When an oil tanker is holed, it can seal off the bays around the damage and the ship can keep sailing.
What the US Navy provided to oil tankers was "on deck" escorts by sharp-shooters who watched for and detonated mines as well as air support. Navy ships followed in the wake of the giant tankers.
It's not that warships are not build strongly. The reality is that they are single-hulled ships, generally with with fairly open cavernous interiors. Modern oil tankers are double-hulled ships with interiors split into numerous individual holding tanks that can be sealed off independently.
I was serving in the Persian Gulf during the 'tanker war' in the Strait of Hormuz.
While US press reported that American warships were "escorting" tankers, that wasn't quite accurate. Warships are MUCH more susceptible to being sunk by mines and torpedoes than are double-walled tankers.
okay, this *specific* part feels like a parody of the actual iraq war
This has to be felt every day; The establishment relies on us losing hope. Do not conflate being exhausted with hope being lost.
If you need support, reach out to someone for support, but DO NOT project that emotion onto the whole movement, publicly. Don't post through it or life will pass you by
Today I learned Shia LeBeouf thinks Martin Luther is in hell.
The one solace I take:
Every company that has bought Warners was CRIPPLED by that purchase.
Paramount will be no different.
Love it!
Our family has a Catan saying, “No one wants your sheep, Sean.”
Wait, I’m wrong. @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social had it first — as NPR properly credited.
Bostonians reminiscing about the blizzard of ‘78 reminded me I was down in New Jersey (exit 8, why?) and we got back-to-back 18”. We lived on a large corner lot. Two sidewalks.
That was something.
“This is the way.”
oil on canvas, 111.6 x 68.7 cm
This
I want to ask his staff how they can work for someone so stupid there’s a picture of him accepting a 50k bribe.
I suspect her performance won't help restore DHS funding. 😈
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a guy in a pawn shop talking to the employee at the counter. He has about half a loaf of bread in a bag in front of him. The seller asks, “how much will you give me for this stale bread?” Panel 2: the unsure employee replies, “tell ya what— I got a buddy who’s an expert on this stuff.” Panel 3: a goose in a hat and sunglasses walks confidently through the shop entrance towards the counter.
I learned Italian from a CD.
“Behind the Wheel”
Well, enough Italian for a two week trip. I was able to ask questions, but not understand the answer.
No AI.
Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level
Ouch.
Oil on linen/canvas, 36” x 28”
Yes. #WeToo
Trump math would put that as a -1000% return on investment
For Liam.
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
Monochrome photograph of a group of women sitting around a table on which a quilt is being created
Quilt with square design and patterned border
Quit with a a central square design created with twenty five smaller squares in which are different images, including vases of flowers
US quilting bees, where women communally created quilts, aided women's rights by providing a safe women-only space for shared ideas, economic empowerment, and political organisation throughout the 19th and 20th centuries #WomensArt
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
My suggestion is to consistently refer to him as Donald J Trump, Sr. It will drive him crazy because as much as he loves seeing his name (for good or for ill), he hates his namesake. It will tarnish the one thing he wants to hear, his own name.
“Of cellphones and earbuds/
I sing, oh muse”
-Virgil’s Predicate
Been there. Too embarrassing to note specifics.
