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Comment · 2 months ago
Actually if you read your own link - the BBC is just saying that the Telegraph reported this.

And the same BBC article says that the Telegraph reported it as "the power plant was shut down for four days", whereas on the other hand, the UK Government DESNZ said it only "affected a small-scale generator" not even an entire power plant.

It's always difficult in these situations to read through the FUD and see what the truth is.

Comment · 6 months ago
This just takes me a to a login page for Art19.com - is there something I'm missing here??
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Comment · 1 year ago
I'm not sure why you're being down-voted... But here's two credible sources:

Reuters estimates the deaths at 60,000 [ https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-many-palestini... ]

The UN estimates it to be at about 65,000 [ https://www.ochaopt.org/content/reported-impact-snapshot-gaz... ]

Neither of which are around 600 thousand as the previous commenter posted. The French News Channel called France24 did a quick video explaining the current fake news that certain NGOs are spreading with misleading death counts -- https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20250624-...

Comment · 1 year ago
Vuity is just Pilocarpine -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilocarpine

Not something that is recommended for ordinary bad vision - as it mostly works to treat eye pressure (one particular type of age related vision correction).

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>> In all honesty all this thread is people complaining about something they don't have a clue about.

Considering that I saw the same uproar on 4 major travel blogs: Thrifty Traveller (who originally reported this), One Mile at a time, Enilria and View from the Wing.

I'd hardly call it people complaining about something they don't have a clue about.

This pricing practice of charging more for solo travellers is new, deceptive and even travel bloggers who are thought leaders are upset by this.

Comment · 1 year ago
Are you in Firefox? I just had the same loop of click allow all cookies over and over again until only necessary made it disappear!
Comment · 1 year ago
Some would say that the difference is the USA (for now at least) has a free press?
Comment · 1 year ago
>> He is credited with a powered hop of 11 m (36 ft) made on 18 March 1906

Revisionist History like this fascinates me.

It is very well documented, with written texts, witnesses and even a handful of photographs that the Wright brothers had functional manned aircraft 3 years prior in 1903...

Yet I've personally seen Romanian postal stamps that credit Vuia with "the first flight" for him managing to jump just 11m (36 ft) in a plane.

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