I’d still think a Captain of a vessel like this should be capable of metric to imperial conversion as a prerequisite of holding the position, for all that you may be right. While Americans definitely should grow up and adopt a proper sensible modern system of measurement, it really shouldn’t be beyond a person captaining a ship to employ a calculator.

Thanks for the tip! I wasn’t aware of nvtop, and I’m thoroughly pleased that’s no longer the case.

This is like a throwback to Motif, but actually looking nice. Kudos!

Jesus Fucking Christ.

Surely the Captain knew - or should have known - what the clearance height of his own damn vessel is. It’s bad enough when the average trucker misses the local signage and sheers off the top of their truck on a low underpass or tunnel, but passing under the Brooklyn bridge isn’t a spur of the moment decision, and this is just inexcusably incompetent.

Yeah. Let’s not get started on fucking Oracle. We’ll be here all day. Or year, possibly.

Kudos! I wish you the best of luck and hope for your success.

That’s a very good point.

That seems unlikely to persuade those people to continue using VMware, but good luck with that business strat Broadcom.

Paying a premium for ridding yourself of institutional knowledge and existing experience, then paying again to fill the gap with ignorant novices, then paying yet again to train them to former levels of productivity while paying for the difference in the interrim: That’s government efficiency, baby!

I mean, why pay for one thing once, when paying for the thing you already had before you threw it out four times over is clearly four times as good - just like how a double standard is twice as good as a boring singular standard. As Big Balls from DOGE would no doubt say: “That’s math”.

Yeah, but you gotta hand it to him: Not many people can empty a wine bottle while giving it a vacuum sealed blowjob. The man must’ve mastered some kind of circular breathing technique.

Anyway, I don’t think you supposed to remember what individual politicians used to do or say. How are they going to gaslight you into thinking they aren’t hypocrites if you’re capable to recalling more than last week?

Oddly, Løkke has been somewhat uncharacteristically competent in his current role, especially with regards to Ukraine. Then you’ve got people like Troels who might say all the right things, at least until an opportunity to take a knee in front of the nearest demanding American, stroke their thighs and look adoring up at them for permission presents itself. Arms dependencies, tone deaf diplomatic entanglements and support for stationed American soldiers not subject to Danish law comes to mind there. The latter reaffirmed just before Hegseth comes out and declares a purge of insufficiently compliant JAGs, which for reasons I cannot comprehend didn’t get Troels off his knees either. He must really like it down there.

At least Løkke is offering some - token - opposition here. Okay, it’s not much, and it’s probably about is practically useful as a chocolate teakettle, but it is barely better than nothing, I guess.

Agreed. The sentiment was fine, the execution terrible.

Clearly you’re a person of great refinement and culture.

The following:

If companies are indulging in abusive use of cookies (or index DB, local storage, plugins or other things) then ban those abusive use of cookies and fine companies that transgress until they stop. The EU essentially caves to industry pressure and put the burden on the individual visitor, which just allowed the companies to make it very, very annoying to opt out. Have you noticed how ‘allow all’ is always a single click, but allow none isn’t, if the option exists at all? Regardless, those settings? Guess where they’re stored: Cookies. Which means that those of us who were already preventing local storage of data are now having to deal with those lovely “choices” over, and over and over. Every visit to youtube, every newspaper article we try to read.

This was not an improvement in my quality of life. And I doubt the practical efficacy to boot. Can’t track user behavior and Internet usage patterns by way of cookies anymore? Fingerprinting to the rescue.

I’d say ‘a set of individuals’. The distinction is admittedly subtle.

Personally, I much prefer individuals.

Some individuals, at least.

He should report all those pasty motherfuckers to ICE.

Hey EU? Do you remember when you forced every website to ask for permission to store cookies and made the entire web immeasurably worse to use without in any way having a positive impact on people’s right to some fucking privacy?

Yeah.

You know what they say: If it looks stupid but works, it’s not stupid. Or as I say: No, if it looks stupid and works, you got fucking lucky.

Soon my life-long dream of using a shaver the size of my entire face will become reality. Eyebrows? Nose? Who needs them anyway?