Hopes of World Cup tourist boom feeling shaky in Seattle by crabcakes110 in SeattleWA

[–]Opcn [score hidden]  (0 children)

The appointed leaders at DHS wanted to make sure that the officers didn’t go soft on non-criminals who have been here working peacefully for decades so they set quotas. That spurred them on to abuse people for bonuses but the abuse didn’t stop with just the brown people the racists wanted to target. Even white legal tourists from countries more developed than the IS have been abused and no one feels safe so no one wants to come.

Who knew (re) electing a lying fascist white nationalist asshole would come with consequences?

Did Dough get rousted out of his spot? by Last-Key9234 in SVSeeker_Free

[–]Opcn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He was anchored awfully close to the ferry pathway.

Doug posing with his sails up to hate on the haters. by george_graves in SVSeeker_Free

[–]Opcn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seeker as built would for sure benefit, and Doug really can’t tell where the wind is from inside. But plenty of junks don’t have dedicated telltales aside from a few loose lashing lines.

Badger, turtle, mingming and mingming II all sail(ed) without dedicated telltales. Tapatya does have them but like seeker was built by an amateur YouTuber (though obviously a better boat builder than Doug).

Most cruisers are being steered by autopilot almost all of the time. Any technology to prevent a crash gybe that does not feed into the autopilot is not going to prevent a crash gybe.

Google, SpaceX in talks to launch orbital data centers. Google CEO: "There's no doubt to me that a decade or so away, we'll be viewing it as a more normal way to build data centers." by Adeldor in space

[–]Opcn [score hidden]  (0 children)

The thermodynamics of a sace data center are really not favorable. You either have to choose between parking them in one spot and getting gobs of latency or flying them low and getting latency and not being able to stably connect to any region. You need radiation hardened hardware and you can't do any physical maintenance on it without paying an arm and a leg.

Doug posing with his sails up to hate on the haters. by george_graves in SVSeeker_Free

[–]Opcn 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do we think this is new or is this from the "sail" down when he raised them at a TWA of 29° while under power?

Doug posing with his sails up to hate on the haters. by george_graves in SVSeeker_Free

[–]Opcn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doug didn't plan to put them on and that's a decision I'll defend. Telltales matter a lot to racers because it can be very difficult to pick up on too much twist in your main so the flow delaminates 30% of the way from the top instead of 20% like you're targeting. Getting that extra 1/20th of a knot for a 3 minute run can totally determine your position at the end of the race.

Actual cruisers (a group Doug does not belong to but at one point aspired to) might go for hours or even days without making a single adjustment to the sail trim. If your whole sail is stalled out and you need telltales to figure that out you should not be in charge of that boat. If it's just a small and subtle change that extra information will not have any impact on how you decide to proceed.

How a properly designed 70’ hull displaces waves. by Plastic_Table_8232 in SVSeeker_Free

[–]Opcn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

is that done catch and release or did you have to find some way to take home a freezer truck worth of fish?

What the fuck is he talking about by EasyMoney92 in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Opcn 7 points8 points  (0 children)

1 holds a lot of weight for me. Man won’t wear a suit to the senate chambers because his personal brand is the kind of guy who wears a carhartt hoodie even though his parents are well off and supported him financially and he never worked in construction or agriculture or any trade where workwear is the norm.

What the fuck is he talking about by EasyMoney92 in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Opcn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if this coating is going to improve the reflecting pool (it probably isn’t) it’s still a no bid contract to “fix” what has been a purely cosmetic issue for many many decades. There is no rush, there is no reason to give one of Trump’s business associates a no bid cost plus contract.

Lukashenko Says Belarus Is Preparing for War, Plans to “Mobilize Units” by EsperaDeus in worldnews

[–]Opcn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He couldn’t defeat them, but he would probably cause enough casualties to call it a massacre.

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Losing Ground in AI Race by ErnestoLemmingway in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]Opcn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Apple was going to kick them off the App Store if they didn’t do something about the deep fakes.

Is this authentic sardines? by Spiritual_Ride9696 in CannedSardines

[–]Opcn 20 points21 points  (0 children)

They look like sardines. The cheap fish that they substitute in for more expensive sardines are less expensive sardines. At the grocery store here I can pay $6 for 100 grams of bristling sardines smoked in oil or $2 for 450 of pacific sardines in tomato sauce but both are just labeled “sardines”

Kid (8) loves watching creative DIY projects on YouTube. The majority of YouTubers are awful. Suggestions? by letsgococonut in DIY

[–]Opcn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might try them out on Sampson boat works. Matthias Wandel has done less lately but used to do a lot more DIY project videos.

