China is the most underrated nation of WW2
Can Bitcoin ever really be green?: "A Cambridge University study concluded that the global network of Bitcoin “miners”—operating legions of computers that compete to unlock coins by solving increasingly difficult math problems—sucks about as much electricity annually as the nation of Argentina." qz.com/1982209/how-bitcoi…
New Zealand wants to ban cigarette sales to anyone born after 2004 as part of plan to make nation ‘smoke free’ by 2025 rt.com/news/521201-new-ze…
China has urged United Nations member states not to attend an event planned next week by Germany, the United States and Britain on the repression of Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang, according to a note seen by Reuters on Friday reuters.com/world/china/e…
U.S. birth and fertility rates in 2020 dropped to another record low - The U.S. birth rate is so low, the nation is “below replacement levels,” meaning more people die every day than are being born, the CDC said. cnbc.com/2021/05/05/us-bi…
President Joe Biden Approves Nation's First Major Offshore Wind Farm earther.gizmodo.com/presi…
The President of Israel is now using PragerU videos for propaganda. Evidently, the heads of nations have worse screening policies than management at Applebee's
Large pharmaceutical companies test drugs in dozens of foreign countries but often don't bother to make the drugs available to those nations once the drugs are approved in the US, a significant bioethics issue. Countries with lowest access to drugs tested on their residents were African countries. academictimes.com/big-pha…
Lithuania's President Says Nation 'Will Never Recognize' Russia's Crimea Annexation newsweek.com/lithuanias-p…
Canada’s Curve Lake First Nation lacks drinkable water: ‘Unacceptable in a country so rich’ theguardian.com/world/202…
Nation’s Imbeciles Lose Their Minds Over Fake News Biden Is Taking Their Red Meat Away vanityfair.com/news/2021/…
India Demands Rich Nations Like The U.S. Clean Up Their Climate Mess, Signaling A Shift | It’s time for developed countries responsible for most of the carbon in the air to not just cut emissions but remove them, India’s energy minister said. huffpost.com/entry/india-…
Texas ranks 9th in the nation in teen pregnancy. But lawmakers have neglected to pass a bill expanding CHIP to cover contraceptives. Colorado expanded coverage for birth control, & abortion fell by over 50%. If TX Republicans really gave a shit about reducing abortion, they would pass this.
Article about Texas failing to pass the bill.
Article about Colorado reducing abortions by 50% by offering contraception to teenagers.
Numbers don't lie.
If you give women, regardless of whether they are 16 or 38, access to affordable contraception.... the abortion rate will drop dramatically.
If Texas Republicans actually had interest in reducing abortions, they would pass this.
But they aren't interested in doing that -- it would take away their control, their biggest talking point, etc.
Report: China emissions exceed all developed nations combined bbc.com/news/world-asia-5…
B-17 Flying Fortress crew members Gus Palmer (left), and Horace Poolaw (right), citizens of the Kiowa nation stand near their aircraft in 1944.
Navajo Nation sending aid to India
U.S. reports fewer than 30,000 cases for five straight days, with the nation averaging 1.8 million daily vaccinations cnbc.com/2021/05/20/covid…
TIL of Elouise Cobell (“Yellow Bird Woman”) who founded the first Native American owned bank. As treasurer of the Blackfeet Nation she tried to resolve accounting discrepancies regarding leases on Indian Land which led to a $3.4 Billion dollar class action settlement against the US government. womenshistory.org/educati…
Made trail-mix of every nation for my students during the avatar final! v.redd.it/ntm9lioqnyz61
What is a British thing that other nations try to emulate but always miss the mark on?
I have been to self-proclaimed 'pubs' in other countries and it just isn't a pub. It's a bar, not a pub, but I'm never able to quite explain why that is to people from other countries.
EDIT: Republic of Ireland is the exception here.
