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EisFrei@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Republicans move to block Democratic effort to force release of Epstein files
5·4 months agoAnd yet all of them voted in favor of the release.
EisFrei@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"
3·5 months agoThe main rotor blades can take a surprising amount of abuse.
I found it even more surprising how much stuff can actually pass between the blades.
https://youtu.be/CiDqNRdxTO0
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World News@lemmy.world•What we know so far: Trump and Musk’s spectacular public blowup rocks WashingtonEnglish
3·5 months agoIt has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime.
What better place than here, what better time than now?
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News@lemmy.world•The fallout from Trump's war on Harvard will long outlast his presidency
24·6 months agoMy grandfather came from Poland and was a pow in Germany.
I hope Winston Churchill is English enough to quote.
Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.
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News@lemmy.world•The fallout from Trump's war on Harvard will long outlast his presidency
13·6 months agoThis account from 1946 says
Canada, of its own free will, entered the war in September 1939 because it then realized that Nazi Germany threatened the very existence of Western civilization.
https://www.historians.org/resource/what-was-canadas-role-in-world-war-ii/
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News@lemmy.world•The fallout from Trump's war on Harvard will long outlast his presidency
36·6 months agoGood point, actually.
Canada declared war on Germany in 1939, because it was the right thing to do.
The USA declared war on Japan two years later, the day after Pearl Harbor. Soon after, Germany and Italy declared war on the USA.
EisFrei@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•A long-abandoned US nuclear technology is making a comeback in China: A thorium-fueled reactor is the latest idea being revived after getting shelved in the mid-20th century.
3·6 months agoThe are about 450 nuclear power plants in operation. The number of plants built did not come up in my searches, but let’s say it was double that.
There were three full and two partial meltdowns in nuclear power plants.
That leaves us with a 0.5% chance of a meltdown per reactor.
I know the calculation is extremely simplified, but the risk is still too high for me.

I’m doing Eugene dirty, but he always comes to mind.
EisFrei@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Trump team reveals lack of expertise – and patience – as it threatens to abandon Ukraine peace talks
42·7 months ago“We abandon this task, not because it is easy; but because it is hard.”
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World News@lemmy.world•El Salvador blocks US senator from visiting wrongly deported Salvadoran manEnglish
12·7 months agoNot to make light of anything, but “isn’t huge”?
As of 11 June 2024, CECOT had a population of 14,532 inmates. With a capacity for 40,000 inmates, CECOT is the largest prison in Latin America and one of the largest in the world by prisoner capacity.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Confinement_Center
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News@lemmy.world•More than 60% of CEOs expect a recession in the next 6 months as tariff turmoil grows, survey says
1·7 months agoIt will be the Biden economy’s fault for sure.
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World News@lemmy.world•17 Teslas destroyed following blaze at Rome dealershipEnglish
12·8 months agohttps://www.versinetic.com/news-blog/debunking-ev-fire-myths-after-fremantle-highway-blaze/
The fire’s origin was eventually traced to the eighth deck of the 12-deck ship, far from the electric vehicle storage areas.
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News@lemmy.world•US cities located in states won by Trump would be most hurt by Canadian tariffs, an analysis finds
9·8 months agoSorry to disappoint, but each country can choose their own coin design and there are quite a few monarchs.
- Belgium
- Netherlands
- Spain
- Luxembourg
- Monaco
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News@lemmy.world•Woman strangled during overnight visit with her husband at a California prison
6·8 months agoThere are a lot of examples on this planet that say “never” without devolving into a cesspool of violence. Maybe take some inspiration from those places.
https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/25211.jpeg
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News@lemmy.world•Zelenskyy outlines his vision for peace talks, NATO's future and what he would say to Putin
16·9 months agoCurious that there is a gap in the Soviet legislative elections around 1940. I wonder why that is.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Legislative_elections_in_the_Soviet_Union
“Went to war” I see they lowered the price for antifreeze. Please stay off of it.
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News@lemmy.world•Bill Gates defends USAID’s work after meeting with Trump and White House chief of staff
2·9 months agoOf course there are donations, but that is not the point of the phrase.
There are no philanthropic billionaires, because they would have started giving away their wealth before even getting close to a billion.
All these people do is buying a little peace of mind.

Even better: If there is no pan/pot on top no heat is generated.