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[martinuzz]

In Germany, it takes a deranged IS terrorist to stab 8 people at a festival.

In Britain, the festival goers don't need IS terrorists, they will just stab each other and the police, as part of the festivities.

At Notting Hill Carnical festival in London, 8 festival visitors and 50 police officers were stabbed. Five people are still in critical condition.
334 people have been arrested.

[martinuzz]

Another huge environmental disaster in the Red Sea. A Greek oil tanker carrying 1,1 barrels of crude oil was first shot with missiles, then entered by Houthis, who placed explosives on the ship and detonated them. It is sinking and leaking it's 1,1 million barrels of crude oil, possibly creating the worst environmental disaster since Exxon Valdez..

Salvage ships trying to prevent the ship from sinking had to turn back, because the Houthis attacked them too.


Nuke the Houthis out of existence please, they are a threat to all life.

[Frumple]

Another huge environmental disaster in the Red Sea. A Greek oil tanker carrying 1,1 barrels of crude oil was first shot with missiles, then entered by Houthis, who placed explosives on the ship and detonated them. It is sinking and leaking it's 1,1 barrels of crude oil, possibly creating the worst environmental disaster since Exxon Valdez..

You... missed a word somewhere in there. Looking into it, it's about a million barrels of crude, not, well... one and a bit. 150 metric tons, something like that.

News seems to be reporting there's some hope of mitigating the spill before it turns too catastrophic, though? We'll see, I guess.

... any case, no nukes. Not even for pirates

[martinuzz]

They're not pirates, they're terrorists attacking civilian merchant vessels for purpose of destruction only, no piracy. Technically, a casus belli for all countries whose flag is hoisted (in this case NATO member Greece). Not sure if an attack on international waters is elligeble for article 5 but I think it even is. But okay no nukes. Just invasion and occupation by preferably UN forces for the coming generation or two.

[anewaname]

From a CNN article:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

According to two US defense officials, the burning oil leak appears to be either fuel or engine oil from the vessel itself. The barrels of crude oil are not on fire, the officials said. But the major concern is that the ongoing fire could quickly spread and risk igniting the million barrels of crude oil.

and an interesting article by someone who did postdoctoral research on Red Sea water and wind currents (because the tanker is currently anchored west of Yemen and I was curious where released oil might go).

[King Zultan]

I'm sure they'll piss off the wrong person at some point and then get bombed.

[martinuzz]

and an interesting article by someone who did postdoctoral research on Red Sea water and wind currents (because the tanker is currently anchored west of Yemen and I was curious where released oil might go).

That is unreachable. I try to give it permission to get through my NoScript, but NoScript says 'this is a privileged page, permissions cannot be changed'. I guess it likes being blocked.

[Magmacube_tr]

As some of you know, I started a new forum game a little while ago. I really want it to live and see its end, to unfold into a silly little saga for all the players and onlookers to enjoy. I want to create something, however small, to enrich peoples lives a tiny little and have fun on the way. But...

Why is it so difficult? Why does it feel so difficult? I am just rolling digital dice and writing amd rearranging some silly text and drawing a simple tree diagram. It isn't difficult. It shouldn't feel difficult. Modding DF is harder than this. Logically speaking, it isn't a monumental task. I know this.

It is the same for playing video games. It is the same for reading. It is the same for writing. It is the same for drawing. It is the same for getting out of the house. It is the same for everything. It is all a slog, with few, short-lived periods of actual energy. I feel inert for like, %95 of the time. It is as if I've solidified.

I can't move. I can't move, and I feel the rails vibrating...

[Egan_BW]

I've had the same feelings, but some days are better. Definitely the hardest part is starting to write and it gets easier from there as you benefit from flow and being able to see the progress you've already made. It's also okay to write just a bit and then put it down for the day, really. Every little bit is progress, and it's easier to start with something to work from.

[hector13]

Could be a mindset thing. If you’re doing things for other people rather than because you enjoy it, or for yourself, you’re not going to get much value from it.

I’ve noticed it myself recently, playing video games because I had invested time and/or money into them even though they were just frustrating me (see my recent posts in the wtf thread) so I stopped and moved onto something else, which I am enjoying much more.

Could also be a depressive thing; if I’m having an episode, things I usually derive great pleasure from are just slogs and things to pass the time more than anything else. In my experience it’s just something you have to push through though, trying to be mindful of horrible thought spirals and things like that.

[dragdeler]

Somewhat similar I did all the technological architecture for very fancy dj streams, there like 3 different dynamic things happening on the canvas and that is if I don't involve myself much into managing the video aspect.

And since it takes me 4 computers to run the whole thing I feel silly heating up the room to play to an audience of me. The computers release a bunch of heat too it's also uncomfortable setting aside all my personnal idiosyncracies. I measured their power drwar under load startup idle etc, I went through my mapping again and again. It's as stable as such an abomination could be, there is really nothing stopping me from putting in two hours a day or more if it goes well.


So naturally I spend my weekends overanalysing all the other online dj's on a bunch of platforms. Like really I have been doing this for a super embarrassing amount of time, like my currwnt version of my canvas hasnt been edited since july 31st... And don't evwn get me started on that godforsaken quadcycle.

It is what it is. I did run one stream this week and had a bunch of people trolling me on one of the 3 technological pillars, (my own fault for choosing something pretty I wasnt able to lock down) hey that yielded a peak of 5 concurrent viewers better than none.

[hector13]

Got to build that audience from somewhere brah.

[Grim Portent]

Gran's hit a new lowpoint for dementia, now being in the 'accuse people of weird sex stuff' stage which is apparently not unusual. She was already accusing us of lying, theft and having affairs, but now we're apparently some kind of sex cult as well.

She's been getting consistently harder to deal with, and her most recent UTI treatment doesn't seem to have done much if anything to help.

[Akura]

Tried to do a plank exercise last night before going to bed. I was only able to hold the position for about 5 seconds before my shoulders gave out. It's the afternoon now and my shoulders are still sore. I didn't think it'd be that hard on my shoulders, all I knew is that it'd work my abdominal muscles.

[Great Order]

Go to bed nice and early, and how am I rewarded? After an hour and a half my brain wakes me up by giving me a dream where I'm attacked by a massive dog. Getting back to sleep after that adrenaline dump isn't going to be easy.