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[10:37:59] <janrinok> Forgot to start IRC and my webmail this morning - I've been wondering why it is so quiet
[10:49:32] <Ingar> I was updating my laptop when it went to sleep mid-upgrade
[10:49:36] <Ingar> forgot to plug it in :D
[10:49:52] <Ingar> got lucky though
[10:51:46] <janrinok> well, a quiet'ish day for both of us then :)
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[11:25:30] <c0lo> Ooof, one less bridge to sell intact https://www.abc.net.au
[11:25:32] <systemd> ^ 03Two dead and multiple injured after Mexican Navy ship crashes into New York's Brooklyn Bridge - ABC News
[11:39:48] <c0lo> =sub https://www.space.com
[11:39:50] <systemd> ✓* Sub-ccess! "08NASA Resurrects Voyager 1 Interstellar Spacecraft's Thrusters After 20 Years: 'These Thrusters Were " (18p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[13:10:23] <janrinok> yes, but the Mexicans have renamed it the Yucatan Peninsular Bridge. They have asked Google to update all of their maps.
[13:29:49] <chromas> Deport the ship!
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[20:00:42] <chromas> https://www.youtube.com
[20:00:44] <systemd> ^ 03Video: Mexican ship collides with Brooklyn Bridge, killing two
[20:07:15] <chromas> Seems to be a uptick in boats losing power in tight spaces recently
[20:29:25] <ted-ious> That wasn't caused by losing power.
[20:30:05] <ted-ious> Their captain is an idiot and didn't check to see if his masts were taller than the bridge.
[20:36:08] <ted-ious> The ship's masts were illuminated with strings of lights, which appeared to have gone out in the wake of the collision in New York City's East River. (AP: Kyle Viterbo)
[20:36:20] <ted-ious> That's just obviously not true.
[20:37:02] <ted-ious> So as usual the mass media is lying to change the narrative and help somebody save face.
[20:38:05] <chromas> Comments are saying they have separate power systems. One said the boar was drifting backward, though it looked kinda forwardish to me
[20:38:18] <ted-ious> Runaway would probably have something to say about how the ship was drifting backwards and could have dropped anchor if anybody had been paying attention.
[20:38:46] <ted-ious> chromas: Now that I'm looking at photos from another angle I'm pretty sure it is drifting backwards.
[20:39:56] <ted-ious> If you zoom in on the photo's you'll see that the anchor chains are coming out of the bow but it's the stern that is facing the woman on the dock who is filming.
[20:39:57] <chromas> boats and planes must be getting the same level of maintenance as our roads
[20:41:49] <ted-ious> Also you can see that the bow has the string of lights going all the way up to the tip whereas the bow's lights don't wrap all the around so that the name can be writen there.
[20:42:09] <ted-ious> Sorry I mean the stern's lights don't wrap around.
[20:42:54] <ted-ious> I wonder if that thing even has propulsion.
[20:43:41] <ted-ious> Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of showing off by sailing around the world by wind power alone?
[20:43:55] <chromas> a hundred Mexicans flippers on, poking their feet out the bottom, Flintstones-style
[20:45:46] <ted-ious> Wouldn't that just be oars? :)
[20:46:20] <chromas> if you want a less comical visual, sure
[20:48:01] <ted-ious> https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au
[20:48:17] <ted-ious> That's a much better version than the one the page normally shows.
[21:17:08] <ted-ious> =sub https://www.theguardian.com automating-the-mistakes-and-reducing-oversight dept. +https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/Explaining-the-largest-IT-outage-in-history-and-whats-next +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_outages
[21:17:14] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03‘Tone Deaf’: US Tech Company Responsible for Global IT Outage to Cut Jobs and Use AI" (32p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[21:41:09] <ted-ious> https://www.dailykos.com
[21:41:10] <systemd> ^ 03Biden has been diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer
[21:41:20] <ted-ious> 9 out of 10 severity.
[21:42:09] <ted-ious> So the mobster who faked his senility will get out of jail free.