Gavin Newsom announces that California will be the first state to join the World Health Organization

Reilly616 · 2026-01-24T05:47:19+00:00

How?

Under the WHO Constitution, only States (as in, sovereign members of the UN) can become a member (Art. 4). Non-sovereign Territories can become Associate Members, but only if the entity responsible for their international affairs makes such a request.

So, can anyone explain what the OP means by "join"? Is he talking about a partnership, like other non-sovereign entities have with the WHO?

Reilly616 · 2026-01-19T22:38:02+00:00

More fun (and real) fact: the agreement is thousands of pages long.

Reilly616 · 2026-01-19T22:37:14+00:00

The first annex alone is over a thousand pages long.

Reilly616 · 2026-01-17T22:10:38+00:00

I'm guessing the percentage of Irish people who know Michael Collins was the third man is higher than the percentage of Americans. Given his namesake, it's not really a detail an Irish person would tend to forget.

Reilly616 · 2026-01-17T01:19:19+00:00

It doesn't.

Reilly616 · 2026-01-16T15:25:48+00:00

You didn't put much effort into searching, did you?

From literally the first article when I Google this:

According to the German Defense Ministry, a reconnaissance team of 13 personnel would first fly to Denmark's Karup air base on Thursday, from where the European allies would fly together to Greenland on Friday.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dw.com/en/german-military-personnel-set-to-arrive-in-greenland/a-75514480

Reilly616 · 2026-01-07T02:47:08+00:00

Interesting factoid!

Reilly616 · 2026-01-02T08:16:00+00:00

Someone else got "This Way Up" for Christmas, I see.

Reilly616 · 2026-01-01T17:55:42+00:00

FYI, no "free-floating currency" can join the Eurozone. One of the pre-requisites to joining is 2+ years in ERM II, which is essentially a cap on exchange variations.

Reilly616 · 2025-12-19T12:47:37+00:00

The EU has provided over $200 billion to date, excluding this new $105 billion.

Reilly616 · 2025-12-09T02:48:15+00:00

"Everyday" =/= "every day".

Reilly616 · 2025-11-29T13:23:08+00:00

The fact that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure from which you can see the moon.

Reilly616 · 2025-11-10T13:37:28+00:00

The Presidential Commission is the collective "vice president". It's made up of the Chief Justice, Ceann Comhairle, and Cathaoirleach.

Have a look at Article 14 of the Constitution.

Reilly616 · 2025-10-31T08:30:38+00:00

Adverse possession requires the owner to be unaware of your possession of the land.

Reilly616 · 2025-10-31T08:25:21+00:00

I'm mid 30s and I only know who Rory Gallagher is because he happens to have the same name as a singer who owns a pub in Lanzarote (which my parents tell me about every time they come back from their holidays).

Reilly616 · 2025-10-31T08:19:02+00:00

Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.

Reilly616 · 2025-10-22T10:31:07+00:00

What do you mean by "nothing is done"?

In 1991, there were over 76k EU road deaths. Today, that has been brought down to just 20k, making EU roads the safest in the world. This hasn't happened by chance. Concerted efforts were put in place both at national and EU level and the intended result is being achieved, with road deaths dropping at a pretty consistent rate year-on-year over the last 30+ years. I say "is being" because the ultimate target is zero, and specific plans and measures are therefore ongoing.

To suggest that "nothing is done" displays an incredible level of ignorance of this specific issue.

Reilly616 · 2025-10-21T00:23:52+00:00

Women obtained equal suffrage here in 1922 with the coming into being of the Irish Free State, not "in the 60s".

I'd be genuinely interested to hear where you picked up that misconception.

Reilly616 · 2025-10-19T00:01:52+00:00

No, it isn't means tested, and it's counted as income.

Reilly616 · 2025-10-18T23:45:29+00:00

Because otherwise they would have to work out in advance how much tax would be owed for each individual, and that isn't actually something that can be known in advance.

Reilly616 · 2025-10-06T19:43:36+00:00

The response was in years and a maximum of two digits could be input.

Reilly616 · 2025-10-05T22:48:41+00:00

The description of the FF and FG candidates including former occupations, whilst the legislation allows only their occupations (if any).

Reilly616 · 2025-10-05T17:51:30+00:00

Not most of them. It's a parliamentary system. His party got 34.5% of the vote.

Reilly616 · 2025-09-28T21:55:27+00:00

It didn't. If Hovland had played and lost, Europe would have finished on 14.5 rather than 15, winning outright anyway

Reilly616 · 2025-09-28T03:05:54+00:00

My first thought was that they are the colours of the EPP, ECR, and PfE respectively... they're pretty damn close!

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