China has near global monopolies on these exports, accounting for 98% of global gallium production, 93% of germanium production, and 49% of antimony production.
Antimony is a rare earth mineral needed for the production of all modern artillery shells. The US has no antimony mines. China controls its extraction and owns like 90% of the mines in Hunan province. Other mines are located in Russia and South Africa. Bolivia is the second highest producer behind China. Pretty much no other nation produces it. That’s it. Four countries.
Trump: “Make America analogue again!”
All the analogcels screeching that they can’t get their germanium diodes
RIP boutique fuzz pedal industry
I’ve got three diodes. About to list them on Reverb for like $5k each.
if they ban the export of vacuum tubes too the entire guitar industrial complex will be on its knees
Whoever has the other 2% of the gallium supply sweating rn
Called gallium
Mostly found in China
Please invade
all the same
gallium
germanium
it would be really funny if china just started referring to e*ropean countries as if they were provinces of the roman empire again
Death to America
Wtf France has two elements named after it? That’s bs
There’s a tiny village in Sweden with 4 elements named after it.
Ytterby?
there is a place in f*nland called bear’s asshole. it is in no way the only place w/ a name like this. why yes i have in fact experienced schlong lake.
js the country is a shit hole BUT having just one scientific thing named after a bizarre location there would do a lil bit to redeem it maybe
this is also the only redeeming feature of terf island, it has an unlimited quantity of extremely rude place names.
but then again, there is a place in spain that basically translates as “the fuck”, as in the act of fucking
In Denmark there is a town whose name can be translated as “dick”. The next town over is named “intestine”. If you drive south you can cross the border to Germany in a village named “semen”. Don’t go north though or you might end up in the joyful village literally named “darkness”, you will have a better time in “beer place”.
And for some reason English-speakers seems to think the town of Middelfart has a funny name.
If the tariffs on solar panels are any indication, this is just going to be an economic stimulus for China’s neighbors, who will be able to sell Chinese minerals to the US at what I at least hope will be a generous markup.
That’s exactly what is going to happen lmao the U.S. acts like it can do to China what it does to Cuba. Too late for that no buddy, you sent all of your production there!
It’s like I’m taking crazy pills! Why are you fucking with our manufacture base?! We have no alternative!! We need to replace them before we fuck with them.
Never interrupt your enemy while they are in the process of making a mistake
I’ve literally had people dismiss me like, you’re a Marxist you just want to see the US destroyed. Motherfucker I love here. I actually prefer it not be destroyed .
I live here and don’t care any more. My comfort is built on the death of thousands every day, let it burn
Really cool and good how we as a country have imperial boomerang’ed so hard that this country is choosing to selectively cherry-pick to have all the bad of the free-market with none of the good.
Economics is when you have blind faith cult adherence to the money line, right?
I mean, yes, basically.
Capital E Economics, the state religion
