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"Do your own research" lol.
Facebook showed me something yesterday from New Jersey (I don't know why, I don't live there) where people were asking about a ship anchored offshore (it turned out it was salvaging a shipwreck). But the conversation naturally turned to the windmill farms that are planned for the coast there, and one woman was claiming they kill whales, which may or may not be true, but it was the first I heard of anything like that. Then she said, "Do your research and get informed." I clicked on her profile out of curiosity. Sure enough, it contained rantings about mask mandates and God.
Oh and this is the first result when I google "Windmill whales". Amazing what happens when someone actually does research.
Ah yes, the famous "flying whales" of New Jersey that leap out of the water and get decapitated by the windmill blades.
Yeah I was amused by the imagery. They do know that the blades of windmills don't go through the water, right?
I mean, a lot of them think the blades are producing the wind in the first place, so I wouldn't have any confidence to say what their knowledge level actually is.