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The article at one point says "No two members of the 26-man roster play on the same club team" about the USMNT. However, it seems that these two players both play for PSV Eindhoven…

> Canada honored its commitments. Two decades ago: "in 2006, NATO Defence Ministers agreed to commit a minimum of 2% of their GDP to defence spending." Canada has not remotely uphe…

Literally all of your comparison events are so newsworthy that they have individual Wikipedia articles.

TFA mentions that EFF continues to post on Facebook and Instagram.

Who is contractually obligated to buy?

> I explained that anything less than a progressive tax was going to make the poor pay more and the wealthy pay less. Here's a formally-verified proof in Lean that with a flat tax,…

Yup, this inspires great confidence in the source. > 10,109 ... left their jobs > departures outnumbered new hires last year by a ratio of 11 to one That means that there were ~919…

If you only eat it when you have a grandma that remembers how to make it, I would consider that the very definition of "traditional". And also interesting to hear about! (But yea, …

Previously in the United States, schools taught "all men are created equal" to people that could see that they weren't being treated that way. Similarly, today we teach the importa…

Of course this is just a snide remark that doesn't contribute to the conversation, but it can be interesting to dive deeper: For example, why don't the kids themselves have the rig…

Looking at the flagged comments throughout this thread, perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354759 is the closest to being flag-killed for a different opinion.

The Caspian pipeline you mention (CPC) goes through ... Russia. And CPC Blend again blends in Russian oil. So we find that, once again, Germany is buying "Kazakh" oil that is trans…

Here's a news story about how Druzhba supplies to Germany weren't particularly interrupted by recent attacks you may be alluding to: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germany…

Your parent comment is correct. Germany buys millions of tons of "Kazakh" oil via the Druzhba pipeline, arriving at the PCK refinery in Schwedt. This oil is "blended" with Russian …

> I've never seen 2k+ comments nor posts about other shootings on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42370622 (also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35448899 was even more…

What did she say?

B-29s dropped the atomic bombs. The B-29 project was also more expensive than the Manhattan project: > The $3 billion cost of design and production (equivalent to $52 billion in 20…

I did some minimal searching for Seattle and explosions in 2020 and I found plenty of sources reporting on different supposed explosions, at different times and places (within Seat…

From Wikipedia right now: 2024: Trump 77,302,580 2020: Trump 74,223,975

I'm intrigued as to which comment this was supposed to be a reply to, and how it got here.

For the reader curious why the woman in [0] didn't get permanent residency via marriage: > Milne was divorced from the nonimmigrant student she married prior to 1983. She then marr…

The study also doesn't include the successful suicides.

https://www.cpsc.gov/About-CPSC/Commissioner/Richard-Trumka/... https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/09/business/gas-stove-ban-federa... https://www.npr.org/2024/09/13/nx-s1-5003074/climate…

Suppose you actually had some data to back up your comments, and you made a graph for "blindness caused by measles" over time. Do you have any reason to believe it wouldn't look ju…

Some number of years ago, I looked at the map on this page and tried to find the eruv on the west side, near 14th St and a few streets below. My conclusion was the eruv wasn't ther…