[-] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 64 points 9 months ago

Hillary's quote:

You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that.

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New Delhi, India CNN — Rescuers on Tuesday successfully drilled through to 41 men trapped inside a collapsed Himalayan tunnel, as a weekslong evacuation effort fraught with uncertainty enters its final stretch.

The men have been trapped since November 12 when the part of tunnel they were helping to construct in India’s northern Uttarakhand state gave way, blocking their only exit with more than 60 meters (200 feet) of broken rock, concrete and twisted metal.

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The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander, who was born in the third year of the 42nd Olympiad, or 610 BC, and who lived until c. 546 BC, was a polymath, lending his prodigious talents to the realms of pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, cosmology, and politics.

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A stabbing at a North Carolina high school on Monday left one student dead and another hospitalized, officials said.

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Let's face it, going to space is havoc on the human body. We evolved in an Earth environment, over hundreds of millions of years; so take away the Earth environment and things start going a little awry.

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Liftoff occurred at 11:20 p.m. ET on Nov. 27.

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The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the first treatment for people with desmoid tumors, a localized cancer that invades soft tissue and muscle.

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Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Ogsiveo (nirogacestat) tablets for adult patients with progressing desmoid tumors who require systemic treatment. Ogsiveo is the first drug to be approved for the treatment of patients with desmoid tumors, a rare subtype of soft tissue sarcomas.

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Talal Hasan, founder and CEO of carbon elimination company 44.01, talks net-zero targets and what it’s like working with a Bill Gates venture.

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  • Shein has confidentially filed to go public and is moving forward with its long-rumored IPO.
  • The retailer was last valued at $66 billion.
  • Shein has tapped Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley to be the lead underwriters on the offering.
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  • The new US stealth bomber may be taken by surprise by ultra-fast missiles coming from near space with the unpredictable ‘Qian Xuesen trajectory’
  • Beating the American bomber will be pivotal in any future conflict with China, as it has the potential to slip behind China’s core defence
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Under the economic plans, Czechs will pay more tax on alcohol and medicine. Businesses will also pay more corporate tax.

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The former first lady died last week at the age of 96.

[-] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 66 points 9 months ago

Yeah that was my first thought. I'm willing to bet the company declares bankruptcy soon.

[-] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 67 points 10 months ago

The very last line stuck out to me:

Markou, the grower, said of the tree-cutting. “You kill your own history here.”

[-] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 65 points 10 months ago

Hopefully someday it will be a federal law. I think disenfranchised voters ought to be able to sue the governors and\or attorneys general who removed them from the rolls.

[-] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 70 points 10 months ago

Do you have a source for Democrats purging legitimate voters in any systematic or politically nefarious way?

[-] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago

Do you have a source for Democrats purging voters?

[-] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 69 points 10 months ago

Well I personally think the real issue here is teachers graduating with too much debt and the fact that most teachers are forced to have some kind of second job in order to pay their debt, bills, & rent \ mortgage.

[-] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago

It is! It's unfortunate that Duolingo killed the volunteer program.

[-] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 58 points 10 months ago

She alleged that, after the company passed her over for a promotion to vice president that was given to a man who had neither applied nor was qualified and she filed her lawsuit

I can't imagine how frustrated she must have felt when they gave the position to someone who hadn't even applied.

[-] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 60 points 10 months ago

I think that the fact we're hearing about this is proof that Ukraine is fighting corruption in a meaningful way.

[-] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 59 points 11 months ago

Ahh yes the rarely used "jump off a bridge reversal" defense. If everyone jumped off a bridge would you do it too? Of course!

[-] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 55 points 11 months ago

You're of course 100% right. It looks like a cheap ploy to me though. McCarthy was not a friend to Democrats and he didn't kick Pelosi out of her office. It looks like either McHenry is trying to earn brownie points with the freedom caucus by beating up on Pelosi or maybe he's kicking her out of her larger office so he can use it as a bargaining chip to garner support for his run on the speakership.

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