No, that would be like uh… Ms. Hawk Tuah.
Greta is what you call an activist: Someone who actually believes things and advocates for change based on her beliefs.
When I was in school, this kind of behavior was referred to as a politically involved/informed, active citizen, the kind of people without which a democratic society cannot survive or function.
Wow, I am rarely corrected that things are even worse from an economic standpoint than I asses they are… I am so very used to being called a hysterical paranoid doomsday fetishist.
9 trillion rolling over in 2025 huh?
Hwoahboy, we are fucking screwed.
… Good luck.
Good summary, only one correction:
It will lead to an even worse Great Depression.
Great Depression 2.0 is already unavoidable in the US, even if Japan doesn’t dump US Bonds.
Japan (and others who would soon follow) dumping US Bonds would just pour cement over the grave we’ve already dug ourselves into.
He described the relief of seeing both people on board the boat pop open the hatch. “Oh my gosh, it’s just a miracle,” Ticknor said.
Ticknor being the event organizer.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sSl2846EPl4
The pilots suffered multiple fractures, including a broken knee.
I’d call a broken knee alone a serious injury…
Had their injuries been more serious, they may have been unable to escape the sinking boat.
Had the boat landed in a different orientation, or done a different, completely undpredictable, uncontrolled aerial manuever, such that it impacted the water with more speed, the boat could have broken apart on landing or become structurally comprised much more seriously, and thus the pilots would be sinking much more rapidly, likely with more serious injuries.
Though this boat and its safety cage performed admirably in terms of structural stability… similar crashes to this have maimed and killed a good number of folks in the history of hydroplane/powerboat events.
And that is what I would describe as the only kind of miracle I believe can actually happen.
Roughly on par with ‘bailed out of an airplane, crashed through some trees, landed in a snowbank, only suffered a few fractures and actually lived.’
Something like that happened a few times in WW2.
Yeah, I was gonna say, did the pilot live?
Good number of hydroplane/powerboat deaths/maimings over the years…
Because confirmation bias is a superior substitute to basic research, how else would one inform themselves about the world?
/s
What I’m suggesting is I am asking ChatGPT to validate my idea that all Filipinos have the same beliefs, wherever they are, almost as if their worldviews are entirely determined by their racial/ethnic origin.
Please stop and maybe read the things your write outloud before you post them…
… and you’d be wrong.
It does resemble a terrorist attack…
But if you watched the press conference with the chief of police (or the equivalent title)…
They have the suspect in custody, there were no specific threats to the event before hand, the suspect has a long history of mental illness, and the suspect has had many previous run ins with the police, ‘suspect is well known to the department’… gives me the impression this is a person who is having one kind of mental breakdown or another … every month or other week.
At one point a reporter asked if it was terrorism and the CoP basically says… that would require a political or ideological motivation.
The CoP … you could tell he was doing his best to divulge information he could without divulging information he couldn’t. He paused and tried to rephrase things a few times, openly struggled with … seemingly genuinely being unclear about what he was legally allowed to say.
If the person truly is seriously mentally ill, there may be additional laws in place protecting some extra level of their privacy, at least before charges are actually brought.
Put all that together, and it seems like this person has been just… very very seriously mentally ill for a long time, as in, too mentally ill to be capable of forming a coherent or describable ideology.
Or, at the very least, that seems to me to be what the police are saying.
Damn. I did not know you actually could litterbox train them, that’s amazing.
I’ve had ex partners with guinea pigs and ferrets… but never rabbits.
I’ll have to bookmark the wabbitwiki, thank you!
Adorable! =D
Ciel is a more creative name than Bunnicula, my first thought, lol.
I’ve not been religious for a long time now, but I don’t know how else to phrase this:
I pray that one day I can put that knowledge toward just having a pet bunny.
… That would be nice.
Do… if you keep a bunbun as a pet, do they do better alone, or are they social enough that they need a buddy… or would two buddies in something like an apartment lead to fights?
