>You can still be trading with someone and they can still be your enemy.

How is China our "enemy"? When did China ever attack or threatened to attack the United States? The USSR was an enemy. They represented a fundamental existential threat to the United States. China does not. China is challenging our leadership position globally, but it has no intention to and gains nothing by destroying the United States.

>The key difference is that it's a hostile foreign entity

Top 10: Countries Receiving U.S. Exports

China … $41.9 billion (up 89.6%)

United Kingdom …$38.6 billion (up 16.3%)

Germany … $34.2 billion (up 28.6%)

South Korea … $27.8 billion (up 23%)

Netherlands … $26.5 billion (up 44.8%)

France … $22.4 billion (up 17.9%)

Taiwan … $22.1 billion (up 20.1%)

The "hostile entity" is hands down our #1 trade partner and a massive source of income.

Being a rival is not the same thing as being a hostile foreign entity.

Eventually, but we are still many years away from that. Maybe once 5G becomes ubiquitous globally and the datacenters more geographically distributed this will be the case. But until then, most games will need to be run locally.

I think we will see the triple A gaming industry eventually adjust system requirements/performance to conform with he new realities of the market. No point making games for the 4060 as the recommended GPU when most of the market cannot afford that. Also, AI based upscaling might help alleviate things on the hardware requirement front.

In many ways I see parallels between the current component price crisis and the 1970s fuel crisis. As a result of the oil shock back then, big muscle cars gave way to smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles. The focus moved from raw power to efficiency and cost. We saw the rise of the compact and sub-compact cars, which did not exist in the US back in the 50s and 60s.

I think the computer market will go thru the same process now. IGPUs/APUs could become the baseline for gaming moving forward.

I for one refuse to pay $500+ for a discrete GPU and I don't think I am in the minority.

Unleashing the dogs of war.

Many reasons, but the simplest one is that it takes a lot of energy to trap carbon in large scale (both to build the machines and to run the machines). We are talking about a lot of carbon here. In 2020 alone the global CO2 output was 34 billion metric tons. This is a mind boggling large number. For machines to even make a dent on this we are talking about a lot of construction, in a scale humanity has never done before, and a lot of energy production, on a scale humanity has never done before.

COVID alone and the massive refusal of millions to wear masks, to social distance and vaccinate should give a glimpse of how difficult a coordinated global effort to curb CO2 emission would be. And in terms of collective cost and collective inconvenience, COVID is child' s play compared with what would need to be done to meaningfully reduce CO2 emissions.

The social turmoil, controversy and political toll we saw during COVID would be nothing compared to what we would see if there was serious global CO2 emission enforcement.

"Brazil launches VSB-30 rocket FROM Alcantara Space Center"

How it should have been written.

The Concord lasted for 27 years because of government subsidies. Without it, it would not have lasted 27 days.

The plane did not score one single sale. Not a single unit was sold to an airline anywhere.

Even the Soviets realized that the idea of a SST was madness and canned their TU-144 in less than a year of use.