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This vaccine saga is turning into a James Bond movie. I'm loving it :)
Re:Suez canal blocked by a massive ship on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @07:01AM (#26565644)
Experts said this will be solved in at most 3 days.
Re:Suez canal blocked by a massive ship on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @06:44AM (#26565534)
Isn't this why new ships are starting to have multiple 360 degree electrical drivers instead of one big propeller? I think they are called iso-pods.
Re:Suez canal blocked by a massive ship on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @06:40AM (#26565515)
AFP reports gust of wind.

> Early reports speculated the vessel suffered a loss of power, but the ship’s operator, Evergreen Marine Corp, told Agence France-Presse it ran aground after being hit by a gust of wind.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/24/huge-container...

Re:How do plants extract nutrients from the ground? on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @04:29AM (#26564774)
Just wash half the roots?
Re:Closing web browser windows doesn't close connections on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:45PM (#26562987)
It's not clear what problem Gemini solves.

Some webmaster willing to host a Gemini server could also setup an nginx serving static markdown files with no cookies/js/... and the privacy conscious client could use lynx to browse it.

Re:Suez canal blocked by a massive ship on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @08:01PM (#26561914)
> The question is which animal bridged the gap.

Humans with a pipette.

Re:Reddit: A clarification on actioning and employee names on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @07:52PM (#26561846)
This is the article which started all this, the posting of which to reddit supposedly doxxed it's employee. Second to last paragraph:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-green-party-s-growin...