Suez Canal blocked by grounded container ship since at least 0600 UTC today - Traffic in both directions stopped; Millions of yuros' Amazon delivery dates updated

[Tovarisz]

It's not impossible, but it would take some time to adjust back to how things were before that system, probably a generation or two. These days most things are much cheaper so people throw shit out constantly like it's no big deal. Go through any neighborhood on garbage day and you're likely to see at least several houses with shit out on the curb that's still perfectly good, or at least would be with a bit of repair. If we were to opt out we wouldn't be buying nearly as many things, but we'd also be holding onto those things for much longer. They would likely be of higher quality and less liable to break, and even if breakage happened we'd be making repairs instead of throwing them out and buying new ones.

Yep, go to grandma house and have a good hard look at everything, from flooring to furniture, most of that shit is probably older than most of us are, and while it looks like shit (Because it doesn't have LEDs on it) it's probably working perfectly fine.

My grandmother had the same furniture for 30+ years, real wood, take care of it properly and it'll outlive you. My furniture is made of idk what, leftovers from building proper furniture for the rich probably, but I'll need to replace it next year after 2 years of owning it. It was cheap tho.

Between planned obsolescence and using shit materials we both lost the motivation to care about and maintain anything. A materialistic pump and dump.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

The best part is there's no requirement to take pirates prisoner or even rescue them after you wreck their boats, unlike any other people you come across on the ocean.

The moment you begin to engage in piracy you're hostis humani generis. It's almost an obligation to take out pirates if you have the capability.

I've read Russian crews throw the pirates in the ocean after they trash the pirate boats.
Those fuckers don't give a shit, but at least the sharks get fed.

 

[kcbbq]

I've read Russian crews throw the pirates in the ocean after they trash the pirate boats.
Those fuckers don't give a shit, but at least the sharks get fed.

If you take individual pirates prisoner they have a few ways to claim a defense, so you either declare them pirates and summarily execute them or send them on their way, which is what the Russians do. Not anyone's fault being released 20 miles from shore with no boat, food, water, or a radio in shark infested water is inconvenient.

 

[Tovarisz]

I've read Russian crews throw the pirates in the ocean after they trash the pirate boats.
Those fuckers don't give a shit, but at least the sharks get fed.

There are some videos out there where russians give guns to cleaning crews to have a shot at somalians. Somali pirates aren't worth the paper the incident report is going to be written on for them.

 

[The Notorious RGB]

The more I look into this, the more it looks like this might have been deliberate. The ship apparently lost power for over an hour while they were doing a slight course correction, which means the rudder was turned and pointed it into the shore.

The Ever Given lost power and ran aground, the Maersk Denver managed to stop & not hit them, "and right after they ran aground the ship behind us lost power and almost hit us" according to fallenhearts17 on the Maersk Denver.
Two out of three ships. What a coincidence.

I am 100% certain some galaxy brained niggas in Taiwan are now realizing all it takes to royally fuck China is having an accidental fire start at one of their cargo ships accidentally at the right time and place

Evergreen is Taiwanese.

Shouldn’t there be more people than two guys and an excavator?

Not if you know it's pointless but are just trying to delay world panic for a few more moments.

 

[ditto]

Time to sell that Amazon stock

 

[The Demon Baby]

The Ever Given lost power and ran aground, the Maersk Denver managed to stop & not hit them, "and right after they ran aground the ship behind us lost power and almost hit us" according to fallenhearts17 on the Maersk Denver.
Two out of three ships. What a coincidence.

Yeah, this is fucked. Could it be some kind of hacking or EMP weapon?

We all know that our current way of life is not sustainable and that it was only a matter of time before the world economy would crash completely. Since the 2008 housing crash, the entire economy has been propped up with bailouts and duct tape, while the elites were robbing us blind to feather their nests. The one thing the elites are super scared of is being blamed for the inevitable crash, because they know for a fact we would all be coming after them with guillotines and trebuchets.

COVID and this boat crash are pretty convenient excuses to blame it all on. Just saying.

 

[neverendingmidi]

Yep, go to grandma house and have a good hard look at everything, from flooring to furniture, most of that shit is probably older than most of us are, and while it looks like shit (Because it doesn't have LEDs on it) it's probably working perfectly fine.

My grandmother had the same furniture for 30+ years, real wood, take care of it properly and it'll outlive you. My furniture is made of idk what, leftovers from building proper furniture for the rich probably, but I'll need to replace it next year after 2 years of owning it. It was cheap tho.

Between planned obsolescence and using shit materials we both lost the motivation to care about and maintain anything. A materialistic pump and dump.

Hell, even the expensive stuff is shit nowadays, unless you get it from the Amish. Had a table with a scratch on it (my grandpa had made it) and called a guy who advertised that he repaired minor damages to furniture. He was happy as hell to fix that damage as it was real wood, and told my family how everything- including high end shit from expensive places- is wood veneer over compressed cardboard. Not even IKEA style particle board, straight up compressed paper.

He had to tell somebody who's puppy had chewed the leg on their brand new $2000 bed frame that it was unfixable because the paper inside was damp and expanding.

 

[Snekposter]

Hell, even the expensive stuff is shit nowadays, unless you get it from the Amish. Had a table with a scratch on it (my grandpa had made it) and called a guy who advertised that he repaired minor damages to furniture. He was happy as hell to fix that damage as it was real wood, and told my family how everything- including high end shit from expensive places- is wood veneer over compressed cardboard. Not even IKEA style particle board, straight up compressed paper.

He had to tell somebody who's puppy had chewed the leg on their brand new $2000 bed frame that it was unfixable because the paper inside was damp and expanding.

