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‘I’m not Elon Musk’: Winnipeg man defends Cybertruck purchase despite backlash

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Mark Zuckerberg Insists Anyone With Same Skewed Values And Unrelenting Thirst For Power Could Have Made Same Mistakes
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The same side of the Moon always faces Earth, but not in exactly the same way. Due to its tilted axis and elliptical orbit, we see about 59% of its surface over time. This simulation compresses a year into 60 seconds, making the Moon's apparent wobble, called libration, clearly visible.

Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio

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‘I’m not Elon Musk’: Winnipeg man defends Cybertruck purchase despite backlash

"...A Winnipeg man says owning a Tesla Cybertruck has led to vandalism and death threats, as trade war tensions increase between Canada and the U.S... (owner) said he had to spend several hours to remove “LOSER” graffiti on his Cybertruck, told 680 CJOB’s Connecting Winnipeg that owning the vehicle doesn’t mean he agrees with what’s happening between the U.S. and Canada.... Some people are Ford guys, some people are Dodge guys, some people are Porsche guys … I’m a Tesla guy. ..."

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It's interesting how they covered up these vehicles, as if they were the cadavers of humans.

AFP: A dozen Teslas torched outside French dealership
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@Christian_Freiherr_von_Wolff I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with EVs.


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Someone sent me a hilarious video, and I said, "Oh yeah, that's a classic!", and had the realization that the internet is old enough now that several generations of children are discovering the "Old Texts".

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Time to cast off lines and put Cape Town to our rudder as we set sail for Sint Maarten
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"Paquebot" allows mail to be marked "Posted at Sea" along with the coordinates and then delivered postage free by the next port of call.
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Successfully climbed the 699 steps of the Saint Helena "Jacob's Ladder", enjoyed the view, and then climbed back down since there isn't much to do atop Ladder Hill.
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After a busy morning of unfurling and rigging work, we have sailed off our anchor and are making way towards Sint Maarten.
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Enjoyed the sunset over the south Atlantic while finishing the fore mast stun sail rigging. Won't hoist them until morning, however.
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Moved the outer sheets and other lines from port to starboard during the morning watch.
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The waxing moonlight is nearly strong enough to read by during the quiet night watches.
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Found a point of chaffing on the ratlines and installed some antichaff that will last until we lower the halyard at sunset (and will try to find a better lead during the night watch)
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Sunset means it's time to douse the stunsails from the fore- and mainmasts and to prepare for the night watch.
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This time it worked! The overhauled gear on the main course and awkward hoisting position on the sloop deck makes it challenging to thread the Swedish furled stunsail and yard through a narrow window of staysail sheets.
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I love the way the gear, topping lifts and footropes can be seen in silhouette through the sails.
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Prepared to wear ship during the maintenance watch by shackling blocks for the port stunsail gear to the mainmast yards and mousing them closed for safety.
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First visual contact by the lookout in a week as we approach the TSS near the coast of Brazil. We hope the northerner ocean currents will help carry us through the doldrums if the winds fail.
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Enjoyed a beautiful full moon rise at sunset as we continue our run westward on a port tack towards the Brazilian coast.
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Learning how to turn a three lead decorative knot into a five lead version is tricky but doable during a quiet watch.
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Finally finished the French spiral and decorative knotwork on the foredeck ladder handrails using the bosun needle.
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And then relaxed on the fore royal yard to enjoy Sailors Sunday before evening watch starts.
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Just before sunrise we lashed down the mainmast stunsail booms for the last time, marking the end of the broad reach of our Atlantic crossing as we switch to a downwind run north for the rest of the voyage (with both port and starboard stunsails set on the foremast)
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Unbent the heavy main course and tied the lighter weight "tropics sail" (480g/m2) onto the yard as we approach the equator.
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Enjoying the Vapor Wave aesthetic this sunrise, mostly since it means we're almost done with this watch and can go eat breakfast.
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Noon sight just below the equator during the equinox means the sun is nearly 89° overhead and shadows are almost straight down.
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Nearly two knots of northward current as we transit the doldrums at the equator, which means that around a third of our distance per day is not coming from our sails.
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1°S and the sun is directly overhead, making the nearly windless downwind run even hotter.
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One last night watch to enjoy the southern stars before we cross into the northern hemisphere.
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And we're past the equator on a fast beam reach! The line crossing ceremony will be later today once all the watches are awake.
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Although the northern trade winds mean we will be on a beam reach for the rest of voyage, so we can properly furl the stun sails for stowage, unreeve the gear, and ship the booms inboard to lash them securely to the yards.
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We encountered squalls during the night watch and doused the skysail plus the main and mizzen royals. This also helped reduce the heeling.
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Since crossing the equator we've been seeing more sargasso and am curious how the winds and currents create such long straight lines.
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Be careful tightening the course tack on the capstan or you might be going aloft to repair the head lashing.
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Chaffing inspection found wear between the main upper topsail halyard and a backstay deadeye. The three sheave block will need to be relocated next time the yard is down.
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Due to the heeling and the waves we have moved the lookout station to the sloopdeck.
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Steady winds on a beam reach means we set all the mainmast stay sails, including the "deckswabber".
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Just before sunrise the orders came for "more canvas!" So we laid aloft to release the clew gasket and unfurl the mizzen top gallant.
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Sunrise was spectacular with the waning crescent moon coming above the horizon just before dawn.



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A partial solar eclipse is expected in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, eastern Ontario, and southern and eastern Québec on 29 March 2025 at sunrise.

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Une éclipse partielle du soleil est attendue le 29 mars 2025 à l'aube sur l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard, le Nouveau-Brunswick, la Nouvelle-Écosse, l'est de l'Ontario, et le sud et l'est du Québec.

Article: ledevoir.com/societe/science/8…
Carte: eclipsequebec.ca/eclipses-a-ve…

#Eclipse #Canada

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Reminder: It is tomorrow morning.

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Rappel: c’est demain matin.

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Sarah O'Connor (FT) warns students taking up AI to get them through their studies may be counter-productive;

Good careers depend on employees being able to demonstrate they add value & if they depend on AI to deliver what they claim to know, why would employers not just 'employ' artificial intelligence directly?

While clinging to AI might be understandable in a time of student stress & anxiety, educators (universities) should help them resist the siren call of AI!

I completely concur!

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This reminds me of how people say "your life flashes before your eyes when you die" and, somehow, never realize the implications of that being true. I can tell you from experience that your perception of time increases, to the effect that time is subjectively slowed to the point of absurdity when you get hit by a car, and I walked away from that one without any serious injury. I can imagine the very last exhale feeling as long as the entire lifetime of inhalation proceeding it. Again, everyone always says how your life flashes before your eyes when you die. I cannot rationally dismiss with complete certainty that ~31.5 years to date, as I remember it as of this exact moment, hasn't all just been my life flashing before my eyes. I cannot prove absolutely that I'm not remembering having typed this decades ago, that I'm not an old man having a heart attack, and that I won't be dead before I hit the floor.

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@Christian Wolff @CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

I have been near enough to death to have been resuscitated. I have never experienced my life flashing before my eyes. I do not know that it cannot happen though I am fairly certain this is a phenomena introduced in works of fiction rather than a science.

If anyone knows of any genuine research into this I would love to see citations to the work.





Hmm, if you are a fan of Japanese pickled veggies and shop at Tokyo Central or Marukai (Los Angeles), giant recall for botulism.

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