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  1. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 22 in ~news

  2. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 22 in ~news

  6. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 15 in ~news

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    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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  10. Comment on Creating an official politics group? in ~tildes

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    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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  11. 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
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    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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  12. Comment on Iran launches dozens of drones toward Israel in ~news

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    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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  13. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 8 in ~news

  16. Comment on Kyiv confirms Ukrainian drones destroyed six Russian planes at air base, as many as three sites blasted in ~news

  20. Comment on What's a game that you feel is almost great? in ~games

    KapteinB
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    spoiler I was about halfway through the game when I one day jumped a sky tower and noticed a dragon flying underneath me. When I flew close, it kinda looked like it was possible to land on the...

    Not sure what you mean with "what happened to Zelda", that wasn't really revealed until you got all the tears, was it?

    spoiler I was about halfway through the game when I one day jumped a sky tower and noticed a dragon flying underneath me. When I flew close, it kinda looked like it was possible to land on the dragon, so I did. And when I did, I noticed there was something on the dragon's neck that looked like it might be possible to interact with, so I did. And it turned out to be the Master Sword! Which unlocked the final memory, of how Zelda swallows the secret stone and turns into a dragon. It was an epic, spectacular moment, even more so because it was so unexpected. But I still think I would have enjoyed the overall game more if I'd done things in the "proper" order; getting the location of the Master Sword from the giant tree in Korok Forest after finding all the tears.
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