Jean-Francois Mezei

Network/IT guy, started work on VAX computers.
Author of Petition to Governor in Council to overturn UBB decisions at CRTC.
was/is jfmezei on Twitter.
From greater Montréal, Québec, Canada, Earth area

Web: http://www.vaxination.ca

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2026-02-02 02:19:41 UTC

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Trump will replace this text from Mr Kennedy with the Ferengi rules of acquisition.
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2026-02-02 02:17:01 UTC

This is despicable. It's a memorial, you don't rebuild it to anything you want.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/02/trump-kennedy-center-close-two-years
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2026-01-29 12:38:00 UTC

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not sure Iran fits definition of genocide as they murdered their own people only for protesting. Israel murdered Gazans because of race/religion. The word « genocide » is very strong and should not be abused.

2025-12-31 04:24:59 UTC

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This is why banking apps use integer variables and math supported by COBOL:
01 MY-BALANCE PIC S9(6)V9(2) USAGE COMP3.
"Comp3" directs creation of a packed decimal data type ( integer).
the floating point internal representation in computers is imprecise. (lookup IEEE 754).
You can can fun entering various floating point numbers at this page:
https://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html
(enter number on the "Decimal representation" and see how it gets converted and the resulting error. (some numbers such as 5.25 convert cleanly, but 5.24 won't).

2025-12-10 17:12:30 UTC

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In the news this week, earlier in December, Québec came close to having to load shed because demand neared production limits. Of all places, Québec where we were told growing up we have unlimited electricity.
Think twice about building all these AI datacentres, where consumers will have to turn off the heat in winter so Grok and chatGPT can provide fake conversations.
There is no one answer about how to increase production. The "SMR" buzzword is terrible. If you're going to build a nuclear plant, build a big one that produces lots of power for the same safety overhead of a small reactor.
Once you've exhausted your hydro potential, I think nuclear becomes the next best large producer. Solar and wind help alleviate locally, but not sure they really scale up YET , not until storage is truly built up.
Homes can reduce their needs, but industrial users like aluminium smelters need power 7/24 because they can't shutdown.
There is no single soliution

2025-11-25 14:27:05 UTC

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Carbon capture does NOT work. Carney needs to be chalenged on thsi whenever he brings it up.

2025-10-25 20:05:34 UTC

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taking raw water from a river, warming though the data centre and then dumping it back to the river may have river temperature issues but doesn't steal any water. But a data centre in Las Vegas that draws water from filtration plant and then sprays the used water onto grass means that water never returns to Lake Mead which has water shortage.
Nuclear and coal power plants also use much water to cool the steam so it can be boiled again. Those large cooling towers work by evaporating water droplets drawn from river over the pipes carrying hot steam from plant to cool it. That water goes to atmosphere.
The city of Toronto has Enwave. It draws very cold water from bottom of Lake Ontario and distributes it to downtown office building and data centres like 151 Front to provide cooling. Water goes back to Lake Ontario. This is actually very energy efficient because of availability of very cold water in large quantities and water is returned to the lake.

2025-10-15 15:45:25 UTC

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please return the standalone “boost” button. The extra step needed to boost a post is unwelcome. Especially since quote post is disabled for 99% of posts making it useless.

2025-10-09 23:21:37 UTC

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I've seen documentaries on the amount of destruction a dinosaur like Godzilla can do to Japanese cities, so the USA government is fully justified in bringing out the full force of the army to combat that green dinosaur on Portland streets 🙂

2025-09-11 06:35:33 UTC

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Shaw bought Canwest Global from bankruptcy, and when it also bought nealry babkrupt Wind it shifted Global to Corus, which made Shaw a pure play telecom with no boradcasting to make the inevitable wedding with Rogers possible.
However, Shaw's BDU business still provided CRTC-approved funding to Global news (Co.
When Rogers asked CRTC to bless its wedding with Shaw, one of the issues was that Rogers would focus all its funding help to City TV News to grow its presence in west and drop Shaw's subsidies to Corus/Global. Corus objected, but CRTC approved the deal anyways. So no surprise that Global would be cutting back.

