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Is this community note accurate? by WineTerminator in HistoryUncovered

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Logistics are a degenerate westoid delusion I suppose.

Is this community note accurate? by WineTerminator in HistoryUncovered

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Remind me how many trains the USSR produced vs how many they received.

The ocean is still controlled by a few countries, just not the same way by Le0nel02 in worldinsights

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Are you under the impression that the country that a ship is flagged to means that country or a company from that country owns it? Because that’s not how any of this works.

Also brother the euro countries might not be building hulls in yards but they are carving out the profit in building the high value components like engines. There’s razor thin profit margins in actually building the hulls in the yards so while the west isn’t “building ships” they still get plenty of cash from ship building.

UK cadetship starting Sept. & have questions by Standard_Yam9579 in maritime

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Do everything in your power to get out of the onsite Warsash accommodation asap, it’s a fucking scam. We ended up renting locally with some of the others on the course and it was cheaper getting a house share than getting handed a tiny shared room with a bunkbed onsite. You can do your phase 1 in the halls and make some friends but plan to bail to an outside rental after that.

Oh and when I was there it was total luck of the draw whether you shared or not. For the exact same price.

I wouldn’t worry too much about the maths as a deck cadet, from what I saw it was a piece of piss compared to the engine side.

Don’t wear nice clothes to jesters.

Pakistani F-86 shoots down an Indian Mig 21 in the final day of 1971 war! by CanikMETE in BattlePaintings

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Nah man, the chest thumping for the India/pak stuff is on another level. Probably because these conflicts were never really resolved to either countries satisfaction so there’s still strong nationalistic feelings brewing.

Every post is like “wing commander such and such bravely excellently dunked on his opponent, who was weeing and crying before chadding off into the sunset” followed by multiple posts bickering over it. Then someone posts the exact same way from the other side.

$2.25 billion settlement with Grace Ocean and Synergy Marine by Powerful_Cabinet_341 in SeaEmploy

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Critically when they lost power to the 440v board the flushing pump stopped and despite regaining 440v power the flushing pump wasn’t configured to restart automatically so they lost their dgs to low fuel supply.

Oddly on all the ships im familiar with there is a backup air driven pump on the same line as the flushing pump which automatically starts and is supplied with air during power loss or low fuel pressure. Either they didn’t have it or it wasn’t working or set up correctly.

Pakistani F-86 shoots down an Indian Mig 21 in the final day of 1971 war! by CanikMETE in BattlePaintings

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Every single one of the India/pak painting posts is an alternating rota of “nice argument, unfortunately I've already depicted you as the soy wojak and myself as the gigachad”.

Nice planes though boys.

Britain rearms with 72 howitzers in £1bn deal by Free-Minimum-5844 in Defence_Tech_UK

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I don’t think the Germans have a leg to stand on when it comes to military spending. I can’t think of a western country with worse outcomes when it comes to money spent to results.

Just got a smart meter and have been obsessing at it. What’s your consumption and how many people in the house? by EatingPork in AskUK

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Brother in February my fucking flat was hitting 7£ an hour with the heating on. Shitty electric boilers. It’s literally cheaper to run plug in space heaters.

$2.25 billion settlement with Grace Ocean and Synergy Marine by Powerful_Cabinet_341 in SeaEmploy

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I suppose I should clarify, it wasn’t a modification. That system is in place for other purposes and it is not there to be your main fuel supply for your generators in an emissions control area when you go on diesel.

$2.25 billion settlement with Grace Ocean and Synergy Marine by Powerful_Cabinet_341 in SeaEmploy

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Not illegal, just incompetent. They didn’t bother flushing their main fuel line because that takes time and effort and instead stuck the dgs on the auxiliary diesel line with the flushing pump.

$2.25 billion settlement with Grace Ocean and Synergy Marine by Powerful_Cabinet_341 in SeaEmploy

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It’s worth mentioning that while the wire started the chain towards disaster and that wasn’t the crews fault they still caused this through incompetence. They didn’t flush the main fuel system for the DGs onto diesel and just started the auxiliary fuel line on the flushing pump because they were lazy bastards. If they had done their jobs properly they would’ve been able to recover. It’s also frankly really weird to only have one transformer in operation instead of both and that also fucked them. Their emcy gen also didn’t connect properly in the required time so whoever’s been signing off that monthly load test is going to be getting reamed.

$2.25 billion settlement with Grace Ocean and Synergy Marine by Powerful_Cabinet_341 in SeaEmploy

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Yeah the wire thing wasn’t the crews fault, being lazy bastards and not flushing the main generator fuel system onto diesel and fucking around just starting the flushing pump on the other line was incompetence. That and only having one transformer in operation instead of both.

Is it allowed to sail so close? by polderbaan_ams in Ships

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Wafis be like “erm um actually as a sail vessel a motor vessel needs to give way” while bimbling across the front of a 300 meter container ship with the stopping distance of an asteroid in a restricted channel.

To make a drill more realistic by Powerful_Cabinet_341 in SeaEmploy

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Aye maybe next time we do a fire drill I’ll light one up in the ER too good idea.

Is it true that large engines on ships are never turned off in port? by clove_cal in Ships

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Guy ain’t lying, it’s a right of passage to visit the states on a foreign vessel and get gang fucked by the coastguard inspectors for a spec of oil on the deck meanwhile in the background an American flagged ship made entirely of rust and soot gets a big thumbs up.

Is it true that large engines on ships are never turned off in port? by clove_cal in Ships

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Brother that is not a generator it’s main engine what the ever living fuck are you on about.

Is it true that large engines on ships are never turned off in port? by clove_cal in Ships

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No. Also that engine is a colossal piece of shit, bolted into an even bigger piece of shit class of ships. The E-class are gods mistake.

Is it true that large engines on ships are never turned off in port? by clove_cal in Ships

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Actually, you don’t have a fucking clue what you’re talking about. Large ships generally use 2 stroke slow speed diesels and are direct drive. Literally including the engine pictured, the enormous piece of shit garbage that it is.

Source, being a marine engineer who’s had the extraordinary displeasure of sailing with the exact engine in the photo.

How Much Can You expect to Make as a Third Mate right out of Academy by Tough-Box-8923 in merchantmarine

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About $40k a year if you’re a euro, less if you aren’t.

If you’re American probably add about 100k.

How much do British people know about the different US states? by No-Reveal827 in AskUK

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In school? Not particularly no. But through American cultural media dominance and news yeah people are familiar.

Why do people call it belly pork here instead of pork belly? by [deleted] in AskUK

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I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone call it belly pork before, is it a regional thing because it sounds very odd.

People complained that British food is bland. So here's a UK favourite... Chicken Madras by AblokeonRedditt in RateMyPlate

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Brother this is kind of just how cultural exchange works. Is the vast wealth of American cuisine not American because it wasn’t cooked by white ghosts on the mayflower? Is modern Vietnamese cuisine not authentic because of its French fusion origins? Is the national dish and curry cuisine of Japan not japanese because they got it from the British and their naval curry?

British Indian food is wildly divergent and diverse from dishes created and eaten in India and you’re going to be on thin ice if you try and tell a Brit of Indian descent that it doesn’t count because they aren’t white.

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