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And here comes ...
... some more doom:
https://www.science.org/content/article/dirty-bomb-ingredients-go-missing-chornobyl-monitoring-lab
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@PJH quoted in In other news today...:
The former NFL player, who was acquitted for the murder of his former wife and her friend, has weighed in on the situation
Because every news story needs some ex-celebrity offering his/her opinion. Especially an ex-celebrity who can speak from a position of such high moral character.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@PJH quoted in In other news today...:
The former NFL player, who was acquitted for the murder of his former wife and her friend, has weighed in on the situation
Because every news story needs some ex-celebrity offering his/her opinion. Especially an ex-celebrity who can speak from a position of such high moral character.
If the palm print doesn't fit, you must acquit
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As an indication of just how big a job it’s going to be to remove the ship, the company that owns the ship Thursday invoked a maritime law declaring what’s called “general average,” which means anyone who has cargo on the ship will be responsible for a portion of the cost of rescuing it.
“If you are shipping goods on that vessel and you don’t have insurance for it, you may become liable for additional handling costs, transportation costs, which you would have to pay or bond the cargo out before you can receive it,” Mercogliano said.
Oof. I don't ship stuff, but if I did, I'd avoid these chuckleheads.
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@boomzilla they fuck up your shipping (literally) and then ask you to pay for it?
Brillant move.
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Yup. The idea (dating back centuries) being that every sailing was a business venture in its own right; having it go out at all required having enough cargo to make it worthwhile. So everyone sending goods effectively became a stakeholder investing in the venture, and therefore it was felt they should face the risks as well as the rewards.
Which is why you get insurance. Standard cargo clauses, even the bottom-rung Class C policies, specifically include covering "general average sacrifice".
To invoke the clause, the captain is going to have to argue that there's no choice but to discard some of the cargo or damage the ship to salvage the rest; the cost is spread across all of the stakeholders — effectively everyone else chips in to ease the pain on whoever it was who owned what actually got selected for disposal so that they all carry the pain equally.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla they fuck up your shipping (literally) and then ask you to pay for it?
The ship's name?
Ever Forward
.Yes; besides being an ironic name, it belongs to the same company that blocked the Suez for 6 days with the
Ever Given
- Evergreen Marine Corp..
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@PJH What other ships do they have? Maybe we can deduce how and where the next one is going to block shipping, just from the names.
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@acrow I guess the Ever Lucky must have its luck run out at some point...
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@PJH What other ships do they have?
