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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There were last night, which the Russians have since denied. Using very crude calculations (all ages US Stats) in a city of 580k indicate 85 pnemonia deaths per year as noise. Still not worried. Rumour mill is fun on this one (USSR bioweapon, GOF research)... sheesh. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Headline and Topline from CBC ariticle:

Russian health officials deny reports of 2nd plague death in Siberia
World Health Organization estimates public risk of Russia case to be low, based on what has been made known

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Doctor Who: The Green Death - it was the giant foot-long (30 cm) maggots.

Doctor Who, The Green Death.

30m long maggots crawl on a bed of plant material.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I find it interesting that the US Government's page for the text of the Insurrection Act is unavailable "under maintenance". (Plenty of other locations.)

Text of page: US House of Representatives.

Site is currently under maintenance

The site you requested is currently unavailable. Please visit the Clerk of the House to find your Representative’s or a committee's contact information.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

No more F-35 for anyone... If Trump violates interenational intellectual property law having US companies make these items, it invalidates all US I.P., like pharmaceuticals. All those expensive US drugs under patent projection, suddenly become public domain and anyone can make and sell generics.

A see-through representation of the US F-35, with some of the Canadian-made content indicated.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I do as well. September 12, NATO invoked Article 5, the only time it's happened. No request, it was just done.

Image Text:
"As US Ambassador to NATO on 9/11, the first to call me to suggest we invoke Article 5 was Canadian Ambassador David Wright. Our allies came to our rescue on that terrible day. I'll call David this morning 25 years later to thank him and our great neighbor Canada once again!'
-Nicholas Burns

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The story is inaccurate. Product labelling, as in what's on the food itself, is federal (CFIA), what's on the shelf is provincial. This is Ontario so the following applies. www.ontario.ca/page/regulat... It's progressive compliance (like CFIA), repeat offense increase severity of response.

Contact us
Please contact the Inspection Programs Unit by email at fpo.omafra@ontario.ca or call 1-877-424-1300 for more information about Ontario Regulation 119/11.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

That's going to kill F-35 construction for everyone. Canadian companies (not just divisions of US companies) provide essential components. If they break licensing/patent protections, US pharmaceuticals lose their protection in Canada and go generic (already threatened during Trump's first term).

A cutaway view of the US F-35, with indicators of components made in Canada.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I guess you missed the part about businesses are able to obtain remissions (exceptions) from the counter tariffs under certain circumstances. (They can apply retroactively within existing statutory framework.) www.canada.ca/en/departmen...

Text from Canada counter tariff remission page 2026-09-08:

In relation to requests for remission of the tariffs, the Government will consider requests for remission in the following instances:

To address situations where goods used as inputs cannot be sourced domestically, either on a national or regional basis, or reasonably from non-U.S. sources.

To address, on a case-by-case basis, other exceptional circumstances that could have severe adverse impacts on the Canadian economy.

Remission represents an exception to the rules by providing for relief of otherwise applicable duties. As such, in all instances above, the federal government will only consider remission where it is required to address exceptional and compelling circumstances that, from a public policy perspective, are found to outweigh the primary rationale behind the application of the tariffs.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Take picture and file a complaint with the Canadia Food Inspection Agency.

The CFIA said it wants Canadians to report products that they think are labelled in a misleading manner through its food complaint or concern web page.

“Canadians can learn more about how to identify Canadian food with our quick reference guide about the different words or symbols they may find while grocery shopping—some mean the food has Canadian content, while others mean it meets a Canadian standard for quality or organic content,” the CFIA said.

“For example, claims such as “Canadian Beef” tell you about the origin of the product. Whereas food grades such as “CANADA AAA” on beef establish product quality requirements (for example, maturity, colour, and marbling).”

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is a "sky is blue" study. The US is sliding into right wing authoritarianism, and anything extreme in the biaxial political spectrum is violent by nature. Smack in the non-radical liberal middle, the such things are inclusory by education, not force.