2025-08-26 02:35:17 UTC

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recall when "someone" blew up a dam on the Dnieper river? It caused the reservoir to empty and that reservoir was the source of water for the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which while shutdown, still needs much cooling water.
IAEA update 310:
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/update-310-iaea-director-general-statement-on-situation-in-ukraine
"The IAEA team has also been informed that the site is pumping water from the cooling pond into the isolated part of this channel and that the current water level in the channel is more than a meter above the point where cooling pumps would cease to operate. The ZNPP is also considering other options for supplying power to its reactor units to maintain the operation of its safety systems"

2025-08-16 23:15:47 UTC

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In a free market, if your employer doesn't pay you well, you quit and go work elsewhere.
But in airline industry, because union-required seniority clauses, if you have 20 years with airline 1 and dislike their contract and decide to go work for airline 2, you start with 0 years seniority and get the leftovers when it comes to choose the flights with good working hours.
Airlines know their FAs and pilots are enslaved due to seniority clauses so have far less incentive to compete on offering better salary/conditiosn to attract talent. Unions know that the seniority their insist upon is to their own benefit since strikes are the only way employees can get any improvement in pay/working conditions.

2025-07-29 23:05:19 UTC

Another and more important reason to stop buying goods and services from USA: they are purposefully destroying the attempts at reducing pollution and killing science needed to save our planet. Trump has gone further that oil donor have asked with his pet peeves against windmills.

2025-07-18 21:09:25 UTC

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in fairness , Carney has minority government. And no assured support from bloc/ndp like last time so he has to govern more to the right to please CPC voters with reduces chances of CPC MPs wanting to bring down govt. but it seems to be pleasing CPC a bit too much.

2025-06-19 06:01:15 UTC

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Note, civil nuclear reactors that produce electricity range from needing 0.7% (Candu) erichment to about 3.5% for most. Some research on having 7% enrichment and possibilty of going 20% gor small modular reactors. (Iran has said it should be allowed up 20% which matches what some IAEA numbers discuss about ongoing reseach). So there are no civilian uses for 60%.

2025-06-19 05:48:21 UTC

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They apparently have 400kg at 60% of 235 (235 is the "active" Uranium, 238 is docile and wont go kaboom).
You need 90% to make Uranium 235 go kaboom real fast.
It is possible they just enriched 60% to make USA nervous and force a deal, it doesn't prove they are working on a bomb for it. Or they could secretely be on their way to build a bomb.
Analysts think Israel needs a distraction from Gaza, and knows it can trick Trump into finishing the job they started in Iran.

2025-06-19 05:43:37 UTC

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te report goes back many years, and like with Iraq had unanswered questions about many items such as 3 undeclared buildings in 2003 that had traces of uranium which was never explained. Buildings quickly demolished so no verification possible. They have also had many other deviations from expected behaviour which creates a lot of distrust. It's enrichement beyond 3.5% is legal as per NPT (but not JCPOA), but compliance with declarations/inspections isn't good enough.

2025-06-19 05:38:07 UTC

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IAEA: 80. While safeguarded enrichment activities are not forbidden in and of themselves, the fact that Iran is the only non-nuclear-weapon State in the world that is producing and accumulating uranium enriched to 60% remains a matter of serious concern, which has drawn international attention given the potential proliferation implications."
GOV/2025/25: NPT Safeguards Agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran, 31 May 2025
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/iran/iaea-and-iran-iaea-board-reports

2025-06-08 07:39:27 UTC

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It is because of *someone* , instead of using a backhoe to commit a terrorist act against a fibre line, used a lawnmower over an insufficiently buried line in his own backyard. Won't say who it is, but it is in Edmonton 😉

2025-05-05 19:03:54 UTC

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The culture war got a criminal mafia boss that lies all the time elected, and got Poilievre 30% ahead of Trudeau. had Trump not started his attacks against Canada, it is quie possible that CPC would have won with that tactic. And despite Trump attacking canada, 41% o Canadians beleived in hose tactics, beleive countries send their criminals to Canada and that immigrants are criminals etc.

