I don't think I'd consider OneCoin to be crypto. Certainly, it pretended to be, but with no blockchain and no ability to trade/exchange it doesn't seem to have been anything other than outright fraud.

I think a big reason for learning English is to be able to do business with British folk, who are notoriously reluctant to learn foreign languages.

...this kind of sucks for me.

For all the videos I've uploaded to my channel I only ever allow the overlay adverts - the other types intrude too much on the viewer, so I disable them in order to make the viewing experience better.

If the option for overlay ads is removed then I have the option of losing the bulk of my YT income, or changing all of my videos to use a more intrusive advert type which will just serve to annoy - and likely drive away - viewers.

It made me think of the crime of "going equipped to commit the offence of..." rather than "committing the offence of..."

If I were to be found in possession of such a phone then I'd need to provide a good excuse as to why I needed it. Similarly, if I were picked up in the early hours of the morning equipped with a mask, a crowbar and an empty sack marked "swag" I'd have some explaining to do.

Part of the problem of not enough houses is that too many people have multiple houses, thus denying other people of a place to live.

I live in a fairly rural area in the north east of England (for those who aren't aware, property prices in the north are generally less than those in the south)

There are lots of small villages where the vast majority of houses are owned by families from the south who bought them as relatively cheap weekend/holiday homes. They sit unoccupied for long stretches of time, and locals struggle to find properties when it's time for them to leave their parental home or move to a bigger property to raise a family.

Local businesses are dying as a result - local pubs, shops, etc. set up to support a year-round community of a few hundred are struggling to cope when for most of the time the local population is just a few dozen, as the vast majority of the houses are mostly-empty second homes.

The "U" in UFO stands for "Unidentified". For so long as a flying object is unidentified it cannot be classified as manmade or otherwise. If you can't identify what it is, then you can't identify what made it.

The same could be said of most companies who provide a service which is free of charge at the point of use

Given the choice between meat from a goat that's been raised organically and ethically with a good standard of welfare, versus something that has been through umpteen stages of processing to get viable food product from a plant, I'd take the former. Not pushing a pro-carnivore/anti-vegetarian agenda...I just worry about the ultra-processed nature of a lot of these plant-based alternative foodstuffs.

I'm not convinced about the whole controlled-by-an-app-on-a-smartphone thing. I live in a rural area with a lot of farmland and not a lot of mobile phone coverage, especially not a service able to support data. And that's been my experience in a lot of parts of the country (UK) - there's generally an inverse relationship between the amount of farmland and the availability of mobile network.

Not wanting to get into the debate about how evil (or not) meat-eating is, but it'd be interesting to pick up on the "unhealthy" issue. There are so many warnings about how unhealthy it is to eat heavily-processed foods, and it seems like a 3D printed plant-based pseudo-steak is a textbook example of a foodstuff that's been heavily processed. Just from a healthy vs unhealthy standpoint, I wonder how one of these compare against a "real" beef steak from a beast that's been organically raised and fed?

I can't say for certain exactly when it became a thing - you'd be better off asking one of the people who actually make and sell them... https://www.microwavetelemetry...

I think that an edit option any social media platform where people can interact and show preference for posts is a dangerous thing. For example, you send a tweet saying "I'm totally in favor or world peace", wait for it to get hundreds of likes, and then edit it to say "I think world peace is overrated and anyone who disagrees with me should be killed".. The likes, including the identities of those who liked the post persist against the edited version.

Be that as it may, this story isn't about Google - it's about another company under the parent company Alphabet

Maybe for a day or so until the battery runs flat and there's no means of recharging it in the post-apocalypse world

Don't cross the streams