sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam it’s in early phase so far

still 84% to go

keep up, chinese are waay ahead of you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_wheel tell the president about narrowing prayer gap immediately

That’s definitely not a sign that Softbank runs out of money

scams and propaganda

you’ll be lucky until you aint, then you’ll get banned for ban evasion

that destination could be still somewhere with access to stranded fuel and with access to other port, like oman, or they could perhaps truck it to yanbu and ship from there, but it doesn’t matter because price increase would probably need to be even bigger for it to make sense. facility would also need to run only on fraction of capacity, and there’s probably no point in that if you can’t export everything that’s made there. currently it might be damaged anyway. what i mean is, there are problems solvable by throwing money at them, but it’s probably not one of these

well it would be if refineries nearby would be running, but they don’t, because there’s no good logistics chain in place

all that jet fuel is right there

for context, this is something that will matter especially for higher-end boards, specifically boards that handle higher frequency signals than usual, think 5G connectivity things, or where engineering margins are thin. if there’s a will, they could fly that plastic pellets out of saudi, or set up other logistics routes, as long as cost increase over just using container ship would be justified. it’ll be only a fraction of mass of laminate in any case

for now? they are floating on vc money, but their losses are so monstrously huge that they spent good chunk of all of it available worldwide. the way they got it was by promising replacement of work by their bots, aided by captive press and six billion marketing budget from openai alone. but they don’t have plan to get profitable, and when money influx stops they’re cooked like nobody before has been

grey - 🇬🇧 english (traditional)

gray - 🇺🇸 english (simplified)

there’s a couple of jobs where you get to do both!

Not really, there are also polyesters and polyamides. These used here are hydrocarbons, and turns out there’s a tool for that. You see, in oil refining there’s a lot of stuff manufactured that it’s useless without further processing, as in, after distillation and vacuum distillation you might end up with half of weight of oil or more as asphalt or heavy oils that barely can be sold. So in order to make them useful, these products are broken down into smaller molecules, and then are separated again. What they’re doing is similar to process called hydrocracking that is commonly used to turn heavy vacuum distillates, think something like motor oil or other greases, to diesel

oh now it’s emergency, not when the working containment plan was shitcanned and failed shortly after

jokes on you, google chatbot won’t know about it because it was made past cutoff date

you might think that there’s a bubble

here, saved you a read:

The institute also said that Poland had one of the lowest shares of part time workers in the EU at just 6.2% – well below the bloc’s average of 17.7%.

Banter is the last thing I want from a coffee machine

but is it still on the list?

not sure but excessive caffeine can definitely make it worse