Gneiss
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Gneiss
@gneiss
Father, husband, Kiwi, earth scientist 🇳🇿
Wellington City, New Zealand Katılım Ağustos 2014
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‘Mumpsimus’, 16th century: one who insists that they are right (or wronged) when all evidence points to the contrary.
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@mehdirhasan Frum completely lost perspective after Oct 7. Needs a brain worm check
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Washington DC in a nutshell. One of the architects of the biggest foreign policy failure in modern American history is still around 20 years later giving lectures on foreign policy “success” to others.
David Frum@davidfrum
I often think the Biden foreign policy would produce more success if its architects were less clever. "Give the Ukrainians/Israelis enough that they don't lose, but not enough to win" is an idea to baffle all lesser minds.
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I often think the Biden foreign policy would produce more success if its architects were less clever. "Give the Ukrainians/Israelis enough that they don't lose, but not enough to win" is an idea to baffle all lesser minds.
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I’ll never vote for Trump. And I’m still all in for Biden. But all of us in this uneasy Biden coalition - from lefty to NeverTrumper - have a red line. And if Biden keeps separating from Israel, he’ll cross my red line. I hope he doesn’t. Watch here.👇 m.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJyeu…
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@FPWellman I’m hoping Ole Miss DT Zxavian Harris finds him and has a quiet chat
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I am sure we are going to hear that he's a good boy and this was misinterpreted. I expect him to join the Charlie Kirk circuit by mid-summer.
Alex Cole@acnewsitics
The face of racism. Here is one of the guys from the Ole Miss video making monkey sounds towards a black woman. No child is born with hate. Hate is taught.
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With all the arrests and crackdowns in Austin, TX, today, a reminder that conservatives revel in authoritarianism and that those liberal media folks who indulged the idea all these years that conservatives cared about free speech or were against cancel culture were naive fools.
Greg Price@greg_price11
Pro Hamas idiots at UT Austin discover what happens why you try to pull a Columbia in Texas
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“What else do we call this other than the deliberate dehumanization of the Palestinian people?”
I called out media bias and racism, on Gaza, and brought receipts!, in the opening monologue of my new show #MehdiUnfiltered today.
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@radjanirad Not luck, science. People interested in seeing and photographing aurora follow accounts that watch data from solar activity and post helpful information like this. It’s actually far more accurate than monitoring volcanoes giving you an increased chance of seeing moving lava.
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I've come to realize that northern lights, like active lava, sightings are a game of luck and chance. We were lucky to catch this single glimpse in the 70 hours we spent in polar night! From Svalbard on Sunday Jan 7 at 5 pm. Samsung galaxy S22, no special modes y'all...
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I’ve never read Newton, so this certainly could be way off. But when I see sentences like “Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors,” followed by a bad argument against atheism, my suspicious antennae go up.
Physics In History@PhysInHistory
Sir Isaac Newton's argument against atheism ✍️ Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds beasts & men have their right side & left side alike shaped (except in their bowels) & just two eyes & no more on either side the face & just two ears on either side the head & a nose with two holes & no more between the eyes & one mouth under the nose & either two fore leggs or two wings or two arms on the sholders & two leggs on the hipps one on either side & no more? Whence arises this uniformity in all their outward shapes but from the counsel & contrivance of an Author? Whence is it that the eyes of all sorts of living creatures are transparent to the very bottom & the only transparent members in the body, having on the outside an hard transparent skin, & within transparent juyces with a crystalline Lens in the middle & a pupil before the Lens all of them so truly shaped & fitted for vision, that no Artist can mend them? Did blind chance know that there was light & what was its refraction & fit the eys of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These & such like considerations always have & ever will prevail with man kind to believe that there is a being who made all things & has all things in his power & who is therfore to be feared. -- as mentioned in "A short Schem of the true Religion" 📷 a copy of Newton's painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller (1689)
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@JuliusGoat Just don’t update the app. Mine’s still Twitter, still has the bird logo, and I still have the Latest or Home options for my feed.
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I 100% believe that without discussion we all already decided this.
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@juliettekayyem Hi from the world’s windiest city, Wellington. We never have to power down our electrical wires. Is there a design flaw in the US? I see power lines being blamed in California fires occasionally too.
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In Maui, a first narrative -- massive fire caused by Dora's winds -- glosses over causation. This wasn't arson or an errant cigarette. If the fire started by electrical wires that weren't powered down in anticipation of the wind, then it is human error and correctable. #failsafer
Juliette Kayyem@juliettekayyem
We create narratives about disasters that make them seem unmanageable or random or just a fluke or the nature of life. It is so often not true. Yes, mitigate climate change, but also learn from past disasters (CA required power down plans) to do better, fail safer.
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The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.
Harry Litman@harrylitman
As we await charges in Fulton County -- likely w/in days -- @cnn reports that the incursion into computers in Coffee County GA was a top down move from high in the campaign, probably Giuliani/Powell level. Multiple crimes there and ham-handed conduct reminiscent of Watergate. Looking forward to discussing on @CNN newsroom w/@FWhitfield at 4 PM ET.
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Early adopters fueled the initial spike in electric vehicle sales, but the next wave of consumers — the more price-sensitive "early majority" — is proving to be more elusive. trib.al/l4lOhmz
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Must-read thread!
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣@rahmstorf
Here's a thread in pictures about the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC which is making headlines this week. I've studied this topic since 1991 and will show key data and models & some video. Let's go: observed temperature trend since 1901 from nature.com/articles/nclim… 🧵1/x
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@past_is_future He’s has changed the modern time period each time to show the warming. It’s reflecting the data. The increase shows the increasing change in modern times
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What is the first GIF that comes up when you search for your name
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@RobertMaguire_ Your country is always looking for a fight, always wanting a win. If not fighting externally, then fighting internally (often both). 24 hr news cycles always putting people on alert. Need to turn down the temperature.
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@KevinMKruse Quick, close the replies off before you get an “I know you are, but what am I?” 😂
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@MichaelEMann I had a real life interaction with one last week. He tried sunspots, volcanoes, what happened to global cooling, medieval warm period, CO2 is good for plants etc. I shut down each one with evidence and he walked off in his cloud of ignorance. There’s no getting to these people.
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No, it's not all professional trolls and bot army programmers. They're just the ones getting paid for manufacturing the dung. What's more pathetic are the ignorant hordes who feed willingly on it and spread it for free.
Prof Michael E. Mann@MichaelEMann
The only question is who is behind it? Russia, Saudi Arabia, sure. But dark money groups and fossil fuel front groups as well.
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