Biaxial political spectrum. Left to right is expanded to a up-down axis of authoritarian (top) vs anarchism (bottom). Liberalism is placed in the centre. A total of 29 "ism's" are placed in the array.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I've been watching Monday for a couple of days now. SPC has been close to or enclosing SW Ontario in the slight risk (15%) for the past 3 days. That's wind / hail / tornado. Lightning has never been a severe thunderstorm criteria either by ECCC or NWS. Probably should be.

NWS Storm Prediction Centre - Day 3 Severe Weather Outlook (2026-07-25)

NWS Storm Prediction Centre - Day 4 Severe Weather Outlook (2026-07-24)

NWS Storm Prediction Centre - Day 5 Severe Weather Outlook (2026-07-23)

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Area warnings are a relic of the past. NWS has been using storm based warnings since 2007. Respect the polygon.

Radar plot from April 14 2026, 22:41, KAPX Gaylor Mi, for the Traverse City / Cadillac MI agre,showing widespread precipitation, thunderstorm cell identification, stirn track, including a tornado vortex signature. A red polygon surounds it and ahead, 45 minutes in the warning's cone.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Tropical Storm Bertha may cause a lot of infrastructure damage. Traditionally several hundred line crews from utilities across Canada come to the rescue to restore power. That relationship is in tatters, help in doubt. FEMA is gutted. You may be on your own this time around.

Tropical Storm Bertha projected path as of 10AM CDT, July 21, 2026 with location, warnings and watches.

Due to changes at any time, please refer the National Hurrine Centre for current information at:

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2026/BERTHA.shtml?

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Trump isn't talking about the "next inauguration". He's talking about his coronation. THIS is Trump's dream, his own Hall of Mirrors. His proclamation as Emperor, his crowning, his throne room.

Proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor at the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles.

A large crowd of men in 19th century German dress uniforms stand before and beside Wilhelm of Prussia on a dais. In front in grey uniform is Otto Von Bismark.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

No, they're likely "real people", just from an overly amplified minority. The Trump era of "yell hate" mingled with social media anonymity has given rise to these hate-mongers spreading their sick-brained anti-social vitriol. Unrestricted bithright citizenship is not uniquely American.

Countries with birthright citizenship in 2026. Grey are countries without, red are 45 countries with restricted birthright citizenship, green are 36 countries with unrestricted birthright citzenship.

source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-with-birthright-citizenship

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Intersting perspective. Etymology is revealing, and exposes that "man" primary source is of the species not the gender (OE "mann" meaning person, "wer" and "wīf" were male and female), the use as gender specific is a later development.

God gesceop ða æt fruman twegen men, wer and wif
(then at the beginning, God created two human beings, man and woman)

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Found it!!! The first image is in Iran, the second is a stock photo if a C-130 with refuelling drogues deployed.

Two US helicopters flying in close formation to a C-130 Hercules over Iran
Source:
https://youtu.be/LxSaB2dhk4o

Stock image of C130 Hercules air tanker with drogues deployed.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Non-stealth fighters are insanely "bright" in infrared. Jets burn fuel. Stealth fighters also have plumes but use techniques to lower those temperatures. Passive: looking around a dark room. Active: looking around a dark room using a flashlight.

Infrared or heat images of various fighter jets.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The KC-135 loss was due to an "incident" with another KC-135. A brief look at KC-135 crashes during in air refuelling (IAR) ops involved larger aircraft (B-52, KC-135, etc), fixed boom type. Two big planes in close proximity is nuts. Gripen (and CF-18) use drogue.

Two aircraft flying at high altitude in close proximity. darker sky above, stars seen through thin atmosphere. Flat white of cloud tops far below.

The lead aircraft, a KC-135 Stratotanker, has a refueling boom, a long telescoping tube with two guiding winglets mid-way, lowered from the rear underside to the top of a B-52 Stratofortress bomber, just behind the cockpit.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Matt Groening never called himself a prophet. He just ran with the most absurd thing he could think of. 😆 Life imitates art.

Four panel montage in 2 x 2 layout. Trump in the Simpsons in 2000 on left, Trump in real life on right.

