I don’t see how switching to engineered wood somehow saves trees. It’s still wood, so it uses trees. But that’s not a bad thing — trees are much more sustainable than many other building materials. The real potential is in replacing not lumber but concrete, which is an environmental scourge.

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Is this the same owl that “had to be captured” because he wouldn’t know how to feed himself?

I hope he starts a family and sticks it to everyone that said he was toast. The sheer volume of mice and rats should supersize him —so long as he doesn’t eat a rat that consumed poison bait.

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The downvotes for asking legitimate questions make me think yall nod without asking questions. Shits weird.

We've been talking about the environmental impact for literal decades. Fossil fuels gotta go or we're all gonna die. Slowly. Horribly. Agonizingly. Stretched out over decades and centuries as the planet becomes a thick hot morass of death and decay.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool or a liar. Possibly both.

You can think renewables are ugly all you want, but I don't care. I'll bury everything you ever look at in solar panels. From here on out until the day the sun fucking dies I hope the only thing you ever see again is solar panels.

Not on top of the mountains. I get the energy lol behind the wind and solar movements, but I really don’t think we’ve spent enough time talking about the environmental impact. They are really ugly. Really ugly.

Gotta put them where the wind is. I guess that isn't obvious to you...

We can also plant more trees. That might also not be obvious to you...

Also the windmills. Wow. Nobody mentioned that those involve clear cutting mountain tops

Well I'm glad we're in agreement on installing more solar. Coal and oil fuck up the place too much to ignore.

Make way for beautiful solar to preserve the land and make the world green.

Except significant more energy goes into its production, and there are all sorts of chemicals associated with the glue.

Sure, it has its positives, but let's not overlook the shortcomings.

As if this whole "war" thing wasn't "mistreatment"...

The article seems to say the strength is compared to the strength of the same wood before treatment. At least that's the impression I got.

And you could use it for larger structures. I was just thinking about more efficiency with things like wider stud widths so you'd need less wood for the same wall.

He’s gonna go live in a sky scrapper around Central Park like the baller he is

I understand that, but they look healthier than I thought they could. I know one of the moms said they sent their kids to a health camp, which wasn't a health camp. I think I thought these children had been violently kidnapped.

The issue with that is that depending on their age they might just not even know! Trauma it's also a big memory eraser. I say this as a latinamerican, in my country under dictatorship children were stolen from their mothers in captivity and then sold to rich folk or military families. Most don't even know. It's also a complex issue, if those children are then rehomed, whether we like it or not, they'll be raised by someone else, bad or good guardian, they'll soak up the culture, the hate for Russia or the propaganda of it depending on the caretaker. It's incredibly fickle.

And I don't believe the russian institutions behind these would be careful enough to place them all in highly "trusted" homes either so.

What will probably happen in the end it's that you'll end up with a bunch of, knowingly or not, unwilling diaspora kids with a similar but not close enough culture.

The Rez schools were happening until very recently in Canada, and to this day despite the country’s fantastic PR, the indigenous in my country are still largely discriminated against, to the point they still to this day get turned away from hospitals in some places.

Also we have The Highway of Tears where indigenous women are murdered with depressing regularity.

And the worst part is I had to learn all this on my own, since they don’t teach us that.

Eagle owls or just owls in general?

RFE is what it is, but it doesn't need to spin facts for the last year thanks to Russian actions.

Oh, totally! I love it! :D

What are you? Long lost brother? Archnemesis?

Professor Thaddeus, is that you?

Probably happy because they’ll be reunited with their country and families

... and wish to erase Ukrainian culture and language off the face of the earth - hence the focus on murdering teachers, & destroying libraries and books: E.g. now destroying all Ukrainian language books in Mariupol

Those poor kids. I hope there are family counselors there to help them.