If Europe is at war with russia it's unlikely china would willingly provide the steel we need.
I think they'd very happily sell to both sides of that conflict. I feel China would happily see Russia disappear up it's own butt. They're an annoying neighbour on all fronts.
I liked Rogue One, but felt that Andor was one of the least engaging characters. He was the person who did what others told him to do. In S1 of Andor I found him to be a very passive protagonist. He fell into situations, things happened around him and the whole thing was very unsatisfying.
Unless he gets a "cause" in S2 I suspect I'll be hate watching it.
Jingye, intended to turn off the furnaces in a way that it would effectively never be possible to use them again without incurring a lot of time and extraordinary cost.
Yes, that's the sabotage I spoke of.
Forcing the import of Chinese steel wasn't something I'd considered though.
The pipeline is already shut-off. It closed at the start of this year when the contract ran out. Only Hungary was pissed off when this happened, and fuck Orban.
The only reason the US wants control is to turn it on.
Tata were offered the same deal as Jingye. Tata accepted and so Port Talbot will reopen after modernisation. Jingye didn't accept and look to be trying to sabotage the plant to stop losing money.
The purpose of the strike was to raise awareness and make the issue one of public note more than anything else. It didn't really work in the long run. The pits closed. The communities suffered and they're still feeling the effects today 40 years later.
The mines needed to go IMHO. The country needed to move on, but the way it was done with absolutely no support was callous and heartless.
We repeatedly face the same problem with industry still running from the Victorian era. This week it's 2,700 steel-workers at blast furnaces in Scunthorpe. The government are stepping in "to save British steel", but as part of it they want to modernise. A modern arc furnace only needs about a fifth of the workers (based on Port Talbot having 2,500 job losses when they closed their blast furnaces, but only needing 500 for the new furnace when it opens), so whilst they are "saving steel worker jobs" they're also planning to let most of them go. The key question is what do those people do instead. Hopefully something less hazardous, but it has to be something.
This aspect of pipewire, the possibilities of routing audio and video between applications and devices, should be amazing. It's not, because most apps try to do it themselves.
Give me an OBS where everything is a pipewire sink, and the result is a pipewire source. Give me Firefox that doesn't talk to cameras and microphones, but opens pipewire sinks for inputs and sources for outputs (this bit is already ok). At that point I've got a full studio setup with remote interview capability perfect for podcasts, audio or video.
Maybe this is all coming together slowly and I'm out of date, but last time I tried it was so frustratingly close but not possible.
The big thing she's remembered for is closing down the mining industry. Whole communities throughout the north of England and Wales were left penniless. They were towns where everyone worked as a miner or in some way related to the mine. Nothing was done to give any alternatives.
Of course there was a huge industrial dispute - The miners strike. Massive, initially peaceful, demonstrations that turned violent as police would attack and stir up the conflict. People died, communities were shatteredd, yet through it all Thatcher was unmoving. Just using the police as her own civilian army.
It's not just a precedent. It's the precedent that all legal scholars learn on their first day of US law school. It's a foundation stone of the US legal system. You tear that one down, and you've torn the system down.
No physical good crosses a border, which is the point when a tariff has to be paid normally. The cargo isn't allowed into the country unless the tax is paid.
I think they'd very happily sell to both sides of that conflict. I feel China would happily see Russia disappear up it's own butt. They're an annoying neighbour on all fronts.