oxonreanimated.bsky.social
Newly retired, returning to online stuff.
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The Executive branch cannot make or repeal laws. Only the Legislative branch can do that.
The Executive branch cannot interpret or implement laws. Only the Judicial branch can do that.
Powers are seperated for a reason.
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Even giving them total permanent ownership of Starlink would not make this a fair exchange. As for the UN, America does not have the political leaverage right now to do more than veto motions.
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Does it? I bow to your greater experience. I have never personally looked closely at one.
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Trump has lost 3 elections in a row, cheated in all of them.
Go figure.
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There is reportedly a lot more than gold stored there. Not a place I would want to visit.
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That is a given
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He hasn't. Even the reported 73 is a stretch. 60 maybe asna realistic figure?
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420,000 is one of the lower tolls. Tens of millions died. And now it seems we might have to do it all again.
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A fat head and a tiny crown. Fitting.
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Political loyalty to any individual is possibly the worst trait that any civil servant can have.
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The bible makes it clear that Jesus was not white. Gender is not really addressed. If 'christians' had actually read the damned book they would know this.
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Nice find
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RIP USA
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The camera (positioned to record his shoes?) Got a really good shot of him cowering on the floor covered in fake blood.
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Miami is a long way from Washington where he supposed to work.
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Louisiana take note. At current rates you will be a sea area by 2050.
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Just people power. It really does not matter if UK, EU, CA, AUS, SA governments chose to respond to trump. Their people simply will not buy.
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POTUS does not have the power to create a government department.
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It remains a Chinese product.
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I dispute that she is actually human
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Looks like white men are not actually better at things like keeping planes flying. Who would have guessed?
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The 'we' strikes me as problematic given that he is South African.
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You did it because it needed to be done. And if it couldn't be done you reinvented the limits. We all did. That was our generation.
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Ya bud. I retired.
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I also run the robots that assemble cars, the ovens that cook the bread the .... I do whatever someone decides they need doing with whatever crap machinery they supply.
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I am NOT any kind of expert in metals. I just do the control systems that make the furnaces achive the temerature
and ship the product to the destination within the timeframe.
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There is a plant in Birmingham, UK where I started out. That led to the repurpoupsed steel rolling mills in South Wales. Meanwhile I got into jet engine manufacture via a different customer. And from there global.
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The war is not jet engines now, it is electronics. And USA is sadly lacking in manufacturing capacity.
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Most are still Timet I think? They own one of the major hydro dams to generate their power
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We actually had a team calculating the thermal shift in the loader unit over time. Those temperatures are mental. Once, twice, maybe. But continually?
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Looks nice
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Just a job.
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A fun industry when I was younger. Now someone else can do it.
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In the Swansea rolling mill we had to open the door (not always easy as you will know, given the forced door design) discharge the load, rotate it 90 degrees, traverse from one of the 6 furnaces and stuff it into the rollers. 40 seconds. 3 tonnes. 2200 degrees.
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I am in Ireland, but I worked sorta everywhere.
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Just for reference, to date $0.00 has been sent to Ukraine as cash. It has all been in the form of obselete arms which would have otherwise been scrapped. The $ value has been given to the US arms industry to make more crap to fill the newly freed space in the warehouses.
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Ya, the plate rolling mill I worked in had strict limits too. Time from furnace to rolling was critical. Mostly because of the metalurgy but also because of the extrordinary ability of titanium to lose heat. 40 seconds was fine, 41 was questionable, send it for analysis, 45 would break the mill.
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I just did the control systems. You want X Torr of vaccum, fine. Then want an inert gas backfill, fine. Then you want me to melt a 3 tonne welding rod into a crucible using a 50 volt power supply with a 20,000 amp capacity? Also fine.
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It has a higher melting point iirc, and will always persist as a defect, however many times you reprocess the material?
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Oh well, DOGE teenagers are now going to fix it all for us
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Indeed
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Came as a bit of a shock in the earliest days when ball point oens were banned on site and if you needed to drill concrete you were given free diamond drill bits. Tungston is not popular in those places.
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Entirely understandable, one single defect could shatter a tiny turbine blade and potentially wreck an engine and the plane it was attached to.
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One single mis step in the traceability and it became oart of a racing car or an artificial limb
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My takeaway from it was traceability. A 3 tonne billet of titanium, remelted several times to ensure consistency, forged, cut and sent to another plant where it was rolled into plates. Then sent to RR who machined several tiny turbine blades from it, sending back the shavings which were smelted ....
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Shorter list, Timet, Rolls Royce and BaE Systems