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2022-03-04 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by 3dc 2022-03-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1 Ima waiting until AMD comes out with processors that support DDR5 memory architecture, then I'm building an asshole machine (16 core CPU, 64GB of DDR5 memory, as fast as the board supports it, about 6400 MHz).

Posted by Raj 2022-03-04 00:15|| 2022-03-04 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 No problem. We'll just source it from .. Russia's best friends, China and South Africa?? - oh shit

Shunned by Others, Russia Finds Friends in Africa
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/world/africa/russia-ukraine-eritrea-africa.html

Africa’s largest arms dealer, Russia has ties to the continent that stretch back to the Cold War and helped Mr. Putin win rare support over the invasion of Ukraine.

Posted by Phusock Fillmore9381 2022-03-04 00:22|| 2022-03-04 00:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Asia hit hardest. Anyone who has been in an Asian major city at night would understand.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-04 08:38|| 2022-03-04 08:38|| Front Page Top

#4 I know where we can get a Dodge Neon, but you will need a tractor to pull it out of the field.

Posted by SteveS 2022-03-04 09:29|| 2022-03-04 09:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Africa’s largest arms dealer, Russia has ties to the continent that stretch back to the Cold War...

Yep, the Soviets spread lots of misery and murder around Africa.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-03-04 10:50|| 2022-03-04 10:50|| Front Page Top

#6 And look at all the colonies they still have there...

/sarc

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-04 10:51|| 2022-03-04 10:51|| Front Page Top

#7 What's even worse about the neon from Iceblick, is that it's refined from gas produced from Russian steelmaking. As long as there's no incoming gas from Russia, there's no product source for Iceblick.
(Iceblick is a cryogenic refining operation.)

Posted by ed in texas 2022-03-04 10:58|| 2022-03-04 10:58|| Front Page Top

#8 That's right. Which is why all the western neon supplier stocks tanked (AirLiquide, Linde for ex) while other commodities soared

Posted by Econ101forMorons 2022-03-04 11:03|| 2022-03-04 11:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Neon - something else we used to make here before US pols decided farming all that out to Russia and China would make the world a safer place?

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-04 11:05|| 2022-03-04 11:05|| Front Page Top

#10 If we did, then we can again, M.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-04 22:01|| 2022-03-04 22:01|| Front Page Top

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