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Re:Improving ventilation will help curb SARS-CoV-2 by toast0 on Sunday May 30, 2021 @10:29PM (#27339377)
The ITU (a UN agency) helps solve the world problem of what country code to use to call countries, and coordinates new codes for new countries. If that's not a world problem, and it's not solved by the UN, I don't know what would satisfy you.

There have been very few wars since the UN was formed. Instead, we mostly have armed conflicts and military engagements, preventing many wars.

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Re:Improving ventilation will help curb SARS-CoV-2 by quickthrowman on Sunday May 30, 2021 @11:35PM (#27339781)
The UN hasn’t prevented war, nuclear weapons have. If your opponent has second-strike capability, starting a war is not a great idea.

https://youtu.be/xSVqLHghLpw

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Re:Improving ventilation will help curb SARS-CoV-2 by ralph84 on Monday May 31, 2021 @12:02AM (#27339952)
ITU predates the UN by almost a century. And if it had been left to ITU, the Internet as we know it wouldn't exist. Thank goodness for IANA and IETF.
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Re:Improving ventilation will help curb SARS-CoV-2 by KirillPanov on Monday May 31, 2021 @04:06AM (#27341482)
The ITU is more than twice as old as the UN.

It was around long before the UN, and in spite of being "adopted" by it, will be around long afterwards.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunicat...

Describing the ITU as "just a UN agency" is like describing the IETF as "just a recipient of donations from Google".

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Re:Improving ventilation will help curb SARS-CoV-2 by anoncake on Monday May 31, 2021 @10:34AM (#27344445)
> Instead, we mostly have armed conflicts and military engagements, preventing many wars.

What exactly is a war if not an armed conflict?

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