I couldn't concentrate on that because I was wondering where all that water falling into the 'hole' was going. Maybe it was being pumped out somewhere by the creature's body, but why, and how would it get that much energy from a ship.

Also, ship horn signals were wrong. And what exploded so quickly? And how did the cruise ship maintain integrity?

<sigh> sometimes being a geek means missing the point.

Oh no! Say it ain’t so!
Jr was caught repeatedly cheating on his fiancé Guilfoyle recently, and today they split up and she is being shipped off to Greece as our ambassador while he flaunts his new relationship with a hotter younger woman publicly in Palm Beach.
This is how they’re getting around NDAs now….offering high paid government positions of power (that they are unqualified for) to keep them quiet and under thumb.
Maga “loyalty”, maga “love”, it’s all just transactional.

This makes me want to go back and play HL2 Episodes 1 & 2. I know I bought them, but don't remember ever finishing them. HL2 was so technically impressive. Portal 2 was also great, especially the co-op multiplayer. Alyx is a good VR title- it's close to a "killer app" for VR, but not quite there. 1 of the few VR titles compelling enough to keep headset on for more than 1 hour.

Not half-life related, but "old but cool" PC tech from that era: I had a DVD/MPEG2 decoder card that did VGA passthrough, and would replace black pixels with the movie content - so I could watch the Matrix in the background of playing Quake or other FPS (this was a dual PIII-450Mhz). I later installed an ATSC tuner card - one of the first channels that broadcast in HD was Fox, and one of my favorite shows, 24, started to broadcast in HD - and the early days all the makeup artists took advantage of low-res, so as soon as the show went to HD, you could see how fake all the blood, makeup, and other effects were. Hollywood ramped up quickly once the first HDTVs started shipping.
That computer also ran BeOS quite well.

You are partly correct, when he gets into office, the numbers will have already plummeted….
…plummeted because businesses are reeling from the implications of his stated plans (like up to 200% tariffs, and killing the ACA and putting all healthcare costs back on employers and the resulting loss of work) and have started cutting workforces drastically, stopped hiring, and are halting bonuses and promotions so they can afford to buy all of next years stock before Jan 21 when it will cost significantly more. Others are preparing to close because they work in multiple countries, shipping back and forth during production, and tariffs of any size are going to kill their businesses, so better to get out before they’re forced out and broke.

The major economic downturn started Nov 5th. and is accelerating.

Terrible economic news.
254000 jobs (after the last two great months that both had their great jobs numbers revised UP).
4% unemployment
Wages up almost double inflation
Stocks skyrocketing into unheard of realms

Both the port authority and longshoremen publicly credited Butigieg for ending their stalemate and getting an agreement that put the ports back to work. The felon’s only idea was “fire every one that strikes” because he doesn’t understand the job requires years of experience scabs simply do not have and that would paralyze the shipping industry in America for years if not permanently.

The felon is livid, how dare America not fail for his benefit!?! 😂
Shocker, the oldest and most delusional candidate ever now refuses to release his medical records after promising to do so all summer. What horrific thing is he hiding?

As a bonus, student loan forgiveness was approved by the courts today. When it rains, it pours.

So dirty, now the felon is selling non existent $100000 watches online, selling them to foreign customers using untraceable bitcoin with a photo that is not of the watch but is for “illustrative purposes only” and a disclaimer that he is not responsible for infinite shipping delays so he never has to produce much less deliver any watches.
This is another blatant attempt to rake in foreign campaign donations from powers like the Saudis and Putin and other billionaires hostile to America…campaign donations that are 100% illegally selling out America for cash, like he did with Egypt. He will be prosecuted if he lasts long enough in prison from his other dozens of felony convictions. So will Jared once the Republicans lose the ability to block any investigations.
You honestly worship a super criminal….a super criminal who is way past his prime.
Start at 1:55 to hear how he treats ordinary people

@cloudballoon
@kir_mokum
@newtboy

8/1/24
Unemployment up to 4.3% today.


Americans are broke and Joes leadership isn't helping

U.S. economy adds 114,000 jobs in July, and unemployment rate hits highest level since 2021


Bideonomics has failed Americans.

So sad you will let Joe bend you over and all you can can is thank you, may I have another.


Please defend Joe and poor economic leadership.




The economic ship moves slowly and will fall on the next POTUS

So moron, Russia just conceded defeat in the Black Sea and their entire naval fleet has left Crimea and has retreated to their farthest Eastern port in the Black Sea.
Ukraine doesn’t even have a navy.

Sorry comrade, Putin’s fascist war is losing….bigly.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-russias-last-naval-patrol-ship-leaving-crimea-2024-07-15/#:~:text=July%2015%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20Ukra
ine's,as%20it%20battles%20Russian%20invasion.

Once again, your grasp of the English language tends to point to who is really stupid here. “Your are stupid”? So close…keep trying, you’ll pass first grade English some day. 😂 😂 😂

They aren’t gaining territory…not for a while. You are over a year behind, and were never right on the facts.

