Scroll if not your cuppa.

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!

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.

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.

Bourne1879
July 9, 2024 5:54 am

Regarding healthy food.
Recently heard on the radio about new line of 50 % less sugar for lollies from the Natural Confectionary Company. Sounded like a good idea so had a look in the supermarket.
Well guess what ? Almost exactly double the price of the normal variety.
Being good for you comes at a price. Lower income people going to pay a lot more for the so called healthier option.

The whole thing is a con.

It’s not the sugar content that matters, it’s how many of them you eat.

I’m guessing a typical boiled sweet contains the equivalent of 1-2 teaspoons of sugar – similar to what many people have in a cup of coffee or tea.

Eating the occasional lolly is the same as having a cuppa. No biggie.

It’s eating them by the handful that has a noticeable effect on sugar intake.

Jo Nova illustrates the insanity of net zero for the west, destruction for the west. This is part of her post.
”Remember you are a planet-wrecker, but China just has growing painsChina burns four times as much coal as the second largest coal burner in the world. Everyone else is an also-ran in the coal stakes. For every ton the US consumes, China fries 12 times as much. And poor patsy Australia, for every ton we apologetically ignite, China burns 50. More coal was burned on Earth in 2023 than ever before in human history, and more than half of it was burned in China. Moreover, despite all the Sino nodding to sacred targets China shows no intention of putting the brakes on the coal train. Around the world, 95% of all new coal power plants built in 2023 were built in China.”

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.

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.

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.

Whilst we are discussing food, I seared a scotch fillet for dinner last night. Kept it simple, only seasoned with salt before it hit the pan. Throw in a nob of butter, cheffie style and when melted, spoon it over the steak.
While steak rests, I make a simple salad.
Mustard with the steak, simple vinaigrette with the salad.
Nothing processed, took less than ten minutes.

Also, you can’t cook a decent steak in an air fryer. 😀

Much as I hate their Imitation Game, which in my mind amounts to copyright theft, I admire Aldi for a few short tactics, which are inter-related-
-very tight choice of lines, IIRC 6000 in contrast to Colesworth’s 15 000 odd-
-that compressed range leads to a tidier store, quicker descision making, and a phenomenon where shoppers are more satisfied with their pick. Something on the Jordan Peterson podcast said a choice between four options is the ultimate satisfier- any more that six, there is a residual nagging thought that the shopper still didn’t get the best value after all.

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.

Duck fat – processed.
Salt – processed.
Olive oil – processed,
Mustard – processed.

If I wanted to get picky, your steak was also processed – unless you killed and butchered the beast.

Stop falling for Greenie framing of the debate.