The XKCD comic entitled Dependency. a ramshackle tower of boxes, much like Jenga pieces, supported by one precariously thin one near the bottom representing a critical vulnerability. This comic has been adapted to the Spruce Pine situation. Text above reads: THE GLOBAL SEMICONDUCTOR ECONOMY. Text to the side pointing at the critical block reads: Ultra-pure Quartz some random company in North Carolina has been thanklessly mining since the 1970s
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