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Dr. Drew On The LA Homelessness Crisis (Disease Outbreak)

Ohio teen defies mother and gets vaccinated

eric3579 says...

This is a yt video *blocked for you.
"The uploader has not made this video available in your country."

Whats always weird is that when I use my vpn through a Vancouver IP, A particular group of yt channels are blocked(often American tv shows), but if I use a Montreal or Toronto IP they work fine. Wonder what that is all about?

Try this https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x72ar7z

Sagemind said:

Facebook videos don't work well with VideoSift.
Can't view this on three different computers I've tried.

Plane Ran Out of Fuel at 41,000 Feet. Here's What Happened.

CrushBug says...

OK, hold the fucking phone here. This video is just a disaster. It is flippant and glossing over the facts of what actually happened. This story is a favorite of mine, so I have done a lot a reading on it.

This happened in 1983 (36 years ago).

>> Do planes seriously not have a fuel gauge?

There is specifically a digital fuel gauge processor on that plane, and it was malfunctioning. There was an inductor coil that wasn't properly soldered onto the circuit board. At that time, planes were allowed to fly without a functioning digital fuel gauge as long as there was a manual check of the fuel in tanks and the computer was told the starting fuel.

The problem is that fuel trucks pump by volume and planes measure fuel by weight. The fueling truck converted the volume to kilograms and then converted to pounds. He should not have used both. In 1983 ground crews were used to converting volume to pounds. The 767 was the first plane in Air Canada's fleet to have metric fuel gauges.

The line in the video "the flight crew approved of the fuel without noticing the error" glosses over how it is actually done. The pilot was passed a form that contained the numbers and calculations from the ground crew that stated that 22,300 kg of fuel was loaded on the plane. The math was wrong, but unless the pilots re-did the numbers by hand, there wouldn't be anything to jump out at them. He accepted the form and punched those numbers in to the computer.

The 767 was one of the first planes to eliminate the Flight Engineer position and replace it with a computer. There was no clear owner as to who does the fuel calc in this situation. In this case, it fell to the ground crew.

>> I would hope there is a nit more of a warning system than the engines shutting off.

If there was a functional digital fuel gauge, it would have showed them missing half their fuel from the start, and the error would have been caught. Because there wasn't, the computer was calculating and displaying the amount of fuel based on an incorrect start value.

That is another problem with this video. It states that "they didn't even think about it until ... and an alarm went off signalling that their left engine had quit working."

Fuck you, narrator asshole.

In this case, low fuel pump pressure warnings were firing off before the engines shut down. They were investigating why they would be getting these low pressure warnings when their calculated fuel values (based on the original error) showed that they had enough fuel.

>> I can't believe the pilot's were given an award for causing an avoidable accident.

The pilots did not cause it. They followed all the proper procedures applicable at that time, 1983. It was only due to their skill and quick thinking that the pilots landed the plane without any serious injuries to passengers.

They ran simulations in Vancouver of this exact fuel and flight situation and all the crews that ran this simulation crashed their planes.

"Bad math can kill you." Flippant, correct, but still not quite applicable to this situation. Air Canada did not provide any conversion training for dealing with kilograms and the 767. Not the ground crew, nor the pilots, were trained how to handle it. They were expected to "figure it out". That, and the elimination of the Flight Engineer position, set these situations up for disaster.

Cordless Anti-static Bracelet, Garbage or Junk?

The US-Canada Border Splits This Road Down The Middle

Mookal says...

Also interesting:

The town of Point Roberts Washington, just south of Vancouver, BC, as well as the not exactly populated Northwest Angle, in Minnesota, both American exclaves.

The only overland routes from America to either location require crossing two borders.

*related https://videosift.com/video/Canada-The-United-States-Bizarre-Borders-Part-2

Similarly, I find this to be a prime example of how borders are really, meant to be broken down. The only ones that truly care are xenophobes et al, politicians and corporations.

Rabbit of Seville

Sagemind says...

I have to admit.
I was lucky enough to see this performed LIVE.
Performed by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, with the original cartoon played uncut on Big Screen.
With Mel Blank standing on stage introducing it, and answering questions afterwards.

I got to See over Two hours of footage with the VSO performing soundtrack to some of Loony Toons best musical pieces. With Mel breaking them down and performing between each piece.

Most people don't know that the full uncut versions of these cartoons are never shown any more.

Town Where Chinese Millionaires House their Kid and Mistress

The Disturbing History of the Suburbs

Sagemind says...

In Canada, School funding is based on head count and not on housing taxes.
Interest rates are pre-set by banks but to the best of my knowledge, the same rates are given to everyone - there is no race-bias on who gets which loan rate.

Also, If I was to buy a house, anywhere, suburbs or not, my ability, as a white male is exactly the same as any other racial profile family. As someone who didn't have parents subsidize my income or schooling, my chances of owning is exactly the same as anyone else. In this, I feel that part of his argument isn't exactly accurate.

I'll even go a step further to say that, in fact, most immigrants to western Canada have more wealth than white people, and are buying out the housing market, most sight unseen, and above market value. In the Greater Vancouver area, most white people are now a minority, because they can't compete financially with immigrants and are being forced out of Vancouver.

Tom Cruise Injured After Plunging Off Building in London

New Zealand Distracted Driving PSA

Millennial Home Buyer

kir_mokum says...

i have an awesome career in an awesome place to live. it's just expensive. i got lucky whereas many are not. also, i'm not a millennial. also, almost all the places i can work are expensive metropolises (london, NY, vancouver, LA, SF).

but i still can't can't afford to buy.

bobknight33 said:

sounds like people are being raped.

Find a job in a decent place to live.

From a Tent City in Brazil to a Renowned Ballet School

tabom says...

this is a collaboration between Fantastico Globo and myself. The parts in Brazil were shot outside Sao Paulo and the parts in Canada were shot in Vancouver. Credits are on the video including the songs.

America's small town in Canada

Payback says...

Also, you should look up Point Roberts, WA. It's a peninsula that drops off the bottom of BC outside Vancouver that gets sliced off by the 49th parallel. There is no better way for other Americans to get there without going through Canada.

Urban Geography: Why We Live Where We Do

Khufu says...

Vancouver has played American cities in hundreds of movies and tv shows, even American political propaganda videos... so why not documentaries:) all-look-same.

vil said:

Its really a Europe vs America comparison so Canada gets to be american. Sort of like the "north american" ice hockey team.

Urban Geography: Why We Live Where We Do

nanrod says...

At 8:24 just as he's saying "rich Americans are therefore beginning to return to the city", the city shown is Canadian (Vancouver). The glass and metal structure in the lower left of the view is the Law Courts Building where my civil wedding took place under a waterfall.



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