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11 votes
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Virgin Galactic achieves space on SpaceShipTwo test flight
10 votes -
Instacart and Amazon-owned Whole Foods are parting ways
6 votes -
Russian spy pleads guilty to engaging in conspiracy against the United States
7 votes -
FBI kept files on peaceful climate change protesters
17 votes -
Troubled by lapses, government’s voice to the world (Voice of America) braces for new Trump management
6 votes -
Looking to cancel Amazon Prime for ethical reasons (and quality decline) - what are my alternatives for online shopping?
For the past few years, I've grown more and more uneasy with Amazon's business practices. I think it's time to move on. Not to mention the declining quality in products since international...
For the past few years, I've grown more and more uneasy with Amazon's business practices. I think it's time to move on. Not to mention the declining quality in products since international shippers were added (as discussed in the podcast Reply All).
I'm addicted to the convenience of 2 day shipping, even though we use Amazon less and less, I like knowing I have that option.
I've been considering a Costco membership instead - how does their online shopping and shipping times/prices compare?
I've also considered using Jet more but I don't know much about their ethics, does anyone?
Open to other alternatives and discussion about business ethics here.
33 votes -
Michael Cohen sentenced to three years in prison
28 votes -
Get Shorty - Anybody else watching this? This is the rare show that has gotten better with each season
6 votes -
Mystery blast sank the USS San Diego in 1918. New report reveals what happened
8 votes -
Kelly Slater’s Shock Wave
5 votes -
FFS - Collaborations Don't Work (2015)
4 votes -
NASA's Voyager 2 probe enters interstellar space
30 votes -
How the IRS was gutted
15 votes -
Madoff's victims are close to getting their $19 billion back
9 votes -
Dear US-Americans of Tildes, is West Virginia really that bad?
I am a Russian and recently I started to really like the song “Take Me Home, Country Roads”. I searched for images of things mentioned in the song, like Blue Ridge mountains and Shenandoah river,...
I am a Russian and recently I started to really like the song “Take Me Home, Country Roads”. I searched for images of things mentioned in the song, like Blue Ridge mountains and Shenandoah river, and they do look pretty. Definitely somewhere I would like to hike. I've also heard that the local BBQ is good, which is relevant to my interests.
At the same time, almost every time I see West Virginia mentioned on e.g. Reddit, there is always someone pointing out that WV is, for lack of a better term, a shithole. I've seen that occurring several times on several different subreddits. What is up with that? Is that just a thing where the people from one US state always feel the need to throw crap at other states? Are there economical reasons? Is it too conservative/racist/what-have-you?
Just in case, I am not trying to start something, I am genuinely curious, how can one place be called “almost heaven” by one group of people and at the same called a “shithole” by another.
35 votes -
Report details an assault on science at the Department of the Interior
8 votes -
Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on Data Collection
15 votes -
Motorcyclist wins $65,000 settlement after King County Sheriff's Deputy pulls gun on him
5 votes -
All the criminal charges to emerge so far from Robert Mueller's investigation
25 votes -
Economic Update: The Great American Purge
6 votes -
A brief history of US dirty wars in Central America that set the stage for the refugee crisis
4 votes -
Over a thousand absentee ballots possibly destroyed in controversial North Carolina House race
25 votes -
James Alex Fields found guilty of killing Heather Heyer during violent Charlottesville white nationalist rally
12 votes -
New Mueller filing says Trump’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen was in touch with a Russian seeking ‘political synergy’ with campaign
11 votes -
Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
19 votes -
Video Game Awards 2018
Winners recap here VODs: here
10 votes -
Why tips won. They’re outdated. They’re discriminatory. And they aren’t going anywhere.
15 votes -
China holding 800k Muslim minorities in internment camps
15 votes -
Confusion clouds restoration of Florida felons’ voting rights
11 votes -
Major for-profit college chain abruptly announces closure of dozens of schools
12 votes -
The story behind Ansel Adams’ iconic ‘Moonrise, Hernandez’
4 votes -
Drunk man shouts 'Heil Hitler, Heil Trump,' does Nazi salute during intermission of Baltimore performance of 'Fiddler on the Roof'
23 votes -
Wall Street rule for the #metoo era: Avoid women at all cost
25 votes -
Bear Ghost - Necromancin Dancin (2016)
4 votes -
New study shows Medicare-For-All savings likely 2.5x previous estimates
15 votes -
As US coal use drops to 1979 levels, EPA may ease rules on new coal plants
7 votes -
Canada arrests Huawei CFO. She faces US extradition for allegedly violating Iran sanctions
14 votes -
Launch of the Progressive International, November 30, 2018, Vermont
2 votes -
The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many southern whites still believe otherwise?
20 votes -
Lost lands? The American wilderness at risk in the Donald Trump era
11 votes -
A twenty-year-old is helping John McAfee's 2020 campaign team by teaching him how to shitpost about anime
25 votes -
He’s built an empire, with detained migrant children as the bricks
9 votes -
George H.W. Bush, 41st president of the United States, dies at 94
36 votes -
Monarch butterfly populations in the west are down an order of magnitude from last year
15 votes -
Is a do-over election incoming? North Carolina Republicans alleged to have committed major voter fraud
15 votes -
US House Democrats unveil their first bill in the majority: a sweeping anti-corruption proposal
26 votes -
Sheryl Sandberg asked Facebook staff to research George Soros
12 votes -
What should America do with its empty church buildings?
13 votes -
Fed says millennials are just like their parents. Only poorer.
13 votes