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Has the Supreme Court gone rogue?
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"He Wrote All of it Down" - Prosecution has Weisselberg's Handwritten Notes, Spelling Out the Scheme
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Day 3 Of The Trump Trial. More Contempt, An AG In The Pocket And "This Story Is True"
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They Want a Right Wing DICTATORSHIP. This is Not Hyperbole. It's Just a Plain Fact.
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Here's a Summary of the Crimes Trump's Lawyer Tells the Supreme Court He Has Immunity to Commit
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McDougal said she was in love with Donald and believed he was in love with her (rather than..?)
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Ukraine Invasion Day 793: confirmed advances by both sides
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One underappreciated effect of the fake elector cases
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	I hate it when jet setting executives like to pretend they have special insights. They're such assholes.
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	NNadir is a liar and this diary is not techno babble.
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	NNadir is a liar and apparently he is too stupid to know the difference between methanol and DME.
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	NNadir you have failed to give the free energy of various intermediates in carbon dioxide reduction.
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	This diary would have benefitted from a broader discussion of electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide.
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	I have a special technology for the prevention of carbonization of electrodes in electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide, but I'm not telling you because it's proprietary.
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	The Japanese will not tell us about their sterically hindered ethanolamines for removing carbon dioxide. This is just like the time they wouldn't tell us how they made Godzilla.
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	Exxon won't tell us how to remove carbon dioxide from waste streams because to do so would be to acknowledge climate change.
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	Greenpeace.
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	This diary fails to discuss the kinetic perfection of the enzyme carbonic anhydrase.
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	RuBisCO is a crappy catalyst, and I can't believe that it is still in use in all living systems after billions of years.
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	This diary is not techno babble. It's just babble.
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	It sounds like it may be reasonable to use carbon dioxide separation technology for something other than sequestration.
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	If King Kong had better RuBisCO, he would have gotten up the Empire State Building faster, well before the biplanes could get to him.
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