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This just takes me a to a login page for Art19.com - is there something I'm missing here??

Incase anyone else is a wikipedia searcher like me, want to point out there's no 'R' in the historic colony. Acadia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadia Wanted to save other peop…

That's not true (as somebody who had to do this last year in 2024 because I was traveling in another country for work on election day) Here is the form to register for postal votin…

I'm not sure why you're being down-voted... But here's two credible sources: Reuters estimates the deaths at 60,000 [ https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-many-palestini..…

Vuity is just Pilocarpine -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilocarpine Not something that is recommended for ordinary bad vision - as it mostly works to treat eye pressure (one par…

It's interesting as it causes a divide amongst EBU members for Eurovision - besides Ireland (in OP), Iceland ( https://www.ruv.is/english/2025-09-09-iceland-may-not-take-p... ) and…

>>hope more countries join in By the looks of it, besides Ireland (in OP), Iceland ( https://www.ruv.is/english/2025-09-09-iceland-may-not-take-p... ) and Spain ( https://www.theol…

>> In all honesty all this thread is people complaining about something they don't have a clue about. Considering that I saw the same uproar on 4 major travel blogs: Thrifty Travel…

Are you in Firefox? I just had the same loop of click allow all cookies over and over again until only necessary made it disappear!

Some would say that the difference is the USA (for now at least) has a free press?

>> He is credited with a powered hop of 11 m (36 ft) made on 18 March 1906 Revisionist History like this fascinates me. It is very well documented, with written texts, witnesses an…

NYPD -- https://gothamist.com/news/city-settles-lawsuit-protesters-w...

This isn't a partizan issue despite your comment being a poor attempt at humor. Even Trump has repeatedly said he would block this deal -- https://apnews.com/article/us-steel-nippo…

Just to add to this point, in fact Chicago has increased spending by 50% yet test scores have kept decreasing -- https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-public-schools-is-spe...

>> US oil companies like ExxonMobile Is that the same ExxonMobile that was caught in a bribery corruption scandal in Liberia in Africa? [1] Or perhaps you're talking about the same…

This reminds me of the CNN Lite website -- https://lite.cnn.com/

Yes, it's a popular 'mileage-run' route. Aka a flight routing that frequent flyers take solely for the purposes of gaining more miles/status

>>Ford has no compact hatchback or sedan in the U.S., only the Brazilian built EcoSport. They killed all their cars in favour of CUVs and SUVs. Have I got some bad news for you... …

I'm not OP but John Oliver had a pretty good episode about hospitals, organ donation organisations and even non-profits, all benefit from a opaque system intentionally designed to …

Let's set the record straight. Here's an article that is well cited, with sources all linked within, from the Economic Policy Institute. https://www.epi.org/blog/immigrants-are-not…

Am I the only one who thought this article reads like an ad for the spyware software? It name drops them, advertises them (see quotes below) and even includes screenshots of their …

It was this I believe -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40281699

I can't answer most of your comment's questions, but to just answer the first point - it's about cost of labor. Tata motors are made in India. BYD is Chinese. Both involved much lo…

Wow that's wild, I'm not OP but I've also got this exact situation. I watched a couple of old Dave Chapelle clips and then suddenly had a bunch of videos from the Taylor Tomlinson …

> "part time jobs should have to come with the same benefits as full time, by law." All this does is eliminate more jobs. In your hypothetical scenario, a company that hires 2 or 3…