splinter

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[–] splinter@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

You made a claim first, so you should provide your citation first as well.

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How is it better? Several people have pointed out that standards of living in the United States are well below most developed nations. There US ranks 48th in the world in life expectancy, and 66th in the world in maternal mortality, behind Egypt, Ukraine, Lebanon, Romania, and… the Gaza Strip.

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The accusations date to 2010 and he gave up his citizenship in 2012.

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 22 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

You didn’t read story. The alleged crimes happened while he was still a US citizen.

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 26 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

They do not. For a given power input they produce less airflow at lower velocity than a regular fan. They’re a complete scam.

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 46 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Have you missed the last week of news? The funding was stripped out of the original budget, which had already gone through bipartisan negotiation and had support from both parties, because Trump and Elon Musk coerced their party into rejecting it.

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 32 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

The legislature creates the budget, not the presidency. And the legislature is controlled by Republicans.

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Netanyahu likes to watch

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

If true, that would still make it not quite as bad as Twitter.

Do you have citations to support any of your claims?

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is materially incorrect in multiple ways.

  1. The Economist’s reporting is widely recognized for its absence of bias.
  2. Leaders are not opinion pieces, they are brief overviews, hence why they seem like “truncated versions” of articles.
  3. The “snippets of opinion” to which you refer are reporting on public opinion. I thought that was obvious.
[–] splinter@lemm.ee 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This is false. It still has areas in which it could improve, but it is a thousand times better than twitter.

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago

Boo rockstar. That game’s mechanics were some of the most fun I ever experienced. It was absolutely crying out for a sequel.

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