News @lemmy.world ModerateImprovement @sh.itjust.works 2mo ago

Biden-Harris Administration Announces the Michigan Maritime Manufacturing (M3) Initiative.

www.whitehouse.gov Biden-Harris Administration Announces the Michigan Maritime Manufacturing (M3) Initiative | The White House

M3 will invest in workforce training in Michigan to boost American submarine production The United States’ nuclear submarine force, and the industrial

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Not to be confused with Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M Company)
- Are they the ones who filled my blood with delicious PFAS???
  
  Officially: No.
  
  Unofficially: [REDACTED]
  
  They were, Minnesota banned PFAS last year without warning to 3M so it's a very small consolation prize
  
  Our testicles too!
I live in Michigan and sell to manufacturers. This is terrific news to be in manufacturing sales in Michigan.
- I'm not a smart man, but Michigan seems pretty far away from the Ocean
  
  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.
  
  The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
  Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee...
  
  I've been on a military sub in Michigan before: https://silversidesmuseum.org/
  
  Give it a couple years.
  
  St Lawrence River and Erie canal, though I'm not sure how functional that one is.
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.
- And the Navy has already abandoned the 3M program, especially for anyone stationed near China
Hell yeah, love to see this stuff :)
I guess we get used to all the announcements being "Biden-Harris" now?
- Why? That's not new.
What does it matter, if a civil war breaks out
- Are you going to reenact the civil war in your backyard or something?
  
  Not me, but There are many Christian Nationalists ready to. Plenty of 1/6 defendants to attest
- Americans care too much about their cars and the junk they've spent decades collecting in their garages to start a civil war.

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