Top row, Trump desending escalator in Trump Tower, with a crowd above.

Bottom row, Trump speaking at a podium with blue rectangular Trump sign in front, US flags behind.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

About "putting it to the voters": If everyone remembers their grade-school civics course, you vote for your MP, not the party they belong to. look at thr ballot sample. Note the name is ephasized. Not the party / political affiliation

A sample of a Canadian Election Ballot.
It is black with a column of white rectangles with candidate names in bold and party affiliation below in smaller letters.
The second column are white circles, where the voter makes their mark.

Title: Canadian Election Ballot
Candidate Column:
Cabot, John
Political Affiliation / Appartenance politique
Cartier, Jacques
Appartenance politique / Political Affiliation
de Vercheres, Madeleine
Independent / Independent
Secord, Laura

Instructions to the right in the clear area:
You can X, check, or line, or you can fill the circle.
Marking more than one circle or marking outside the circle spoils your ballot.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

According to the Iranian FM, Americans already hit the desalinization plant on Qeshm Island. Some analysts have postulated that this is potentially one place where the US could place ground forces, due to it's location in the Strait of Hormuz.

Map of the Strait of Hormuz, Qeshm island highlighted, of strategic importance.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

If the idiots identified it as a IRGC base (faulty intel), it's a large building standing out. According to Wikipedia article (in alt text) it was struck THREE times. A missile doesn't "tap". (Image from google maps.)

Map from Wikipedia article:

On 28 February 2026, the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in Minab, Hormozgan province in southern Iran, was destroyed during the school day, reportedly being triple tapped by three missiles, amid the initial US-Israeli attacks against Iran in the 2026 Iran war. According to Iranian state media, 168–180 people were killed, the majority of whom were schoolchildren. The attack was the single most deadly airstrike in the ongoing bombing campaign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_airstrike

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Canadians agree. Story text in ALT. Source... angusreid.org/liberals-asc...

Hard line approach demanded by Canadians

Canadians’ appetite for capitulation when it comes to Trump’s threats has long been minimal. Consistently, fewer than two-in-five have said that making concessions to maintain the relationship is the preferred path. Currently, two-thirds say that they would have the Canadian government take a hard approach even if it means drawing the ire of Trump’s team.

As negotiations of a potential, but perhaps unlikely, renewal of the USMCA trade deal near, it’s worth noting how Canadians’ attitudes have changed compared to when that deal was first negotiated during Trump’s first term. Then Canadians were much more likely to say they wanted a soft approach to preserve the relationship between the two countries.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Remember Steven Miller's 100 million Americans... They all have to be of a certain pasty whiter shade of pale. source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Miller’s anti-immigrant zeal has at times exceeded even that of Trump. According to the New York Times, the president told a campaign meeting last year that if it was up to Miller, there would only be 100 million people living in the US – and all of them would look like Miller.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The black hose and water looks like a hydro jet system used to clear drains. Just search youtube for "drain cleaning". I won't share those because it is a bit gross and not suitable for those who are squeamish. Here's a cleaner pic.

A silver high pressure water jet attached to a blue hose, about to enter a drain.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

So Trump is having another tantrum. My answer is: Make America Go Away Trump threatens 100% tariffs o... www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

A red baseball cap on a white background, with a white maple leaf on the side and "Make America Go Away" in white embroidery.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

This is AI synthesized concept, a.k.a. "slop." The channel descriptor card shows:

⚠️ Disclaimer: Conway Media is an independent commentary and analysis channel and is not affiliated with George Conway or any organization associated with him. Our content is inspired by George Conway’s publicly available statements and perspectives and is presented for educational and analytical purposes only. We may use AI generated narration, visuals, or editing techniques to improve clarity and viewer engagement; these elements do not represent George Conway’s actual voice, likeness, or personal involvement. Captions and transcripts are provided to support accessibility. Our goal is to thoughtfully examine and expand upon publicly expressed ideas in a respectful and informative manner, without implying endorsement or direct association.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The "ray shadow" effect here is caused by the few high rises in Buffalo. The black pixels are specific "blocked" areas, or they show as bright spots.

