Stuck Ships & Shooting Sprees
Mar. 27th, 2021 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanSome news... of the world
Have we been following the story of the container ship, longer than the Empire State Building, stuck diagonally in the Suez Canal? I have... & it's amazing. Not only that this is the first ship to get stuck in the Canal in its 150 year history, but also that the thing's so big it's going to take some impressive engineering & bloody huge machinery to get it free. The photos in the linked article of earth movers absolutely dwarfed by just the ship's bow are an exercise in perspective...
And... pointless as it may seem, here's an antipodean view of yet another mass shooting in the USA, written by an Australian journalist who lives over there. Apathy, hypocrisy, ignorance, selfishness, arrogance, fear, indifference... Inexplicable. Inexcusable...
Have we been following the story of the container ship, longer than the Empire State Building, stuck diagonally in the Suez Canal? I have... & it's amazing. Not only that this is the first ship to get stuck in the Canal in its 150 year history, but also that the thing's so big it's going to take some impressive engineering & bloody huge machinery to get it free. The photos in the linked article of earth movers absolutely dwarfed by just the ship's bow are an exercise in perspective...
And... pointless as it may seem, here's an antipodean view of yet another mass shooting in the USA, written by an Australian journalist who lives over there. Apathy, hypocrisy, ignorance, selfishness, arrogance, fear, indifference... Inexplicable. Inexcusable...
