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by alborzb 25d ago
Actually if you read your own link - the BBC is just saying that the Telegraph reported this. And the same BBC article says that the Telegraph reported it as "the power plant was shut down for four days", whereas on the other hand
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by alborzb 5mo ago
This just takes me a to a login page for Art19.com - is there something I'm missing here??
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by alborzb 7mo ago
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 people time searching it up
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by alborzb 11mo ago
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 voting in the Republic of Ireland - https://www.d
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by alborzb 1y ago
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... ] The UN estimat
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by alborzb 1y ago
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 particular type of age related vision cor
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by alborzb 1y ago
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 Spain ( https://www.t
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by alborzb 1y ago
>>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.theolivepress.es/spai
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by alborzb 1y ago
>> 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 Traveller (who originally reported this), One Mile at a
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by alborzb 1y ago
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!
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by alborzb 1y ago
Some would say that the difference is the USA (for now at least) has a free press?
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by alborzb 1y ago
>> 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 and even a handful of photographs that the Wright brothe
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by alborzb 2y ago
NYPD -- https://gothamist.com/news/city-settles-lawsuit-protesters-w...
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by alborzb 2y ago
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-nippon-trump-biden-steel...
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by alborzb 2y ago
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...
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by alborzb 2y ago
>> 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 ExxonMobile that was caught bribing government o
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by alborzb 2y ago
This reminds me of the CNN Lite website -- https://lite.cnn.com/
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by alborzb 2y ago
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
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by alborzb 2y ago
>>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... It seems the EcoSport is also dead ( https:/&#x2
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by alborzb 2y ago
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 hide where bodies go when "disposed" -- Here&
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by alborzb 2y ago
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-hurting-u-s-born... >&gt
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by alborzb 2y ago
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 website (with the product for sale) in the article... >&
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by alborzb 2y ago
It was this I believe -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40281699
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by alborzb 2y ago
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 lower cost of labor, both from the engineering
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by alborzb 3y ago
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 all recommended to me repeatedly, even though
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by alborzb 3y ago
> "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 people part-time would need to do health insur
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by alborzb 3y ago
>> People like you >> But please talk more about that evil right wing news outlet What on earth are you on about? "people like me" "evil right wing news" ?! I have not referenced anything as either right or l
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by alborzb 3y ago
>> recently a famous politician in the UK got de-banked partly out of his political views As a person in the UK, who is fairly in touch with the media industry. This is such a non-story. I just want to do my bit to fight disinformati
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by alborzb 4y ago
Airbnb does show full fees when showing prices on search pages in certain locations in Europe (and also Australia too).
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by alborzb 4y ago
> 2023 1 I'm not sure how 100% accurate that list is considering that it only lists SVB for 2023, but not Signature bank, NY that failed on the same day[1]. [1] https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases&#x2F

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