NEXRAD from Buffalo NWS (KBUF) showing buildinf shadowing and "exclusions" black pixels from high return points.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Yes, but windmills exist over a larger area than a comparable urban area with high buildings. There's a blindspot behind it. This is current radar shot from Exeter.

Wx Radar image from ECCC Exeter (CASET), showing interference from wind turbunes

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Echoes of an early Tokyo Ghoul villain, Kureo Mado. Trump's less intelligent than the art work.

A disheveled, pop-eyed, white haired old man, dressed in a white coat, white shirt, red tie, smiles.
(Kureo Mado, CCG Ghoul Investigator, from animé version of Tokyo Ghoul.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Better headline... White House unable to get its lies straight.

CBC News Conflicting Headlines

1) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authorized 2nd strike on alleged drug vessel, White House says.

2) White House denies report U.S. ordered 'second strike' on already bombed alleged cartel boats.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I see "Let them eat cake" and raise you Donald-Marie Antoinette. Slicey slicey 🤪

French Queen Marie Antoinette with Donald Trump's face photoshopped on.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I can give some good news at least. Stooges Bar and Grill is outside of the fire zone (circled green).

Helicopter view of an area on fire in the industrial area south of Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport after the crash of a UPS MD-11 after take-off.
A green circle surrounds the location of Stooges Bar and Grill, outside of the fire zone.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

One of Trump's many "let them eat cake" moments.

A painting of Marie Antoinette, with Donald Trump's face photoshopped in.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

You too can buy a MAGA bot farm. Smarter and more compliant than the real thing. Prices start at $400 (plus tariffs).

Two views of a metallic computer enclosure box with fans. Inside the box are yellow printed circuits, mounted on a mother board.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Maga hats will be seen with the same revulsion as the Nazi swastika. It's no mistake when red was chosen.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Orwellian. Might as well include the long passage.

Passage from 1984, George Orwell

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. . . . The process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for committing thought-crime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. . . . Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

That's because their F35's aren't really submarines. Or are they?

A US Navy F-35C carrier based fighter floats in the ocean, surrounded by foamy water, before sinking...

glug
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

If anyone asks how the hell does someone who lives over a 1000 miles away know wtf those drop-in barriers are. I go by these every week or so at Lock 8, Port Colborne, ON, CA (Welland Canal). Same thing.

drop in steel water barriers north of Lock 8, Welland Canal, Port Colborne, ON, CA.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

They should put in surge gates at the lock, like on the Lake Ponchartrain (1) and Lake Borgne (2) ends. That way it uses the existing Mississippi flood defenses. The maintenance barriers (3) will do during construction but that's about it.

Storm surge navigation gate - Lake Ponchartain entrance to Inner Harbour Navigation Canal, New Orleans, LA.

Storm surge navigation gate, Lake Borgne entrance to Inner Harbour Navigation Canal, New Orleans, LA.

Maintenance Barriers, Industrial Canal Lock, New Orleans, LA

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

It's a change in procedure. Before de minimis, Incoterms were negotiable, normally recipient paid (DDU). De minimis made things duty free. Now no deminimis and customs forces DDP. Most mail services and carriers aren't set up for this and most vendors won't bother.

A table display of 2020 Incoterms, arrayed with which party is responsible for fees and services in international trade and shiping.

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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

That isn't the UNCLOS definition of piracy, and warships are immune. The key is "committed for private ends ... by a private ship". US isn't signatory to UNCLOS but USCode uses the definition. It's wrong but FIIK what statute and where it falls under. War crime? www.un.org/depts/los/co...

Article101

Definition of piracy

Piracy consists of any of the following acts:

(a) any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed:

(i) on the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft;

(ii) against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State;

(b) any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a ship or of an aircraft with knowledge of facts making it a pirate ship or aircraft;

(c) any act of inciting or of intentionally facilitating an act described in subparagraph (a) or (b)

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