Steel is approximately 99% iron.
The remaining 0.02–2% is carbon, and that tiny fraction is what separates a material that bends from one that can hold up a skyscraper.
More carbon: harder and stronger, but more brittle.
Less carbon: softer and more ductile, but weaker.
The entire history of metallurgy is the story of humans learning to control that 1%.
This is the find of the cockroach protest. He humbles all of is us. Have listened to this 10 times. What do we do to ensure that he gets an opportunity to be a future leader? (I disagree with those who want to set him up with a small business) millions who agree with me- we can fund his future. !!
Job opportunity: I'm looking for a Manchester based cat to join the Chief Mouser department. Must be good at catching mice but not good at getting attention on social media (that's covered)
Kiribati: the country that broke the map 🌍✨
This tiny island nation is massive: not in land, but in spread.
Kiribati is made up of 33 coral atolls scattered across 3.5 million km² of ocean, bigger than India! 😮🌊
Oh, and get this: Kiribati is the only country that sits in all four hemispheres — north, south, east and west! 🧭
However, to keep them all on the same time it uses GMT +14, making it the first country in the world to ring-in the New Year.
More odd shaped countries: https://t.co/DXFxBwh7YO
I was at dinner. Went to pay the bill, opened Apple Pay and every card was gone.
Confused, I logged into @Wise. That's how I found out they closed my business account. No email. No warning. No reason. Just gone with $50,000 of my company's money locked inside.
That's everything i have.
I've been a @Wise customer for 5+ years. This is extremely disappointing.
No notification that they'd even done it. I only knew because I couldn't pay for dinner.
Then I spent hours trying to appeal — the app and website kept logging me out over and over. Finally appealed and waited for any acknowledgement at all.
Silence for 3 days.
So I filed a formal complaint. Two more days of silence again.
Finally I called and explained, in detail, exactly what this is doing to my business. Their answer: "we've received it, we're working on it, we'll get back to you within 15 days."
Here's what "15 days" means when it's your entire operating account: supplier invoices due, freight forwarders waiting to be paid to clear shipments already in transit, creators unpaid, inventory down to days.
if stock didn't make it on time my Amazon listing goes out of stock, it loses the ranking I spent months and serious ad spend building, my creators will also leave and be really furious,
that doesn't come back when they return my money. That damage is permanent. Every day they sit on this, they're not just holding my cash. They're dismantling the business.
This is a legitimate, registered US business. Every single dollar traces to payouts and supplier invoices, fully auditable. I offered to send them everything: Payouts reports, invoices, ID, contracts. They never asked for a single document before closing me. Not one.
I'm not a scammer. I'm a founder who built something over years, and I got locked out of it at a dinner table with no explanation and no way to reach a human who can help.
@Wise — return my company's money. this is unacceptable
Complaint case 25050042.
This is not the headline you had on your bingo card: Ukraine will use European Union defence loan money to purchase Chinese drone components worth up to €6 billion, according to the Financial Times.
There is a yellow digger on building sites in a hundred countries, and the name on the side of it is British: JCB. They have been built in Rocester, in the Staffordshire countryside, since 1945, by a company still owned outright by the family that founded it, the Bamfords. It has never floated on a stock exchange and it has never sold itself to a foreign buyer.
And this year the Americans handed it, in open competition, its third contract in a row to supply the United States Marine Corps: $205 million for 535 armoured loaders, designed and built in Staffordshire, chosen over every home-grown rival the United States could put up.
A massive triumph.
Now think of the ones we lost. DeepMind, the finest artificial-intelligence lab in Europe, sold to Google. Arm, the crown jewel of British chip design, bought by SoftBank and floated in New York, not London. Graphcore gone to Tokyo, Alphawave to California. We have become famous for building world-beaters and then handing them to someone else at the first decent offer. JCB is one that escaped that fate, and it escaped for a reason worth understanding.
Because it stayed private, and stayed in a single family's hands, JCB could do the thing almost no British public company is allowed to do: think in decades and adopt generational timespans. It could pour profits back into engineering year after year with no quarterly earnings call to punish it for patience. It could turn the buy-out down and keep building. That long horizon is exactly what it takes to make machinery good enough that the United States Marine Corps, free to buy from anyone on Earth, keeps coming back to a firm in the English Midlands. The freedom to build for the long term is the whole game, and our financial system is arranged to strip British companies of it at the first opportunity.
This is the centre of what Progress means to change. We would make Britain the easiest country on earth to start a company, and the best-capitalised place to grow one, with as lesser an incentive as possible to then sell one out from under the nation that built it. That means unlocking the pension money that ought to be backing British firms and today sits everywhere but. It means a tax system that rewards the founder who spends decades building an empire, not the one who flips the company the moment it is worth a premium. And it means the state becoming a serious first customer for our best engineering, the way the Pentagon and the State Department has always been for America's. JCB proved it can be done by doing it. The work is to make JCB the rule, no longer the exception.
The talent that built that company is scattered across this country in ten thousand firms that will never get the run at greatness JCB seized, because the moment they become valuable the system teaches them to sell. That is a choice we have made, and it is one we can unmake. If you build things, or back the people who do, or simply want to live in a country that keeps its winners, come and help us change the rules that keep teaching our best companies to leave, so the next great firm we breed does what JCB did: stays, and wins.
@imaginecurve
What sort of product are you providing.
You block the card without informing.
Customer service is non existent and doesn't seem to care in providing reason for the block.