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by ZoWie
Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:03 pm
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse live: Many casualties feared
Replies: 33
Views: 411

Re: Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse live: Many casualties feared

It was certainly too heavy for whatever precautions existed to prevent the predictable consequences of a vessel that size losing control. There have been books written about this. I can't remember any titles offhand, but there was one real good one about why oil tankers are always causing problems. ...
by ZoWie
Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:56 pm
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse live: Many casualties feared
Replies: 33
Views: 411

Re: Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse live: Many casualties feared

There's something to that. Any ideology, including the left's, is going to be inadequate in the long run because it's an idea rather than a logical and practical response to problems. We can go on forever about migrants and contraception, both of which are real issues with sweeping moral implication...
by ZoWie
Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:41 pm
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse live: Many casualties feared
Replies: 33
Views: 411

Re: Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse live: Many casualties feared

The GOP was done in by the classic Orwellian premise, namely the idea that you can win elections by controlling the language instead of trying to control whatever problems exist in the real world. They're on the Nooz 24/7, but everything's a problem but them. What has happened to, "We have met ...
by ZoWie
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:52 pm
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse live: Many casualties feared
Replies: 33
Views: 411

Re: Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse live: Many casualties feared

What in my post was so divisive? They said all the same stuff in the presser on TV. Ships need more attention to contingencies and more backup systems that actually work instead of blowing smoke, literally, and not correcting the drift. The problem is that maritime law is basically international law...
by ZoWie
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:34 pm
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: What did we learn from COVID?
Replies: 41
Views: 529

Re: What did we learn from COVID?

We don't know enough about Covid to know whether or not we really needed to shut down the economy. We did learn that maybe, just maybe, we should be more prepared for this kind of thing to happen. We're never very proactive, probably because there usually isn't a compelling immediate threat to get p...
by ZoWie
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:25 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: What did we learn from COVID?
Replies: 41
Views: 529

Re: What did we learn from COVID?

We learned that denial really is more than a river in Egypt.
by ZoWie
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:12 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse live: Many casualties feared
Replies: 33
Views: 411

Re: Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse live: Many casualties feared

Glenn, with all respect, you're full of it. Who built the Interstates? The Federal government. Your taxes. They didn't do it to enhance commerce either, they did it for national security so military assets and evacuations could move more quickly. Your career is the result. They'd still be moving all...
by ZoWie
Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:57 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: The issue that will define the 2024 election
Replies: 359
Views: 158664

Re: The issue that will define the 2024 election

Sure, their rapists can't buy off the government to keep it quiet.
by ZoWie
Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:55 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: 2024 Presidential Election
Replies: 612
Views: 546036

Re: 2024 Presidential Election

And no more of those killer vaccines either. Rejoice, morons.

RFK jr needs AI. He certainly has never shown any intelligence of his own.
by ZoWie
Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:43 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: EARTH....
Replies: 1309
Views: 540477

Re: EARTH....

You see the effects everywhere. Everything's changing. There's no argument any more, just denial. Denial is abroad in the land, as we see every day on this board. The climate in LA, supposedly a place where there is no climate, has changed profoundly. All the changes are bad. I just spent money on a...
by ZoWie
Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:32 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: What’s going to happen to Trump Mon Mar 25 2024?
Replies: 86
Views: 971

Re: What’s going to happen to Trump Mon Mar 25 2024?

It's what happened March 26 that matters. The IPO of his social media company opened, and he's now five gigabucks richer, on paper. No more bankruptcy.
by ZoWie
Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:26 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: Ron DeSantis signs bill banning children 13 and under from social media
Replies: 15
Views: 276

Re: Ron DeSantis signs bill banning children 13 and under from social media

The daily attention grabs by GOP faithful are also considered good television, even by people who should know better. They sell a lot of pillows, useless drugs, lousy instant coffee, fast food, look-alike cars, and legislators who don't legislate.
by ZoWie
Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:01 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: What did we learn from COVID?
Replies: 41
Views: 529

Re: What did we learn from COVID?

The pandemic was almost a perfect rerun of the one in 1918, right down to the conspiracy nuts demonstrating in the street and blocking traffic. We learned mostly that human nature doesn't change no matter how well you explain the situation.
by ZoWie
Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:57 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse live: Many casualties feared
Replies: 33
Views: 411

Re: Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse live: Many casualties feared

Consensus seems to be that the ship lost propulsion. This is a problem with modern ships because they have only one propulsion system and failure can come from many places. I would imagine that someone pushed the big red distress button on the GMDSS radio console that is compulsory for large vessels...
by ZoWie
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:49 pm
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: GOP House is a "complete failure"
Replies: 87
Views: 1538

Re: GOP House is a "complete failure"

Of course. They are downright eager to let El Paso become a battle zone. Think of all the great footage they're getting out of it. I'm sure we'll see it until we're all a bit nauseous as the election gets closer. As always, it's the people who lose.
by ZoWie
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:36 pm
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: GOP House is a "complete failure"
Replies: 87
Views: 1538

Re: GOP House is a "complete failure"

The Federal government doesn't govern any more, and we all know who is responsible for that. It's painfully obvious every day. The Republicans turned it into a show, and not a very good one. Both sides share the blame for the immigration mess, but they are not equal shares. We all know who has been ...
by ZoWie
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:32 pm
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: EARTH....
Replies: 1309
Views: 540477

Re: EARTH....

The disappearance of pine trees is disturbing, and it is real. Logging hasn't helped. They still clearcut, they just don't do a whole forest at once. They do it in sections. No one objects to thinning the forest, it provides more light for trees that remain, and of course fire has a role in a health...
by ZoWie
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:19 pm
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: Media
Replies: 206
Views: 54086

Re: Media

Good Lord, an FCC with teeth? Next rain will fall up and the seas will turn red. Refreshing though.
by ZoWie
Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:55 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: GOP House is a "complete failure"
Replies: 87
Views: 1538

Re: GOP House is a "complete failure"

> eliminate the money Impossible. Limit it, yes, but there's no way to get rid of it altogether. There will always be work-arounds available to the elite to buy influence, just like in every other country in the world. The problem here is that the people don't really pick the president. > filibuster...
by ZoWie
Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:31 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: GOP House is a "complete failure"
Replies: 87
Views: 1538

Re: GOP House is a "complete failure"

> End the filibuster Never happen, Democrats use it too. However I would support a more narrow majority for cloture instead of 2/3. > Add to SCOTUS FDR tried to pack the court and couldn't. > Eliminate the money going to Republicans Illegal > Eliminate the electoral college That would require a Cons...
by ZoWie
Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:23 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: Even the suits think Boeing has problems
Replies: 7
Views: 112

Re: Even the suits think Boeing has problems

What I know is that Glenn is far more predictable than the Earth's magnetic field.
by ZoWie
Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:16 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: The New Solar Thread
Replies: 91
Views: 33704

Re: The New Solar Thread

Here's what happened... the geomagnetic field jumped all over the place and everyone predicted one of those historic events where giant transformers at power stations explode and every comm satellite goes off-station. Instead, the field's displacement, as represented by a mathematical vector called ...
by ZoWie
Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:10 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: GOP House is a "complete failure"
Replies: 87
Views: 1538

Re: GOP House is a "complete failure"

The problem in the US is that one side has gone all-in for a walking talking three-dimensional deepfake.
by ZoWie
Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:04 am
Forum: Politics and Current Events
Topic: Even the suits think Boeing has problems
Replies: 7
Views: 112

Re: Even the suits think Boeing has problems

The unions aren't why the huge Douglas factory at Santa Monica Airport is now a Mexican restaurant and a doggy park.