If deaths are reaching 2005 levels, then that suggests deaths were even higher before that.

Not just pandering. It’s a clear threat that he would act on in a heartbeat if he had any support. 

“largely,” not “entirely.”

The workers in Silicone Valley are mostly on Only Fans now.

The sister ship, RMS Olympic, was used for 24 years. While some improvements were made after the young RMS Titanic sank, it never faced the challenge of a collision at sea.

It’s mass murder when a group is killed in a single event.

I hire a person to walk 50 feet ahead of me ringing a bell and calling out that a vehicle is coming and will be there in less than a minute.

JAL 123 was because the splice wasn’t installed as a splice.

Hubris? No. It was built to comply with the regulations of the time. I think it was # of life boat per ton of displacement or some such. It cannot even be said it was to save money as they had all the lifeboats they were required to - no regulatory corners were cut by the backers. There have been repeated questions…

They aren’t resting. They are feeding the locals.

Around 200,000 other people died that same day. Another 200,000 or so were born. The ones in the submersible were in a novel situation.

It’s a pretext for a drug search and possibly civil asset forfeiture of cash. The speeding ticket is just an extra cash grab.

On an average day 200,000 people die. A few more than 200,000 are born. While any large group going at once is a tragedy of some note, it disrespects the 199,000+ that miss that consideration. On a regulatory basis the sinking of a vessel is concerning; however the loss of hundreds off of Greece and these near the…

The design should include accommodation for process failures, either in the form of a fragment trap or designing it to be unable to fragment.

If you’re in certain parts of Nevada or Idaho, you might think some kind of biblical plague is upon us. It’s nothing like that

Lucy with football.

They didn’t find a plane filled with people; they are unlikely to find her.

Given the image that Pres. Biden is a car enthusiast it seems unlikely he would have participated in this decision. I thought his approach was to let the experts in his departments make technical decisions rather than micromanage.

There will never be a situation that a cop will make better going the wrong way on a one-way street; it’s marginal if they are chasing someone who mistakenly went onto the wrong side of a highway, almost always doing nothing useful in that instance.

Most all Americans over the age of 12 would rather be dead than use a bicycle they have to pedal. As a result when they become drivers the vast majority see bicyclists as obstacles and not from the shared experience of being bicyclists themselves.