Here’s the story if your day has been too full of good news and you need a palate cleanser.

  • A_A@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    (…) came out of the blue and collided with the Stena Immaculate at 16 knots.

    so, probably related to fog … … and the worst has been avoided :

    (…) 36 people had been rescued, with one person taken to hospital.
    (…) some jet fuel had leaked into the sea
    (…) The cargo ship had been carrying 15 containers of the chemical sodium cyanide when it collided with the tanker.
    (…) Sodium cyanide has a variety of commercial uses, from being used to plate metals to dye production. It is highly soluble in water (…)

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      13 hours ago

      Stena out here being bad news as any other time I’ve heard of them.

      I used to work in an electronics refurb place. The Stena laptop pallets were straight out of landfills. Just a bunch of muddy laptops thrown onto a pallet. Macbooks priced by the tonne. We had to extract as much value out of that muddy, moldy filth as possible. Lots of people are now using those health hazard laptops without even knowing it.

      Any time someone said “Stena goods coming in a few days”, you just wanted to kill yourself.