OT: The News Thread

[axlsalinger]

John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison after his extradition to the US was approved

John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who'd had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. McAfee was awaiting extradition in a Spanish prison after being charged with tax evasion in the United States last year.

www.cnn.com

 

[zeke]

Hillary!

 

[MindzEye]

 

[MindzEye]

 

[Wayward DP]

completely fucked up.

 

[LeafGm]

Holy shit.

For some reason, I thought it was a collapse of a much smaller portion of the building—just the facade on one side.

But about 2/3’s of that building just ceased to exist. Gonna be a lot of people dead.

 

[zeke]

Deregulation, baby.

 

[Habsy]

Deregulation, baby.

Wut?

 

[zeke]

Wut?

"A researcher at Florida International University said the building was constructed on reclaimed wetlands and was determined to be unstable a year ago.

The building was sinking at a rate of about 2 millimeters a year in the 1990s, and the sinking could have slowed or accelerated in the time since, according to a 2020 study conducted by Shimon Wdowinski, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Florida International University.
“I looked at this morning and said ‘Oh my god.’ We did detect that,” he said of the Champlain Towers South.
The level of subsidence observed in the 1990s can results in impacts to buildings and their structures, such as cracked walls or shifting foundations, Wdowinski said."

 

[Habsy]

"A researcher at Florida International University said the building was constructed on reclaimed wetlands and was determined to be unstable a year ago.

The building was sinking at a rate of about 2 millimeters a year in the 1990s, and the sinking could have slowed or accelerated in the time since, according to a 2020 study conducted by Shimon Wdowinski, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Florida International University.
“I looked at this morning and said ‘Oh my god.’ We did detect that,” he said of the Champlain Towers South.
The level of subsidence observed in the 1990s can results in impacts to buildings and their structures, such as cracked walls or shifting foundations, Wdowinski said."

Sounds like Miami Dade alright. Unbelievable.

 

[hockeylover]

Holy shit.

For some reason, I thought it was a collapse of a much smaller portion of the building—just the facade on one side.

But about 2/3’s of that building just ceased to exist. Gonna be a lot of people dead.

Thought the same thing until seeing the video, shocking to see.

 

[MindzEye]

Florida had a bridge collapse in 2018 as well. DC had a pedestrian bridge collapse yesterday.

 

[Habsy]

 

[CH1]

Florida had a bridge collapse in 2018 as well. DC had a pedestrian bridge collapse yesterday.

"Sorry, we need to cut some of Biden's infrastructure bill"

 

[zeke]

 

[lecoqsportif]

Yikes. Forest fire season starts early.

 

[lecoqsportif]

Deregulation, baby.

I don’t know enough about their laws to know if an issue, but even “tough” regulation is useless if corruption and incompetence win the day.

 

[zeke]

Très cool:

“Nuclear Batteries” Offer a New Approach to Carbon-Free Energy

Jacopo Buongiorno and others say factory-built microreactors trucked to usage sites could be a safe, efficient option for decarbonizing electricity systems. We may be on the brink of a new paradigm for nuclear power, a group of nuclear specialists suggested recently in The Bridge, the journal of

scitechdaily.com

 

[Neurospasm]

Our highest temperature for June in recent memory was 34 degrees.

 

[Bleedsblue&white]

Wynona's Beaver is gonna be smokin