What am I missing? How do you run a business and not know where your raw materials are from? I hope his knives are sharper than he is.
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aug 4, 2025, 6:47 am • 0 0 • view
🤣🤣🤣
aug 4, 2025, 1:29 pm • 0 0 • view
So true, and he operates a business. Basic economics, its not complicated
aug 4, 2025, 12:52 pm • 1 0 • view
He didn't think the tariffs would apply to the things he needs. He thought they would only apply to finished goods and not to (finished) equipment, parts, or raw/partially finished materials. He forgot that he doesn't mine and refine his own steel nor build his own machines from local moss and mud.
aug 4, 2025, 2:03 am • 210 3 • view
The finished goods thing is the only thing that makes sense. Still, not the sharpest knife in the drawer as they say.
aug 4, 2025, 11:51 am • 2 0 • view
Ooh, maybe a chance for blacksmithing to come back?
aug 4, 2025, 2:55 am • 36 0 • view
blacksmithing is still here; its a craft, thats never going away, its just produced differently in this modern age, no its about the raw material for said crafting; they got fucked over and didnt realize how much they relied on imported materials and its pricing compared to domestic
aug 4, 2025, 6:01 am • 53 1 • view
Great idea and use for coal at the same time! And so healthy work. Can also be used to porky shoes in the roses we will need in our new century of backwardism.
aug 4, 2025, 1:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Don’t need coal to blacksmith. If you’re talking about operating a foundry or even before that a smelter, those run on different things. Smelters in particular are still under active development, this time using electricity and molten salts of various elements not just sodium like in table salt.
aug 4, 2025, 2:15 pm • 2 0 • view
You buy metal stock from a local dealer, so it may not be immediately obvious that it's all imported.
aug 4, 2025, 2:08 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't know where people go when they get off the bus my assumption is they stand where I last saw them. This is that level of thinking even if we give the largest benefit of the doubt. Not surprising given *everything* that their world model stops outside their immediate experience
aug 4, 2025, 2:11 pm • 1 0 • view