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This wind powered cargo ship is set to change the way we ship the goods across oceans. The model is very practical and is looking at a possible launch in 2024. https://ift.tt/2MKA9Pb
Wind powered ships!? What a time to be alive!
we really are in the future
ok i did have a good laugh but the more i think about it the more awesome this is?
i mean, the reason we quit using sail power wasn’t because it didn’t provide good propulsion. it was because sails were fragile, labor-intensive, and subject to the whims of the weather. from an industrial revolution era perspective, being able to know that your cargo is going to be chugging across the atlantic at a constant 10 knots and arrive friday after next at the latest was HUGE. it’s no wonder we never went back, even after fossil fuels became not only gross but expensive.
this design? using aerofoils like plane wings, with full rotation ability and telescoping height, controlled by computer from the wheelhouse? all the problems with sail power are suddenly over, except the ‘how much wind is there’ one. and that one is significantly reduced by modern weather data gathering systems.
i love the age of sail as a fiction setting because sailing tall ships was so fraught and busy and stressful. the captain or bosun was shouting out orders based on what he could see and feel and guess in that very moment, and maybe some clues like the movement of fog or birds in the distance, and a bunch of underfed guys with crippling ptsd would go rushing up and down an enormous jungle gym with no safety equipment, quite often coated with ice or in the pitch dark, and if they screwed up they died. amazing drama.
but for real life oceangoing experiences, give me this. a ship so big it feels solid as a rock, sails like skyscrapers, no mechanical sounds but the occasional hum of servos adjusting their angle, gliding serene across the water like a reflection of the moon. yeah. give me that.
In Brazil, the federal governmentâs
approach to the covid-19 pandemic has been to try to achieve herd
immunity through contagion. This has so far led to the avoidable deaths
of hundreds of thousands of citizens. On 5 March, we published an article
explaining the strategy to allow covid-19 to spread, led by Jair
Bolsonaro, the Brazilian president himself. [1] Since then, as expected,
Brazil has plunged into an unprecedented health catastrophe.
Last week, nearly one third of all
daily covid-19 fatalities in the world were in Brazil, although Brazil
makes up only 2.7% of the world population. On 2 April, there were 12.8
million cases and over 325 thousand deaths. In the week 21-27 March,
there was a daily 0.8% rise in cases and 1.9% rise in deaths; lethality
has risen from 2% to 3.3% since late 2020. [2] The new variants circulating in Brazil have become a serious cause of concern to neighbouring countries. [3]
The catastrophe could be much worse
had there not been a national public health system (SUS) in place, based
on universal coverage. Yet the system has reached the point of collapse.
On 29 March 2021, 17 out of the 27
federal states reached adult-ICU-bed occupation rates of 90% or more;
among the 27 capital cities, 21 displayed the same rates, and seven of
them had reached their full capacity or were working above it.
[4] At most points of care, the number of available beds, although
insufficient, results from successive expansions due to the high demand.
Despite these efforts, by 25 March, 6,371 people were waiting for an
ICU-bed. [5] In March, 496 people lost their lives while on the waiting list for ICU in the state of Sao Paulo alone. [6]
Against that backdrop, almost all
federal states have adopted restrictive measures to curb the circulation
of covid-19. They have faced fierce opposition from the federal
government.
Bolsonaro has even filed a lawsuit
with the Supreme Federal Court against three governors, who had
temporarily suspended commercial activities.
[10] The case was dismissed for basic legal inconsistencies. He still
maintains a false opposition between the economy and health and he
claims that lockdown measures would cause starvation, unemployment, and
social chaos.
Bolsonaro keeps holding public
gatherings, promoting scientific denialism, and defending the early use
of ineffective drugs against covid-19.
The so-called âCovid kit,â promoted by the federal government, includes
hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, ivermectin, and anticoagulants, and
may cause haemorrhage, renal failure, and arrhythmias. In Sao Paulo, at
least five patients who were prescribed the âearly treatmentâ have
entered the liver transplant line and three have died from hepatitis. [11]
By late March, an alleged âself-coupâ attempt by Bolsonaro failed against the resistance of Armed Forces,
which have opposed the Presidentâs intention to militarily intervene in
the states adopting quarantine measures. [15] Nevertheless, the
President still engages in an all-out war against governors and mayors,
whom he labels as âdictatorsâ who violate citizensâ rights and harm the
economy. [16]
In our opinion, the federal
governmentâs stance may constitute a crime against humanity. According
to the international criminal jurisprudence, the massive and systematic
use of pressure to induce the public to behave a certain way, according
to a preconceived plan, which deploys considerable public and private
means, may outline an attack on the civilian population.
