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Well, that’s an other explanation for the loss of HMS Hood.
(By the Navy General Board)

Luck plays a part in our lives I suppose, it must, or I would be dead a dozen times over with the stupid things I’ve done.

Destiny plays no part in it as far as I know, haven’t done anything remarkable, the offspring are nice and hard working, but show no sign of greatness either.

Maybe in centuries to come?
Would be nice if they remembered me.

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Navy General Board

Sailors look on as HMS Hood arrives at Hawaii in June of 1924. The battle cruiser was visiting during her World Cruise.

One wonders what they might have been thinking as Hood was the World’s largest capital ship in service and arguably the most prestigious at the time.
While on the subject, I feel that it is important to address the elephant in the room.

During recent posts on HMS Hood, I have noticed that many people repeatedly poke fun at her demise and use it as an excuse to bash the design. Apparently her explosion is evidence of a bad design.
On the other hand, these same individuals would likely not complain about the prospect of one of the Queen Elizabeth class battleships being sent against Bismarck, battleship being their designation of course.

The Irony of this being that Hood had the exact same level of armor protection as these “battleships” and was, in some areas, actually better protected. Between her combination of speed, armor, and firepower, Hood matched up against Bismarck far better than people would care to admit, especially for a ship that was two decades older.

So why her sudden loss if she was supposedly so powerful?
Well, if you bothered to pay attention to any of my work, you would notice a prevalent trend of luck playing a role.

Simple, impartial, often brutal luck.

The best design, operated by the best crew, and deployed to the most carefully laid plans, can and has been completely shattered by luck. Typically it arrives in the form of variables outside the control of the crew.
At the range and position of Hood, she should have been safe from any critical shell hits from Bismarck.

However, fate intervened and, somehow, a German shell managed to hit something critical.
One might run a simulation of that scenario a thousand times and for nine hundred and ninety-nine times, Hood might not have succumbed to such a hit. However, on that particular day and at that particular time Hood drew the short straw.

Scenarios such as this are not uncommon either. The only reason HMS Hood seems to have survived the test of time is due to her prestige. She was, for all intents and purposes, the flagship of all the World’s navies at the time.
The United States studied her design, the Germans used her as an imaginary opponent, essentially every major Navy was influenced by Hood in one way or another.

It’s for this reason her sudden loss was a massive shock. No one expected her to be lost in such a manner.
Overall, I find it very shortsighted to be critical of Hood or her design based on her loss.
If one cannot acknowledge how luck played a role in her demise then you must not have paid attention to any of the things I’ve been trying to teach on this page.

Once again I can recommend M Steyn.

A Le Pen win may have upset the market because of the expectation that her policies would trigger societal upheaval. In plainer, more general terms, markets could have been concerned about towel heads going apeshit and causing chaos.

Would it look a little like this?

France descended into chaos on Sunday as reports of leftists winning parliamentary elections started to emerge, leading white liberals and Jihadist illegal immigrants to take to the streets and cause violence.

Despite this victory, Communist leftists and radical Jihadists are still taking to the streets to cause chaos. Only from the left do you see rioting after a favorable result!

ZK2A:

Britain, in the 1970’s under Soviet occupation, and for those who accepted the armistice, and the occupation, and decided to work for a “better society”, and for those – the Resistance – for who there was never any question of compromise…

It sounds awfully like Ted Allbeury’s “All Our Tomorrows”.
The Unions have brought Britain to its knees and a Leftist Government signs a “Treaty of Neutrality and Cooperation” with the Soviet Union, which begins the next morning with Russian troop transports landing in London.
…but some Saxons are distinctly unhappy.

China’s Rapid Renewables Rollout Hits Grid Limits

China’s record-breaking deployment of wind and solar capacity has worsened regional power imbalances, forcing the country to idle increasing amounts of renewable generation when it overwhelms local consumption.

It looks like China hit its 30% renewables limit in 2021, and now their grid is becoming unstable with renewables having to be turned off.

