A ship under a huge Mexican flag hit the Brooklyn Bridge.
I’m reading a lot about Mexico these days, trying to figure out why it’s such a mess. And yes, it’s a terrible mess. Lovely literature, though.
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We need a total and complete shut down of quinceañeras.
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“total and complete shut down of quinceañeras”
What’s next tarrifs on Lucha Libre?
Import fines on Norteña music?
Tarrifs on Lucha Libre?
Tell me you’re not serious!
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The CNN says it was a Mexican Navy training ship. Yes, it’s the CNN, so who knows. But if true, why is Mexican Navy training in NYC? And what is it training to do with all the lights and festivities?
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Fleet Week is coming up, so maybe it was going to join the U.S. Navy in the parade of ships? It’s the only idea that makes sense, if this isn’t a tourist boat.
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It’s a ship with sails. Whatever it was there to do, it was something ceremonial or touristic. Mexico isn’t so far behind that they have to use sailing ships for actual military purposes.
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The ship was called Cuauhtémoc. Which is almost as bad as a spaceship called Challenger.
Why not call it Hernán Cortés to be less defeatist?
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They occasionally have tallship festivals and things, where a bunch of the world’s dwindling collection of large sailing ships get together in the same port for a few days, huge numbers of sailing enthusiasts gather to see, and if the weather permits, they have a big sailing parade. They’ve done it here.
Navies keep them around for ceremonial/nostalgia purposes, but also because learning to sail one of those things is a pretty good foundation for learning to handle a modern vessel with its whiz-bang technology… that sometimes fails and requires actual knowledge of how large vessels respond to wind, waves, and currents.
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“learning to sail one of those things is a pretty good foundation for learning to handle a modern vessel with its whiz-bang technology…”
Weirdly I’ve had a few students in recent years that have served on big sailing ships (I think from Denmark but I might be remembering wrong).
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There were sailors up in the rigging at the time 😦 Boat had broken loose from mooring and taken up by the current. I feel so bad for them.
https://x.com/newsnoteworthy/status/1923925040338268467
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it’s a terrible mess. Lovely literature, though.
And that tells you as much, conversely, about Scandinavia. Lovely people, lovely countries. The literature is “Bleh!”, though.
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Well, it’s better than having a hellish society plus absolutely no cultural output. 😁😁
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“a hellish society plus absolutely no cultural output”
Speaking of russia…. government stops releasing demographic data…. russia had the choice between prosperity and responsibility or misery cowering before big daddy… and they chose the latter….
https://kyivinsider.com/amidst-russias-apocalyptic-demographic-implosion-putins-government-classifies-the-data/
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Yeah, they can’t reveal the extent of the actual extermination of the white Russian population. It’s too shocking even for the jaded.
The entire Putin regime is a genocide and replacement of Slavs. He’s creating a demographic hole of enormous proportions. It’s very painful to think about. But Slavs can’t articulate and make their own genocide known and relevant like Jews managed to do. Which is tragic.
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