Incomplete list(224): https://www.vesseltracking.net/carrier/carrier-ships/4 (certainly missing their 2 most famous ones)
A DAISEN
A. OBELIX
A2B COMFORT
ALEXANDER B
ALEXANDER BAY
ALS MARS
ANGELA
ANTHEA Y
APL ANTWERP
ARISE
ARKADIA
ARSOS
AS ALEXANDRIA
AS CARINTHIA
AS PAULINE
AS SICILIA
ATLANTIC PEACH
ATLANTIC SILVER
BAL PEACE
BFP MELODY
BOMAR MILIONE
BOMAR RADIANT
BOMAR RENAISSANCE
BUXMELODY
CAPE AKRITAS
CAPE ARAXOS
CAPE FORBY
CAPE KORTIA
CFS HORIZON
CHARLESTON
CMA CGM GEORG FORSTER
CONCERTO
CONCORD
CONMAR AVENUE
CONSCIENTIA
CONTI CHIVALRY
CONTI CONQUEST
CONTI CONTESSA
CONTI COURAGE
CONTI CRYSTAL
CONTSHIP PRO
DECENT
DELOS WAVE
DELUXE
DIVINE
DONGJIN VOYAGER
DYNAMIC
ELLA
ENERGIZER
EVE
EVER BLISS
EVER DAINTY
EVER DELIGHT
EVER DEVELOP
EVER DEVOTE
EVER DIADEM
EVER DIAMOND
EVER EAGLE
EVER ELITE
EVER ENVOY
EVER ETHIC
EVER EXCEL
EVER LADEN
EVER LAMBENT
EVER LASTING
EVER LAUREL
EVER LAWFUL
EVER LEADER
EVER LEADING
EVER LEARNED
EVER LEGACY
EVER LEGEND
EVER LEGION
EVER LENIENT
EVER LIBERAL
EVER LIBRA
EVER LIFTING
EVER LINKING
EVER LISSOME
EVER LIVELY
EVER LIVEN
EVER LIVING
EVER LOADING
EVER LOGIC
EVER LOTUS
EVER LOVELY
EVER LOYAL
EVER LUCENT
EVER LUCID
EVER LUCKY
EVER LUNAR
EVER LYRIC
EVER PEARL
EVER PRIDE
EVER PRIMA
EVER SAFETY
EVER SALUTE
EVER SHINE
EVER SIGMA
EVER SMART
EVER SMILE
EVER STEADY
EVER STRONG
EVER SUMMIT
EVER SUPERB
EVER UBERTY
EVER ULYSSES
EVER UNICORN
EVER UNIFIC
EVER UNIQUE
EVER UNITED
EVER UNITY
EVER URANUS
EVER URBAN
EVER URSULA
EVER USEFUL
EVER UTILE
FALMOUTH
FS IPANEMA
GENERAL
GODSPEED
GRAND POWER
GRETE SIBUM
HAIAN EAST
HANSA LANKA
HERCULES J
HF LUCKY
HYUNDAI SUPREME
INFINITY
INTEGRA
INTER SYDNEY
INTERASIA ADVANCE
IRENES RYTHM
ITAL LAGUNA
ITAL LIBERA
ITAL LIRICA
ITAL LUNARE
ITAL UNICA
ITAL UNIVERSO
ITAL USODIMARE
KATHERINE BORCHARD
KMTC JEBEL ALI
LAKONIA
LEO PERDANA
LILA ATHENS
LOUISIANA TRADER
MAGN
MASTERY D
MESSINI
MITO
MOLIVA
MSC HERMES
MSC MATTINA
MSC PATNAREE III
MSC RUBY
MSC TEXAS
NIKOLAS
NORDPANTHER
NORDTIGER
NORM
ODYSSEUS
ONE BRIDGE
OOCL GERMANY
OOCL HONG KONG
ORNELLA
PACHUCA
PHOEBE
POLYNESIA
ROBERT RICKMERS
S ABLE
S ULTRA
SALLY
SEABOARD OCEAN
SL TWEETY
TAIPEI TRIUMPH
TAMPA TRIUMPH
TEXAS TRIUMPH
THALASSA AVRA
THALASSA DOXA
THALASSA ELPIDA
THALASSA HELLAS
THALASSA MANA
THALASSA NIKI
THALASSA PATRIS
THALASSA PISTIS
THALASSA TYHI
THANA BHUM
TITAN
TOKYO TRIUMPH
TONGVA
TRITON
TS KELANG
UNI
UNI-ACCORD
UNI-ACTIVE
UNI-ADROIT
UNI-ARDENT
UNI-ASPIRE
UNI-ASSENT
UNI-ASSURE
UNI-PACIFIC
UNI-PATRIOT
UNI-PERFECT
UNI-PHOENIX
UNI-POPULAR
UNI-PREMIER
UNI-PROBITY
UNI-PROMOTE
UNI-PROSPER
UNI-PRUDENT
UNITY
VALENCE
VALIANT
VALOR
VALUE
VANTAGE
VARADA
VEGA VENTO
VERA
WAN HAI 275
WAN HAI 282
X-PRESS COTOPAXI
X-PRESS MONTE CERVINO
YERUPAJA
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
EVER LI
FSTING
EVERLSINKING
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@HardwareGeek Also the EVER STUCK and the EVER GROUNDED.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@PJH What other ships do they have? Maybe we can deduce how and where the next one is going to block shipping, just from the names.
Seems pretty easy, no?
Name: Anything beginning with "Ever"
How: It'll get stuck
Where: Wherever it is
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Name: Anything beginning with "Ever"
So you would exclude "Clever"? Or "Severe"?
They are the more hidden gems.And they also have mountains:
Mt. Everest.
