That is nothing new, look at Afghanistan.

Crocodile tears much.

I think Cottle means all the engineers at Meta have good intentions and I believe him. Its not the engineers whom I doubt its the managers, MBAs and CEOs I don't trust.

I think it is more about rage control than about loving or hating oneself. Like stopping yourself from chucking the laptop halfway across the room when it doesn't boot because you misspelled a variable in a config file.

He worked for 80-90 hours and built Infosys. What does the common man working for Infosys get on working for 70 hours. Is he getting compensated well for it, is he getting bonus more than his colleagues for the dedication. Is he getting any guarantee that when the time comes for his retirement or suspension his dedication to the company would be considered.

If not then then stop modern slavery.

I forgot to add

14. Removing content when it is not making enough money.
15. Ads

The article wonders why would anyone pirate, let us give him the reason:

1. Ads
2. Multiple streaming services costing many times more than food. With nothing to see except for re runs and rehashes of old content.
3. Ads
4. Rising prices for poor service and shit content.
5. Ads
6. Geoblocking
7. Ads
8. Low quality videos even if you are willing to pay just because you don't wish to use their specified player or browser. Why can't I stream it to VLC player without the overhead of a browser.
9. Ads
10. All the while the CEO and the executive of the companies raking in billions on the money they are saying charging us for the artists.

Cooling economic activity in Asia – especially China – might reverse this trend, making a replacement pattern similar to Europe and North America feasible.

So according to the article a problem created by rapid industrialization of the west has to be solved by a deindustrialization of the east.

I think it is a strong base with pOH of 7.

Take care, and concentrate on exercise and physio when advised. It will help you get back quickly.

We need to have an arm around them to just push them off the cliff. So telling.

Yes it is still a democracy, maybe a democrazy. There are no widespread voter suppression, disenfranchisement.

The most recent election has shown that.

There are some pockets of election tampering, violence but nowhere widespread.