Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "What's Going on With Shipping?" channel.

  1. What is your professional marine salvage experience and why would it be worth the risk in a combat zone and what makes this ship worth salvage?
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  2. Our public are not competent to demand thus produce competent legislators because the nation is collectively ignorant and proud of it. The quality of American society has declined since the 1960s. We have entertainers not intelligentsia so other than tiny specialist communities (like this one!) there is no understanding of important issues.
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  3. Citations needed. Why would anyone believe anything from the heirs to the USSR who so desperately want it back?
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  4. What world war? Military ignorance and emotionalism are not insight. The "world" has little skin in this logistic inconvenience.
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  5. The burden of proof in debate is on the person making the assertion. What precisely is your evidence?
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  6. Much more importantly, the Jones Act supports American strategic sealift and helps keep shipyards available for future wars and other disruptions.
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  7.  @Alwayswilling  Post your expertise dealing with Palestinians and why you imagine there would BE any qualified Palestinians familiar with deploying those specific systems? Why do you ASSUME they would do it right? What is that idiotic babble about "real and lasting value" coming from? Contractors like KBR deliver value consistently building whole bases overseas. Think about more than GOP vs Dems for a second if that's even possible. Palestinians are Jihadist enemies of the US so letting them near US equipment just feeds that enemy more intel and offers opportunities for suicide bombers etc. Why would you want the enemy crawling all over US equipment? As a vet I'd want them as distant as practical. Also remember terrorists can infiltrate the Palestinians so hiring them is a security failure.
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  8. Beautiful moneymaker for the salvage company! Those tanks are much less expensive as open-tops but there's no reason they couldn't be capped with basically a flatrack with fireproof gaskets if they needed to be moved without spillage. The open-top boxes are common for road accident response though and may have been available from stock. Dragging those junkers through populated areas requires extra precautions in case of re-ignition so the tub containers are a good call. Modern recyclers can quickly disassemble those vehicles for scrap but there may be additional processes required for legal reasons.
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  9. Zeihan is what stupid people think smart people look like. He is a mere entertainer but most Americans read therefore think at an eighth grade level so he's popular.
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  10.  @theprimechuck  Only insurance companies can do that which is an insightful idea.
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  11. Sounds like a shipper problem to me. Add a protection tariff to shipping transiting the Red Sea. Don't pay the toll and it's between shippers and Houthis.
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  12. Seems a shame our primary education system is so broken we have people who don't understand the current situation yet permit themselves opinions.
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  13.  @simonjusticier333  There are no battleships outside of museums.
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  14. Deterring Serbia is an obvious part of the original deployment. If the US gets distracted they may get froggy.
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  15. Does Israel own sufficient shipping to transload cargo at ports distant from incoming rockets and missiles?
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  16. Why should the Navy care about foreign vessels sinking far away from the US? This is not a US problem nor should US divers be risked to bother with it because it is of no importance. It's only a cargo ship and few less years of service is of zero importance to the American public.
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  17. Bridges should be replaced by tunnels because if a tunnel fails shipping is not interrupted.
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  18. Wise observation re: ILA using Fecesbook! Facebook has absolutely the wrong audience! That venue is for the least intelligent general audience (niche groups and Marketplace excepted) and it shows. ILA should engage younger more tech and socially current members to help modernize the message and more importantly promulgate it to less reactionary audiences. Of course the US public will blame the strikers for taking action rather than strikers for acting. The US unions are regarded as enemies by non-union workers in our permanent bucket-of-crabs so they'll get little help moral support or otherwise.
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  19. Meds. Now.
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  20.  Look_What_You_Did  < Botpost with zero content detected. Lack of building capacity is real and testable.
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  21. Hauling these auction lot junkers is inherently dangerous AND securing them is really a job for a mechanic. (Lifelong mechanic here, jets on down.) Car carriers are unsafe because their makers CHOOSE to EXTERNALIZE risks. Firefighters should take no risk to put them out. The US should require exporters to perform pretrip car battery REMOVAL. Warehouse tugs fitted with a front-mounted wheel lift as used on repo trucks could shuttle them easily. For now, prepare to lose those vessels and don't risk firefighters for them. Reduced exports should that happen improve the US used car and salvage market! Go hard with safety regulations and heed no snivelling. COERCE COMPLIANCE by vigorous enforcement (paid for by exporters) and fine generously.
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  22. If it's not US-flagged then it's not a US problem. Any intervention is more a recreational gesture.
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  23. Who that lived through the OPEC crisis v1.0 believes that nonsense? Do some homework because what the average person thinks about everything usually varies with facts.
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  24. Mostly on the internet but not in Real Life. Get out more.
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  25. Robert Capa might have a word were he able. 🤣
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  26. Everyone not a worker wants logistics workers to do it for free. There is no working class unity outside unions but if union members (return to) demanding a fair shake they can get it.
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  27. Just posting words means nothing. Either make a coherent comparison or go be schizophrenic somewhere else.
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  28. America does not have an intelligent public to recruit from. The average US reading level is ~7th/8th grade.
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  29.  @wgowshipping  Nothing, it's another troll. Adults speak in specifics. This is Youtube home of bots and what's called "slide thread" posters. Thanks for your work but only people who are seriously interested in this subject can begin to benefit. Mental defectives are quite common among trolls.