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@BernieTheBernie Based on @pjh's list, none of those names belong to any ship in that company's fleet
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EVER PUBERTY
EVER FUTILEI mean, I understand the first letter indicates the class of vessel, but they can't have run out of dictionary words already.
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AGPL is the devil.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
EVER ETHIC
EVER LAWFUL
So maybe the next one will be caught smuggling. Maybe it'll be caught by the Chinese and sunk on the spot?
EVER EXCEL
Sunk by miscalculated weight distribution?
EVER LADEN
Either it capsizes on the way to drydock, or it's sunk by a flock of swallows. With coconuts.
EVER LEARNED
Do they ever.
EVER LUCKY
It's like they want to sink these things.
EVER LUNAR
Sunk on a full moon?
EVER SAFETY
Even odds for ramming a dock facility.
EVER UNITED
The crew will mutiny. The ship goes down in flames.
EVER URANUS
The newspaper headlines will be epic.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
AGPL is the devil.
Yes, yes it is. But so is the problem it is trying to fight.
Soon enough you own nothing, not even a license, and must rent everything. Even the hardware you bought and can't repair or modify, most certainly not the software that runs in the cloud or the data you produce.
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@hungrier ever? Forever ever?
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@Gribnit They'll get un-stuck eventually, so obviously not
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Spiders can use their webs as an antenna for auditory signals:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2122789119
Hence: you ought to be quiet when you move towards a cob web!
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@BernieTheBernie the mode of detection implies that your movement toward the web will be detected, tho, due to air movement. Best option remains a laser.
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@Gribnit Hoosh! Do not produce wind!
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit Hoosh! Do not produce wind!*
*Not medical advice
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
*Not medical advice
In fact, I remember reading somewhere about an Irish barista hospitalised after holding in farts around boyfriend for two years.
Can't remember where.
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Is this a joke about forgetfulness? It's like 8 posts up...
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Is this a joke about forgetfulness? It's like 8 posts up...
I don't remember.
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This looks very promising, as it's the original developers (Remedy) doing the remakes rather than some shitty mobile studio. I already have the games (and no ray-tracing hardware at this time) so I'm not as excited about this as I could be, but it'll be great to have a modern version of these games. Unless they royally f it up.
Meanwhile, if you'd like to play the old versions you might want to get them now, as Rockstar has a history of removing old versions from online stores when they release a remake
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Is this a joke about forgetfulness? It's like 8 posts up...
I would think it was just trying not to explain the …
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I want this for those gas pumps that play commercials while you're trying to fill your tank. (Life hack: if you want to at least mute the audio, press the second button down on the right side of the screen.)
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Everything from boson is terrible.
Also,
Using data collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab, or CDF, scientists have now determined the particle's mass with a precision of 0.01%—twice as precise as the previous best measurement. It corresponds to measuring the weight of an 800-pound gorilla to 1.5 ounces.
God bless the American system of measuring things.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
God bless the American system of measuring things.
Thankfully, TFA does use normal units for the rest of us:
The central value and uncertainty of their latest mass measurement is 80,433 +/- 9 MeV/c2.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
80,433 +/- 9 MeV/c2
That's.... Mega electron-Volts per speed-of-light-squared?
E = mc^2, so...
m = E / c^2And eV is a unit of energy. OK, it checks out.
So glad my university physics classes weren't totally wasted.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in In other news today...:
Why is the illustration for this story a picture of a pachinko machine?
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Why is the illustration for this story a picture of a pachinko machine?
Those are people standing on the gantry in the middle. It's a very large (and expensive) pachinko machine.
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If you feel that you need some time away from family and friends, this might be the job for you:
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One more for the collection of silly celebration days:
I guess I missed this one yesterday, but then I'm not in the USA:
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
beer up to 4% alcohol by volume
We call that "alcohol-free beer".
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
On average, people who said they had grown up outside of cities, where they would have presumably encountered lots of meandering paths,
Tell me you’ve never left the east coast without telling me you’ve never left the east coast.
I mean, seriously. Has this person never seen the results of the Northwest Territory? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Ordinance_of_1785
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Give your kids a wonderful surprise: Salmonella.