Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@social.cleverlibre.org
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
@sciencebase Mossie was another one of his, that wooden one where he had to put the guns on the nose instead of the wings.
@sciencebase Yes it looks the part. Anything with 'carpet' in its name looks like a Vulcan bomber too.
@sciencebase He did a Vampire too. What did he get in his trap?
Be interesting to know who at Dehavilland named this the Hawk Moth.
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"England is one of the few countries in the world where water is fully owned by private companies. These companies answer to investors based thousands of miles away from their customers."
"About 10% is known to be owned by English investors, while about 72% is owned by overseas investors and 18% is unaccounted for."
“What we have here is just a crazy system. We are managing our water in the interests of offshore investors.”
Kate Bayliss,
University of London.
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This sums up my #ecological despair #today. The #wildlife and pets and vulnerable folks with no access to #cleanair are in my thoughts. What are the long term consequences of this new #fire regime going to be? 😩 #wildfires #airquality
@freemo This is going to be about stripping your radiators and blueing the steel, isn't it. Before using them to make a pattern-welded sword that will cleave the Earth asunder with a single mighty blow, or at least finish off anyone who escapes the gnome mines.
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It’s not a stretch to say yesterday’s decision in Moore v. Harper felt like an asteroid that just missed us. I explain why that is and how close we readily came to Democracy Armageddon, in today’s piece. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/whew?sd=pf
@sciencebase I always suspected that he didn't really drive a Lotus 7 but 'Auberge' wouldn't look as good if it were a Ford Fiesta.
@BrentToderian I agree, but if people are told for decades that having a car will greatly improve their lives, and it is true for many people, then it is a difficult task to persuade them that now it will not. We have to make it TRUE that other means of transport are good enough. Right now, they are not.
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It’s still a BIG problem that because of car manufacturing influence, most media & political energy goes to EVs, with not NEARLY enough going to fewer cars/less driving. But the priority HAS to be the latter, the part of the solution that will actually do much more public good. #EV #ElectricVehicles #cars #cities
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GOOD NEWS
The government has just confirmed it is dropping its plan to repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a "Bill of Rights".
This means is likely that the Human Rights Act will outlast the current government, despite the many attempts by this government to remove it.
https://twitter.com/mckinneytweets/status/1673657282532442115
@freemo Iron made in a blast furnace is saturated with C and is about 4.5%.This is a crude cast iron and we reduce it to 0.06% to make mild steel. Above around 0.8%C it forms Fe3C (Cementite) and looses toughness but is hard, so used for tools which shouldn't need to resist impacts. These are rough guides and are equilibrium based. Once you add other alloys or do heat treatments, everything is different.
@freemo We spend most of the time removing carbon from iron. And on average a steel's Mn content is 5X that of its C content. C is insoluble in iron at service temps. Most steel makers don't know those points!
@freemo That's good. Much iron and steel terminology causes confusion - even 'iron' is loose, so if you say steel is refined iron, chemists everywhere object.
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"I appeal to policymakers to stop treating inflation as the cause of our current woes, but to recognise it as the symptom of the real loss we have all suffered, and address the distributional challenge that it creates."
https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/inflation-and-grief
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I'm a autistic dev looking for work
I have 2 years professional experience working as a full stack developer with Rust in the back end and React.js and Vue.js in front end. As well as professional experience with open-source projects.
Im looking for part-time or full-time positions. I can work ip to 30hrs/week. Im looking for companies willing to hire Brazilians living in Brazil.
If you know of any positions, please let me know! Boost for greater visibility
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Please boost :boost_requested:
As part of a wave of layoffs, I got laid off from my backend development job last month as the company's financials I was working with have been steadily decreasing. I applied for another job shortly after, and after a month of interviews and an honestly great response from their team, at the last minute, they told me that they were focusing their hiring efforts away from the US and towards Singapore. With Calckey donations, I don't have enough money to pay for rent or groceries. So I'm asking to #GetFediHired, I'm the lead developer on the Calckey project, and I'm a fullstack, multi-language developer. I have 3+ years of enterprise experience, and I work great on teams as well as solo. Resume and references available upon request.
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
