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“Back” is in the mid 1800’s, you mean? Or “back” as in when we built astonishingly expensive liberty ships for a large fraction of our GDP in WW2? Because sin
by mercutio2 2y ago
“Back” is in the mid 1800’s, you mean?
Or “back” as in when we built astonishingly expensive liberty ships for a large fraction of our GDP in WW2?
Because since the move to steel ships, there’s never been a time the US has been good at building ships.
Brian Potter goes into great detail on this [0], it’s a great read.
[0] https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-cant-the-us-build-ships https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-cant-the-us-build...
- mptest 2y agosee also: his attacks on the "horrible" CHIPS act [0]. If anyone think he's doing anything good for anyone but billionaires, contact me. I've got some trump coin to sell you. [0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/trump-wants-kill-527-billion-semiconductor-chips-subsidy-law-2025-03-05/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/trump-wants-kill-527-bill...