None of the pages have political authorisation disclosures. So he’s just been creating propaganda for himself under pseudonyms. Yeah, that’s totally normal and fine. Definitely not deeply concerning and sign of a desperate and manipulative person.
Morrison insists Laming, who is on empathy training leave after harrassing and bullying women relentless for years, is a fit and proper person who belongs in the government. It’s not clear if that’s because Morrison has a 1 seat majority and desperately needs Laming to stay, or if Morrison actually gives that little of a shit what people do, so long as it benefits Coalition propaganda.
He also made a page for the fictional Redlands Institute labelled as “educational” so he could post what the page refers to as a “forum for balanced discussion of major issues”, by which it really means anti-Labor, anti-Greens, climate denial propaganda, and posting links to Laming’s official material.
This is all illegal by the way. Political posting by a party member needs to clearly show who authorised it, including social media. The AEC has disclosure laws and Laming has very obviously breached that.
With all that in mind… what in the actual fuck though… Like, what in the actual fuck? He created a fake page for every single suburb in his electorate. Does this man do anything besides make propaganda without disclosing it and use multiple profiles to harass people online? What in the fuck is wrong with Laming?
One thing that I think a lot of Environmentalists in America really overlook is that humans are supposed to be part of an ecosystem. Humans are part of the food web; we fill an environmental niche, just as much as beavers and wolves do.
We are SUPPOSED to interact with the environment- the problem arises when we begin interacting with the environment in UNSUSTAINABLE ways. This idea that we should try to “return” the environment to the way it was “before” humans so so so often ignores the way that Indigenous people all over the world were (and are) an important part of their environments- and trying to “preserve” those places without people filling their ecological niche can cause harm in super weird ways.
You know how its shitty for deer populations if you take out all of the wolves? It’s just as bad if you stop all human hunting too. Humans hunting deer has been an important part of the food web for thousands and thousands of years! Deer populations NEED hunters- human, wolf, cougar- to stay healthy.
Yes- massive clear cutting of forests and strip mining is bad. HOWEVER, not allowing Indigenous people to practice traditional controlled burns of grass lands? Not only makes wildfires worse, but ALSO fucks up the bio-diversity of those grasslands. Totally unmanaged “pristine” grasslands without humans are actually less healthy than grasslands that are sustainably managed by people.
Mono-crop super farms are not good- but humans have been farming for thousands of years- tending for plants and increasing their yield, monitoring the soil, in ways that benefit those plants and the other animals that eat them, and the other plants that use that soil, and the insects that make their home there. Sustainable, diversified farming isn’t bad.
Laying out acres and acres of asphalt and oil pipelines? Bad. But digging natural cisterns in the dessert that catches rainwater for grazing animals to use? Benefits the entire ecosystem and all the animals in it.
We are part of the environment. We belong here. And the ecosystems that human beings evolved in and lived in need us just as much as we need them. We aren’t parasites on the planet, we are a part of it. It’s just that global capitalism has thrown us terribly out of balance. Colonialism and profit-seeking are the problem- not human beings existing.
The goal of environmentalism should not beto protect nature by keeping humans totally separate from it, but rather to restore balance with our interactions with nature, for sustainable practices that help us coexist with the ecosystems that we are part of. That we have been a part of forever. And that is hard with billions of people on the planet, yes, and we will need to be clever and resourceful and thoughtful to find ways of restoring that balance, it will take a lot of people working together to find those answers- but humans’ greatest trait has always been our cleverness and our ability to work together.
most complex ecosystems are the result of human actions, you can tell because as soon as people are kept from maintaining things like: meadows and berry patches and prairies, the monoculture of plants moves in and it SUCKS.
True! Like, people will hold up the Amazon as this deeply WILD ecosystem, when in fact there is evidence that large swaths of that forest, like the American East Coast, are actually cultivated and tended- their biodiversity encouraged and maintained by the indigenous people who live there. White colonizers just didnt recognize those forests for what they were for a very long time.
Humans have a role to fill. We have just been doing a really really bad job of it lately. But our extinction or removal isnt the answer.
if you have a bluetooth keyboard or a smart keyboard connected to your ipad, you can use the keyboard shortcuts that procreate has built into the app. you really don’t need to be carrying a whole other keyboard just for procreate shortcuts lol
TERFs will talk about the Evil Transes trying to ‘infiltrate’ womens safe spaces or whatever and then make fake blogs to weasel their way into peoples social circles and celebrate on their main how they’re tricking people into reblogging their TERF nonsense. Like…. ooo the projections hittin a little strong again isnt it