Russia is trying to get Ukraine to agree to the current frontline as the permanent border…they wouldn’t be doing that if they were gaining ground. Ukraine says absolutely not…they wouldn’t be so quick to say no if they were losing territory still.

Russia has made no significant progress since last years Ukrainian counter offensive that granted wasn’t a total success but did drive Russia out of territory they had held…learn to read. Russia now holds approximately 20% of Ukraine, a serious shrinking from the maximum seized territory.
They are being pushed back or at worst held in place by a force that is essentially unarmed (after maggots blocked aid) and under 10% in numbers…and we just rearmed them.
Russia is losing territory they stole, slowly but they are losing. Their spring offensive was not very successful (but was costly) and when the squadrons of F-16s start flying and M1-Abrams start rolling they will be destroyed, they cannot defend against them.
They are now completely insecure in Crimea and may lose it, cannot sail the Black Sea fleet (they are hiding their best ships in Cuba!), and does not have an air force that can compete with F-16s. They are also enjoying attacks deep into the mother country with multiple groups of saboteurs in the country doing major damage daily.
The Russian people no longer support the war, and know the reasons for it were outright lies. The economy is non existent, banks closed, stock market offline, their sons are all dead, injured, in Ukraine, or on the run, their military is completely decimated, their oil infrastructure is being destroyed…and no one is coming to rebuild them , they will remain global pariahs for decades to come. North Korea is supplying their ammunition, and it’s so bad that it is more dangerous for the Russians than the Ukrainians. China and N Korea aren’t going to help rebuild the Russian economy, they can’t. Europe and the US are going to rebuild Ukraine. It will be the shining star of Eurasia.
Ukraine may expand into Russia soon. It’s incredibly likely they will take Crimea back.
Russia overplayed its hand and is so screwed it may actually fold as a country SOON, it has destroyed itself and now that we are actually backing Ukraine (not piecemeal drippings blocked by MAGA every time they can cause damage and help Russia) they have lost, they just won’t admit it yet (kinda like you)….who is surprised you believe they are “WINNING”? They’re “winning” about as much as the convicted felon and rapist has been since November 2020….which is not at all. The tiny temporary territory gains they’ve made this month were so costly they aren’t “wins”. If it costs you 20000 troops and 4 armored divisions to take a town that’s now rubble, and your enemy held you back for months and only lost 1000 troops…. you lost.

While I am supportive of Ukraine's efforts to curb Russia's weapons production, I'm a tad confused by this video.

Initially we see a single-prop 2 person aircraft with landing gear down crash into a building and an explosion ensues.

Later in the video we see a still of a winged drone as the video informs us that Ukraine have been improving their drone fleet, obviously a fraction of the size of the aircraft we see in the crash.

Any possibility that someone has taken footage of a plane crash and spun a yarn from it? Or is there another explanation why the aircraft featured at the start of this video is nothing like the drones Ukraine have been using against Russian ships and other targets?

Unlike Trump, I do not claim to be Jesus. 🤨

He’s got to sell something or his campaign won’t have money to pay his legal bills.
Joe Burden is going to crush him…again. He won’t even need to disinformate or misinformate, just let Don talk. 😂

Edit: The most insane part, and this is real, they put out a statement telling the buyers to not worry that the pages are sticking together. Anyone who buys a book from Trump and finds the pages sticking together should absolutely worry, wash your hands with bleach and ammonia (yes, I know) and get their fingers tested for pregnancy and syphilis. He’s a sick little monkey and probably did jiz on those bibles.

Holy (pun intended) crap! Turns out these are old, unsold/ unsellable “Merica” bibles produced in 2021 that weren’t selling for $49.95 and had terrible reviews about quality, months to ship after payment, and zero customer service. I don’t expect improvement for the extra $10. I bet they’re made in China.

I read the news at 4am last night after pulling some OT. Shit I had a hard time going to sleep doom scrolling for another 30 mins before I put down the phone.

From this video, seems like the ship's power was going in/out intermittently before the crash with heavy smoke billowing out, so that might be engine/fire trouble.

Why that is (poor maintenance record, sabotage or what not) is to be determined. It's just a very inopportune, and deadly, time to have that kind of power outage.

Damn stupid & cruel to politicize this accident.

Of course…

Republicans are already politicizing this tragedy in multiple ways…
1) insinuating because it’s a foreign owned ship it might be intentional/terrorism
2) insinuating that because it’s a foreign owned ship it has something to do with “open borders”
3) tying the expected economic impact to automatically creating more inflation, quickly blamed on Biden and
4) blaming the collapse on poor infrastructure which they blame on Democrats despite Republicans having voted against the first meaningful infrastructure bill in decades, a Democrat written and sponsored bill they all take credit for now.

Meanwhile the White House has sent federal assistance, sent the Secretary of transportation, and already pledged the army core of engineers to clear debris and rebuild as fast as possible using federal money to be recouped from the shipping company later (not wait years to rebuild while we litigate their responsibility).

Quite a stark contrast in leadership styles on display.

Another viewpoint of the accident…

Other views

2 black “ships”