2025-05-05 18:50:58 UTC

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the creation of problems such as trans athletes requires constant repeating of he issue over long time to make it "stick". So Poilievre sarted as soon as he was elected leader (and party planners agreed wih strategy). Had he stayed "normal" until he writ was dropped, that strategy would not have worked because 30 days is n't enough to make culture war become problems people vote about.

2025-05-05 17:20:34 UTC

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I totally tunes CPC campaign out because of their behaviour prior to campaign. But noted analysts noticig how Poilievre had toned down the rethoric to appear more prime ministerial, except hat on the last days, I did start to hear about hism bringing back woke arguments. Remember that the Press was not allowed to follow him on campaign trail, so only approved influencers were allowed to report.

2025-05-05 16:56:49 UTC

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That article spent more time on Liberals' campaign than CPC. I woudl have been interested in inside discussions within the CPC on their decision to mimick Trup,s culture wars ad fake news, woke stuff etc and how to deal with this heavy baggage that had become a liability. The fact that Poilievre avoid this during much of campaign to hide it but on last days did restart it shows there must have been discussions on it.

2025-05-02 20:06:13 UTC

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How would they physically do that? I-5 Norhbound litterally flies over the customs facility, so they would have to work on a 4 lane highway and cause a whole lot of traffic by stopping cars.
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2025-04-23 11:07:41 UTC

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Trump playing g yo-yo with tariffs isn’t insider trading since it doesn’t involve information unavailable to shareholders of a specific company. Also he was granted immunity by his Supreme Court so he can manipulate the market as much as he wants to profit from it. Suspect his spawn are the ones who benefit and are told by daddy when to buy.

2025-04-15 22:58:20 UTC

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The "pretty display" of emails does not let you see who is sending what. It only displays the "pretty" to and FROM that are in body in message, no the actual to/from used in the negotiation. The original message did not necessarily originate on Google, and not sure why Google would accept it and then issue non delivery instead of rejecting it at time of sending. That is why seeing the real message with headers is important, but web interfaces are dumbed down and prevent this.

2025-04-15 22:36:26 UTC

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Smaller mail systems are able to verify the email address during the RFC 821 "MAIL TO:" command and reject it before the body of message is sent. The onus is then on the sending MTA to advise sender of non delivery. If receiving MTA receives message and then checks validity of destination, the onus is on it to issue non delivery.
"view source" of message if Google allows should reveal IP of original sender, and IP who sent the non-delivery notification.

2025-04-13 18:33:25 UTC

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Israel was given permission by king Donald to wipe Gaza clean of people so trump hotels could be built.

2025-03-10 00:26:04 UTC

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William MacKenzie and John Turner both became Prime Ministers without holding seats in the House and had to watch from the visitors gallery until a bi-election got them a seat (Turner's government fell but in the ensuing election Turner did get a seat).
Brian Miulroney was elected leader of Conservatives and this leader of oppposotion in 1983 and only later 1983 won a seat in bi-election (or is that an LGBTQ+ election nowawdays? 🙂 And won big in proper 1984 election.

2025-03-05 04:32:34 UTC

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Emperor Trump says he spoke to the big 3 automakers today. So if he lifts tariffs tomorrow, you'll know the big 3 promised donations sufficient to please the Ferengi.

2025-03-05 03:37:35 UTC

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Official video feed from the White House has politicial banner to text the comedian during his performance. Since they have dropped any pretense of traditions and ethics, I guess this has to be expected. I fully expect the Ferengi to start having shopping channel adverts for Trump branded products like his sneakers, fake bitcoin stuff etc.
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2025-03-05 03:33:30 UTC

The Melania prop was brought out of storage to be displayed at Trump's performance. Congress had louder applause for her than for their cult leader.
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2025-02-11 13:10:45 UTC

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a friend confirmed those toilet camera signs at DFW exist but as protest intended to alarm and encourage people to call Dan Patrick, The Texas Lieutenant Governor.

2025-01-25 00:05:24 UTC

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Yep, software released on diskette. Mac Os on 68k machines at the time. I stopped using it by the tie I had upgraded to a PowerpC Mac).

