Cygnia Posted March 3, 2023 Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 2 hours ago, tkdguy said: Same one. I somehow missed DT's post. *headdesk* No worries. I was paranoid another crash happened in Greece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 3, 2023 Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 5 hours ago, Cygnia said: No worries. I was paranoid another crash happened in Greece. To be fair it's not a great time to be a train. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted March 3, 2023 Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 On 3/2/2023 at 7:37 AM, Cygnia said: Whiskey fungus lawsuit forces Jack Daniels to halt building project Heck yeah. That's nasty lookin' stuff. And this: Quote The fungus - named Baudoinia compniacensis - is named after the director of the French Distillers' Association that discovered it growing near cognac distilleries in the 1870s. It has led to complaints and lawsuits from Scotland to Canada and the Caribbean. Federal agents in Tennessee used to look for the fungus as a sign that illegal alcohol - moonshine - was being made nearby, Mr Holleman says. That last is a fascinating bit of history to me, but clearly, this is a well known problem at least in the distilling industry, and the distiller would seem to have a clear obligation to mitigate it, during any new construction. Cygnia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted March 3, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 Warning: Child death. This is local, just down the street. Spoiler https://www.wcjb.com/2023/03/02/4-year-old-falls-into-retention-pond-northwest-gainesville/ Hermit, Old Man, Tom Cowan and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted March 3, 2023 Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 Iranian Schoolgirls Poisoned I'll leave it here for now, as it's not (yet) a political issue. Cygnia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted March 3, 2023 Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 ‘I Am Woman’ singer Helen Reddy, ’70s hitmaker, dies at 78 tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 Since the stories we've posted here lately have been pretty grim, here's something for a change of pace. San Francisco 2023 Tulip Festival Hermit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted March 4, 2023 Report Share Posted March 4, 2023 23 hours ago, tkdguy said: Iranian Schoolgirls Poisoned I'll leave it here for now, as it's not (yet) a political issue. This made me think of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Gasser_of_Mattoon. That case was never definitively solved. All of the three explanations offered -- mass hysteria, accidental chemical release/industrial pollution, and malicious act -- seem plausible, or at least not implausible, given the limited information in the article and a BBC story about the events. Or it could even be a combination. I hope someone is looking to see if any of the schools are near chemical plants or other industries that use chemicals which could cause the described symptoms. Real, initial events could then inspire hysteria among other people. And it being Iran, the idea of zealots trying to poison girl's schools does not seem far fetched -- perhaps as a first cause, perhaps later, inspired by the news stories. We shall probably never know. Quite possibly, the Iranian authorities shall never know, either. Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 5, 2023 Report Share Posted March 5, 2023 Tom Sizemore dies aged 61 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64721187 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted March 5, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2023 20 Newly Discovered Terry Pratchett Stories Will Be Published This Year Cygnia, Ternaugh and Hermit 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted March 6, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2023 Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington has died Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted March 6, 2023 Report Share Posted March 6, 2023 Update to the train crash in Greecehttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/greece-train-collision-stationmaster-charged_n_64051b84e4b0c78bb743637f Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted March 6, 2023 Report Share Posted March 6, 2023 2 hours ago, Cygnia said: Update to the train crash in Greecehttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/greece-train-collision-stationmaster-charged_n_64051b84e4b0c78bb743637f Wow. The root cause appears to be abject, extreme mismanagement, and one has to wonder about its country cousins, corruption and embezzlement. Terrible that it takes a disaster on this scale to *maybe* trigger changes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 6, 2023 Report Share Posted March 6, 2023 56 minutes ago, unclevlad said: Wow. The root cause appears to be abject, extreme mismanagement, and one has to wonder about its country cousins, corruption and embezzlement. Terrible that it takes a disaster on this scale to *maybe* trigger changes. Way more likely for that accident to trigger changes than the one in Ohio that poisoned half the state. 'Murrica! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 6, 2023 Report Share Posted March 6, 2023 Couple who stole $1.7 million of wine are jailed for four years https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64865977 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted March 6, 2023 Report Share Posted March 6, 2023 9 minutes ago, death tribble said: Couple who stole $1.7 million of wine are jailed for four years https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64865977 Even had the wine been recovered fairly quickly, there's little chance it would've been salvageable. VERY old wines are delicate as heck. Even the theft itself...just stuffed into backpacks? IDIOTS. VERY good chance that ruined them right there. It'll force any sediment...and the vast majority of age-worthy wines throw substantial sediment. They're kept in *carefully* controlled vaults for constant temperatures. 4 years isn't close to enough. Cygnia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted March 6, 2023 Report Share Posted March 6, 2023 1 hour ago, unclevlad said: 4 years isn't close to enough. Yeah, as an amateur wine junkie (who's had to cut back on her tippling due to health annoyances), this hurts my soul. The Ohio trains stuff just angers me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted March 7, 2023 Report Share Posted March 7, 2023 Here's a tidbit for you on the trains. From The Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/train-derailments-per-year-usa-b2294966.html Quote Steven Ditmeyer, a former top official at the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), told investigative news outlet The Lever that the severity of the crash may have been aggravated by the lack of Electronically Controlled Pneumatic (ECP) brakes. Former US president Barack Obama passed legislation making it mandatory for trains carrying hazardous, flammable materials to have ECP brakes but the order was rescinded in 2017 under a Trump administration assault on “red tape”. The National Transportation Safety Board has confirmed that the trains that were derailed in East Palestine were not equipped with ECP brakes, The Lever reports. The Railroad Workers Union has meanwhile argued in The New Republic that a management practice adopted by rail companies called Precision Scheduled Railroading – which organises freight scheduling based on individual cars, rather than considering the balance of the train as a whole – may have played a role and could contribute to future accidents by sidelining safety concerns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted March 7, 2023 Report Share Posted March 7, 2023 The Church of Latter Day Saints were fined five million dollars on a 3 billion investment working the church considered tax free CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 7, 2023 Report Share Posted March 7, 2023 People in Uber stop to save man from burning car. It makes the news as one of those involved is a Wide Receiver for the Minnesota Vikings. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/american-football/64872291 Logan D. Hurricanes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 7, 2023 Report Share Posted March 7, 2023 Geologists no longer optimistic about perdicting strong earthquakes (from Nature; background is the recent strong quakes in southern Turkey. Includes an impressive picture of the surface rupture tracing the fault) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 7, 2023 Report Share Posted March 7, 2023 2 hours ago, Cancer said: Geologists no longer optimistic about perdicting strong earthquakes (from Nature; background is the recent strong quakes in southern Turkey. Includes an impressive picture of the surface rupture tracing the fault) There was a video on Reddit the other day about the surface rupture, which ripped a tree in half and carried both halves, still standing, fifty feet away from each other. Must have been a hell of a thing to see if you were there when it happened. The discussion quickly turned to property lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 8, 2023 Report Share Posted March 8, 2023 Mini Sphinx found in Egypt https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-64870562 tkdguy and Cygnia 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted March 8, 2023 Report Share Posted March 8, 2023 Bill Watterson Returns tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 9, 2023 Report Share Posted March 9, 2023 Topol dies aged 87 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64898895 tkdguy, Logan D. Hurricanes and Ternaugh 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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