@sidmacleod@dieworkwear it really depends on your style and your budget. Cartier, Breguet, Glashutte orginal, Blancpan, parmigiani, girard perregaux, zenith, and Grand Seiko all have good alternatives to many of Rolex's pieces.
@whatisnuclear @VICTORY_ this is an interesting project you are working on. from the perspective of a us mariner, I like that you seem to want to make sure its a jones act vessel. objectively though, it seems like a strange choice. it'll be a very expensive proof of concept....
@KyleMatovcik Be honest, do you think a market dominated by SEOs, with strict control over capital flows, 5 year plans implemented by a strong communist party, etc is capitalism? If so, whatever, why not join an org that is pushing for that in the us?
@KyleMatovcik Capitalism, much like communism is an objective stage of economic development. It was the guiding hand of the communist party that allowed China to create a highly efficient economy that is not hindered by rent seeking behavior, and is instead focused on development.
@ObrechtAN@TheManlet_King The west originally built our economic prosperity with protectionist trade policies. If you genuinely believe any us ship yard will ever be able to compete with the Chinese ship yards you are completely delusional. The cost of labor, supply chains, etc make it impossible
@BobPlager@TheManlet_King Apprentices on those ships theyre building make 10k a month + room and board. Within six months they make 15k+ a month. Just because the generation coming up aren’t willing to work for less than they can get elsewhere does not make them lazy, it makes them smarter than you.
@ObrechtAN@TheManlet_King And if they can’t get help at a price that allows them to sell the product at a price anyone will buy?…. Now you know why the government gets involved in business that are critical to our economies function.
@simpatico771 Not that I disagree that morale is low, but laundry rooms are the most common place for fire to start on ships, at least for civilian vessels, which is all I have experience to speak on.
@Philchamp2@drFoxcroft@TerribleMaps Is there even suitable areas for ports there? If anything they’d probably need to run the pipeline all the way to fujirah, and start it lord knows where…. And Iran could very easily disable it.
@minordissent Also, if you are not willing to be monitored by a doctor you should not be taking and peds. You put a lot of stress on a lot of systems when you start pushing your body beyond is physiological limits. Even glp-1s require supervision to be done safely.
@minordissent Honestly this peptide craze is really dangerous. Outside of the few that have a long enough history to have a basic understanding of their risk profile such as igf-1(which is out of fashion now) we really have no idea if they are safer. Doing compounds with known effects is safer
@ChestertonFP@SeaDogFrog Entry level from a maritime academy is about 120k for 6 months of work. Entry level without schooling is about 60k for 6 months of work. Late career is about 60k per month at sea.