Biden-Harris Administration Announces the Michigan Maritime Manufacturing (M3) Initiative.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/07/22/biden-harris-administration-announces-the-michigan-maritime-manufacturing-m3-initiative/
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cygnus@lemmy.ca · 70 pts · 2y
Not to be confused with Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M Company)
thefartographer@lemm.ee · 40 pts · 2y
Are they the ones who filled my blood with delicious PFAS???
cygnus@lemmy.ca · 50 pts · 2y
Officially: No.
Unofficially: [REDACTED]
thefartographer@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 2y
I look forward to the day that corporations lose a lawsuit and openly admit that they poisoned all of humanity.
After that, I expect the corporations to sue all of humanity for harboring their IP. Of course, they'll win their case in a Texas court and will make multitudes more than they'll ever have to disburse in payouts
xmunk@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
All the accusations just seem to slide right off of them.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
They were, Minnesota banned PFAS last year without warning to 3M so it's a very small consolation prize
Imprudent3449@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
Our testicles too!
bacon_saber@fedia.io · 4 pts · 2y
"...and my balls!"
NineMileTower@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 2y
I live in Michigan and sell to manufacturers. This is terrific news to be in manufacturing sales in Michigan.
Chocrates@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y
I'm not a smart man, but Michigan seems pretty far away from the Ocean
MagicShel@programming.dev · 61 pts · 2y
I admire your honesty and capacity for self-reflection. But shipping is huge in the Great Lakes. You can also get to the Atlantic from them.
grue@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y
Fun fact: it's possible to circumnavigate the eastern half of the US via the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
That never occurred to me before and now I want to do it.
grue@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Me too, although politics is making me more interested in sailing away from the US at the moment.
Anyway, https://www.greatloop.org/
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I'm also looking into getting out, but I'd still love to do that. Very cool.
cygnus@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y
You can set off from Canada and still do that loop (just saying...)
grue@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
You can, but you're still spending the vast majority of your time in US jurisdiction (which is bad if it turns into a fascist dictatorship and you're trying to flee...).
Spot@startrek.website · 1 pts · 2y
Oo, oo, lemme drop this lil tidbit in too,
https://www.ic.org/directory/a-watership-down/
Current Focus: Ohio River (Cincinnati to Louisville) to Canada to Montreal (Quebec) to Nova Scotia to Maine] [Secondarily any of the great lakes or the ohio river; Mississippi still a possible]
A water-based, sustainable effort, with a view to a better quality of life. (tentative statement) disclaimer: almost all of this is planned; the only actuals are a couple of sailboats on the ohio river; there are no requirements for supporting one another
cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I KNEW it!!!?!
cygnus@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 2y
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee...
NineMileTower@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
This is the song of my people.
cygnus@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y
As soon as that first verse comes in, every Canadian automatically leans back and nods their had in satisfaction. It's a genetic thing (we inject DNA therapy into immigrants at the border for those not born here)
NineMileTower@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
I've been on a military sub in Michigan before: https://silversidesmuseum.org/
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org · 5 pts · 2y
Give it a couple years.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
St Lawrence River and Erie canal, though I'm not sure how functional that one is.
Elechicken@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 2y
NineMileTower@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2y
Kalothar@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
Etterra@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
They wanted to use "3M" but it turns out that one's already taken by a company that makes more red tape than all politicians alive or dead combined.
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
And the Navy has already abandoned the 3M program, especially for anyone stationed near China
Wahots@pawb.social · 8 pts · 2y
Hell yeah, love to see this stuff :)
whyrat@lemmy.world · -23 pts · 2y
I guess we get used to all the announcements being "Biden-Harris" now?
catloaf@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y
Why? That's not new.
Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.world · -31 pts · 2y
What does it matter, if a civil war breaks out
Netrunner@programming.dev · 7 pts · 2y
Are you going to reenact the civil war in your backyard or something?
Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2y
Not me, but There are many Christian Nationalists ready to. Plenty of 1/6 defendants to attest
Empricorn@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 2y
You... do know the government has armies, right? And drones and Intelligence and helicopters and machine guns and missiles...
Meal Team Six LARPers coordinating with their shotguns and single-shot rifles have no chance.
Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
While it is comforting to know most of the military would keep their oath, some may not. Much more damage can be done with ARs. While for the most part I don’t believe the Trumpers will do much, some of them will
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Let's hope so. The conservatives need to be put in their place from time to time.
GiddyGap@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
Americans care too much about their cars and the junk they've spent decades collecting in their garages to start a civil war.