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It’s never the disgusting species — it’s always some disgusting bipedal animal with insufficient humanity.

For a minute there, the title fooled me into thinking the actual vessels were bypassing panama via rail…

TBH it’s not just reddit or social media: Internet’s per-view ad revenue is exactly what ruined traditional newspapers (ok, some where shit to begin with)

Whataboutism is the name of the game

State troopers who found the father-of-two’s body in his truck said there were no barriers or warning signs near the bridge.

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The lawsuit adds that Google had previously been notified about the collapse and several attempts had been made for the route information to be updated.

People should get their priorities right

Yeah… people should rewrite post titles for the context of this community, rather than reusing article titles verbatim

No idea as I’m not connected via comcast (I’m not even in the US).

Can you ping 9.9.9.9? Also, comparing traces (tracepath / traceroute) betwen 9.9.9.9 and some other host might give you insight on where the problem is

In case you wonder, this story is from Finland

Guys, please rewrite post titles for the context of this community (eg. indicating what nation we are talking about) rather than reporting the news article verbatim.

Absolutely! /s

TBH, the mods should change the sidebar from “News from around the world!” to something like “News that have international relevance”… otherwise we can’t really scold people who post curiosity stories.

your pro-consumer laws

Don’t those actually come from the EU?

The US have not signed the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, while Canada and most (all?) other western states have (Russia has not, BTW).

The peculiar stance of the US on this matter should not surprise since there are lots of international treaties that the US have not signed or ratified, including some that one might expect any “decent” nation to uphold [my opinion, of course], such as bans on anti-personnel mines and torture, the Kyoto protocol and many, many others treaties.

Notably, the US are the only nation that has yet to ratify the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child… 'nough said.