TotalBrownout [none/use name]
worst. gang. ever.
This is either hilariously true
My vote is for this… The industrial capacity of China is roughly comparable to the US + Japan + Germany. While relatively poor in domestic natural resources to support this capacity, it would seem they are currently making arrangements to address that.
Sigur Ros, Mogwai, Boards of Canada
I use it to make collard greens. That’s it.
Cartesian Speciesist: broke.
Cartesian Misanthrope: bespoke.
Where “inland northern English” is dominant… no southern drawl allowed.
muenster
This tracks… “middle class” is an income band encompassing those who fall between 2/3 and 200% of median. The US is a terribly unequal society where something like 40% of the population falls within this band, with high degrees of wage compression near/at subsistence-level… the distribution of those within the technical "middle class skew to the low end of the range. Because poverty is best conceived in relative versus absolute terms, it’s fair to say that the “Middle America/the average person” in the US lives in poverty.
Yup… a tungsten billet has to be heated to point where it begins vaporize (this is considered the MP, but I’ve only ever seen it vaporize. And by seen, I don’t mean look at, it’s bright like the sun) At these temperatures it also becomes a brittle ceramic and is prone to cracking. Lots of scrap to get one good piece that can then be machined to net form.
Eating, living indoors, and making it to the bathroom on time.