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The runner Fauja Singh, believed to be the oldest person to complete a marathon, has died in a road accident in India aged 114.

The athlete, who lived in Ilford in east London, was hit by a car and suffered fatal injuries while trying to cross a road in his birth village of Beas Pind, near Jalandhar in Punjab, on Monday, according to reports in India.

Come on, Guardian. "Accident?!" Notice the use of language in these cases. When the person killed is driving, that's a "crash." For example, "crash" was used to describe Kelvin Kiptum's (marathon record holder) death.

Off the top of my head, a couple more ultra-endurance athletes killed when hit by automobiles:

• Jure Robič - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jure_Robi%C4%8D, killed while training
• Bob Breedlove - https://web.archive.org/web/20221206061718/https://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/destinations/wrecked/, killed by a truck during the 2005 RAAM

[yellow is being tortured by pink, bound to a chair, sweating and bleeding, while pink holds pliers and smile smugly, showing a tooth has been extracted from yellow's mouth, yellow is shouting] HELP! HELP! I AM BEING TORTURED

[pink, smiling, talking to a cop, still holding the bloody pliers] He agreed to this when he accepted the terms and conditions and agreed to all the cookies

[orange cop, smiling back] Fair enough, that's on him then

https://thebad.website/comic/terms_and_conditions

In NYC, there is a very real discussion about the future of our "two" parties. The media likes to paint Cuomo as a centrist, when he's really a conservative. He's about the conservation of existing, and broken institutions. Meanwhile, Zohran is painted as an extremist. I personally view his ideas as pretty moderate and reasonable. Only in a distorted media landscape do you get people calling livable wages, and fresh ideas about how to keep grocery prices lower as "far-left."

I'm tired. I'm so tired of the present state of politics, and I'm ready for the future.

We're waiting for this crop of old politicians to retire so we can let new ideas into the space. The establishment democrats are holding back much, much needed change. They do absolutely nothing to protect democracy or human rights. They talk a big game, and fail to deliver. When the GOP is in power, they destroy human rights and defy the constitution and the will of the people. It's a forever ratchet right.

Out with the old, and in with the new. Let's primary these old ideas out.

Originally Posted By u/rb3po At 2025-07-15 10:50:33 AM | Source

I am a staunch anti capitalist. Capitalism allows the existence of corporations. Corporations have shareholders. Sharing = communism. I hate communism. Therefore, I hate capitalism.

I'm running behind the President in 2026. Do I have your vote?

An increase in vapes contaminated with synthetic drug Spice has led to secondary school children being rushed to hospital.

The lab-made drug which mimics the effects of cannabis but with much stronger consequences, can cause breathing problems, heart attacks and seizures.

Other symptoms include feeling dizzy, vomiting, heart racing, sweating, anxiety, and paranoia.

Police have warned of a national increase in vapes being contaminated with spice in secondary schools and in severe cases children have been taken to hospital.

Been over a decade since I was on any kind of Guild Wars hype train... looking forward to it!

The odds of a breakthrough to resolve trade frictions at next week’s EU-China summit in Beijing appear slim after China cut the planned two-day talks to a single day.

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The European Union's €400 billion ($467 billion) trade deficit with China is driving the dispute, fueled by restricted access to the Chinese market for EU producers. China's industrial policies favor domestic suppliers, who benefit from huge subsidies, access to government contracts and favorable regulations.

EU officials say these policies have caused significant overproduction, leading to the "dumping" of cheap Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) onto the EU market, harming the domestic auto sector.

"The scale of China's economy — the scale of subsidies, overcapacity and government intervention — is immense," Bachulska said, adding that, without "serious action" to protect Europe's auto industry, the EU risks "partial deindustrialization" within a few years.

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In April, the concerns about China's trade practices led the European Union to create an Import Surveillance Task Force to help protect the bloc's internal market, which could trigger EU anti-dumping duties or other safeguards.

The task force promptly noted an 8.2% increase in China's exports to the European Union in April, compared with the same month in 2024, which it attributed to Chinese exporters diverting US exports to the EU to avoid Trump's higher tariffs.

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Some EU observers see US President Donald Trump's tariffs, which helped upend decades of close trans-Atlantic relations, as an opportunity for the European Union to reset ties with the world's second-largest economy. Faced with major disruption to its US trade, they say China needs Europe more than ever and can be pushed to offer concessions during next week's summit.

"I think these voices are very naive," Bachulska said. "China has won the first round of the trade war with the US, and there is a strong feeling in Beijing that time is on their side" in negotiations with the EU.

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Some analysts say the European Union continues to underestimate the economic threat from China and has failed to adopt a tougher approach to counter some of the country's unfair trade practices.

"There's a tendency to sideline China-related issues in Europe because we just have so many things on our plates," Bachulska said, referring to the Ukraine war and the EU's trade dispute with Trump. "China seems just to be a geographically distant challenge ... [but] many of the impacts of Chinese policies are going to be felt in Europe very soon."

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olá. sou estadunidense mas aprendi português em 2023 por uma amiga que só falou um pouco de inglês. não conversamos mais porque nos afastamos com o tempo (acho que a mãe dela não gostou de mim e odiava que sou trans/bi) mas sei que a última vez que conversamos, ela falava inglês. realmente gosto da língua portuguesa e a língua espanhola também mas todos que conheço já falam inglês e não querem falar o espanhol/português.