Recently heard on the radio about new line of 50 % less sugar for lollies from the Natural Confectionary Company.

Isn’t the point of having lollies that they are full of sugar?
Same as for cakes having lots of cream and stuff all bad for you, allegedly.

You wouldn’t live on them but they are very nice treats once in a while.

Healthy alternative to hideous pre packaged cereals – veggie waffles. Same principle as the Japanese cabbage pancake.

Cooked some up this morning. Mmmmmm.

You can put ham or bacon in them for extra yum.

calli, I dislike the use of pre-packaged food. Going through the checkout I see people with packets of food but very little whole foods. They usually pay twice what I do. I don’t think most people really know what food tastes like.

As for red wine, treat it like Johanna’s advice on lollies.

One or two?

OK.

7-8 … maybe not.

Not trying to pick a fight here, but what units are we talking about?

mUnturd is like the butterfly in The King and I.

He flutters from topic to new topic and then on again. Still, I am surprised that he has not commented on a convicted felon, Grunter, joining Dr Jill as carer for the senile geriatric in the White House.

Nor has he commented on Grunter’s laptop having moved from “Wussian disinformation” through “Nothing but piccies of Grunter’s ‘Nine inch hog’ ” to becoming a key part of the evidence used to convict him of various felonies.

Surely that was mentioned in the DNC talking points? Or maybe not.

Bottled sauces are very popular in Italy.
And working families are time poor and probably only eat a pasta dish once a week.
?

Italians that make home made sauce, salami etc do it with extended family or friends once a year, in my observation, it’s a big undertaking.

John Nolte hits it out of the park:

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2024/07/08/nolte-irredeemable-cheap-fake-media/

Had Biden gone into that debate five points ahead of Trump instead of a few points down, the media jihad would look very different today. Instead of calling on Biden to step aside, we’d be force-fed lies about Biden having a cold, suffering jet lag (after six days of rest at Camp David), being sharp as a tack after an off night, and watching endless replays of former President Trump carefully walking down a ramp and sipping a glass of water.
Five years of video that proves Biden has become increasingly frail and confused would not matter to the media if His Fraudulency were up five points.
Years of getting caught knowing reporter questions in advance and still stumbling on the answers would not matter to the media if His Fraudulency were up five points.
That disastrous debate with Trump would not matter to the media if His Fraudulency were up five points.

and

You see, everything the corporate media do must be reverse-engineered to the starting point of, How does this aid and abet the Democrat Party? That will always be the media’s only motive for whatever they do.
No sane person believes that the same media guilty of spreading the Russian Collusion Conspiracy Theory or who told us Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation or who told us unedited video of President Roomba is “misinformation” have suddenly decided to do what’s best for American democracy.
The media are vile, venal, evil fascists who only wish us harm.
The only thing the corporate media woke up to last week was the sweaty fear Biden cannot beat Trump. So now the very same media that crybabies about “democracy” want tens of millions of Democrat Party primary voters (who already knew Biden was old and frail) disenfranchised, their votes stomped into dust by the jackboots of party apparatchiks.
If Joe Biden were five points up, he could’ve walked on that debate stage, dropped his pants, enjoyed a good pee, walked off, and the media would be telling us “Good ole’ Scranton Joe hit a debate home run showing the Orange Bad Man the contempt he deserves.”

Well done, that man.

Bring a true Conservative I only eat lollies lollies made with coal or nuclear power.

“Oh, and they are made with 100% renewable electricity”.

I might add; having made much tomato sauce, pickles, chutneys and jam in my far off youth all the home made versions contain sugar, it’s a preservative.
For jams it was a ratio of 50:50.

France Just Committed Suicide

“Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last,” is how Winston Churchill, just months away from becoming Britain’s wartime Prime Minister, described the appeasement that led to World War II. “All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. “

The same could be said of France’s snap election, in which everyone from French Stalinists to the country’s business interests banded together to defeat the country’s “far right” at the polls. But the far right is not the threat, and the crocodile snapping at everyone’s heels is the accelerating Islamification of France.

