Apple didn’t do shit except maybe increase the TSMC bottom line.
TSMC continuously made the best most reliable independent process at scale since the iPhone came out, and Apple paid to get the combination of reliability and performance.

In about 2016 TSMC surpassed even Intel because Intel stumbled on their 10nm process. But at the time TSMC passed Intel, Apple was only about 10-15% of TSMC revenue.

At the same Time AMD became a major customer, and Nvidia has also mainly used TSMC apart from a short period where they used Samsung.

The success of TSMC is because of TSMC skill and business tenacity, not because of Apple or any other customer.
Apple basically had 3 places to go, after they asked Intel and Intel said no.
Global foundries, a company already struggling, and tied to supply AMD.
Samsung A company with wearying quality and output in the highest end of their capability.
TSMC A company with years of showing high stability at volume, and the leader on performance for independent production, and with high trustworthiness.

The idea of Apple making their own foundry at the time would have been insane. They simply chose the best as most other high performance high volume chip customers did.

Now TSMC is the undisputed leader, with Samsung and Intel playing catch-up as TSMC now leads in performance, yield and volume production.

Yes smartphones helped TSMC achieve the revenue required, but it wasn’t Apple as a customer that made TSMC into what they are today, TSMC was getting there even before Apple became a major customer.
What really helped TSMC though, was that Intel initially discarded the idea of making the chip for Apple, because Intel saw it as a low profit margin market, which they had no interest in.
So TSMC was helped by the arrogance of the only chip manufacturer that was better than TSMC.

It is the case, they are just not generally saying it out loud.
Germany is participating in all EU programs to curb dependence on USA, and are as active as everybody else in EU.
There’s a lot of holding back regarding saying what they mean, because it’s better for this ugly divorce to happen gradually, and prevent it from getting uglier than it has to be, because EU is not ready to cut ties with USA yet.
But Europe is preparing to not having to take shit from USA anymore. And these preparations are made easier by Trump undermining USA’s economy and political influence globally.
AFAIK after WW2 the US economy was almost a third of the global economy, and now it is only about a fifth. The economic dominance of USA is declining, and with it, the political dominance will decline too, and with declining economy, their military will also decline.
We just have to stop propping the US economy up with continued investments in it. And by we I mean all other countries and especially democracies.

Yes, absolutely uncompromisingly ruthless.

it doesn’t help that Zionist propaganda is literally conflating the two.

Absolutely.

I’m really doubting the existence of independent unbiased sources that measure the actual effect.

I’m not sure the actual effect of what? Antisemitism? Because I think that polled pr4etty regularly.

This one is about Israel:
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/03/most-people-across-24-surveyed-countries-have-negative-views-of-israel-and-netanyahu/

This is from UK:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/study-finds-that-one-in-five-british-people-now-holds-antisemitic-views/

I bet that UK piece is reasonably representative of EU too. And the study claims that antisemitism has doubled since 2021!!

That would probably make them more unpopular here.

I can only say that from what I hear on the news, and what I see here on Lemmy, and what I hear from people I know and meet. The picture is the same, Israel is pretty universally hated for their war crimes in Gaza, and to some degree that carries over to non Israeli Jews. I think most people at least here in Europe are beginning to understand that the terrorist attack on Israel, that made this blow up ,was an act of desperation.

I obviously and very specifically was talking about Jews of Israel about those leaving, and not Israelis in general.
The latter part about Arabs hating Jews, that is Jews in general.
I would think the context made that reasonably clear. My comment has nothing to do with any other demographic of Israel.

74% of the Israeli population are Jews.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel

This is also at a time where they must know that many places they are not as welcome as they used to be.
Personally I have no issues with Jews outside Israel, because the vast majority of them are clearly against how Israel is handling things in Gaza. But I know people that have great difficulty making that distinction. Especially among Arabs, they almost universally hate the Jews.

USA 🤣 🤣 😜 🤡 👎

Nice to see a robot that doesn’t walk like it has shit its pants. 👍

It was a smart move by Hyundai to buy Boston Dynamics.
This demo compared to Tesla is way more impressive IMO, Tesla is nowhere near this sophistication in their design.

