I’d be very fine with it being tax funded instead of being funded by stamps and parcel metering. We might have much less shit mail as a result. It was an actual part of this government, not a corporation like now, before 1970, when the Reorg Act went into effect. Look before 1970 then USPS workers were not allowed to collectively bargain but that still could have been achieved with the a different outcome in 1970.

I would be very fine with tax funding because as a service the work they do facilitates other sectors’ viabilities. There might also be more accountability to help the workers.

Now they will swing hard in the other direction. Heaven forbid you have TOO MUCH pension coverage as inflation spikes.

USPS should not focus on profitability and fuck Uber and the gig economy.

Gonna be agonizing to live through 4+ years of this bullshit. We need to run them scared out of here.

What’s it to you‽

Interrobang my life.

Billionaires are keeping us in the pot, using levers of power that we don’t access from the pot.

Josh Hawley is a complete waste.

The foreign “aid” needing pausing are the pox of unwelcome US military bases dotting the planet.

Recently for a small amount of their content. Personally the editorial choice of putting that particular article behind the paywall, considering how important it is to the moment we all face, is questionable.

Thank you.

Paywall 👎

Yes. OpenAI was non-profit at one point as well.

Copying protected work without consent has been their MO so nothing changed.

The time-honored US tradition of writing new chapters of genocide of Palestinians through the new president, regardless of party. Forced evacuation is ethnic cleansing. Ethnic cleansing is a fancy word for genocide.

Yeah I know, talking a lot of blowhard talk. Chip die size was the arbitrary argument, but again, that just takes time. They are hedging their bet with a supposed ally with China being their big threat.

"TSMC will produce 3nm chips in the U.S., and Taiwan has already given TSMC the go-signal to manufacture 2nm chips abroad. "

OK. It is ahistorical and hyperbolic to say they may never do that. They also have their fabs i n Taiwan rigged to self destruct if they get invaded. They are setting up shop in a different country. As fab dies shrink they get harder to make, they are building expertise somewhere else in case.

TSMC have advanced chip fabrication factory in Arizona in the US.

“TSMC will produce 3nm chips in the U.S., and Taiwan has already given TSMC the go-signal to manufacture 2nm chips abroad.”

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/apple-will-soon-receive-made-in-america-chips-from-tsmcs-arizona-fab-company-in-final-stages-of-quality-verification

It’s already fabbing chips

Convergent evolution is pretty cool.