Post #3676502

2026-07-08 17:04 UTC

@ocratato@discuss.systems The equipment for making chips is now so expensive that very few can afford to buy it. That is why I suggested a nation-state do it. I'd buy RAM and SSDs from Chips Canada, if it were to exist. (Or from an analogous company created by any trading partner in the blocs #Canada is joining or starting in response to the US trade war.) So would many individuals and small businesses here. So would our schools and hospitals, municipalities and utilities. So would the #CAF (our military) and the #RCMP (our federal police), as would our #nationalSecurity intelligence services. And so would heavy industry in sectors critical to the Canadian economy, for whom I know first-hand the current prices of RAM and SSDs directly contributing to suspension of operation at some plants and to minimizing of staffing at others. I had one recent contract, at a major producer of a leading Canadian export, which included my salvaging DDR3 from PCs planned for disposal. DDR3. #techPolicy #digitalAutonomy #digitalSovereignty #economicSecurity #sovereignty

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@tezoatlipoca@mas.to 2026-07-08 17:16

@deFractal@infosec.exchange @ocratato@discuss.systems haha, we all know how a Chips Canada would go, despite how much I'd love to see it. Huge government outlay, community/industry feedback periods, prolonged equipement procurement. Creation of a crown corporation, massive federal subsidy for 15-20 years and then it'll be privatized for pennies/dollar by a Conservative government looking to make a buck in time for an election cycle. "Folks, goverment has no business in running a chip fab. What do elected politicians know about wafer construction? That's why the All Dressed Act will put responsibility for Canada's globe leading chip construction where it belongs, in the hands of the Lays/Weston/Stronarch/Dumpty LWSD Megacorp Inc-LLC." "Prime Minsiter Ford, will the CCP or public labour funds like OTP take ownership stakes of Lay Waste Shitty Disposal Inc?" "Haha no, by allowing large deep pocketed institutional investors to corner this investment opportunity that precludes the little guy like Scotia or Vanguard."

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