… Can you potty train a rabbit like a cat, and let it roam around, or will it just relieve itself whereever?
I mean, will they eat each other if you can’t feed em for a while?
… I realize that is quite a grizzly thing to ask, and I don’t mean to be as flippant as the first comment…
But that would be a useful thing to know if you’re desperate enough to start a rabbit breeding pen for food, and you also have no idea what feed prices/availability will be.
… take notes, Americans.
A nearly 50% drop in booked global TEUs?
TEU means Twenty Foot Equivalent Units, your basic standard shipping container.
Yes, yes, this is astoundingly, apocalyptically bad.
America will be more fucked than others, but this is Great Depression 2.0.
If this persists, and you end up with a the rest of the year of roughly half the TEU… well you’d go from about 900m TEU to about 550m TEU.
The last time global sea trade clocked in at about 550m TEU was 2010.
So… yeah, just wipe out the last 15 years worth of volume of world trade, and economic activity/growth enabled by that, and oh also you have about 1 billion more mouths to feed than in 2010.
Or… if you look at it in terms of % change… its hard to find detailed, historical, week by week figures without paying for the data, but the entirety of the GFC hitting the global economy in 2009 resulted in an 8.5% decrease in global TEU from 2008.
So… it remains to be seen how long and strong the current downturn in TEU will persist…
But, if you say 2025 TEU drops by 30% in aggregate for the rest of this year… that is a 2025 that has a -22.5% ‘growth’ in total world trade volume, almost 3x as bad as the 07 08 09 GFC, the impact of which was seen in the -8.5% of 2009.
These are spitball guess numbers, I can’t predict the future… but I do have a degree in Econ and I used to work as an executive level data analyst for a large mulinational, US based import export firm… so its moderately informed spitball guess.
This is Great Depression 2.0, this will make the GFC look like childs play. This is tens or hundreds of millions of people (globally) going broke, becoming homeless, starving to death levels of bad.
The only way to prevent that at this point is … well basically step one is America needs to impeach and imprison every Trump administration member… but that is uh… not guaranteed, to say the least.
Whelp, thats a whoosh moment for me than lol.
But it does seem like some other people appreciated the info :P
To clarify:
Though the group currently calling itself Anonymous that just published all this … derives the aesthetics and what not from stuff that arose on 4chan in the mid/late 00s…
They almost certainly have nothing to do with 4chan going down.
4chan was taken down by a group of people that used to post on a 4chan subboard, which was removed… and then they started their own community ‘Soyjack Party’.
Which, ironically, is a very similar story as to why 4chan even exists: m00t used to post hentai and loli on SomethingAwful, and then that subboard got shut down, m00t and other frequent posters there got banned, and then they made 4chan.
Like… I stopped using 4chan almost two decades ago now, when m00t made a big announcement post, which later disappeared, stating that as a result of increased media scrutiny and a number of high profile crimes that were connected back to 4chan posts… well m00t said that he was cooperating with the authorities.
I can’t prove this, because … two decades ago, and the announcement was only up for … less than 24hrs… but yeah, as the SoyJack Party hack of 4chan has confirmed, it was obvious that 4chan was/is a shitshow joke of an operation held together by ducttape and fishing lines.
For fucks sake, their versions of PHP and MySQL were like 12 years out of date and had numerous, extensively well documented security flaws.
So… within the last few months… she promoted her own cryptoshitcoin… and then it got rugpulled… and then people got mad at Ms. Tuah… and then Ms. Tuah said pretty much it was all her manager’s idea, and that she got screwed as well…???
Some kind of idiocy like that.
I would actually believe she is so stupid that she herself was conned into promoting a shitcoin and legitimately had no idea … what they actually do, how they work.
Which is better than being intentionally evil, but not by very much, as she cost her followers a lot of money.
… Something like that is what Ms. Tuah is up to these days, rofl.