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This comment is meant in no way whatsoever to justify this seizure.
That tanker has been dark fleet since at least 2022, and she’s been actively and obviously spoofing since then, e.g., more or less daring the Americas to sanction her, although in a normal world it should have been OFAC doing the sanctioning, not armed marines seizing the ship and cargo.
(Not that I think the sanctions, as they are now constituted, are necessary justified either.)
Um what? The hate for JKR is quite active on bsky. OP smoking crack; we hate that bitch.
Shipping and petroleum - got an old Ikea Mercator map behind me for quick looks and estimations.
I’m in the one and only line of work where Mercator makes sense, and even I hate Mercator.
100% agree. With climate change, folks are not going to stop coming, not going to just stay at home and die. We have to urgently reform the whole immigration system with an emphasis on integration.
And by integration I don’t mean giving up their own cultures or language, but rather that life is better for people when they are comfortable in their environment. You won’t get comfortable if no one shows you how the culture works, which, it’s been my experience, they don’t.
My fellow Europeans, fight! Keep fighting until we drive them back to their basements!
Man I took my kids off location sharing when they got their first phones at 12. Shit is creepy.
Just communicate!
While 700k may look like a lot (and by most objective measures it is), the skill set needed to run a successful non/not for profit is actually quite unique no matter how big or small it is. They do not work not like “normal” CEOs. Replace caring about share price, and moving the share price up effectively versus caring about voluntary donations from people who get nothing out of but perhaps a tax break. And you’re competing not against other equities (stocks); you’re competing against other non/not for profits for limited money and attention.
Anyway, just saying I do not begrudge that level of compensation to the people running the last corner of the internet not filled with AI slop.
Yes see comment above.
Also in case you were wondering the other guys is our sycophantic former PM, Mark Rutte (VVD, garage people party) who is now head of NATO. His recent nearly literally a love letter to the American Fascist was published recently. Most Dutch just shook their heads. Rutte casts himself as some kind of “Trump-whisperer,” but the things is, he probably actually believes the blow-job level shit he wrote.
Did Stubb support this?!?
Doing the lord’s work here.
DM me I’ll send you details.
There is zero chance he’s kissing the ring. And I agree thinking he would convert Trump would be naive, but I don’t think that was it either.
Generally speaking, the last person the orange fascist speaks with gets his attention for X amount of time. He was either doing that about something very specific, or possibly it was more of an intelligence operation, finding out what the fascist’s next step around a specific issue is.
Anyway that’s based on knowing Alexander fairly well. But, it could also be the other European leaders said to him “hey man, we did our trip to that asshole, now it’s your turn!” (the last guess is from my wife, who knows him a bit better/longer than me).
Sneaky yes, but naive Alexander is absolutely not.
Who says those SIGNT flights are for Ukraine anymore?
Kinda? The Finns seized a Russian dark fleet vessel with their military and if I remember correctly held her for several days.
There is a LOT of discussion about “safe passage” going on in the EU right now regarding this kind of ship. They are very dangerous because they have no P&I insurance if they have a spill (and you bet your ass they are not maintained to any remotely reasonable standard).
Again, I am not personally in favor of this stuff. Dangerous and irresponsible in multiple ways.