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Max Handler retweeted
The flip side is that Trump ran an awful campaign. He gave a terrible RNC speech, his VP was deeply unpopular, he lost the debate, he had no ground game to speak of, he offended key demographic groups ... and none of it mattered.
If Harris loses, there will be a lot of recriminations directed at her, but it's hard to point to any glaring mistakes that she made. She ran an excellent campaign.
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9 Oct 2024
100% this.
8 Oct 2024
The thing that has always annoyed me about this argument:
Cats are primarily killing small, common birds.
They aren’t receiving take permits from the U.S. government to kill golden eagles or California condors, which are endangered and highly protected.
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8 Oct 2024
I don’t want to hear anything else about the accelerating melting of Arctic sea ice. Predators actually kill far more mammals every year.
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8 Oct 2024
I cannot wait to make a chart of What Kills Mammals. I will use it to tell people should stop worrying about melting sea ice, since barely any mammals are at risk from that.
8 Oct 2024
I don’t want to hear anything else about wind turbines killing birds
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19 Sep 2024
Looking forward to breaking out the popcorn for @doctorvive rebuttal. Here are some predictions and prebuttals of what she will do:
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31 Aug 2024
100% this.
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24 Jul 2024
Using the word “birds” is unhelpful at best & deliberately misleading at worst. Cats and skyscrapers do not kill the same species that wind turbines do. This is like saying that we don’t have to worry about elephant poachers because cars kill far more mammals each year.
24 Jul 2024
OK people, let's just stop this right here!
the biggest killers of birds are CATS 🐈⬛
🏙️SKYSCRAPERS are next
wind turbines are ... last on the list 💚
✨Please RT✨
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20 Jul 2024
Yep. If you’re authoring or championing a study like this you’ve got to be either mendacious or ignorant. I am hard-pressed to believe that an energy researcher could actually be ignorant of all this, and so I’m left with one conclusion.
20 Jul 2024
Epic thread, full stop.
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Max Handler retweeted
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19 May 2024
of course I let my cat outdoors. all of gods creatures should be able to exercise their ancient instincts to contract raccoon herpes and then get hit by a car
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21 May 2024
To quote an demotivator poster: None of us is as dumb as all of us.
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Max Handler retweeted
22 Mar 2024
Greenpeace, once a noble organization that largely changed the world for the better, increasingly resembles Exxon, in that by now they very much know their product is deadly, but keep producing it anyway in order to maintain revenues.
20 Mar 2024
The Nuclear Energy Summit happening in Brussels tomorrow is a distraction from real climate action.
Nuclear power is too slow. Too expensive. Too dangerous.
There's no time for #NuclearFairyTales.
#NES2024
Community note
Characterizing nuclear as slow, expensive, dangerous is in conflict with following facts:
"slow": Latest reactor is Barakah. 5600 MW / 10 years. 560 MW /year. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barakah_n…
"dangerous": One of safest sources of energy: ourworldindata.org/safest-sources…
"expensive": Ontario finds only hydro is cheaper: ontario.ca/page/powering-… ...can be cheap
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Max Handler retweeted
25 Apr 2024
Greenpeace and its allies just won a court case in the Philippines blocking Golden Rice from reaching millions of vitamin A-deficient young children. If this isn't a crime against humanity, I don't know what is. Avoidable deaths could total 100,000s. More: spectator.co.uk/article/chil…
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7 Apr 2024
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7 Apr 2024
Vibe shift: something has happened at the traditionally anti-nuclear energy Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Max Handler retweeted
27 Mar 2024
It's been an insane week for AI.
Here are 9 massive changes happening around AI this week:
1/ Deepfakes are becoming indistinguishable from reality.
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Max Handler retweeted
14 Feb 2024
NEW: In my latest essay, I argue that opposition to seabed mineral harvesting too often grossly exaggerates enviro impacts, while seeking to ban a promising technology that could help reduce impacts from battery metals sourcing.
thebreakthrough.org/issues/e…
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Max Handler retweeted
7 Nov 2023
Polar regions warm faster than the rest of the world. This is happening now, and also happened millions of years ago when alligators and turtles used to live in the Arctic. Why?
New research by D Dutta, @DrJucker, @StevenSherwood4, A Sen Gupta, @KatrinJM, and J Zhu.
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Max Handler retweeted
23 Sep 2023
Finally: Biden to supply Kyiv with long-range ATACMS missiles after months of lobbying on.ft.com/3ENAWpO via @financialtimes
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Max Handler retweeted
11 Aug 2023
Thank you for your synergy in solutioning this high-level query by leveraging your expertise to curate innovative content of deliverables.
We're aligned & find these learnings strategic & empowering.
We will ping if we need to pivot & appreciate this impactful collaboration.
10 Aug 2023
What is the most overused word in your industry?
Let it out.
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