arakboss's random useless thoughts (of which there are many).

[arakboss]

Rough day for the Captain of this ship:

Suez Canal blocked by traffic jam after massive container ship runs aground

Eight tug boats are working to free a large container ship stuck in Egypt's Suez Canal, halting marine traffic through one of the busiest and most important waterways in the world.

www.cnn.com

This won't help bring down oil prices:

Suez Canal could be blocked for weeks, with $10B in shipping traffic per day disrupted: reports

The Suez Canal could be blocked for weeks, with nearly $10 billion worth of disruptions in shipping traffic each day.

www.foxbusiness.com

 

[BBQ Guy]

This won't help bring down oil prices:

Suez Canal could be blocked for weeks, with $10B in shipping traffic per day disrupted: reports

The Suez Canal could be blocked for weeks, with nearly $10 billion worth of disruptions in shipping traffic each day.

www.foxbusiness.com

It wont help bring down prices of anything.
There has been warnings that inflation was on the horizon. Now its just waiting at sea to land on our shores.
If you think stuff was expensive during the obummer years, just wait until this hits the markets.
Coupled with the fact that everyone is using this virus to explain long delays, shoddy work, and to jack up prices wherever + however they can.

 

[jayR]

May want to frosty up for the next few weeks.. 6th fleet is stuck in the Med. Taiwan may be being served up or ?? The Great Reset.
No accident.

 

[arakboss]

This girl is talented.

 

[RicInOR]

Is diversity actually better?
Or, is our human nature to seek out similar beings?

long-ish article on what is really a horrific abuse of children by scientists.

What Light Does ‘Three Identical Strangers’ Throw on the Nature/Nurture Debate?

The film is a powerful testimony to our universal fascination with twins.

quillette.com

"My analysis of twin relationships shows that identical reared-apart twins experience greater social closeness and familiarity upon meeting and subsequently, relative to fraternal reared-apart twins, mirroring what we see among reared-together twins. More provocative is the finding that both types of twins report closer relations with the twin they have just met than with the adoptive siblings with whom they were raised since childhood. This counterintuitive finding encourages hard thinking about what attracts people to one another and sustains relationships."