2025-01-24 23:40:14 UTC

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I never used the terminal, but used the software on a Mac to access Aalex. and it was very expensive by the minute pricing. Ended up cheaper to access a BBS via long distance in the USA back then. (and them Compuserve and then the Internet).

2025-01-23 15:39:19 UTC

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the only way Trump can get cash out of truth social is if someone agrees to buy it. Only Melon Husk has $4b to spare to buy worthless company. Trump needs to be nice to Husk until this is done. And for Melon to launch offer , he must have gotten favours from Trump. Both have leverage in each other. Cutting off friendship means Trump loses $2b in cash to pay off his debts in money losing real estate.

2025-01-16 22:58:08 UTC

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Your instance only gets a post from another instance if one of your users has subscribed to someone on that instance. The followed person's posts are thus sent to your instance so you can serve those to your user who followed the remote users. Other reason you would geta foreign post is when soemone on foreign node addresses/mentions one of your users.
So the activity would reflect how many such posts you get from othet instances in the fediverse.

2025-01-01 18:47:30 UTC

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today, the ability for a computer to put a point on a map at a certain lat/lon is very important. Calculating where such a point would be on that Japanese map is next to impossible.

2024-12-08 20:16:44 UTC

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"will" is useless. What is important is the stories of him leaving in early hours of the event to confirm change of government. And often media are first to have footage proving he left and landed in <city>.

2024-12-08 19:52:32 UTC

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While one shouldn't exagerate the details, there is some imporance in media "following" Assad to prove he has left Syria. Since there is no formal ceremony where he hand power to his successor, there needs to be evidence he has abdicated by leaving the country(especially if with family and belongings, and if he is seen leaving along with the country's riches, that evidence is also imporant for the new governme t t make format request the new host country return such.

2024-12-03 14:02:41 UTC

Press visit of White House Christmas decorations
32 minutes https://youtu.be/o-xSYaCyxPM
Last chance befre the property is turned into a private club for lobbyists. I had astly underestimated the amount of Christmas decorations that would be inside that building. They are everywhere.
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2024-12-03 03:54:30 UTC

Criminal Donald Trump invited himself to the grand opening of Cathédrale Notre Dame this weekend, ruining the event for everyone. The Ferengi has no business (litterally) in a church. And secret service will make life hell in Paris for everyone.
As a criminal civilian, he cannot enter many countries and he should not be allowed in Schengen. He may have been elected to ruin the United States, but he has no mandate to ruin the rest of the planet.

2024-11-21 13:55:33 UTC

Iceland eruption: Lava has innundated the parking lot for the Blue Lagoon thermal baths and adjacent geothermal plant. They built the dyke to close the entrance to the resort. The dyke all around it is expected to hold it is hoped
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2024-11-18 12:37:29 UTC

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Pic 1 Queen of the North, 1990. It too had open lifeboats. (note to self: remember to close the plug on a lifeboat before touching water, those are left open to ensure boat is always drained while on ship).
Pic 2: the davit mechanism on the El Farro the same as on Queen of the North).
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2024-11-18 12:21:45 UTC

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Due to the hurricane, it wasn' until day 4 that ships could get to the site of the sinking and do searches.
At 1806, the cutter Northland found one of the liferafts at 23.4866N, 073.5883W, about 18 nm northeast of El Faro’s last known position. The ship’s rescue swimmer searched the partially inflated liferaft for any sign of survivors. Finding no one on board, the Northland sank the liferaft, to prevent its rediscovery and an ensuing duplicate search for survivors or remains

2024-11-18 12:11:03 UTC

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With King Donald's Project 2025 including dismantlement of NOAA (to help deny climate change):
"El Faro’s EPIRB was identified by a unique hexadecimal beacon identifier that was transmitted to the US Mission Control Center through the local user terminal at the NOAA search-and-rescue satellite-aided tracking (SARSAT) facility in Suitland, Maryland.139 The beacon identifier corresponds to registration data held by NOAA"
So they will also hurt ability to help ships in distress.

