Well uh, China.

Untill they figure out that you can’t just cram raw ore into a battery or computer.

ETA on them figuring that out … 2-3 years?

Oh right, and then you actually have to build the refineries.

I’m goin with ‘within the next 2 years’, being said for approximately 8 years.

I actually did this, milked the shit out of a free ancenstry.com membership, before they charged me.

Long story short:

Traced my lineage back to the American Revolutionary War? 🇺🇲 ✅

Found out that I am apparently technically, literally an Italian by their blood right heritage laws, and the timing of when my ancestors had children vs got naturalized? 🇮🇹 ✅

(Do I speak any Italian? ❌)

Do I have any Canadian heritage? 🇨🇦 ❌❌❌

Nope. Literally none, back to ~1700 - 1800, through anyone.

So… maybe learning Italian is my future, idfk.

EDIT:

lol, welp:

https://italyget.com/decreto-tajani-on-italian-citizenship/

tl;dr nevermind , Italy can apparently just amend its law via the judiciary, at any time, so… I am not Italian.

perfetto, angry hand gestures

…

… wormsign.

The hilarious part of this is that they think they can do this to get to something approaching parity/self-sufficiency with China’s level of Rare Earth Metals production, in like… no time at all.

That’s not even close to how any of this works, but okey dokey?

They’re literally the most incompetent economic planners / policy makers… at least since the Smoot Hawley tariffs.

Even if this all like, actually worked, without legal challenges, to … open up mining operations…

You… still have have to do all the rest of the industrial planning/policy to… make… any of this… make any actual sense, and that’s just… national heritage/environmental damage treated as moot.

Just somebody let me know when I can claim asylum in a more civilized country, as a persecuted class, where that class is ‘I am Autistic’.

Till then, I’ll continue not publically existing.

The US admin has already publically stated multiple times that they basically wanna holocaust us, send all the people with mental ‘disorders’, who use prescribed meds… to farm labor detox work camps.

Just go look for quotes from Health Minister Brainworm.

Hah, thats funny, I… literally have a ‘Projects’ folder, though I’m running Bazzite.

hoists suspenders

Yep, made that folder on my own, gets the job done, mhrm.

… lol

(pleasedonotlookinsidetheProjectsfolderdeargoditissuchamess)

I’ve decided this is my personal head canon for the origin of Kerbal Space Program.

That right there, that’s Jeb prime, Jeb 0, being blasted into the Kerbal dimension.

LOL

Surely, there is absolutely no precedent for anything going wrong in a scenario such as that.

… Potatoes.

The Truman Show has expanded to essentially the entire planet, following the proliferation of black box social media algorithms.

Before he died suddenly of an aneurysm, my former psychiatrist was fascinated with me.

“I’m not trapped in here with you, you’re trapped in here with me.”

It’s ‘think for your self’. Its a command, an open ended command.

Which they say with authority, because they fashion themselves as thought leaders (cough cult leaders cough) and have literally delusional levels of self confidence and ego.

Ahem.

https://archive.org/details/the-hitch-hikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-read-by-stephen-moore_202302

Not the PDF, but, also not not the book, technically.

Hah, I haven’t written one, but maybe check out Arthur’s short story elsewhere in the comments!

He’s got uh… watermelon emojis in his name.

Augh!

You’re telling me there’s an Arthur C Clarke short that I missed?

Damnit I am losing so many nerd points today.

Shit yeah go for it, I love those kinds of stories!

Haven’t seen it yet, I appreciate the nonspoiling =D

Hah, actually no I have not.

-1 nerd point lol

Ask your nearest local Mormon about Kolob.