That deserves a horrifying rating.

 

[Hackallier]

Not even IKEA style particle board, straight up compressed paper.

I'll actually take IKEA furniture hands down over some of the more "expensive" ones. Like you said, most of the expensive stuff is fake as hell. I actually own a bunch Ikea hand-me-downs and none of them have broken, only slight paint wear along edges. If you aren't somehow embarrassed to own them they are sadly the best you can currently widely get.

The most durable furniture I've encountered aside from some really old stuff, is actually prisoner made wooden furniture. Surprisingly good looking and very durable. This is not in US though.

 

[Turanist Shitposter]

We were already having a raw material crisis which didn't surface to end users or customers, this will tear everyone a couple of new assholes. Also:

 

[The Demon Baby]

I'll actually take IKEA furniture hands down over some of the more "expensive" ones.

Aside from the family heirloom furniture that I own (and has been passed down to me), I pretty much only buy IKEA furniture, because I know it's trash and don't really care if anything happens to it.

 

[Meriasek]

Yeah, this is fucked. Could it be some kind of hacking or EMP weapon?

Man, it sure sounds convenient that one ship loses power on a turn and beaches itself, and then another ship also loses power. Imagine if there had been a massive three-ship monster pile-up of the Denver running into the Given, and a third ship then running into them.
If some EMP weapons existed that could do such a thing, this would be a pretty neat way to use it. Sounds unfeasible, though, scrambling electronics like that isn't realistic over the distances required for doing it to such large ships, I think. If foul play was involved, I'd say it would be sabotage or hacking, but then also someone would have maybe reported something already.

 

[L50LasPak]

Man, it sure sounds convenient that one ship loses power on a turn and beaches itself, and then another ship also loses power. Imagine if there had been a massive three-ship monster pile-up of the Denver running into the Given, and a third ship then running into them.
If some EMP weapons existed that could do such a thing, this would be a pretty neat way to use it. Sounds unfeasible, though, scrambling electronics like that isn't realistic over the distances required for doing it to such large ships, I think. If foul play was involved, I'd say it would be sabotage or hacking, but then also someone would have maybe reported something already.

The Ever Given lost power and ran aground, the Maersk Denver managed to stop & not hit them, "and right after they ran aground the ship behind us lost power and almost hit us" according to fallenhearts17 on the Maersk Denver.
Two out of three ships. What a coincidence.

Isn't there some nautical regulation that ships not be entirely dependent on their electronic systems to keep the engines running and maintain basic directional control just because malfunctions are sea are extremely common?

 

[Meriasek]

Isn't there some nautical regulation that ships not be entirely dependent on their electronic systems to keep the engines running and maintain basic directional control just because malfunctions are sea are extremely common?

Dunno, but it would make sense. Also, there should be quite a lot of redundancy and emergency power generation to prevent exactly this kind of stuff from happening. And two ships losing power almost at the same time in such close vicinity? I mean, I'm not putting it past the owners to skip on maintenance and the ships being understaffed and broken, but the spatial and temporal proximity here is hard to overlook. Although we don't really know any details yet, so let's not be hasty for now.
But the idea that someone pulled a Splinter Cell/MGS2 style sabotage operation to fuck over global economy by just messing with two floaty bois is a fun one.

 

[L50LasPak]

Dunno, but it would make sense. Also, there should be quite a lot of redundancy and emergency power generation to prevent exactly this kind of stuff from happening. And two ships losing power almost at the same time in such close vicinity? I mean, I'm not putting it past the owners to skip on maintenance and the ships being understaffed and broken, but the spatial and temporal proximity here is hard to overlook. Although we don't really know any details yet, so let's not be hasty for now.
But the idea that someone pulled a Splinter Cell/MGS2 style sabotage operation to fuck over global economy by just messing with two floaty bois is a fun one.

Admittedly if there was some kind of plot to wreck the canal, it would be suspicious as hell and immediately uncovered in an investigation that all of the ships lost power at the same time, so it certainly wouldn't be very subtle.

 

[Kill a Troon for Pikamee]

Low tide is going to happen on Sunday evening. I'm calling it now, Sunday evening is when the spine of the ship breaks and the whole world realizes how fucked we are. If there is a big-ticket something you really want to buy, I recommend buying it on Saturday. We are headed for hyper inflation.

Concentrate on the ship's spine, send your thoughts and prayers exactly to that point on Sunday. We can end it all here

 

[Meriasek]

Admittedly if there was some kind of plot to wreck the canal, it would be suspicious as hell and immediately uncovered in an investigation that all of the ships lost power at the same time, so it certainly wouldn't be very subtle.

Yeah, pretty much. The fact that nobody has reported anything yet makes it very unlikely that foul play was involved, at least to me.

 

[neverendingmidi]

Isn't there some nautical regulation that ships not be entirely dependent on their electronic systems to keep the engines running and maintain basic directional control just because malfunctions are sea are extremely common?

Even if there is, probably the only ones following it are US and some Euro flagged ships. There's a reason a number of cargo ships are flagged to various shithole countries. Those countries don't care about any regulations until shit hits the fan. I think I've heard of some ports banning ships flagged from certain other countries because of this.

 

[The Demon Baby]

I think. If foul play was involved, I'd say it would be sabotage or hacking, but then also someone would have maybe reported something already.

If this was done deliberately, they'd want the public to think it was an accident. Keep in mind, there are also weapons systems out there that we have no idea exist. Military tech is always at least 2 decades ahead of what you can purchase at Best Buy.
I don't know for sure that this was done deliberately...yet. All I'm saying is that 2 ships in the same area losing power at the same time is sus AF.