Vernon's Groove 🇿🇦 🇺🇸 ♒

Life enthusiast. Seeker of interesting things and things of interest.

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“Teach by teaching, not correcting.” Maria Montessori

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@lvb @Turbinetraveler The speaker being in checked luggage would be a serious oversight on the part of TSA. I assuma that the bag would've been scanned before loading it, so I seriously doubt that it could've been in checked luggage.

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@rondadams @Turbinetraveler Saw that after I posted my comment. That explains the name, but doesn't explain why he didn't switch it off after being instructed to do so.

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@USA_Patriot1981 @Turbinetraveler https://t.co/rqR03QgnMo

It was a Bluetooth speaker, not a mobile phone.

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@ArcticHound @Turbinetraveler It was a Bluetooth speaker, not a mobile phone. The only option would've been to turn it off.

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@lvb @Turbinetraveler If this was indeed the case, it still had to be switched off. The announcement asked for ALL Bluetooth devices to be switched off.

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@rondadams @Turbinetraveler No manufacturer would name a device that - the default is usually the device make and model. And no, no mobile devices are allowed in checked luggage.

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Will never forget this day - experienced my first earthquake. Then we had another mild tremor this morning.

[JAMES WEBB @jameswebb_nasa]

Você sabia que, até hoje, cientistas registraram apenas uma única vez o deslocamento visível de uma falha tectônica principal em tempo real?

O evento aconteceu em 2025, em Myanmar, quando uma câmera de segurança captou o exato momento em que a Falha de Sagaing deslizou vários metros lateralmente durante um grande terremoto. As imagens permitiram que pesquisadores medissem, quadro a quadro, a velocidade e a dinâmica da ruptura sísmica, algo considerado praticamente impossível até então.

O vídeo se tornou objeto de diversos estudos científicos e já é tratado como a primeira evidência visual direta de uma ruptura principal de falha tectônica registrada com esse nível de clareza.

Fontes:
- “Direct Estimation of Earthquake Source Properties from a Single CCTV Camera” — arXiv
- “Video-based Direct Time Series Measurement of Along-Strike Slip on the Coseismic Surface Rupture During the 2025 Mw7.7 Myanmar Earthquake” — arXiv
- “Curved fault slip captured by CCTV video during the 2025 Mw 7.7 Mandalay earthquake” — EarthArXiv

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@leomnonato @jameswebb_nasa It's real alright. Yangon is more than 600km away but we felt it here.

[Kim Heller @kimheller3]

Meanwhile in South Africa ❤️❤️

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@cabchrys @KevOnStage Do something today that you can be proud of tomorrow 🫠

[The Darkpulse Files  𝕏 @Scout_503]

Should post this as well.. This is how they are trying to combat the Data Center taking all the power https://t.co/SwluwSWdBv

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Since this is getting a lot of views, here's a video of what happened here, the same story of the girl that went viral, but my town is the aftermath. https://t.co/ZeD8I72kyY

[The Darkpulse Files  𝕏 @Scout_503]

So I’ve lived in Hillsboro, Oregon for 10 years. Drove around today and tonight and shot this myself. This is what the “Data Center Plains” looks like.👇

My town sits at the end of 6 transpacific sea cables connecting the US to Asia. That’s why 30+ data centers landed here.

They’re everywhere. Spread across the entire north and west end of the city. Road after road. Building after building. Miles of it.

And they keep building. Pushing further west every year into farmland that’s been here for generations. Buying up land, Giving mass amounts of money to home owners to move, Tearing down homes. Tearing down historic sites.

$7.2 billion in exempted property taxes. Some of these finished buildings are literally sitting completely dark…

PGE told them no power for 3-5 years. They still built them anyway.

A power plant is now going up right next to the data centers because they maxed the local grid.

There are families still living next to construction zones. Old farmhouses directly across the street from data center walls. Nobody asked the people who already lived here. These are the families who refused to leave, so they said we are just gonna put them up next to your houses anyway.

A pioneer homestead from 1865, 190 years of continuous farming is about to be gone, NTT Global Data Centers got that land tax-free until 2051. Signed in a single day at City Hall.

Intel, the employer that actually brought thousands of real jobs here is laying off locals at the same time.

This sound runs 24 hours a day. 7 days a week.

My electricity bill went from $80 to $150. Water rates are set to increase 105% over 5 years, critics say to fund data center infrastructure, not residents.

Data centers aren’t a joke. Just wanted to share my first hand experience with them. #datacenters

[Champagne Joshi @JoshWalkos]

This guy is calling a hospital on behalf of a new mom who was charged $1,847,392 because her baby was premature and needed to stay alive long enough to come home.

The itemized charges are dystopian. $37,464 for heel sticks on a premature infant, $58 every time a mother held her own baby skin-to-skin in the NICU, $312 for discharge teaching on how to sponge bathe a preemie and $27,590 for phototherapy lights. That’s before even getting into the NICU bed charges.

Our medical system is one of the most corrupt, exploitative and evil rackets in the world.

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@RushNews5 Now to find and deport the 192 illegal passport holders.

[Houston Chronicle @HoustonChron]

The two Texans who were passengers on the cruise ship where a rare hantavirus outbreak occurred are Houston residents, KPRC reports, citing Houston health officials.

Authorities previously confirmed that two Texans were on board the MV Hondius and had returned to the United States before the outbreak was identified. https://t.co/YRORFpdwWy

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering exempting even more. https://t.co/gbM0gxj2Vh

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@factpostnews @notcapnamerica But they insisted that all federal workers return to the office?

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@KevOnStage Not Apartheid Clyde 😭