And Putin is guiding him.

Thanks, to bad you removed it again.

I wonder if Putin has put Trump in overdrive, because Putin is panicking?
If Trump/USA invades Greenland it would most likely be the end of NATO, and it would be the end of Europe buying weapons from USA for Ukraine.
USA already had all the access to Greenland they wanted until Trump started this nonsense.
There is no rational reason for Trump to want Greenland, except to destroy NATO! Which he hinted at numerous times already in his first presidency.
From that perspective disrupting Venezuelan oil also makes sense, because China buys oil from Venezuela, without that oil China may have to buy more oil from Russia and pay more than they do currently where China gets Russian oil at a very steep discount.

The actions of Trump seem designed to help Putin, and my guess is that Putin is the designer.

Yes, and that thing is that English is the leading language for international communication, so Russia has plenty people that speak and write English well.

Allegedly they tried to manipulate an election in France too, but the French of the Russian agents was so horrible, that the French could spot it immediately.

Having the international language of choice is a big vulnerability in this situation.

Link to bypass paywall is still paywalled.

there needs to be some kind of broad holding of Universal Humanist Principles

I agree, and those principles are the basis for the welfare system, healthcare for all, livable minimum wage etc.
But also all EU countries are committed to those, it is mandatory for being a member of EU.

UK has a long history of not respecting such values particularly with their colonialism, and not letting go until they couldn’t hold onto it anymore.
USA has a similar problem with slavery way beyond what was acceptable in other countries that called themselves civilized. USA has even gone so far as to keep oppressing minorities, first with less voting power, but later exploited as cheap labor, which is probably why we see such a low minimum wage even today.

Take those general humanitarian principles, and you will see the leading democracies also being leading in humanitarian values. An example obviously being the Scandinavian countries. Just as authoritarian countries have disregard for humanitarian values.
We see that clearly in both USA and UK that are both dysfunctional democracies.

By that metric and looking at the awful position of Denmark in regards to the Israeli Genocide

And what awful position is that? Denmark has not helped Israel in their genocide, there was a reaction against the Hamas terrorist attack a couple of years ago, but the tune has changed a lot since that. I agree that personally I think our prime ministers initial reaction was disgusting and tone deaf 100% supporting Israel (but only morally and at the time), but Denmark has not supported Israel in their violent attacks on Palestine. And Denmark has also criticized Israel very strongly, and OFFICIALLY accused Israel of genocide in for instance UN.

The knee jerk reaction to support Israel is something that most western democracies suffer from, we were responsible for the creation of Israel, and somehow see it as our responsibility to protect Israel. Although Israel has become the villain we originally wanted to protect them against.
But Denmark is in no way like either USA in this situation, that have laws that they are required to protect Israel. Those laws may have seemed like a good idea at the time, but in this situation they need to be removed.

I must admit I am not nearly as informed about Portugal as I am about Northern Europe. But despite that I know they have some pretty strong policies protecting the weaker parts of civilization and workers, as misunderstood as they may sometimes be compared to the Scandinavian model that seems to work better.
The Portuguese may not be protesting as much as the Brits, but I don’t think the Portuguese system is as inherently bad as is the case for UK. In Portugal most things can be improved through the democratic process. Denmark is also a country that has a very low degree of protests, and I believe that coincides with being one of the best democracies in the word. If it works don’t fix it.

But apart from that, I agree with you.

Well IDK if VW is better in that regard, what I do know is that it’s to save fuel, and ICE cars are on their way out anyway. So it’s kind of a moot point to talk about improving on them now IMO.

Oh sorry for the mixup, mistook it for another line of debate.
But still other countries have had similar systems and changed them. Including my own country, that also used to have a 2 part parliament similar to what UK has now.
That was changed in 1953 after more than a hundred years. Here they were called first and second chamber, and that two part distinction had existed since the 16 hundreds, from before we had democracy.

I don’t see why it would be harder to modernize in UK than other countries. Except for the British exceptionalism, and the British holding almost religiously on to their traditions.