
it’s been embarrassing for a while. but we’ve been able to keep up the facade long enough that it was irrelevant. we lost most of our remaining goodwill when we started the GWOT. we haven’t had shit going on since fairchild semiconductor got bought out. china’s manufacturing SCALE has outclassed us for a while, but the difference in quality of chinese manufacturing vs like, just 10 years ago is night and day. we’re in the twilight years of the empire.