Oops. We just want to report it to let everybody know, after a week, we going to restart to mass order it again
The magnet has no visibility or access to any sensitive program information.
of course it fucking doesn't, it's a magnet
I appreciate the US is a bit paranoid after the Soviets managed to incorporate inert listening devices into pretty much every conceivable object but this may be a stretch.
There’s a defense contractor that sold the security system of Air Force One to Russia and they were fined but still allow to make weapons for the government lol
were they fined less than the amount they sold the thing for? cause that would be really funny
I used to work for a defense contractor, and part of my job was to scan documents to make sure they didn't say "Made In China." There's a law called DFARS (Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement) which mandates that all military equipment must be made in the USA or allied countries, down to the raw materials in some cases. This is why a lot of US military uniforms are sewn by prison slave labor, because it's still made in the USA. It's also a major reason for the Pentagon's huge budget. I've never seen a $600 hammer, but I have seen a $20k set of shelves.
Is it all just like someone's cousin's fabrication shop for those insane shelf prices or what?
I think so. There's a massive network of small contractors that make all kinds of things for the military. Some of them are very small machine shops and workshops.
This was a multi million dollar business, a big machine shop the size of a football field. And they were just a subcontractor.
They called themselves materialists. It was right in front of us the whole time
the turbomachine is made by Honeywell
Wait - the company that made my fan is making weapons of war lol
Also just overall lmao :amerikkka-clap: the West just cannot think coherently about China at all it is all just baby-brained nonsense. I don't live in the US but it's the exact same here - everyone is either a xenophobe or a lib falling over themselves to toe the line, creating a simply maddening consensus.
Texas Instruments, the company that makes calculators used by millions of kids, also makes missiles
General Electric, the company that makes fridges, also makes mini guns and nukes
:sleepless:
And General Electric also owned NBC until it was bought by Comcast in 2013. Which they used to suppress coverage of the fact that their transformer production plants were leaking incredibly toxic and carcinogenic chemicals (PCBs) into the ground. The city I grew up in has a GE transformer plant that's been closed for decades, but the buildings are still there behind a fence because the ground underneath them is still contaminated
Actually I think the ge appliance brand was sold to a chinese company 🤣
Honeywell made the cluster munitions that were dumped all over Laos and Cambodia, the ones that still continue to murder and mutilate innocent children to this day
Singer (the sewing machine guys) made navigation systems for heavy bombers.
Almost all major U.S. manufacturing companies can trace their initial investment capital to military contracts from the Civil War, WWI, and WWII.
What can these nefarious Chinese magnets be up to, attaching themselves on the insides of our machines?! Drawing themselves into our designs!?
What is the charge? Using a magnet? A succulent Chinese magnet?
I think this is mostly concerning not because there's a Chinese magnet in there but that there is any component whatsoever that doesn't have a tracked and documented history that starts and ends in the the US. That's part of why all that army shit costs so much: it must be entirely produced in the US.
After decades of sending all our manufacturing expertise overseas too lol
Why do "Made In America" when you can just slap a "Made In America" sticker on something from China and call it good?
I mean, profits, amirite?
In what way do you find that concerning? I think it's usually a good thing to restrict certain federal funding to be used only on domestic products as a stimulus. The issue is that it's a tsunami of funds coming down via the military rather than healthcare or environmental programs.
"Buy domestic" does inflate your costs significantly, but there is a lot of upside. Costs can be brought down by allowing a certain amount of imported equipment or components, or by strict accountability, neither of which will happen under the American MIC ofc.
I don't care one way or the other, was trying to say that this isn't a problem for whomever this is a problem for because it's a Chinese part, it's a problem because there should be no non-American parts whatsoever in the trillion dollar ballistic artificial reef.
