Because shrinkig the visual depiction of America and Europe makes some geopolitical hardons wither

You left out 'Trump" stamped on things too

The only reason other sites like Amazon, Google aren't doing it is because they hadn't thought of it yet.

Can they afford to use them? They cost a fortune don't they? They can't have many of them.

Russia is poor because their economy runs on graft. Everyone is on the take.

The next generation = the kids being born now.

Itâ(TM)s also a way to tie real life identity to virtual presence. Remember 10 or so years ago they tried to implement no more anonymous accounts, and it got shouted down? This is that again, but slower. The next generation wonâ(TM)t have ever had the anonymous internet.

When that much money is on the line, one person doesn't get to control it. It becomes design by committee, which dilutes any artistic endeavour. All the bits might be polished, but it's soulless. Indie games often have individual artistic control, and are made as passion projects,

Keep the serfs in their place. No looking for a better life.

Sounds suspiciously like China is attempting to build their own room of Spirit and Time. Didn't Bulma and Capsule Corp have a patent on that?

I consider a pizza 2-3 meals, depending on size, and Australian pizzas are much smaller than American.

Making the dough from scratch? The sauce? Culturing the cheese?

Depending on where you draw the line, making pizza is easy. I normally gone for a. Pre-made base. The rest is just chopping ingredients finely so they all cook evenly.

Speaking as someone on dialysis, with around 4% kidney function, salt does influence how much fluid you retain. Excess fluid load does raise your blood pressure.

It was hyperbole for effect.

The 'youth crime wave' in Victoria has been extensively documented. Melbourne has always been one for organised crime, but it's definitely trending lower age than previously. As to not big users of social media, have you even met a current teenager?

In Melbourne, the early adopters seem to have chosen car-jacking, home invasion and machete crime instead