The ship’s owner, Singapore-based Grace Ocean Private Ltd., made what’s known in maritime law as a “general average” declaration, which allows a third-party adjuster to determine what each stakeholder should contribute, according to company spokesperson Darrell Wilson…
A routine practice dating back centuries, the general average declaration marks the ship owner’s latest effort to minimize its financial responsibility in what could become one of the most expensive maritime disasters in history.
These guys seem like colossal pieces of shit.
They also tried to use some archaic law to cap their financial responsibility at something stupid low, I think it was in the tens of millions, and that amount wouldn’t even cover the cleanup.
New: Facebook's AI chatbot told a parent in a group asking for advice from other parents that it has a gifted, disabled child who attends school in New York City
They would have to get through the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, which is already part of the state constitution after voters approved Proposal 18-2 in 2018.
I suppose that 13 bad actors could be randomly selected from the applications. It’s not statistically impossible.
UC Riverside has now been issued a US patent on this RNAi vaccine technology
Naturally, you’ll want to patent it so you can profit off it instead of just releasing it to benefit all of humanity. Fucking greedy ass people sometimes…
Generally these “patented” products from universities are funded via tax payer money. I am not cool with them profiting off something that is intended to save lives and was also funded by the very people who’s lives will be affected.
Putting things behind a patent wall only hinders progress.
The bill’s passage comes after the state’s most populous county, Miami-Dade, considered local heat protection rules that would have been among the most stringent in the country. That proposal would have required employers to provide shade, water and 10-minute breaks to workers every two hours on days over a certain heat threshold.
The fact that that would have been among the most stringent protections in the country is incredibly sad. Those protections should be in place nationwide by default at a minimum. Nobody benefits from overheated workers, who are human beings by the way. I feel like it’s so much easier to just be decent and take care of peoples’ basic needs.
You’re a monster if you don’t think your workers deserve to have a few minutes in the shade whenever the fuck they want. People will work harder if they feel like they’re safe and respected. Everybody wins.
I assume that Miami-Dade County had a reason to draft legislation like this. There weren’t political points to be gained here since this was a low profile issue until this bill made it high profile. The county wouldn’t have gone through the effort if there wasn’t a problem to be addressed.
I could understand repealing a statewide mandate for protections if it was costing money to enforce and wasn’t seeing results. I don’t understand restricting local governments from implementing their own local protections. What harm would the protections have done?
It’s hard to understand how what you said - and a county mandating these changes - come together. A city actually voted on this issue, they don’t do that because there’s nothing going on; it means this is a pressing matter in their area. Companies clearly aren’t providing breaks if a city actually votes to mandate this.
They are blue areas doing good things to help their constituents. DeSantis couldn’t have that. It’s really not any deeper than that. The cruelty is the point.
Nobody benefits from overheated workers, who are human beings by the way.
Guess what? A significant number, if not a majority of the people affected by this will be immigrants. Republicans consider them both replaceable and not human.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared April 2024 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive a 31-year-old tradition that began in 1993. Beauvoir, the Biloxi, Miss., the museum and historic home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, announced the proclamation in a Facebook post on Friday, April 12....
What culture - owning slaves? What heritage - losing wars they started? Fuck Tate Reeves and fuck Confederate traitors who don’t remember the last shit-kicking they got.
Dems have always been a loose coalition compared to the lockstep republicans. Its also why the left is the majority in the country yet it can't keep a majority of power.
They’re on the same team in the same way you’re on the same team with a stranger when there are 6 ravenous wolves circling your dwindling torch light.
Is that stranger a fascist? Will they stab you in the back? Who knows: but it’s better to have a back to press yours to than it is to have 3 unwatched wolves behind you.
Coalition forming is our only option as progressives.
2 other NY Republicans have co-sponsored this bill to strip expelled-former Rep. #Santos of his floor privleges, document room access ... and parking at Capitol
Rep. Nick LaLota and Rep. Michael Lawler
Apr 14
1 month after expelled former Rep George Santos appeared on House floor for Pres. Biden's SOTU address, his former GOP colleague (Rep. D'Esposito) intros resolution to strip expelled Members of floor privileges, access to "House document room" & parking
Gov. DeSantis signs new law requiring instruction in public schools on the history and ‘dangers’ of communism (www.news4jax.com)
Vince McMahon is taking vacations and in touch with Trump as WWE tries to move on from scandal-plagued ex-CEO (www.cnbc.com)
Owner of ship in Baltimore bridge collapse asks cargo owners to help cover salvage costs (apnews.com)
"Yeah, but what if we used AI?" (lemmy.world)
Democratic majority in Michigan House restored with special elections (www.freep.com)
Vaccine breakthrough means no more chasing strains (news.ucr.edu)
DeSantis signs bill banning local heat protections for workers (thehill.com)
Gov. Reeves proclaims Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi (www.mississippifreepress.org)
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared April 2024 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive a 31-year-old tradition that began in 1993. Beauvoir, the Biloxi, Miss., the museum and historic home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, announced the proclamation in a Facebook post on Friday, April 12....
Pro-Israel money pours in to unseat progressives in congressional races (www.theguardian.com)
Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush face formidable challenges but Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar in Summer Lee much stronger positions
Democrats who investigated Trump say they expect to face arrest, retaliation if he wins presidency (www.cbsnews.com)