On her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, the passenger liner Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on this day in history, resulting in the world’s worst peacetime shipping disaster.
The Titanic sank in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean, four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic had an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg at around 23:40 (ship's time) on Sunday, 14 April 1912. Her sinking two hours and forty minutes later at 02:20 (ship's time; 05:18 GMT) on Monday, 15 April, resulted in the deaths of more than 1,500 people, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.
Titanic received six warnings of sea ice on 14 April but was travelling at a speed of roughly 22 knots when her lookouts sighted the iceberg. Unable to turn quickly enough, the ship suffered a glancing blow that buckled her starboard side and opened six of her sixteen compartments to the sea. Titanic had been designed to stay afloat with four of her forward compartments flooded but no more, and the crew used distress flares and radio (wireless) messages to attract help as the passengers were put into lifeboats.
In accordance with existing practice, Titanic's lifeboat system was designed to ferry passengers to nearby rescue vessels, not to hold everyone on board simultaneously; therefore, with the ship sinking rapidly and help still hours away, there was no safe refuge for many of the passengers and crew with only 20 lifeboats, including 4 collapsible lifeboats. Poor management of the evacuation meant many boats were launched before they were completely full.
Titanic sank with over a thousand passengers and crew still on board. Almost all of those who jumped or fell into the sea drowned or died within minutes due to the effects of cold shock and incapacitation. RMS Carpathia arrived about an hour and a half after the sinking and rescued all of the 710 survivors by 09:15 on 15 April, some nine and a half hours after the collision. The disaster shocked the world and caused widespread outrage over the lack of lifeboats, lax regulations, and the unequal treatment of third-class passengers during the evacuation. Subsequent inquiries recommended sweeping changes to maritime regulations, leading to the establishment in 1914 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS).
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i'm a materialist (cause we are living in a material world and I am a material girl)
The other day one of my friends told me they consumed media from both extremes of the political spectrum. 4chan and reddit.
:pain: why must I have friends
Where are you people making friends like this? My friends share my values and I wouldn't be friends with those who don't.
I would ask you the same question. I have basically never met a real person who shares my values, and the ones who come close are usually bad company.
I made most of my friends at punk shows and have been in leftist circles since age 15 or so, that may have helped.
There you go then, I'm into computers and videogames and most of my friends I met at highschool and uni, or through those people. It's not a very progressive crowd at the best of times but my interests are what they are so I make do.
I'm pretty antagonistic to open reaction, but that level of ignorance is about average outside specifically leftist spaces I think.
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jesus fucking christ i can not understand this enough but
D E A T H T O A M E R I C A
i popped into the clinic to get a PCR test and these motherfuckers had the audacity to say it's $250 to stick a fucking swab up my nose
fallout 4 mod where the nukes never drop so you're just milling about in suburbia for 200 hours
Today I learned that my parents put 20K down on a house in 2005 that is now worth 500K
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What is Metallica doing. what the fuck is this shit. Just stop you old geezers, put down the instruments and stop making the same song over and over
all i can think of is that one facebook post like "metallica is 35! thank u for 7 years of great music!"
If thar many...even Kill em All is kinda eh. I like Ride the Lightning. Master of Puppets has a few jams but they all have stupid prog parts in the middle that fuck up.the whole flow. Like, the song master of puppets didn't need a country style solo before the breakdown to make you bored hard way through.
Wow. This is even more wrong than their decision to keep going.
Master of Puppets is peak Metallica and they actually should have stopped after Justice
Here's the thing, I'm much more on the punk side of the aggressive music scale and don't give a shit about prog parts or 12 minute songs.
Your opinion is wrong but I respect your right to have it regardless
There's this guy I keep seeing on TikTok, an amatuer sleuth who thinks he's uncovered a serial killer, and now he's spawning other guys just like him.
This guy thinks there's a serial killer because guys keep disappearing in Chicago and then their corpses turn up in the river. But these guys are disappearing after leaving bars that are near the river. The official story is that these drunk guys are walking, then falling in the river. But no, that's too pat. See, this guy went to one of those bars, and when he was walking home alone a car pulled up to him and offered him a ride. When he said no the car peeled off. Then, later, a different car, different driver, same behavior. Other people have seen these cars too.
So, at this point, I think the guy is suggesting that there's at least two serial killers operating in the same place with the same MO. From the vids I've seen he doesn't come out and say that, but I don't see what else he could be implying. Then, other people on TikTok start sending him their stories. This is happening to other people. And not just in Chicago, but in major cities around the US, men are leaving bars, turning up dead in the river, and there are these mysterious cars all over. So there must be a network of killers across the country, all with the same MO, dumping murdered men in rivers. I-want-to-believe
And, it's just so obvious what's happening. The officials are right. Guys are walking home, alone, drunk, and they fall in the river and drown. The mysterious cars? A taxi scam. Maybe they pretend to be Uber. You get in, they take you somewhere, they take your wallet. Or, if you're drunk enough, they convince you the payment for the Uber you don't remember ordering hasn't gone through and get you to swipe your card in a skimmer.
