I doubt you’re going to come across tungsten welding supplies sourced from reputable mining operations staffed by well-compensated family men in safe working conditions overseen by stable democracies. If you do, please let me know.
Specialty metals sourcing is a major concern of the US Government and Defense Industry. For a good primer on specialty metals procurement, along with government procurement in general, start looking into FARS, and especially DFARS for the defense industry.
Here’s the best primer I could find on the specialty metals portion of DFARS with a simple google search. DFARS is one of those unpleasant compromises we need to make between strategic imperatives and all of the corruption and general garbage built-in to our procurement process, especially at the scale of the federal government.
For ⅛’ diameter, 2% thoriated, it varies from $20- $80.00.
For me, It doesn’t matter how much they cost. I buy them so infrequently that it doesn’t make any real difference. I can afford to be ethical in that regard.
With large manufacturers & contractors it might make a big difference, since their use could be thousands of times greater than mine.
I’m not fan of Trump or Biden however, it’s interesting to see the double standard and mental gymnastics some pundits pull off. Joy Reid, a terrible person and idiot, was recently (surprise, surprise) vilifying Trump and brought up the racial angle. She mentioned the Central Park 5 and how she could never forget Trump’s involvement in it. OK, I get it, Trump didn’t come off looking good. Was it racist? One could argue both sides of that. The thing is, this was 1989. Her big gotcha moment took place in 1989 and Trump was not in any political office making policy. Meanwhile, we have Biden’s political record and his policies which could easily be considered racist against black people. At the very least, any ambiguity that exists with Biden on this is also is present with Trump with regard to the Central Park 5. But Biden gets a pass even when he tells black people that if they don’t know who they are voting for, implying they aren’t sure if they are voting for him, then they are not black. And this wasn’t in 1989.
The truth is, people like Reid are not motivated by the cause of “her people.” She is motivated by political agendas. It’s very easy for people like her to bring up our racist past, redlining, segregation, stereotyping, etc. When a white person says he doesn’t want to live around black people because he is worried about crime, poor schools (specifically the climate within the schools), litter, etc., he is a racist but where does Reid live? She, just like the three heifers that founded BLM, chose not to live in predominantly black areas to avoid the same things white people complain about. She also has made homophobic comments but like Biden, she gets a pass. Trump however, can’t escape something he did in 1989.
I can’t imagine the time you spent studying, reconditioning, praying, repeating and simply marinating your brain in marxism. What a strange thing it is, this racism ideology of yours.
Not really, people have probably eye-rolled harder behind your back. What’s your beef with White people? Why are you spouting so much nonsense? The Central Park 5 should have all been shot, it’s beyond unreasonable to perform all these elaborate mental gymnastics solely to virtue signal. There’s really no sense in glorifying criminal scum.
I think you have the reading comprehension of a shoe. Did I judge the Central Park 5 one way or another? I was pointing out Joy Reid, and the left in general, for their double standard regarding Trump and Biden. They claim Trump is racist for what he said regarding the Central Park 5 but give Biden a pass when it comes to what he has said about black people. And he has said these things recently, not 35 years ago.
I think you’re the one performing mentally handicapped gymnastics to come up with the following conclusion:
This reminds me of that time Joe Biden finally got out of prison for manslaughter and tried to steer his little brother away from joining the same skinhead gang he was in. Sadly little Danny Biden was shot at school in retaliation for his racism that he learned from his big brother.
I can say this definitively, biden is a historic figure who has brought dramatic change not only to the US, but the world. He is amazing!
In all the wrong ways, which is the understatement of understatements. We’ll be dealing with the devastating consequences of his evil and stupidity for decades to come, if we still exist.
