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berlinerbaer

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  1. I'm shocked it made it to the floor. All of Republican leadership is functionally retarded. So with Scalise back it goes to 215-216. Still a loss. Maybe it'll take another 14 tries.
  2. We shouldn't be turning away anyone from the middle class, regardless of their country of origin. They are educated and have the skills we need. Most Chinese and Venezuelans are in this boat (sorry...)
  3. They will return fire. Are you comfortable with American casualties?
  4. Fuck Tucker, but he's right in that we don't want a war with Iran. I have no qualms about him calling out known warmongers. The proxies are fair game, if likely a futile exercise of whack-a-mole.
  5. "They" are a minority and still only get one vote, no matter how much they love him.
  6. All of you centrists and former Republicans seem to forget that turning out the base is priority #1 for any winning campaign. For environmentalism causes, this is up there with canning the Keystone XL. This matters even more to the millions of young people that have aged into voting since 2016 and 2020. Many of them are terrified of climate change and inaction from elected officials, real or perceived. At minimum, this will help Biden score some much needed points with this group after his approval of the oil expansion up in Alaska and the Gaza war. Getting voters from this cohort will outweigh any losses from other demographics.
  7. Maybe he's worse everywhere else than at Cal, a historical first.
  8. Aranda saw how a good offense turned down the temperature of Wilcox's seat and is looking for the same. Spav turned Cal's offense around this season once he settled on a QB.
  9. Minor point, but getting an IV drip is the norm for most hospital visits over there. It's like something patients expect and not a sign of anything out of the ordinary.
  10. Nice. Cal has scoreboard over Lil' Bro for the rest of eternity!
  11. When a battery is charged or discharged, ions such as Li+ need to flow through the battery from one electrode to the other to counterbalance each electron that flows through the circuit. This is a significant amount of mass transfer that needs to be fully reversible, which is a huge ask. Basically during use, one electrode is corroding away and new material is depositing at the other end. In order for this to be reversible, the ions have to be dislodged from their new location and find their way back to where they were before. Each atom takes up space, and the materials need to accommodate atoms moving in and out repeatedly. An ideal electrode works like a sponge soaking up ions during one direction of operation and releasing them in the other. That is a huge ask. Each electrode has a preferred state, either with or w/o ions, and will be less stable in the other state. During the less stable phase, the material will be prone to irreversible changes that reduce the overall capacity to accept ions. Maybe the material will change its bonding and lose its flexibility to accommodate the volume changes of ions moving in and out. Other times, it will find something else to react with. Most often, the metal oxide cathode is the weak point and responsible for the lifetime of most rechargeable batteries.
  12. Whatever. When presented the opportunity to enshrine a piece of progressive legislation into the fucking constitution, you take advantage without hesitation. Well done, Ohio.
  13. The Republican strategy for abortion is that they still have no strategy. There were talks from the VA state party about uniting behind a 16 week ban as a compromise, but there were some R pols in competitive races who were ducking the issue entirely. And then there's this dipshit. If the Rs have a good night, it's not because they have suddenly become coherent.
  14. I look forward to not having to drag the kids out of bed for school at 7 am in pitch darkness. I'd also rather not wait until a quarter to ten for fireworks to start on The 4th. #Teamstandardtime
  15. Rs and Ds cut a deal to bail each other out after Marjorie tried to get Tlaib censured.
  16. GOP is spiking the football already in Virginia because Youngkin has seemingly convinced GOP voters to go early. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-may-have-found-a-winning-election-strategy/ar-AA1jlq6z?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=cc41f88307b149e1b386d95d66646b7e&ei=18 45 day EV period? Why would anyone in VA vote on election day?
  17. Shen Yun is bankrolled by the Falun Gong, that pseudo-cult that took the mainland by storm back in the 90's, prompting a nasty crackdown by the CCP. Odd, because they learned all the same authoritarian tactics. They are not the good guys. FG also finances the Epoch Times, one of the more fucked up and Trump-ball-gargling of right-wing rags.
  18. FWIW their gen 5 fighter more closely resembles the Russian Su-57 than any of our stuff. Those homes aren't actually built to handle any long term occupancy. They exist because the construction and real estate industries are 30% of the Chinese economy and the people don't have any other options for stashing away their money. Whole 5 year-old subdivisions are falling apart.
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