LRP: The reality is they put enough of a priority on the continued existence of a route that they literally cover the mainenance cost of the route, even though vastly more freight goes by container ship (like 9x more)
a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)
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not much doing here yet -- see also https://mastodon.social/@rakslice he/him headline picture: the middle of a nautical chart, DFO chart 6451 to be specific
just a thought vancouversun.com/news/us-cana...
B.C. poised to toll U.S. trucks driving to Alaska through province
The province will introduce legislation that would give it the ability to levy fees on U.S. commercial trucks heading to Alaska.
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Sam@samd.bsky.social · 2d agoseriously though, Canada should target swing senate states with the retaliatory tariffs. Iowa, Maine, Ohio, Texas, Michigan, Kansas, Alaska, and Nebraska all need to understand the economic pain that our senile piece of shit president has unleashed
Maritime chokepoints. "A Seaspan containership ... [paid nearly] $4 million in early August.... The number was shattered days later, according to a report by Bloomberg, when an LPG carrier ...paid a record $4.6 million in the auction to jump line." maritime-executive.com/article/pana...
Panama Canal Begins Reducing Daily Transits Due to Declining Water Levels
The Panama Canal Authority is expanding what it is calling “temporary modifications to the lock’s transit capacity” as the forecasts for a worsening d...
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Jennie Dusheck@solenodon.bsky.social · 3d agoWith passage at Hormuz restricted, the price of passage through the Panama Canal increased 16 times. But drought from El Niño means there’s not enough fresh water to float all the ships that want to pass through, so Panama is auctioning off slots with preference going to the largest ships.
LRP: the last time i was there it was already the last usair flight in from charlotte at the end of the day, further delayed by another few hours, so a long walk through the big empty terminal with wickets for every world airline in the weird mars font
the architecture is iconic but then the font hits you like you're quaid arriving on mars
Don Incognito@shuadc.bsky.social · 3d agoBah humbug
this is one of those obvious things that is easy to understand and like with a lot of technology where people are being harassed or distressed at massive levels, we could have governments that regulate for the public good or say "this is very hard so we'll study this for years and then do nothing"
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 5d agoNEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...
LRP: like people would say this promo is "brain rot", but i think people have just always been like this
Kevin passed about an hour ago. The time to find his cats a home IS now, and I'm not one step closer to finding it. Please, friends.
Shecky@shecky.bsky.social · 2w agoFRIENDS IN THE NYC AREA: Okay, this is a tough one, but please bear with me. My wife's lifelong friend has stage 4 pancreatic cancer and is desperately seeking a home for his two cats when that time comes. The elder, Wally, is something like 13 years old and DELIGHTFULLY dim. The younger, Doris,
LRP: how should i put it, in this set that's very much a matter of degree
this is a really underrated factor in the Natalie Harp media explosion yes, Ossoff hit exactly the right target, but a big reason she was the right target is that everyone else around Trump finds her incredibly weird and offputting and is very excited to talk shit behind her back
Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 5d agoAnyway it seems she has coworkers who are eager to anonymously share their stories with the press! So I imagine we'll be learning a lot more in the coming days
this. the bulwark is at least as much an outfit you can tell is full of clowns just by reading it as anybody else -- but i do think it's possible the bulwark is just saying stuff that is nonsense on its face to engagement farm at this point
Greenb3ar@greenb3ar.bsky.social · 7d agothis is the guy calling the DSA a psy-op.... bsky.app/profile/gree...
The DSA is not a Republican psy-op, you're thinking of The Bulwark
how should i put this, $70b for 14gw is not terrible but not great
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 7d agoWhen we master our energy, we master our destiny.
i was thinking about the rise of putin and the weird rumblings about its leadership's embrace of mysticism, potentially inhaling its own populist religious manipulation fumes -- and the parallel with present day us is hard to miss;
Matt Bevan@mattbevan.bsky.social · last wk.MAGA influencer Laura Loomer has switched from supporting Russia to Ukraine. I looked into why… and found it actually has very little to do with Ukraine at all. youtu.be/szYsS38_cDY?...
Because when we warned everyone about climate change, our leaders decided that instead of changing our harmful dependency on fossil fuels we would adapt. And then did absolutely nothing to adapt.
Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · last wk.Why the UK isn’t equipped for a summer like this
how should i put this, in 1997 there were no podcasts yet, and the modern podcaster meaning of 'liberal', for centrist who triangulates their base into the nearest open elevator shaft to sell out to a hypothetical swing voter, didn't exist; bill clinton was still busy establishing it in real time
a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)@rakslice.bsky.social · last wk.'were some critical words edited out for space' is a pretty good paraphrase of my reaction every time somebody uses 'liberalism' unqualified for some political meaning and you have to guess which one they mean
this is a totally okay album, you can really put this album on and go on the computer
i'm not saying alien metal is mid, but it make me wonder what mike oldfield is up to these days https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=uIS2w79BEDA&list=OLAK5uy_m_HRJbVOU7C9SPNBe9OK33nE7XO0VjKCE
Just saw a BYD with a “SUCCULENT CHINESE WHEELS” bumper sticker.
honestly no story feels more like a sort of flytrap for the "fake news" man, to secure him in place so his boss who hired him for reality tv entertainment value and knows there are receipts and has seen the polling can come and squash him like a bug
Forbes@forbes.com · 2w agoThe USS Abraham Lincoln is supporting military operations in the Middle East against Iran.
seems risky to let the enemy know the president of the united states is protected by guys operating on pure movie logic.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w agoNew details via NYT: Top White House and administration officials engaged in an elaborate ruse to spirit Trump out of Turkey during the NATO summit — transporting him in a catering cart to a military jet because of a credible threat against him and Air Force One from Iran.
LB: 2026: olivetti is still alive and kicking as part of its little conglomerate, not entirely just a ghost brand but let's say they've checked a lot of the fad tech product du jour boxes with private-label offerings (but in this case maybe it was ever thus)
September 1985: Olivetti owns 80% of Acorn …who is working on a RISC CPU
ZXVintage@zxvintage.bsky.social · 2w agoZX History - August 1985: YC reports on the Crash/SU Unclear User episode. Plus… a tale of a magazine’s advertising agent offering to make a certain title Game Of The Month if the software house books space with them. READ: (1/2)
me: hey do you have this movie I want to watch? Disney: no Netflix: not anymore Apple: ew no CBC Gem: yes and it’s free Prime: maybe I do, maybe I don’t. Maybe it costs $5 for no reason, even though you already pay for this. Maybe you should fuck off into the sun.
"A film with no ending would theoretically require an infinite amount of digital storage space, or an infinite length of celluloid."
“The theatre needs to show other films and even if it didn’t the audience likely have obligations that require them to leave the theatre eventually”
IGN@ign.com · 2w agoA new Spider-Man: Brand New Day fan theory may help explain the ending of the film. bit.ly/4wdAwRR
LB: how should I put this, sometimes people are just jerks, orthogonally to the (attempted) teachings of their religions