> Americans are just more familiar with both Japanese naming customs and the sound of which names are given vs familial.

Tbh, I don't think it's common knowledge for Americans either. Not rare knowledge, perhaps, but I'd be surprised if that was true for the majority.

No, that's outright false. Literally the very first definition off of google:

> electrocute: injure or kill someone by electric shock

Words can have a different meaning than their constituent parts.

>What's the latest count on Russian casualties? Well over 100K?

Isn't that number coming from Ukraine? Probably not the best source for judging actual casualties.

Tell me, why so you think Ukraine declared them dead when they very clearly weren't?

> That's when Ukraine discovered they weren't dead, and announced it officially shortly after, even rejoicing about it

Just like how the Ghost of Kiev became metaphorical only after the fact.

>The Ukrainian governement thought they were dead. When they saw they were wrong, they said so and declared they were happy the soldiers were alive.

Lmao, what on earth gave you that idea? They were literally paraded out on Russian TV.

Just like with the recent missile strike in Poland or "Ghost of Kiev", the Ukrainian government is perfectly willing to lie to support the war effort. Russia doesn't have a monopoly on propaganda.

Ukraine claimed they had. That was a lie.

What I said. Heavily subsidized, and trailing the tech deployed in Taiwan.

Yes, thanks for the correction. Though that was a year and a half ago ;).

Article for anyone looking for a source: https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-tech-sovereignty-china-peter-wennink-asml/

Replace them is inclusive of that.

No, doesn't mean that either. If anything, Dennard scaling died earliest.

From its geographic location alone, the US has had a strategic interest in Taiwan since long before TSMC became the dominant foundry. Nor is TSMC's dominance in that area assured. Not even the most hawkish of pundits seem to think China could realistically invade Taiwan for at least a decade, and that's just considering the logistic feasibility. A decade is an eternity in tech, and TSMC is not so far ahead of Samsung or Intel to be unassailable.

Obviously, yes, if TSMC were to be razed, it would have very significant global economic affects. But people act like it would set the world back 15 years, which is just absurd.

You pretty much only hear this on Reddit.

ASML's CEO himself said he expects it would take China about a decade to replace them.

Not the only if you go further up the chain. But regardless, the lithography machine does not make a node alone.

Morris Chang has spoken many times about their issues and dissatisfaction with their Arizona plant. So I think there are more fundamental reasons.

They are one of several necessary suppliers for a cutting edge fab.

> Except for TSMC has been rapidly setting up offices and fabs outside of Taiwan

Not really. They've been extremely reluctant, and only when very heavily subsidized. Even then, all the latest and greatest is in Taiwan.

ASML is not a fab. They make one piece of equipment that fabs use. It's a very important piece, sure, but that's like calling a wheat farmer a baker.

I mean, if we're giving advice, I'm going to go with "Fucking learn how to swim! It might save your life one day!". Think that should about cover it.

IIRC, that guy just replaced the internals with ones that could run Doom, sadly.