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Common culture and community. Believer in manufacturing & interested in productivity. Trade should be balanced & energy should be renewable.
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Progressive trade policy means using tariffs as a targeted tool. A smart, progressive approach would use them to strengthen working-class livelihoods and environmental goals. theintercept.com/2025/04/09/t...

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

I can relate. After a year with our Tesla Y and 26,000 km on the clock, I’d estimate 20,000 km were powered by our 10 kW rooftop solar—charging during the day for free. The rest from road trips, costing under $250 total and zero servicing. EVs + solar = game changer. #EV #SolarCharging #BEV #Savings

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

There is a 0.000% chance he wrote this one.

submitted 1 day ago • 4303 comments

Great thread on the long history of British Euroscepticism. Reading it, I wonder why so many GB politicians get hung up on competing with the great powers. Just be a prosperous island in Northwest Europe. Sort of like Japan.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Long thread on how Brexitism started and evolved over 75 years, drawing from Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon's 'Continental Drift'. Global Britain, Free Trade, Cakeism, Federalism, anti-federalism, EEA, Winston Churchill, Empire, 52-48 referendums, Enoch Powell, 1975, Thatcher.... It's all here. /1

submitted 155 days ago • 35 comments

A very, very important point made here. There is an inherent productivity power in manufacturing that is often unmatched but overlooked.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It sounds silly, but the American public are pretty much right here (on the first question, at least). Manufacturing jobs tend to be well paid and have strong productivity growth. Which, via the magic of Baumol, raises wages for *everyone* (in the local area, at least)

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This is quite fun. “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory t.co/ycnHVZ1gT1

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 165 comments

I assumed this was an unfair headline masking a difficulty someone was having (eg a house that she didn’t want and couldn’t use but was struggling to sell). But no, it is exactly what it says it is. “…this has meant we have to put it on the market”: you mean the policy is working as intended?

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

This is the fuel mix in ERCOT (Texas) for the past week (top) vs same week 4 years ago (bottom). Solar generation is in yellow. Solar barely registered in 2021; today it accounts for roughly 50% of generation during the day in the shoulder months. data via @gridstatus.io

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Scandalous Every year thousands of UK workers are denied minimum wage. 2016 - 2023: Over 3m workers robbed of the minimum wage. 2007 - 2023: Only 21 employers prosecuted for underpaying the minimum wage, puny fines. NO criminal prosecutions. Lack of prosecutions emboldens more to game the system

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

40% of the world's dirty money is laundered through the UK and its crown dependencies and overseas territories. Laws passed to create impression but not enforced. 49,521 UK registered companies have not provided details of persons of significant control. Companies not struck off.

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