Lev_Astov

Definitely need to change our voting system. I really like Veritasium’s recentish video on voting systems. Sounds like approval voting is even better than ranked choice. Anything but first-past-the-post, please!

And so we’ll remain until we can also get rid of the two party system. This would be a good start, but we also need to change our voting system to anything but this awful first-past-the-post system.

Yeah, it’s a pretty bad water effect used with this really bad shark model. Not sure why this image is so popular.

I’m voting for this guy in November.

At 10kV, a random stick would be all it takes to start an arc. He knows what he’s doing.

Yes, this is a serious problem with some people. Far worse than OP’s issue.

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I only ever use Michaelsoft Binbows.

Why did he not push for this before the final months of his presidency? Why wait until the 11th hour?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BonScdt0-Sc

It sounds like it’s their insurance company that is handling the thing and their first action was to fight instead of settle. If AA really wanted to send the right message to the public with this announced backtracking, they’d have announced that they’d just dropped their previous insurance company in favor of one that’s not completely insane.

Plenty do. There just needs to be more organization.

What’s great about this comment is that every side can say it about the other!

They’re so brave.

In my experience, they usually lose interest partway through the clarification and then later ask three questions that were covered while they weren’t paying attention.

I’m a big proponent of buying government surplus office printers. I have this huge print center collater thing that came with more toner than I’ll ever use in my life. $55

Human error is a far more reasonable explanation than complicated conspiracies, but I understand the thought. It really looked like that ship aimed for the bridge. Planning such a conspiracy would be far, far harder and more expensive to pull off than simple bridge failure, though.

Believe it or not, the insurance companies drive maritime safety requirements since they hate having to pay out for things like this. The classification societies that regulate and inspect ships to approve for insurance coverage have very strict and well thought out safety requirements that get better any time a new failure mode is discovered.

I personally think this one was human error in an emergency situation.

Theory: They lost primary electric service and began a slight drift to starboard. When they got backup power online, they began a crash reverse to slow down. This would hinder rudder control since the ship was still going forward and now just creating turbulence with the prop. Reverse would torque the stern to port, swinging the bow to starboard, as we saw. The bow thruster was offline due to the power issues.

Five comments down, maybe, but I’ll take what we can get.

Do people really not appreciate simple trolling around here anymore? Everyone’s acting like they think this is serious, and that’s the most disturbing part.

I imagine those other targets are in much better positions to prevent such attacks right now. Russia is kind of busy elsewhere, so maybe they were seen as a better target with a higher chance of pulling off an attack.