The Blackfeet Nation in Montana gifted their surplus COVID-19 vaccines (750 doses) to nearby residents in Alberta, Canada. People drove for hours and lined up for miles on the highway to be vaccinated at a mobile clinic set up at the border crossing.
Navajo Nation has no COVID-related deaths for 7th day in row apnews.com/article/arizon…
The wholly undeserved rehabilitation of George W. Bush: All the former president needed to polish his reputation was Donald Trump — and a nation that overlooks the sins of powerful white men. bostonglobe.com/2021/04/2…
‘Go back to your teepees’: First Nations people protecting old growth forest on Vancouver Island say they were attacked by forestry workers aptnnews.ca/national-news…
Communist Prime Minister of Nepal , KP Oli refuses to oath in the name of god , instead of saying "In the name of god , nation and the countrymen" , he says "In the name of nation and the countrymen" . Big deal for a country with over 80% Hindus. youtu.be/Mf6MLSTrIoE
I went through every single Avatar: The Last Airbender episode frame-by-frame and counted/priced all of the damages that the Gaang cause the 4 nations over the series. Every spear broken, food eaten, ship sank, everything :) (mods removed last posts due to word count so here is the full google doc:) docs.google.com/document/…
Cardano is on a mission to make a difference for 53 African Nations itsblockchain.com/cardano…
U.S. reports fewer than 30,000 cases for five straight days, with the nation averaging 1.8 million daily vaccinations cnbc.com/2021/05/20/covid…
Richmond is no way the nations favourite sausage!
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Gaijin Please, Quality of Life Improvement; When player reaches the end of the line in a tech tree (top tier), depending with the nation, they would get a special popup along with background music. Here's an illustration of getting Challenger 2. (video for illustration) v.redd.it/277j9241i5071
"compared to every nation nowadays and ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY, they [cops] are literally the best of the best"
[Niners Nation] - Shanahan told Trey Lance to not get too upset when looking for houses in the Bay Area. "Don't be depressed after a few days. Happens to all of us." twitter.com/NinersNation/…
The NRA way of life is ruining our nation | Decades of gun propaganda has created a nation of sociopaths salon.com/2021/03/23/the-…
A senior Saudi official issued what was perceived to be a death threat against the independent United Nations investigator, Agnès Callamard, after her investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. theguardian.com/world/202…
Which allied nation do you think contributed the most in WW2
Navajo Nation president on Arizona's new voting restrictions: An 'assault' on our rights thehill.com/homenews/stat…
Denver donates bison to tribal nations to return animals to historical habitats thedenverchannel.com/news…
It will make glorious benefit for nation of Korea
Cannabis production is generating large amounts of gases that heat up Earth’s physical climate. Moving weed production from indoor facilities to greenhouses and the great outdoors would help to shrink the carbon footprint of the nation’s legal cannabis industry. nature.com/articles/d4158…
TIL we honeymooned in the fire nation
Guinness World Records Claims 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan' Is Longest Title For An Oscar-Nominated Film deadline.com/2021/03/guin…
3 days paid to Amazon by our glorious leader Ford Nation, the budget balancer.
‘An indescribable moment’: Indigenous nation in US has right to lands in Canada, court rules | Canada theguardian.com/world/202…
China recently became the second nation to successfully land a rover on Mars. This is how liberals responded.
When did it stop being acceptable to openly conquer other nations?
TIL Indonesia is the world’s largest island nation it contains thousands and thousands of islands. Indonesia has so many islands it has never been able to fully count or name them. Indonesia is embarking on an ambitious island census to count the islands and registering their names. bbc.com/news/world-asia-4…
Iceland is the fire nation
Bachelor Nation's Kaitlyn Bristowe and Jason Tartick Are Engaged eonline.com/news/1053661/…
Nobody Wants Rules in Space: Debris from a crashing Chinese rocket hurtling toward Earth and a Russian projectile-shooting spy satellite are the two examples of a big problem: too few rules governing how nations behave in space defenseone.com/technology…
