushed off

I'm not a doomer about the long-term outlook, because I think the foundation is there to fix things fairly rapidly

but it is kind of crazy the lengths we're going to delay delay delay

I agree

I get called a doomer for prognosticating a lot of pain though. Which a lot of pain will precipitate necessary change

but I will be out there on the National mall day 1 with the ropes and guillotine, in my finest Roamin the Paladin shirt

You knoe where I can get one now a days? I missed the window for that one tee shirt at the time lol

>missed the window by 15 years

lol

Yes

I was busy out for milk

Is there a picture of this shirt? I don't even remember it.

Rob has extras, if you really want one unirronically if you meta rp with him you can probably get one

but I go back to, people should probably just leave Rob alone

Fuck really? That shit's so gay

ok apparently that picture might just be lost to time

I swore I had it

It's been too long. His old old shit results in more lost media everyday

here's a random old Roamin picture as recompense

There's a shirt with that on it??

Oh lool

Sex swapped too

He always played female clerics

Character over rp

I forget. I did Gary have Tees too?

Yahoo webarchives also seem to not work

I should hit rob up about shirts

Would be a funny interaction at least

I think I still have an account om his server too

if you do, do not post about it here like a bounty

we actively discourage people poking Rob, unless they're still fans and want to watch/engage with his current stuff

I've had it there for forever now. I'd just keep it to myself. Momentos to better times

I did stick around his birthday stream a bit

Seems like he at least does some stuff he enjoys right now. As long as he enjoys himself. Hopefully he doesn't attatch to dumb shit again

Also fuck me. Yahoo e commerce throwback

Yahoo used to be the shit

Shoutout to stricking I guess

I am getting an extra 2k in funding now

Makes up for the ~1k I lost by not working last winter term near the end

What are you going to do with the extra 1k?

he'll give it to his favorite dutch friend

Fire, if you came to Kingston not only would I put you up for as many nights as you want, I would cook for you

I have a queen size bed if you want to cuddle, otherwise an air matress

i'd rather do the cooking

Also fine

Dane, it's your lucky day

honestly pika, i am tempted, but i don't know what the hell i would even do once there

other than making out with you

If it was during the summer, we could go to the lake I guess

if it was during winter, I guess you could just fucking die

true!

how cold does it get again where you are?

Depends, Southern Ontario typically stays between -40 to 40, typical winter weather is -20 to -30

that is quite cold

i'd rather have that than the summer heat where i'm at

Kingston is kind of nice, there is a lot of nature trails and what not to do

I prefer the colder weather usually too

the absolute extremes on both end suck though

i assume your houses are better insulated, though

if it's 1 degree outside over here, then that temperature will seep into our houses as well

it's not fantastic