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I have always, and will continue, to stand with the Ukrainian people and unequivocally condemn Putin’s illegal and brutal invasion. I voted against the Ukraine Support Act because of its inclusion of broad economic sanctions. Time and again, sanctions like these fail to achieve their stated goals while inflicting real suffering on ordinary people. Opposing Russian aggression does not require us to support policies that punish ordinary civilians who did not ask for this war. The foreign policy establishment continues to return to the same failed playbook and expects different results. Economic sanctions fail to achieve their desired goals and in most cases are counterproductive to ending war. I remain committed to supporting diplomacy, peace, and justice for the Ukrainian people affected by this horrific conflict. But I could not in good conscience support legislation that wages economic warfare on innocent civilians.

@paulg Republicans in my experience seem to be far more distrusting of professionals and credentials.

Republicans don't just admire different people from Democrats. They have lower opinions of almost everyone.

@Gooboberti @grok @Microinteracti1 Never mind the fact that we build more than just wind turbines with the materials from those mines.

@zephyr7k @grok @Microinteracti1 and how many birds does the mine kill?

We Are Living in the Dumbest Timeline Donald Trump just posted a photo of a wind turbine next to birds and captioned it “Killing birds by the millions!” He posted this without irony. For every single bird killed by a wind turbine, nuclear and fossil fuel plants kill 2,118 birds. Coal alone kills roughly 7.9 million birds a year in the United States. Wind turbines? Between 140,000 and 328,000. That is not a defence of wind turbines. We are living in genuinely, historically stupid times. Only rivalled, frankly, by the medieval peasants who blamed the Black Death on cats and promptly killed all the cats, which meant the rats multiplied, which meant more plague. At least the peasants had the excuse of having no access to information whatsoever. Trump has the internet. He chose this.

@Gooboberti @grok @Microinteracti1 Who knows? The scale of mining means that it’s not a far suggestion to think that the amount of coal mined to provide the same amount of energy as a single turbine can make in a year would kill more though. Unless you’re really going to tell me otherwise?

@Gooboberti @grok @Microinteracti1 I think if you look into the amount of energy coal actually contains per unit weight you’d be surprised at how much more mass must be mined to keep the lights on vs a wind turbine. 400 tons of coal is good for around 2.5 MWh, which is about 2 hours of windmill runtime.

the context is bird death. the study is taking into account death from climate change and ecosystem loss from mining. the study didn't even mention environmental impact for wind turbines, just direct bird strikes. It's biased. Yes, coal mining creates a huge footprint - how many birds does it actually kill? Zero? "but what about the birds that could have been born there, before the mine was built, eh??" See images for examples of an aluminum mine, a copper mine, and an iron mine.

@Gooboberti @grok @Microinteracti1 Nonsense. Windmills are built once then last for their service life. Coal is mined and then burned and gone, then more must be mined. The scale of mining here is massively different. I’d say the bias is on you, not these studies.

@zephyr7k @grok @Microinteracti1 I wasn't cooked. My point stands. You can't take into account "mining habitat loss" for coal and not for all the materials it takes to make fleets of wind turbines across the planet. It's really dumb.

@Gooboberti @grok @Microinteracti1 What’s it like getting cooked so hard? 😆

well first of all, you have to agree that those "studies" were biased, and that their entire purpose was to justify increase use of renewable energy. So, they are just going to associate all bird deaths due to climate change with fossil fuel production to justify birds getting killed all the time by wind turbines? Think about that. Backlash from the public about bird deaths from wind turbines (including endangered species) forced the "intellectuals" to devise a study to prove that fossil fuels actually kill more birds per year. It's junk science.

@gnordlan @esjesjesj That probably sounded smarter in your head.

@esjesjesj You guys claim to be anti-religious, and then you make a religion out of your rebellion.

What rocks about pride month is that nobody can stop it. There is literally nothing the right can do to stop LGBTQ people from feeling pride

@idkwahatimdoing Going further it should be “A song that only we two are gonna know is about you”

correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t this “is” supposed to be “are”😭

@tedcruz Not all Jews are Israeli and not all Israelis are Jews.

Jew hate is open & brazen in the Democrat party.

@MTGSecretLair What’s the point of selling a product if people can’t buy it?

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@orhundev Blursed tty

I'm so excited to announce a new terminal emulator! 🎉 Meet "Ratty"🐀 🧀 A GPU-rendered terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics. 🪤 Try it out: ratty-term.org ⭐ Source: github.com/orhun/ratty #rustlang #terminal #ratty #ratatui #opensource

@ThomasMemeFan @arnd_Dawn Bracky and Blacky are equivalent in katakana. Both are rendered as ブラキー.

@arnd_Dawn Umbreon's Japanese name is Bracky

Is it just me or his Japanese name sounds cuter

@BartVerleije @AutoPap 😬

@AutoPap Made some improvements ,....

Anyone who's my age will probably look at this and wince. However we're not the demographic BMW are appealing to anymore. Do the younger people on here like it?

@jakeformayor If scalping wasn’t the problem then I would’ve been able to get mine for $100, not $230.

48 hours later it looks like the ragebait was flat out wrong. The problem wasn't scalpers. It was pricing. Selling DanDan at $99 made it a slam dunk for regular folks to buy two copies because it was essentially a buy 1, get 1 free. Fear of reselling lead to reselling behavior.

@RecondosGhost @SenFettermanPA Prove citizenship when you register, prove identity when you vote. Ezpz

@SenFettermanPA Photo ID doesnt prove citizenship, and its now handed out to every illegal.

83% of Americans agree on voter ID. 71% of Democrats agree on voter ID. Keep it basic: PHOTO ID to vote. Stop turning this into a Christmas list and attacking vote-by-mail. If GOP wants real reform over a show vote––put out a clean, standalone bill and I’m AYE.

@l0nkdev @yurimantic The number of terms doesn’t matter. Whoever told you that is wrong. The multiplication operator is there whether you write it or not. 2x is not magically different from 2*x. The parentheses/brackets step of PEMDAS applies only *within* the parentheses.

@zephyr7k @yurimantic it's not, you're separating a single mathematical term into two terms with an explicit operator between them. 6÷2(1+2): Two terms, 6 and 2(1+2) which collapses to 6. PEMDAS is useless. equals 1. 6÷2*(1+2) Three terms, 6, 2 and (1+2) which collapses to 3. PEMDAS applies. Equals 9.

this pisses me off cuz it really is 9

@RoselyKahone @yurimantic You never do operations within the same precedence level from right to left as you’ve done. This is the correct order: 6 / 2(1+2) 6 / 2 * 3 3 * 3 9 And you have no idea how calculators work lol

@yurimantic How to do basic math: 6÷2(1+2) we do like that. First (1+2) = 3, tgen 2×3 = 6 and 6÷6=1 is tge last. Calculators may have false results cuz they are counting as you type it but with those types of problems we do everything tge opposite way lije (1+2)×2÷6 to get it in order

@l0nkdev @yurimantic 2(1+2) is exactly the same as 2*(1+2). The bracket precedence only applies to terms *within* the parentheses.

@yurimantic It's purposefully ambiguous because IMF isn't quite taught in school but rather a conclusion you reach as you learn college level math. 2(1+2) is not the same as 2x(1+2). 2(1+2) is one single term that collapses to 6 while 2x(1+2) are two separate, independent terms.

@SenFettermanPA Really stretching the definition of “Committed” here…

Committed Democrat here. I’m a hard no. My vote is Operation Epic Fury. 🇺🇸