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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    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      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

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        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          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.

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            • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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              2 years ago

              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.

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    • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      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).

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        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.

        • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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          2 years ago

          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!"

    • Wheaties [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      'cus running attack adds and news stories on policies and voting history requires a minimum of investigative work