I think in one of the videos the guy says that 14 guys have disappeared just in Chicago since January. That would be an insane amount of murder for a serial killer to get away with in so short a time. And there being multiple different mystery cars/drivers just immediately invalidates the serial killer angle anyway. Unless you're proposing some mass conspiracy, with police collusion, but to what end? Organ harvesting? Gonna need some real proof for a claim like that.
This is actually an established conspiracy theory, some guys wrote a book about it. They typically think this is a multinational cabal of serial killers doing this in major cities with lots of waterfronts all over the world. The "calling card" left behind, which links these murders and proves they are the same cult, is some kind of smiley-face graffiti found in some place connected with the murder - where the victim went missing, where the body was found - whatever.
Obviously they cherry-pick a bunch of data, and the idea that finding graffiti of the simplest symbol in the world somewhere near the incident proves anything is obviously silly as hell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_face_murder_theory
The most recent description I have seen the main cop give is that this is, quote, "the most dangerous domestic terrorist organization active today".
They also say they have identified a dozen more grafitti symbols that this group uses, no they wont tell you what those are, but its definitely real.
I think the funniest thing is when people say "Oh yeah that new stuff is bullshit but I still believe in the original theory" when there is only one theory. Like what, why would you believe these guys were right in 2003 or whatever, but in 2023 after 20 years of more "investigation" its suddenly bullshit?
Since the police don't actually solve murders or give a shit about anything outside of brutalizing black people, I can believe a serial killer would get away with this.
stupid fucking idiot liberal child fills up his thermos with coffee and then leaves it home instead of taking it to work: more at 11
Okay, pudding cup fingerings as an adult who wants to be president of America is a total fucking deal breaker for me. I don't even think I could vote for a grown up that eats pudding cups, there's just a respect drop there.
Part of being masculine is being proud of treating food as fuel until its a steak and then pretending to a gourmand expert about how long their slab of meat is grilled. Having worked kitchens, cooks get mad when they have to make a well done steak and get super dramatic like they have to cook a Van Gough. It's fucking hilarious that being a beef diva is part of performative masculinity.
Sandwiches rule. I don't get that one
The last point is true, but you didn't buy the steak and they paid for it and that's how they want it. Who cares? You didn't pay for the steak and you aren't eating it.
They aren't asking for a cottage cheese and pastrami sandwich on banana bread. And it's only been white cooks who suddenly act like Gordon Ramsay or like they're being personally injured and I've absolutely seen it as a white masculine thing because any other aspect of giving a shit about how your food tastes meant the customer was a diva.
Why do Anglos
It's an unsolvable mystery. The world will never know
Also Obama using the wrong mustard.
I kinda suspect this is a non-anglo thing too. Given that I've see many Mediterranean peoples get very territorial over hummus, I suspect Mediterranean people might get mad at pols for food choices (extend this to the rest of earth).
I need more details on Obama'a mustard-Gare fiasco. I appreciate mustard and it's one of my weird secret weapons as a cook. That and cumin I will add to recipes in ways no one will expect.
Onions fried with a dash of brown sugar and about a table spoon of grainy Dijon is something else. Also found a local guy that does a whole bunch of different ones. Got a nice grainy one with truffle out and olive relish, a jalapeño one spiced with super smoked paprika and one with saueurkraut mixed in. Love a mustard.
I'm pretty sure the mustard thing was just that he put dijon on his hot dog instead of some shit named "Cowboy Sam Sheldons Completely Generic Mustard!"
'cus running attack adds and news stories on policies and voting history requires a minimum of investigative work
The most unrealistic part of Mystery Flesh Pit National Park isn't the, uh, flesh pit, but the fact that the corporation running it actually gets prosecuted when its negligence kills a bunch of people
Show your wife how you feeling on medlas down in killashandra (this verse does not apply to trans people)
Ah fuck I'm a bit drunk but how'd I fuck it up that badly
western media is defending Dalai Lama pedo thing by calling it a traditional practice called "che-le-sa" which shockingly turns out to not be a real thing.
also like even if it were a "traditional" practice, it doesn't make it any more acceptable.
:sleepless: my neighbors right now listening to my drunk ass sing the internationale at 1 am
I hope you aren't bothering them. Being kept awake by neighbors sucks. I try to exchange phone numbers so I know if I'm being annoying and vice versa. I work evenings and sleep until noon at the earliest most days so I keep it down at night in exchange for being able to get people to quiet foen until the afternoon.
