-
5 votes
-
Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida with 155 MPH winds
42 votes -
‘Paper or plastic?’ will no longer be a choice at California grocery stores
32 votes -
Kyiv will not extend gas transit deal, Ukraine tells Slovakia
10 votes -
A lawmaker representing Greenland in Denmark's Parliament was asked to leave the podium of the assembly after she refused to translate her speech delivered in Greenlandic into Danish
19 votes -
More people than ever are trying to hack the US government--and they love it
11 votes -
Where environmentalists went wrong / It’s time for “effective environmentalism"
27 votes -
You're running for office on a somewhat petty, yet univerally-understood single issue. What is it?
Imagine that on the campaign posters, it will say your name and then this policy. For example: Vote for <your username> ... Rain boots for everyone. (No American / Englishman / Indian / etc....
Imagine that on the campaign posters, it will say your name and then this policy. For example:
Vote for <your username> ...
- Rain boots for everyone. (No American / Englishman / Indian / etc. should have soggy socks.)
- A Speedy DMV. (It should take 10 minutes to renew your license at the DMV.)
- Rice in every restaurant. (Rice is good with everything. At least some Asian KFCs will serve fried chicken with rice!)
It should resonate deeply with people, without the expectation that it should solve any of the deeper problems in life.
80 votes -
Robert Caro on the art of biography
5 votes -
Arkansas sues YouTube over claims it's fueling mental health crisis
16 votes -
Denmark became the world's first country to offer legal recognition of gay partnerships on 1 October 1989 – a day when "something shifted in human affairs"
13 votes -
Melting glaciers force Switzerland and Italy to redraw part of Alpine border
11 votes -
Massachusetts bill could fully legalize kei cars and override RMV ban
58 votes -
As the Taliban starts restricting men, too, some regret not speaking up sooner
52 votes -
UK music festival The Great Escape has withdrawn its partnership with the Faroe Islands after it was criticised for working with a country which allows “barbaric” whaling
8 votes -
Kentucky sues Express Scripts, alleging it had a role in the deadly opioid addiction crisis
15 votes -
The attempt to reform Intel
8 votes -
Comprehensive bipartisan plastics recycling bill tackles plastics pollution in US
27 votes -
Thai king signs same-sex marriage bill into law
45 votes -
How cities run dry
2 votes -
11th Circuit rules in favor of forced trans sterilization for drivers licenses in Alabama
23 votes -
Jessica Valenti (Abortion, Every Day) has a book coming out next week
5 votes -
The Ukrainian economy at war (2024) - Defence production, energy and endurance
6 votes -
Domestic abuse experts to be embedded in emergency response control rooms in England and Wales
11 votes -
Wisconsin towns are trying to limit Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. The Dairy industry is fighting back.
20 votes -
London saw a surprising benefit to fining high-polluting cars: More active kids
28 votes -
Norway sees electric cars outnumber petrol models – sovereign wealth fund cushion has made it possible for government to offer green incentives to motorists
11 votes -
Swedish government says excessive screen time is causing a severe health crisis for youth – new legislation in the works to require schools to ban access to digital devices
14 votes -
The carbon tax is good for Canadians. Why axe it?
17 votes -
Donald Trump is safe after Secret Service opened fire at suspect with firearm near his Florida golf club
48 votes -
NYPD officer lands $175K settlement over ‘courtesy cards’ that help drivers get out of traffic stops
54 votes -
It is time to do away with the empty recurring weekly threads
It's time to do away with the recurring weekly threads about US politics, about Israel and Palestine and other similar threads that clearly do not need weekly recurring threads. Those who do not...
It's time to do away with the recurring weekly threads about US politics, about Israel and Palestine and other similar threads that clearly do not need weekly recurring threads.
Those who do not wish to see topics on those events should unsubscribe from the relevant keywords for their own browsing, as all of us with other interests unsubscribe from those keywords.
There is no flood of this content that makes gathering things in weekly threads relevant.
No content is drowning on tildes, as no group has issues with too many posts.
It's uninviting to folks who are actually contributing submissions to the site to be told they shouldn't be making these, but should rather make them in empty, dead posts. That is not fair to them, nor is it a good look for the site.
These dead recurring threads should be done away with. They serve no function. The experiment has shown they are not needed, are not used and are simply auto-generated robotic clutter.
109 votes -
National Museum of Denmark is handing over an iconic cloak belonging to an indigenous group in Brazil at a ceremony being attended by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
14 votes -
Dutch will spend $2.7 billion on improving infrastructure to keep ASML
7 votes -
After this year's widely lauded Olympics in Paris, Denmark's capital announced it is exploring the possibility of hosting the international sporting event in 2036
19 votes -
Texas is close to adopting new oil and gas waste rules, first in decades
9 votes -
How a start-up utopia became a nightmare for Honduras: US investors are suing Honduras over special economic zones, and the dispute could bankrupt the country
22 votes -
China's Arctic dreams make the Norwegian port of Kirkenes a global prize – and an unlikely hotbed of East-West rivalry
6 votes -
We found North Korean engineers in our application pile
33 votes -
Greece cracks down on excessive tourism. Curbs on short-term rentals and cruise ship traffic could damage crucial sector, warns hospitality industry.
13 votes -
The Russian economy at war (2024) - Sanctions, growth, inflation and mounting risks
13 votes -
The games behind your government's next war
11 votes -
Russian banks say yuan coffers empty, urge central bank action, while Chinese banks in Russia are avoiding currency trading for fear of secondary Western sanctions
21 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of September 2
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...
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.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
8 votes -
The new Māori Queen: Kuini Nga wai hono i te po, 27, to succeed her father Kiingi Tuheitia as Māori monarch
22 votes -
Bethesda yanks Thatcher's Techbase Doom mod from in-game browser
36 votes -
Sweden has announced controversial plans to scrap its tax on airline tickets from 2025
6 votes -
Bipartisan group of 350 US city mayors commit to electrifying fleets and broadening EV charging infrastructure
18 votes -
US Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to invest $76 million closing legacy oil & gas wells in Pennsylvania
16 votes -
Sweden's immigrant hip-hop stars are redefining Swedishness – Muslim rappers are dominating the charts with music sharing the Swedish Muslim experience
7 votes