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Allegedly, the radiation rate is rising in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Yesterday, after the heavy fights, Russian troops that arrived from Belarus seized control over the 🇺🇦 Chernobyl nuclear plant & took staff hostage.
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WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE https://t.co/8AundlRfzu
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UEFA, European soccer’s governing body, voted to move the Champions League final to Paris from St. Petersburg as punishment for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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So Germany has had low budget deficits for a long time, which has bought them ~nothing in a crisis while investments in domestic energy supply, insulation, alternative transportation, or military capacity would have been very useful right now.
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I am normally not a fan of the Why Not Both GIF, but I sincerely do not understand why the US cannot simultaneously ramp up domestic oil/gas production while also doubling down on heat pumps, induction stoves, EVs, transit, and zero-carbon electricity. https://t.co/8SlyeFVVla
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Congress should preempt state authority over interregional electricity transmission lines.
As far as I can tell neither Dems nor Republican leaders agree with the NIMBYs who block this stuff but it keeps getting blocked anyway.
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Now this is what I call stiff resistance.
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┴HפIN⅄qʞƆ∀H @root_nomad
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Taiwan Semiconductor, the world's largest manufacturer of computer chips, has halted deliveries to Russia.
Other chip makers likely to do same.
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Still curious about how those Turkish drones are faring.
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Oryx @oryxspioenkop
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Ukrainian man, punching Russian armoured vehicles with his bare fists.
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maksym.eristavi 🏳️🌈 @MaximEristavi
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@Noahpinion Minor point on the German nuclear power dismantling: IMO the crazier part is the slowdown of renewables. Just adding up WP numbers, there were 34GW of nuclear power at the time of the decision...
Now look at the number of new wind turbines built:
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I see versions of this talking point floating around. It has to be trolling. It can't be serious.
Our military is better-trained, better-led, more disciplined, and more lethal than the Russian military, and it's not remotely close.
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All these dudes who think that the U.S. military is weak and flabby now because it’s too interested in diversity or inclusion or wokeness should definitely go to a bar in San Clemente or Carlsbad tonight and tell some Marines from Pendleton that they’re a bunch of pussies.
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Posting is praxis!
But note the detailed result, it’s moderately-liberal content that persuades not far-left freakshow stuff https://t.co/2Tg7K2JXQq
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