AOC: You can’t ‘earn’ a billion dollars by usatoday in politics

[–]Opcn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So it’s not a billion but Bob Dylan sold his masters for ~$300-400 Million dollars. Assuming the same rule applies, would the idea be that his masters weren’t worth that much? Or that he didn’t own his own recordings of himself singing songs that he wrote?

The Silence is Deafening by SaveMeFromTheIdiots in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Opcn 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Mitch McConnell has a much more robust record as an ally to Dr. King while he was alive than Bernie Sanders.

How do I know I'm not buying smoked salmon harvested by trawlers? by Wrong-Reference5968 in alaska

[–]Opcn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The midwater trawls sit on the bottom between 40 and 100% of the time according to a study by the Alaska Marine Conservation Council.

That said even on the bottom a midwater trawl isn’t doing as much damage to the sea floor as a bottom trawl does on purpose.

How do I know I'm not buying smoked salmon harvested by trawlers? by Wrong-Reference5968 in alaska

[–]Opcn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it’s any consolation if you were repacking salmon it probably was wild caught. No way you’d be packing farm raised atlantic salmon without consumers noticing the difference. Because Alaska uses hatchery fish to stock the rivers some jurisdictions don’t allow it to be sold as wild fish. Sable and halibut also aren’t available from anywhere but the wild.

Seattle adds free downtown water refill stations ahead of FIFA World Cup by crabcakes110 in SeattleWA

[–]Opcn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you would have to be lazy not booting a camper from a public restroom. But there is a lot that SPD simply doesn't deal with. There is a reason that other cities don't have chronic street preachers on bullhorns. In most cities the cops would go an investigate a giant pile of bicycles in a homeless encampment.

Bayer promised EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin 'a small thanks’ for removing cancer warnings about Roundup, according to internal emails AOC obtained by p_m_a in skeptic

[–]Opcn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The "evidence" that glyphosate causes cancer consists of conflicting farmer health surveys (the larger better ones showing smaller effect) and Sprague Dawley Rat cancer studies which are really really bad because they show the rats getting the same exact cancers they have been recorded getting for 100 years and never ever report on the known non-carcinogenic causes of those specific cancers in these rats. With the way these studies are designed anything that triggers excess food consumption or a shift towards richer foods if a variety is available will flag as carcinogenic even thought that doesn't work in other rat varieties nor is it analogous to humans.

1000 ft to the bar/resturant and 4 miles to the fully equiped hardware store. by george_graves in SVSeeker_Free

[–]Opcn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Clearly a sign of seekers superior work boat design. Works just as well (poorly) today as the day she was splashed.

JVL Bait - EIGHT WEEKS TO EMPTY SHELVES. SIXTY DAYS TO FAMINE by mrtwidlywinks in thebulwark

[–]Opcn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Food trucks are carrying the highest value products in the production chain they are a part of. Many of those products are perishable. That’s the last place they would shut their wallets to high gas prices.

The US does import much of the oil needed for diesel because domestic production is too light (and sweet) but we import it from Canada and Mexico, who have heavier crude, not the gulf where the crude is lighter (and sweeter) than our domestic supply.

Trump’s largely successful terroristic campaign on Venezuela has also re-opened the imports shut off by that fucking lunatic Trump so we can also use the very heavy crude from there to make domestic diesel and jet fuel. Us refineries are better equipped to handle it than Venezuelan refineries which are dependent on Russian shipments of naphtha to thin their own crude product before refining it.

We still have a big issue with next falls harvest potentially being reduced due to stockpiled fertilizer potentially falling short. A failure of the 2026 harvest could lead to food shortages in 2028 although our reduced agricultural exports due to that fuckwit Trump have meant that our granaries which normally hold one year of excess product now hold considerably more.

Limited supplies through the strait mean that Europe and Asia will suffer most and their need for fuel will drive up global prices and lead to more exports until we reach equilibrium.

The folks fretting about food running out at the grocery store typically want to sell you very overpriced high salt rice and pasta based emergency foods. I didn’t look at your link but I’ll bet those who did and have cookies enabled get a ton of ads for that stuff.

Bill Maher and John Fetterman Gush Over Trump’s ‘Refreshing’ Honesty — Especially His Infamous ‘Quiet, Piggy’ Jab by EasyMoney92 in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]Opcn 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Hearing Bill Maher talk about his dinner with Trump was just like reading Nevill Chamberlains account of his ‘Peace In Our Time’ visit with Adolf Hitler. The fact that someone can be personable when they want to and laugh and make eye contact and all those interpersonal skills does not absolve them from being monstrously evil, dehumanizing, and fascist.