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robbinhood

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  • Ukraine agrees US minerals deal after Washington drops toughest demands

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  • Trump doesn't have to bluff anything. I've seen a few comments now suggesting that Zelenskyy somehow has the upper hand and is negotiating from a position of strength while Trump is weak.

    Ukraine and Zelenskyy have absolutely no leverage over Trump. Zip, notta.

    I hope Ukraine wins this war. I hope Putin pisses off Trump and Trump resumes full support for Ukraine. I hope Putin is destabilized and better leadership replaces him.

    But Zelenskyy is no position to "call" anything and Trump has no reason to bluff.

  • Ukraine agrees US minerals deal after Washington drops toughest demands

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  • If it's a fair deal for Ukraine and Trump sticks to it, who knows maybe this will turn out for the better. Yeah I'm skeptical but I want to see peace in Ukraine.

  • An unknown illness kills over 50 people in part of Congo with hours between symptoms and death

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  • It's a Plague Inc. joke. In this game, you're the virus/bacteria, or whatever other disease. You guide the virus's evolution with the aim to destroy humanity.

    The virus slowly spreads across the earth through planes, boats, etc.

    There are a few really isolated spots, including New Zealand, that are hard to get to and they often seal their borders very quickly. When that happens you lose.

    So the smart first step is to start the virus in one of the hard to reach places.

  • An unknown illness kills over 50 people in part of Congo with hours between symptoms and death

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  • Oh shit bro delete this. We don't need to be giving Trump any ideas.

    It's a bit of a toss up for me between staying in virus plagued USA or locating to Trump's new monarchy in Greenland.

  • An unknown illness kills over 50 people in part of Congo with hours between symptoms and death

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  • there have been legitimate concerns that the ongoing violence in the DRC could result in lab leaks and whatnot. I believe there are or at least once were some small lab outputs in DRC bush set up to help with monitoring for diseases.

  • Couple forced to sit next to dead body on plane for 4 hours after woman dies mid-flight

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  • I think it's more the nature of modern air craft. There isn't much spare room and space is extremely expensive on planes. Meanwhile, these deaths rarely occur.

    There's probably some way to design a system to secure a body in the bathroom, however, and I broadly agree with you that they should have some type of solution.

  • An unknown illness kills over 50 people in part of Congo with hours between symptoms and death

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  • Economic desperation and lack of education. Think back to how dumb humans were just like 400 years ago, which is what 20 generations or something? Essentially no grasp of diseases in the modern sense. We are biologically 99.9999% or whatever the same as them.

    Ebola spread during that ~2015 outbreak in large part because local customs meant washing the dead and otherwise being in close physical contact. Sadly, people simply didn't know better.

  • An unknown illness kills over 50 people in part of Congo with hours between symptoms and death

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  • Yeah but one of these days a virus is going to get smart and start up in New Zealand and Madagascar. Chuck in a long asymptomatic (edit: contagious period) and game over.

    Come to think of it, why haven't viruses done this yet? What are they, stupid?

  • Couple forced to sit next to dead body on plane for 4 hours after woman dies mid-flight

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  • I think the problem likely comes down to safety and respect for the dead.

    Put the body in the back galley and suddenly the plane hits rough turbulence and that body is now a +100 pound projectile.

    Putting the body in a bathroom seems better, but that turbulence hits and now the body is flying around in there during the rough turbulence, and then the next day the media is lambasting the air line for desecrating the body or whatever.

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    [meta] global elite spent hefty sums on escort parties during wef in daves revealed report (post 2/16)

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  • Prostitution is always a weird one for me. On one hand, I don't really care about these decisions between two (or more) adults. On the other hand, many and probably most people are forced into prostitution due to economic hardships (edit: and that's messed up and exploitive). But on yet another hand, cracking down on prostitution could cut off a crucial lifeline for many people facing dire economic straits.

    It'd be nice to live in a world without wanton exploitation. In such a world, yeah I'd just mind my own business without much extra thought.

  • Couple forced to sit next to dead body on plane for 4 hours after woman dies mid-flight

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  • If the flight wasn't full and they didn't allow them to move seats that's extremely messed up.

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    Trump suggests kicking Canada out of 5 eyes

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  • The headline is factually incorrect and I suspect intentionally inflammatory.

    A White House official has allegedly said this, and that official is an economist working on economic policies rather than military or intelligence.

    It's still scary and suggesting anything this extreme around Trump is a horrible idea because he is so impulsive.

    But, we need to be careful not to misconstrue or misrepresent things as doing so could give ammo to the Trump administration

  • Alarm as bird flu now ‘endemic in cows’ while Trump cuts staff and funding

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  • LMAO first time seeing this. Perfect.

  • More than 150,000 Canadians sign petition to revoke Musk’s citizenship

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  • had no idea he held canadian citizenship.

  • Eric Adams and NYC sue Trump over $80 million in FEMA migrant funds

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  • Well this is certainly an interesting development. Assuming Trump didn't give the green light (and I doubt he did, but who knows), Adams may be digging himself into a deep, deep hole. Happy to loan him a shovel btw. Keep working it.

  • Republicans just can't seem to condemn Trump's policy shift toward Putin

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  • Reagan would be rolling in his grave now. Given that he was one of the key players to pave the way for this, I'd laugh at the irony of it if, you know, it wasn't screwing the whole world over.

  • Alarm as bird flu now ‘endemic in cows’ while Trump cuts staff and funding

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  • Great point, and H5N1 can kill cats within like 24 hours (not sure if that's exposure or first symptoms). So, you're not paying close attention to your cat for even just a matter of hours, it dies, you don't know why, and just bury it.

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  • Raw catfood has infected some cats as well.

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    We Don’t Surrender: Merging Canada Into The U.S. Would Be Too Absurdly Difficult To Even Discuss

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  • Thank you. It's just so f'ing baffling how many people still think the right approach to Trump is to underestimate, ignore, or otherwise write him off. We know what happens when we do that. This lesson has been taught to us time and time again and it's carried Trump to the White House twice.