Very informative thread from an engineer on the possible damage to the Kerch bridge
When I reviewed the damage for the Antonovski bridge, I remarked that the Kerch Strait bridge would constitute a more difficult challenge. That challenge has been accepted (by… someone) and the result is as good as we could expect, even though the bridge is repairable IMO (2/x)
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One obvious reason is that states doing nothing more than resisting invasion in a war of aggression are not escalating that war, however long they resist. Ukraine cannot reasonably be said to be escalating the war simply by refusing to capitulate.
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“What we learned is that they were leveraged long everywhere” is just a longer way of saying “oh no my apes”
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Why have Dems not simply thought of being more partisan and also winning 60% if the vote consistently? Easy peasy
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34-year-old on Twitter : “PAW Patrol is copaganda that reinforces America’s role as the global police force and indoctrinates a new generation of children into our collective military fetishization.”
34-year-old not on Twitter : “We’re redoing our bathroom.”
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I've been a first responder for ~6 years, most spent riding an ambulance. I figured going into it that I'd have some unique takeaways from the experience, but I didn't anticipate this understanding of how hard life can be for the less intelligent. xitter.cf/_NathanCulley_/status/…
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Perhaps @jkenney can launch an inquiry into what it certainly an operation receiving foreign funds.
This is very disconcerting - Large number of donations to support convoy came from aliases, unnamed donors | CBC News cbc.ca/news/politics/vaccine… #darkmoney
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I have exciting news: My newsletter is launching today! It's called Very Serious with Josh Barro and it's where you can find my incisive commentary on politics, business, the economy, and mayonnaise.
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This Court got something fundamentally wrong. It's a complicated issue. I will walk you through it.
Courts have a lot of power over parties to a lawsuit, including to restrict how information obtained within the lawsuit (i.e., in discovery) is used. 1/
Today's ruling in the Project Veritas v. NYT case is a monster lump of First Amendment coal. It not only stops the paper from publishing memos it obtained via reporting but also orders it to return and destroy physical and digital copies, respectively: nytimes.com/2021/12/24/busin…
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Personal news: I am going independent in the new year, with a new podcast and a new newsletter! I'll have newsletter details after the holidays, but you can already sign up for the new podcast, Very Serious with Josh Barro. Here's the Apple Podcasts link: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Cyle Larin on the conditions and the cold: "We all played in this weather when we were younger, it was nothing new to us...
"It was an advantage, the other team didn't like it. They weren't playing the way they wanted to play." #CanMNT
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Anyways, I am in what seems to be a super-minority camp of believing that vax mandates are probably a good idea but that the risks of no-mandate, given our current vax rate, are significantly overblown for almost everyone except the vax hesitant themselves.
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Even as @s_guilbeault claimed foreign streaming services don’t invest in Canadian productions during the Bill C-10 debate they keep on investing even if it doesn’t count for Cancon certification purposes. 1/3 xitter.cf/DeadlineNellie/status/…
Amazon Orders ‘The Lake’ Starring Jordan Gavaris, Julia Stiles & Madison Shamoun As First Scripted Canadian Series deadline.com/2021/08/amazon-…