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Millions forced to skip meals as UK cost of living crisis deepens
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
It's a good thing energy costs haven't skyrocketed in the UK. Because in that unlikely event, people might have to choice between death by exposure or death by starvation. -
I don't know about you but when I was a kid in primary school, I learned about something called the water cycle. And I learned that the reason it's called a cycle is that when water evaporates, it's not a one way trip. It actually returns to the land and the oceans as rain, snow, hail, sleet. You know, precipitation. The point being it doesn't just stay up in the atmosphere forever. NASA offers a site for children that explains this in some detail: https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/water-cycle
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Germany now confirms it WILL send 14 Leopard Tanks !
placeholder replied to Social Media's topic in World News
What exactly would stop Germany from sending existing battle tanks to Ukraine? You think Ukraine won't accept any tanks except those that are factory fresh? -
Classified documents from Biden’s time as VP discovered in private office
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
And, of course, this is your way of distracting from misleadingly representing the varying cases. It's not about "not as bad as" it's about criminality. -
Classified documents from Biden’s time as VP discovered in private office
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
A misleading partial quote from you. I was responding to this assertion: "Sounds like you are saying possessing classified docs is legal until one is caught. I'm no lawyer, but it sounds a false assertion." Obviously this was false and what better way to set this person straight than to cite the current overwhelmingly salient example. Not that that was on their mind in the least. -
Classified documents from Biden’s time as VP discovered in private office
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
It's the Trump people who keep on comparing these cases to Trump and claiming double standards. And it's not a matter of "not being as bad as Trump" but rather a question of criminality. As has been exhaustively pointed out, there is no evidence so far of criminality in the cases of Biden or Pence. No evidence that Biden or Pence defied their legal counsel, no evidence that they refused to return documents when requested by the govt, and no evidence that they obstructed justice by lying about possession of these documents. -
Sure. That's what we do here. When we have a question about the meaning of what some public figure says, we contact them directly to ask what they meant. In fact, we do it all the time in this forum because we know that those public figures will drop what they are doing to reply to us. If you think that this is the case, they why even bother commenting on it at all? Anyway, don't take it personally, but your comment is ridiculous.
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Classified documents from Biden’s time as VP discovered in private office
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
That really isn't the main legal problem. In fact, it's not a legal problem at all. It is a political problem. -
Former Top F.B.I. Official in New York Charged in Money Laundering
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
Maybe if you were a Republicans with a magic wand, you might be able to do that. Otherwise, there's a little thing called the Constitution that doesn't give you that authority. -
As the article notes these are the same rail and truck routes that have been supplying Ukraine all along. So far, the Russians have failed to interdict them. Not surprising, given their general incompetence. As other articles have noted, the Leopard 2 should be fully operational within 2 months at most.
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Wrong! "The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said the formation of the new iceberg was not due to climate change – which is accelerating the loss of sea ice in the Arctic and parts of Antarctica – but to a natural process called “calving”. “This calving event has been expected and is part of the natural behaviour of the Brunt Ice Shelf,” said BAS glaciologist Dominic Hodgson. “It is not linked to climate change.” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/25/giant-iceberg-breaks-off-near-antarctica-research-station#:~:text=The British Antarctic Survey (BAS,natural process called “calving”.
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It doesn't matter whether or not the iceberg is made of fresh water. What matter is whether its floating on the water or is located on land. When water turns to ice its volume increases by about 10%. So when it floats on water about 10% of the ice is above the water line. When it melts, it shrinks back again t0 90% of its former volume. So it's pretty much a wash, In more ways than one. On the other hand, these floating ice shelves are slows the motion of glaciers on dry land to the sea. So if these ice floating ice shelves melt or break apart more quickly, than the glaciers will flow faster into the sea. And that will raise sea levels. As it turn out, there is increased amount of relatively warm water that is undermining this ice shelf. So global warming is hastening glacial flow into the sea.
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Germany set to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, Der Spiegel reports
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
So according to your way of thinking the ukrainians should simply stay in place and leave the Russians with whatever Ukrainian territory they hold now?