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[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 45 points 9 months ago
[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 38 points 9 months ago

You reeled that guy in like a fish lmao bait

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 25 points 9 months ago

smuglord's can't help themselves.

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[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 43 points 9 months ago

UK is no longer able to make steel

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 42 points 9 months ago

Good thing steel isn't an input into weapons and munitions production, Clown Island.

[-] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 9 months ago

Why produce weapons and munitions yourself when you can just buy them from the US and enrich their military industrial complex? In fact from an American perspective, why does Europe need its own weapons industry at all? Better that they become fully dependent on the US, that way they are easier to control.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 9 months ago

Britain when no child labour

[-] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 9 months ago

Reject steel, return to iron, embrace Anglo-Saxon tradition. Watch out Russia, the brits have 7th century military technology and they're not afraid to use it.

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 32 points 9 months ago

If this decade ends with Brits making pig iron in makeshift furnaces in their back yards, I will take back every negative thing I've said about Sunak

[-] juchebot88@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 9 months ago

embrace Anglo-Saxon tradition

They should set "The Ruin" to music and make it the official UK anthem.

[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 9 months ago

What level of deindustrialization is it when you can't make fucking steel anymore?

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 9 months ago

welcome to the final form of financial capitalism 🤣

[-] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 9 months ago
[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Earliest known steel artifacts are from 1800 BCE, earliest discoverings of reliable steel production are from XIII century BCE Anatolia, X century BCE Egyptians discovered tempering which allowed for high-carbon steel, and V-III century BCE south India produced high quality wootz steel.

So steel was actually produced as early as iron, but iron remained easier to produce for most of that time.

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[-] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 9 months ago

As wise as the Brits pre-WWII, who sent all their scrap metal to the Nazis. (Thanks to @AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml for the continuous history lessons!)

[-] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 32 points 9 months ago

Will financial services mostly remain unaffected? OK no problem then.

[-] PanArab@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 9 months ago

Neoliberals will soon find out that it may be easy to print money but not actual produced goods.

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 9 months ago

Indeed, western politicians appear to be utterly shocked by the fact that they can't just wish factories and trained workers into existence from thin air.

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[-] micnd90@hexbear.net 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

:stick-in-bike-wheel

[-] juchebot88@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 9 months ago

Aims gun at own foot: "Okay, we've got target lock... preparing to fire..."

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 25 points 9 months ago

Technologies lost, Grimdarkification continues apace

[-] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 9 months ago

USSR was the real Age of Technology

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[-] olgas_husband@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 9 months ago

everybody gansta until no gas

[-] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Tata Steel

THANK YOU, DO NOT COME AGAIN

nothin' personnel tho (literally you ain't got no personnel)

[-] SadArtemis@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It may be the result of capitalism, but there's something incredibly right about Tata owning (and discontinuing) modern Britain's steel production. Here's hoping that in due time (and due collapse) Indian corporations come to own that whole wretched island, it would be only fitting and even then would pale in comparison to reparations owed.

[-] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 17 points 9 months ago

the smelting process was just a bit too spicy

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

Capital doesn't see borders.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 9 months ago

Tata has also bought Jaguar which I think is/was a British car company. Very weird trend IMO.

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[-] seas_surround@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

So this is why they're making their warships out of paper mache lately?

https://nitter.net/MyLordBebo/status/1748460625490002227#m

This is the result of two British ships crashing into each other today

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