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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 22 in ~news
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 22 in ~news
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Spotify lowers artist royalties despite subscription price hike
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Toehider - Wellgivit (2020)
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All roads lead to Romania, as PM vows motorway to Moldova will open this year
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 15 in ~news
KapteinB House’s Ukraine, Israel aid package gains Biden’s support as Speaker Johnson fights to keep his job (AP News)House’s Ukraine, Israel aid package gains Biden’s support as Speaker Johnson fights to keep his job (AP News)
President Joe Biden said Wednesday he strongly supports a proposal from Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to provide aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending crucial bipartisan support to the precarious effort to approve $95 billion in funding for the U.S. allies this week.
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The great Serengeti land grab
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Russia's meat grinder soldiers - 50,000 confirmed dead
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‘My hoo haa is gonna be out’: US Olympians slam Nike for skimpy women’s track kit
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Comment on Creating an official politics group? in ~tildes
KapteinB We're explicitly encouraged to post US politics stuff in the weekly recurring thread. But a lot of users ignore this and post US politics stuff as new topics. Maybe the mods should start enforcing...We're explicitly encouraged to post US politics stuff in the weekly recurring thread.
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
But a lot of users ignore this and post US politics stuff as new topics. Maybe the mods should start enforcing this.
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Comment on Norwegian bridge collapsed ten years after it was built – all because designers focused too much on making it look good in ~engineering
KapteinB Was that not mentioned in this article originally? Maybe it was edited at some point. Final paragraph:Was that not mentioned in this article originally? Maybe it was edited at some point. Final paragraph:
At this time, projects in progress were permitted to work to the older regulations, and that’s exactly what the team behind the Tretten Bridge followed. The investigation touched on this as well, stating that “all the involved parties can be criticized” for their decision to work within outdated frameworks.
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Comment on Iran launches dozens of drones toward Israel in ~news
KapteinB Is it necessary, though? Let's say Iran got their hands on the schematics for a nuclear bomb from Russia or China. If they built it to spec, wouldn't they have a functioning nuclear weapon without...Nuclear testing is extremely easy to detect and essentially impossible to hide.
Is it necessary, though? Let's say Iran got their hands on the schematics for a nuclear bomb from Russia or China. If they built it to spec, wouldn't they have a functioning nuclear weapon without doing a single test?
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 8 in ~news
KapteinB Senate Republicans furious over Trump trying to derail FISA bill (The Hill) Already posted as its own topic, so the link is to the comment section.Senate Republicans furious over Trump trying to derail FISA bill (The Hill)
Already posted as its own topic, so the link is to the comment section.
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Chechnya 'bans music that is too fast or too slow'
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Myanmar military loses border town in another big defeat
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Comment on Kyiv confirms Ukrainian drones destroyed six Russian planes at air base, as many as three sites blasted in ~news
KapteinB Ukraine’s Drones Are Hunting Down Russia’s Best Fighter-Bombers At Their Base Deep Inside Russia (Forbes)Ukraine’s Drones Are Hunting Down Russia’s Best Fighter-Bombers At Their Base Deep Inside Russia (Forbes)
Struggling to shoot down Russian Sukhois in the air, the Ukrainians are targeting them on the ground
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Kyiv confirms Ukrainian drones destroyed six Russian planes at air base, as many as three sites blasted
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Hard rock band Kiss sells brand and songs for $300m
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German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
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Arizona indicts 18 in election interference case, including Giuliani and Meadows (AP News)