2024-11-18 10:29:46 UTC

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El Faro sank on October 1 2015. The VDR was recovered on August 8 2016 at a depth of 4741m. The chip containing the recorded data remained readable. Pretty amazing.
Titanic is at depth of 3840m, 900m above El Faro. (Consider how Titan was crushed to smithereens last year).
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2024-11-18 09:41:36 UTC

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A car on deck 3 came loose from its chains, and hit a pipe. This was the emergency seewater feed to the fire fighting pumps (which draw from freshwater tanks first). Breaking that pipe allowed seawater to flow freely to flood compartiment.
Due to the ship's list, the oil intake stopped drawing in oil from the oil reservoir, so engine stopped and they couldn't steer anymore.
Ship had Titanic style open lifeboats which are not survvable in a hurricane.
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2024-11-18 08:50:44 UTC

Reading a script for a disaster movie.
part one ends with "El Faro’s last known position, according to VDR data, was 20 nm north of Samana Cay, at 23.3925N, 73.9029W. The vessel was about 17 nm from the position of the hurricane’s center reported 20 minutes after the sinking."
Script available at: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/DCA16MM001.aspx
The main one is MAR1701 (pdf).
Accompanying info from the NHC:
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/archive_forecast_results.php?id=al11&year=2015&name=Hurricane%20JOAQUIN
When report refers to an advisory, you can load it the kmz on Google Earth.
cont

2024-09-16 15:32:07 UTC

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Oceangate engineer:
We could 100% , engineering wise, prevent all traffic accident deaths, but we would be giving up a lot of convenience to do that.
(Me: simpler: instead of over engineering every car, just take cars off the table entirely and use pedestrians, bikes and public transit).

2024-09-16 15:20:12 UTC

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Ocean gate engineer: when they tried carbon fibre domes that failed, he took one sample to Boeing who found delamination inside indicating the process of making them was flawed.
Contrary to CG presentation: Engineer says the 1/3 scale model was to be tested to 4500m, failed at 4200m which is more than the 3800m for Titanic.

2024-09-16 15:14:32 UTC

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Oceangate Engineer: when you built a carbon structure that is 5 inches think, you loose the ability to use accoustic sounding to detect defects (voids, delamination). (Normally this would be used to test every production item to ensure no manufacturing defect).

2024-09-16 15:06:40 UTC

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Oceangate engineer: Tried to convince boss to have a "witness panel" on the mandrel making the cylinder, but he refused, mandrel was already made. Witness panel means making a larger piece than necessary and cut off the excess once it is all made to be kept safely to allow for investigation of material should there be a failure of the main part. Lack of witness panel for the Titan means they can't investigate the material "intact" from the built and compare against wreck.

2024-09-16 14:25:33 UTC

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First witness is one of the Oceangate engineers.
CG had noted the Titan had no certification. While explaining his edication/work experience mentions he worked in certification in aircraft industr at one point. When questioned, he notes that despite certification of aircrafts, incidents still happen.
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2024-09-16 14:12:33 UTC

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at 10:15, Titan has "all good here". Depth 2329m of 3341m.
at 10:25, depth of 2639, so basically 1.2 km from Titanic they start reporting on relative position of the wreck. (east south east of it).
10:47 "dropped 2 weights at 3345m. Outside pressure just under 5000psi.
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2024-09-16 13:33:49 UTC

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Very susprised Coast Guard would make such a mistake
-49° of longitide indicates western hemisphere and when you include signs, you never include the N/S or E/W letters.
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2024-09-16 12:43:14 UTC

US Coast guard hearing on the Titan submarine failure has begun. No reports ppublished yet , but they may provide pictures during live feed (hopefully they publish the exhibits on their web site).
Web page: https://www.news.uscg.mil/News-by-Region/Headquarters/Titan-Submersible/
Livestream: https://youtu.be/avp_-wN3ekA
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2024-07-31 07:55:05 UTC

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if you have a wife that likes shopping you will run a marathon every tine you accompany her. At least athletes don’t have to carry the spouse’s purchases 🙃