swaldman

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• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  "Big ships now require someone to read the gauges 24/7, point it where it needs to go, man handle the deck ropes and anchors when needed, and do light repairs to machinery." Interesting point: There is a lot of interest...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  A few points re Baltimore. Credentials: not a professional seafarer, but have spent some years working on and around ships in other capacities and taken an interest in their operation. Also plenty of time handling smaller vessels. Pre-departure checks are...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  Is it intentional that the link to the birdsite in the update is actually a link to Discord that requires a login?...
• Commented on WTF
  "there's a derivatives market for spiritual essence futures and you're, uh, leveraged so you need to go straight to hell ASAP or the market will collapse is quite a take" This sounds like something that Max Gladstone should write... (in...
• Commented on WTF
  Their twitter feed is more obviously satirical than the website....
• Commented on The gathering crisis
  Scotland is in an energy exporting nation, although renewables are subject to supply interruptions so either grid-scale backup or gas peaker backup plants are necessary. In a sane world, an independent Scotland would remain part of the shared GB energy...
• Commented on Random excuses
  @43: the old ToS also disallowed scripting. Both old and new had exceptions for cases where LJ had given permission. Dreamwidth currently have permission. Of course, one cannot know the future, and so your advice about extracting content from LJ...