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What did you expect. I didn't know you viewed Beck. Pretty cool.
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Friday, I leave for DC. Will be there for 6 days, and then fly to Reykjavik. If my plane goes down, Talent, please remember that I never liked you."The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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My youngest daughter just returned from a trip to Iceland. Amazing country. A lot like Scotland except the people have teeth.Shut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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I’m actually impressed that Wiz knew that Reykjavik was in Iceland."The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham LincolnComment
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I do own a globe.
jeezShut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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I feel like I am watching the destruction of our democracy while my neighbors and friends cheer it onComment
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harsh...but fairShut the fuck up Donny!Comment
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Ukraine, using a Storm Shadow cruise missile, put a big hole in the Chonhar Bridge one of the main bridges connecting the Kherson region with Crimea. Like The Kersh Straights bridge connecting mainland Russia with the Crimean peninsula that Ukraine struck previously, the Chonhar Bridge is an important GLOC for Russian forces operating in southern Ukraine.
What's important about this is it points to one of Ukraine's primary military objectives going forward - to cut off Russian forces operating in Crimea from feeding military operations in southern Ukraine (Kherson and Zaphorezia Oblasts). While Ukraine appears to be attacking on three fronts, their most success is coming on the axis that points to the intersection of the Zaphorizia and Kherson Oblasts. The possible objective there being driving to the city of Melipitol on the Sea of Azov. This essentially divides Russian forces operating in eastern Ukraine (the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts) and those in southern Ukraine (Kherson Oblast and Crimea).
Russian ground forces continue to build layered defensive positions further and further towards Crimea in the path of both of these Ukrainian counter-offensive operations. Analysts think this signals Russian forces are planning for the eventuality that they can't hold the positions that are defending the geographic land bridge between eastern and southern Ukraine. Overall, this is a long term Ukrainian strategy to slowly squeeze the Russian ground forces out of Ukraine or to gain a favorable negotiating position at that table as world pressures mount on both sides to end the fighting and destruction. The truth and reality is starting to catch up with Putin's propaganda machine's lies. A considerable undertaking by the Kremlin that's starting to show holes. Putin's thorn in the side Prighozin said very publicly yesterday that the Kremlin isn't being truthful to the Russian people about Ukrainian's counteroffensive successes. Russian Elites are getting nervous about efforts by the EU to scheme ways to use their frozen assets to pay for Ukrainian reconstruction.Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.Comment
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So last night Trump's lawyers got the list of every witness who'll testify against him in the "boxes" case. Must've been good news because he's belching out one hysterical screed after another this morning.Comment
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Saw this about the bridge. Very possible Putin is so sealed off in his own little world of lies that he has no real understanding of what's going on.Originally posted by Jeff Buchanan View PostComment
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Republican field keeps getting more crowded
Former Texas Rep. Will Hurd jumps into the 2024 GOP presidential race (nbcnews.com)Comment
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The more I learn about OceanGate, the more it sounds like it was, as one former employee called it, "a real cowboy operation". Shitshow is probably more like it. At least the CEO, Stockton Rush was onboard to experience the result of his failed leadership. It also seems likely that Titan experienced a catastrophic hull breach which would be instant death for all the passengers. Better than sitting around waiting to run out of air.
David Lochridge, OceanGate’s director of marine operations, wrote an engineering report in 2018 that said the craft under development needed more testing and that passengers might be endangered when it reached “extreme depths,” according to a lawsuit filed that year in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
OceanGate sued Lochridge that year, accusing him of breaching a non-disclosure agreement, and he filed a counterclaim alleging that he was wrongfully fired for raising questions about testing and safety.
Lochridge’s concerns primarily focused on the company’s decision to rely on sensitive acoustic monitoring — cracking or popping sounds made by the hull under pressure — to detect flaws, rather than a scan of the hull. Lochridge said the company told him no equipment existed that could perform such a test on the 5-inch-thick (12.7-centimeter-thick) carbon-fiber hull.
“This was problematic because this type of acoustic analysis would only show when a component is about to fail — often milliseconds before an implosion — and would not detect any existing flaws prior to putting pressure onto the hull,” Lochridge’s counterclaim said.
Further, the craft was designed to reach depths of 4,000 meters (13,123 feet), where the Titanic rested. But, according to Lochridge, the passenger viewport was only certified for depths of up to 1,300 meters (4,265 feet), and OceanGate would not pay for the manufacturer to build a viewport certified for 4,000 meters.
OceanGate also received another warning in 2018, this one from the Marine Technology Society, which describes itself as a professional group of ocean engineers, technologists, policy-makers and educators.
In a letter to Rush, the society said it was critical that the company submit its prototype to tests overseen by an expert third party before launching in order to safeguard passengers.
Rush had refused to do so.
Rush was piloting the vessel that is now missing.
“There hasn’t been an injury in the commercial sub industry in over 35 years,” he (Rush) said. “It’s obscenely safe because they have all these regulations. But it also hasn’t innovated or grown — because they have all these regulations.”Comment
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That'll teach them.Comment
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Well, they'll have to apply those lessons at a new company because OceanGate is going kaput.Comment
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