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  30. Trucking like dock work is drudgery best automated out of existence. Truckers want automated docks but their own jobs are also better automated. No one is special and after deregulation there is little point in most trucking jobs.
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  31. The Navy has multiple carrier battle groups for good reasons.
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  32. That would be Tehran.
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  33. This is the NY/NJ metro area after all. Who got bribed to what personal financial benefit? Find then follow the money.
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  34. Since when does the US depend on Chinese imports for FOOD? Only LUXURY foods are imported. The US is a massive net food exporter.
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  35.  @TLBLibrarian  By what specific metrics did you determine they're "overpaid"? Assertions require evidence, not feelings. If a man believes a thing he should be able to prove it in court.
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  36. Increased import costs bode well for inshoring.
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  37. What shipboard measures can be taken to interdict contaminants? If contaminants make it to the combustion chamber that process is broken. Since it's easier to control what you possess it would be optimal to process fuel shipboard with the goal of being "omnivorous" when fueling. Particulates and water can be removed so what else is getting through the fuel system and specifically why?
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  38. Looks hilarious from where I'm sitting, but I love watching corrupt businesses like VW humiliated.
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  39. Of course because they have sufficient electrical power to power networked sensor and weapons systems. Ukraine is like the Iran-Iraq war, primitive forces bashing each other because neither prepared well.
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  40. Examples of hogging more people can see in person are on empty vs. heavily loaded flatbed trailers. Empty, the deck will be slightly convex. Fully loaded the trailer frame flattens considerably. The obstacles near Kerch bridge also narrowly channelize traffic making for easier sea mine kills if Ukrainian drone boats can get close enough to deploy them.
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  41. What's with all these irrelevant shillposts? Why are you dumping stupid worthless non-shipping-related comments? This is not an American vessel nor is it in America nor was it bound for America. Grow up, child.
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  42. Philippine governments made a mistake by ejecting US forces. Pride and vanity have a price and Beijing is well aware the relationship between the Washington and Manila is weak. The US does not require basing there for national survival, merely the luxury of regional hegemony which is not even close to the same thing. OTOH Manila has a choice between Chinese and US patronage with China aggressively seeking regional dominance. As the PI was indefensible in WWII (refer to the history of War Plan Orange, like Wake Island etc its fall was expected) it will be difficult to defend in future as Beijing invests in sea power. (The trade deficit between China and the US more than pays for the entire Chinese armed forces, making their military essentially free at US expense.) The average American could not tell you what "Merchant Marine" means. They're not capable of interest beyond trifles and only the relatively rare technically inclined people have the slightest curiosity. Unless someone with economic skin in the game invests money in publicity this will not change even slightly.
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  43. Surface to surface missiles that hit fixed targets are not the same as those sophisticated enough to hit moving targets. Ya might enjoy reading up on the relevant hardware. To hit moving vessels requires radar to find them then either drones or aircraft for the strike, or sophisticated anti-ship missiles. Only the drones are cheap and the rest require sponsors or sellers like Iran or NK. Helicopters close enough to board are extremely vulnerable unless they have escorts. Have a Navy friend (it will make an interesting video) on to give a decent briefing on the subject as those fellows will be able to talk ranges and capabilities.
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  44. Wasting over a trillion dollars making more enemies in GWOT did amazing damage to US peer warfare readiness but no one who matters dare point that out.
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  45. The greater scandal is the LCS was a mistake no one had the sense to abort. The US military is direly in need of reform but does not produce or reward reformers.
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  46.  @lance8080 There are plenty of trains. Most rail is freight. However there is not plenty of LAND for rights of way in 2024. Giving away rights of way to persuade railroad investors to build them was fine in the 1800s, but no one has enough money to double the size of the rail system. Automating trucks is dirt cheap by comparsion. I'm a railfan (not a "foamer", IYKYK) since childhood but the necessary preconditions to return even to mid-last-century rail coverage do not exist.
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  47. Fuel requiring tanker transport highlights how vulnerable logistics really are to disruption far away from a combat zone. One drone with one payload can easily end a civilian tanker at trivial cost to enemies. Any ship can instantly become a blockship (whose use goes back thousands of years in war) disabling valuable seaports. There should be emergency plans for rapid wreckage removal in emergencies including, if necessary, ecologically-indifferent destructive methods for use during war.
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  48. Good if they do because it will FORCE redundant comms which should have existed in the first place. Redundant rapidly deployed satcom is the way to have rapid redundant backup out of reach of third world terrorists. Most internet use is amusement not survival. Weak "single point of failure" systems appeal because of low cost but if continuity between Europe and Asia is degraded that's a fine incentive to build redundant backups AND cough up the money for sufficient naval power to protect sea lanes.
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  49. When the bridge is replaced what options exist to protect it, for example building obstacles constructed like breakwaters at standoff distance to ground approaching ships before they can strike the bridge? For example say 100 meters worth of concrete tetrahedrons could halt a vessel by grounding well before impact. The ideal fix would be a tunnel but that would take too long to design and construct.
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  50. Turning homes off at the master is preferable so know where yours is before you need to, for example if your home plumbing springs a leak.
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