Ironically though, it seems I now know out what's going on: lots of individual users holding grievances against each other or staff as the resut of struggle sessions or mod actions.
Hi, I read some of the resources that were linked in the replies. I was taken aback by your claims at first and the medical journal article in particular gave a good explanation of the points about weight loss and ties to racism you made.
I stand on the opposite end of the spectrum: I'm naturally thin, work out and basically follow intuitive eating without realising it. So I felt a little awkward witnessing the mess down there, because I know that I have this privilege, that I still have prejudices inherited from my social upbringing and that biology is messy and often counterintuitive.
I probably will get things wrong from time to time, but I'll try my best not to, and to respond well to criticism if I do.
I guess what I want to say is thank you for making the post.
If I thought like one of those companies I would say:
Making room for a bigger battery, bigger cameras and stuff like a wireless charging coil that reliably gets good reviews,
Not enough people using them, so "a sacrifice I'm willing to make" to lower costs of production and reducing phone variants,
Declaring those features outdated and deciding that now is the time to force people to "upgrade" to built-in storage or cloud services,
Upselling built-in storage and wireless devices, establishing a walled garden and creating a more steady source of revenue,
Dumb shit like wanting the sides to be as seamless as possible
I find it ironic that AES gets lampooned for its lack of variety in consumer goods, meanwhile corporations are continuously killing off their more niche variants and reducing consumer choice.
On 21 September 2023, Telia, DNA, and Elisa, Finland's major mobile carriers, halted the sale of Xiaomi Technology products due to the company's ongoing business activities in Russia. This decision reflects the company's commitment to maintaining its operations in Russia despite the Ukraine invasion.
When [Chinese-Australian cartoonist] Badiucao learned he and Wang would appear in the same investigative TV program, he expressed his doubts to producers, but to no avail.
Badiucao says NPR's investigation helped keep the Chinese human rights movement honest.
"It's a relief that – basically – journalism proves itself: it has the capacity for self-correction," Badiucao says. "I think it restores my confidence in this line of work."
According to Wikipedia, they used the trident, which dates back to the Kievan Rus, "to demonstrate the continuity and interrelatedness of Russian and Ukrainian tradition". They made a big deal of presenting an inclusive image in regards to ethnic minorities.
There's also this:
William Blum has claimed in "Killing Hope" that the CIA worked with the Russian exile anti-communist group National Alliance of Russian Solidarists (NTS) in covert operations inside the Soviet Union. Blum claims the CIA covertly trained, equipped, armed and financed the NTS out of West Germany and secretly dropped their operatives as paratroopers into Soviet territory. From there, Blum claims these groups engaged in actions such as assassinations, stealing documents, derailing trains, wrecking bridges and sabotaging power plants and weapons factories. The Soviet Union claimed it caught about two dozen of these operatives, including a former Nazi collaborator, and subsequently had them executed.
On the other end you have YIMBYs who bootlick real estate developers and reduce everything to restrictive zoning and "build, build, build", dismissing concerns about gentrification, new housing just being bought up by speculators or it just being too expensive anyway. The urbanist Youtube channel "Oh the Urbanity!" is like this from my experience, though it was a long time ago since I last watched them.
For me housing supply and housing affordability are two related, but separate issues, because there are other factors than supply and demand that affect housing affordability.
I am lucky enough that I'm not that interested in high-specs AAA titles to begin with: of the 100+ games I've put on a DIY wishlist, I'd say less than 10 of them fall in this category. It's mostly indie/retro titles, older titles or mid-budget.
I heard once that it gets so bad in November in large part due to farmers in Punjab and such clearing their fields by burning the dead crops on it, something like that. Is that true?
Granted, I haven't played it myself yet, but Mega Man Star Force 2 is that for a lot of fans of that series. The first game already got a lukewarm reception because of how it was simultaneously "just more Battle Network" and "not simply more Battle Network", but it has a very heartfelt story and some people are turning around on it when they can judge it on its own merits instead of constant comparisons to Battle Network, which has better gameplay. It still sold a decent number of copies.
The second game basically killed whatever momentum the series had by then. The story got dumbed down significantly which made it feel even more like Battle Network (although it still has its moments), the space theme was lost to "lost civilisations" shenanigans that many fans weren't interested in, the gameplay changes were meh and you frequently had to navigate through a maze-like "Sky Wave" with a too high encounter rate. Sales numbers were well below expectations.
The third game has the best gameplay by far and a story close to or as good as the first game, but the damage was already done. It sold the least of the three games. But at least the series ended on a high note with very few loose ends.
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Geez, this place is a mess...