Today’s French elites would rather lose to today’s invaders than lose an election to the country’s “far right.” Having invited the crocodile in, everyone from the French Communist Party to President Macron hopes they’ll be the last to be devoured.

Sweden Is Safer in the Summertime, But No One Wants to Face the Reason Why

 “in southern Sweden, it becomes quieter in the summer when the criminals go on holiday to their home countries, according to the police.”

Those of course would be the ‘refugees’ who so feared for their lives in their home countries of origin that they had to escape to countries with better social handouts.

Pogria
July 9, 2024 8:31 am

Johanna,
are you being deliberately obtuse this morning?
Okay, I’ll bite.
Anything we are going to place into our gobs has been “processed”, in some form. The meat we eat is from beasts that went through the “killing”, process first. Then it goes through the breaking down process. ie, cutting into manageable pieces.
The grains we grow for our breads and pastas, same. Yes, if you are being super pedantic, everything is processed in some way, even the lettuce leaf you pick from your own garden minutes before eating it, is “processed”, by rinsing it to rid it of dirt and bugs. Unless you have some weird fetish for yukky stuff.
Minimal processing, v Franken food.
Butter v margarine.

You perfectly illustrate my point.

What I am saying is that there are apparently ‘good’ and ‘bad’ foods depending on whether they are ‘processed.’ Also, whether they approve of the food.

These appelations are awarded by greenies and food nutters without the slightest critical analysis, and then regurgitated all over the MSM and the internet. It’s cool, it’s saving Da Planet – what else do you want?

The distinction you make between minimal processing and ‘Frankenfood’ is absurd. Many processed foods, such as wine, cheese, pickles, and Christmas cakes and puddings are very much processed.

Is there a number of processes that you regard as critical?

Do they disapprove of a bit of Brie on a cracker with a glass of Bordeaux?

If there is an argument to be made, it needs much clearer boundaries than this hippie nonsense.

calli
July 9, 2024 10:07 am

The argument is not about packaging and shipping but about content, which is better described as quality.
There will always be tradeoffs between price point, convenience and nutrition.

That is my point. The definitions are blurred, and never described, This means that knowledge and, separately, analysis, are thrown in the dustbin.

TheirABC’s Rolodex of ‘experts’ epitomises this mindset. Notice how many of thei ‘stories’ are headed: ‘X is happening. But not everyone agrees.’

It’s not balance, it’s how they get minority activists into the media.

BTW, they ran a story about how depriving NDIS recipients of taxpayer funded sex services made them less fortunate than everybody else. Apparently, anyone without a disability is out there in Spring in rabbit season.with a Platinum card
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Cassie – I never eat take away

Dear me, I could not live without the occassional trip to Vic road in Richmond to pick up some duck, crispy pork, maybe BBQ pork and special fried rice .. a Bahn mi sandwich on other days from a bakery down there .. all very occassional. Local Indian place is excellent and their takeaway is generous. Ramen from Hawthorne and Pho from around the corner from us. Other direction, a short walk is Korean BBQ, and a Japanese all you can eat place, haven’t tried it yet, always too packed to get in!

These are the fruits of big city living and I love it.

**I don’t use Uber, didn’t like what they did to their competition and I know that’s business, but wow, it took away competition completely.

Italians that make home made sauce, salami etc do it with extended family or friends once a year, in my observation, it’s a big undertaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8AKByfHKow

The most delicious pizza I’ve ever eaten was in a pizzeria in Fracenigo in Provincia Treviso. It’s where my parenti visit regularly — the crust was so thin and the fillings molto buoni — it covered the entire plate but was not at all stodgy or overly filling — mmmmmwah delicious!

Paywalled but you’ll get the drift
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/07/07/berlin-ban-red-triangle-hamas-mark-target-palestine-protest/