The poop deck is basically used bythe vessel's commanding superiors to observe the work and navigational proceedings. Technically, it is the deck that forms the roof of a cabin built in the aft part of the superstructure of the ship. Why was it called the poop deck on the Titanic? When ...
A View from the Poop Deck; Why Greece Is Failing to Set a Course for RecoveryThis column comes to you from the cruise ship Minerva in the Greek port of Piraeus. Why I'm...Weyer, Martin Vander
But with AI it suddenly becomes very possible. That’s disconcerting. This is the single most important concept on this site – AI is nothing, compared to the neighborhood-ization of surveillance – its breakdown into neighborhood cells by our intelligence services. These cells, right down the ...
The way people are acting like trust in media-sanctioned narratives should be a given after those institutions literallyjustdiscredited themselves in front of everyone is insane. You don’t have to believe anything odd about the virus or the vaccine to understand the distrust. It was entirely ...
As a white person in Hanoi, you’re being scammed pretty much all the time. It’s just that sometimes you might not know it, or you don’t want to admit that you know it. The worst part of it is that when you actually do pay attention to the behavior of the locals, you’ll no...
The article focuses on the economic recovery in Greece, Turkey, and England. The author mentions that the other element of the recovery equation appears to be denied by Greece as the anti-austerity bandwagon is gathering momentum. He relates the remark of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby ...