They are going to need to do some insane bailouts and corporate welfare to hide the crater that is going to be the economy for midterms, hiding reporting for a quarter isn’t going to be enough. Prices on basics are going through the roof, and people are going to buy food before they pay their bills or vacation, which will lead to cascading issues in basically every other segment as people have no money to spend. Saying nothing for the shit job market and unemployment rates. Every consumer is going to take note about how much money they are spending and how little they have left after the fact when these tariffs hit even harder very soon.
Again, CUDA is great don't get me wrong but you are using CUDA and driving a lambo with it. They go together. Let's say China makes great software for chips. AMD too. What does that have to do with the fact that are still at a Chevy Impala chip status?
If the economy tanks people will be mad at the party in power. The fact that this is happening makes it more likely that the people doing it think the economy is tanking.
Fun fact for the fuzzy TV guy: it's because every old CRT set had a flyback transformer holding up to 30k volts. Every household in America had, with a couple of crossed wires, an industrial electric execution device in their house
TikTok and Reddit are totally different animals though. But it's a fact most people would prefer to look at mindless videos rather than read and write.