You really can't make a categorical statement like that. I prefered living in an apartment because the housing density meant I had a grocery store, a farmer's market, and multiple other commercial hubs within walking distance. It also meant that street planning gave priority to public transport and pedestrians. There were plenty of jobs available within reasonable commute times. My neighbours gave me an easy-to-access network of people that you could befriend and somewhat rely on.

There's so many positives to living in an apartment that are pretty much direct effects of the denser housing.

If promoting a certain snake oil because you'll receive government favours, then it IS censorship, cf. all the Title IX unconstitutional enforcement following threats of pulling federal fundings.

In this case, GAFAMs are scared as can be from being "regulated".

> Making an official complaint to the appropriate government enforcement agency is the exact opposite of “vigilantism”.

You're right, it's straight delation.

> Why journalists don't call it as fraud?

Because those who write these laws are the same signing the journalists' paycheck.

> People want thin phones

[Citation needed]

My "thin" phone double in volume with the require case, so "thinness" is really a joke...

It is actually a pretty good system for the CCP "politburo".

Looks like there is a need of explanation for that term.

Politburo (= "Political Bureau") of Central Committee of Communist Party of Soviet Russia. Also, a Politburo member becomes The Chairman.

In a nutshell, ringleaders of ringleaders of Bolsheviks. *MUCH* more equal than the others, naturally.

Just the same situation as in Orwell's Oceania.

mnouquet talks about the Inner Party

"Mr Xi oversees the party and its 92 million members — that might sound huge compared to Australia’s population of 25 million, but it is less than 7 per cent of China’s 1.4 billion people."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-01/ccp-100-years-chinese...

Honestly, that article has some shit "play with your emotions!" bits in it too but there are facts to be gleaned.

Its actually much less innocent than it looks like. Add an additional 100-150M for Communist Youth, a subsidiary organization and 150-250M for Mao Judend, a subsidiary for kids. Its called totalitarianism for a reason.

> Upwards of 90% of the population of China are CCP members.

Over 90% of the population of China are CPC non-members (membership numbers I can find are consistently under 100 million).

100% are subject to rule by the Communist Party of China, though.

which is gonna be useless if the part require write-only firmware which you cannot extract from the original part, eg. macbook's SMC.

Southern BC is very much a desert and barely sees any snow in winter, yet negative temperature.

Source: I have family in Osoyoos.

Southern BC just barely qualifies as a desert (9.8" of annual rain in Osoyoos vs. 10" to qualify as a desert) ;)

But yeah Osoyoos is wildly similar in architecture/vibe to parts of AZ/NM.

> Southern BC just barely qualifies as a desert

Give it a decade or two?

Southern BC leeward of the mountains, that is.

On 10 July 1913, temperatures at the aptly named Furnace Creek area in the California desert reached a blistering 56.7°C (134.1°F).

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/move-over-death-vall....

Co-worker from Mumbai (yeah, here-say, I know) mentioned temperature up to 50C in the summer.

Mumbai is horrific because of the humidity on top of the high temperature. I’ve been there a couple of times, though never during a heat wave. I would not want to live there.