When the people are disappeared for showing the slightest discontent to their government, it’s no surprise anything you read in the news wouldn’t be trustworthy.

I doubt that this survey method would show a true result too.

It is not safe for women to exist in India. I saw other articles about a girl raped repeatedly by her brother and is now pregnant. With a quote I’ll paraphrase that said women used to only worry about men when going outside the house and this is no longer the case.

Totally. And we can’t do anything to improve the situation until there’s laws or regulations passed.

I wouldn’t plant from a seed, especially a tree or shrub.

Check to see if your state as a native plant society or you can start here: https://www.audubon.org/native-plants

That sums it up well.

I’m all for research, it’s good to have proven methods to say “hey, this is not healthy”. But this is a no brainer. I always assume that even a healthy option at a restaurant is worse (high fat, high salt, high added sugars) than anything I’d make myself.

Nobody is kidding themselves into thinking any of these places are healthy.

Personal project: trying to get OP-TEE to work on a rpi3. Seems like there’s some known issues in my way of success. It’s annoying. But once it’s working, I’ve got some experiments I’d like to try out.

Feeling very alone, lots of sting emotions this week. But I’m slowly turning it around and getting things completed. Rough week, and trying to stay kind to myself. I haven’t gone to the gym or been outside, and eating junk. Hard habits to break when I get into a funk.

It’s about time! POGOs are also home to China’s secret police. Horrid places. Hopefully they fight loopholes that could keep these places running.

International competition is really amazing, it can drive innovation and make governments spend a ton of money on good things for society. It’s probably one of the biggest pros.

But the US banning Chinese products (more than just cars) only delays the inevitable. China is producing cheaper products. Are they better? I can’t really answer that, since I don’t know. But I’d be willing to buy a Chinese EV. US auto industry would collapse if China was allowed to enter and honestly, we deserve it.

The US is going to go through a strange and difficult transition when we are no longer the world leader on R&D.

Gross. Can we start making fines meaningful? % of revenue maybe? I’m not an expert on this. But these fines should be more than enough to discourage behavior and not be “cost of doing business”.