For a republic, your head honcho sure is acting a lot like a king (you know, monarchy, ... the opposite of a republic).

That is true. India is being destroyed from within and it is being destroyed by radical Hindus who are pushing policies which make zero sense and constantly harping on some mythological past where India was the greatest country on Earth implying always that its descent from that position was primarily because people from other religions and cultures came into the country.

This group of radicals - which includes the prime minister and his colleagues, have destroyed every single institution in the country with their pseudo science and fake history. They have also plundered the nation and have manipulated all data and statistics to the point where not many experts believe the numbers the Indian government gives out for everything from GDP, to crime statistics, to poverty statistics etc.

How about deporting him for lying on his citizenship application?

He entered the US on a student visa, didn't enrol or undertake studies (the purpose behind being on a student visa) and focused on his start up instead.

Clear violation of his visa terms. But because he's famous with money and has been perceived as an entrepreneur he's been able to avoid the same consequences as other people who have violated similar visa terms, i.e. citizenship stripped (as it was fraudulently obtained) and deported.

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I have no dog in this race though as I'm not a US citizen, nor do I live in the US. In fact it's quite funny to see the US speed run an empire collapse. I just hope it happens without an all-out war outside US borders.

I had kidney stones when I was living in the UK.

At just past midnight I went to A&E with excruciating pain in my abdomen.

Within 2 hours, I was in an MRI machine where they noticed a kidney stone blocking the ureter.

I was then scheduled for an ultrasonic procedure to break up the kidney stones to take place later that morning should my condition not improve.
Fortunately, my kidney stones dislodged themselves and my kidney was able to drain into the bladder and I was subsequently able to pass urine. The actual surgery for removal of my kidney stones took place later using a keyhole surgery.

Total cost of everything: £13 for a taxi in the middle of the night to get me to hospital.
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Several years later, I'm living in Australia,
Find my self with a nasty viral infection in my throat. After a couple of bouts of very strong oral antibiotics not improving my condition, my GP told me to go to a local hospital for treatment. I stayed overnight, with intravenous antibiotics, had a MRI while I was there. Discharged the following day having improved massively.

Total cost of everything: $0.00

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Funny how these examples of socialised medicine cost me nothing, and yet, both of my treatments involved same-day use of an MRI.

No, I'm going to say that it is very much an American thing. They have to lay the perfectly flat layer of perfectly green grass because otherwise the little dictators in the HOA will put a lien on their property and force a sale because the grass was 3mm too tall, or not green enough in the summer heat because it wasn't watered enough, despite massive droughts.

For some reason, the nation that likes to beat its chest about its perceived freedoms from the big scary Government, seems unnaturally eager to run towards the neighbourhood oppressive dictatorships that HOAs are. All because they're scared shitless of a local municipal government taking out the trash

Who benefits? the travellers certainly won't because the boarding passes could be obtained via e-checkin anyway and you would still need to go through the luggage checkin process.

How will e-passports save time? you will still need to go through the immigration clearance. Why not just print a QR code or a barcode on the visas such that the immigration clearance system can easily pickup the details about the visa from their database?

A ~500,000 UID calling themselves a grey beard ...

Kids these days, pfft.

I think a lot of discussion around "fact checking" that Meta has been doing completely misses the point that Meta has been actively manipulating news worldwide and not just in the US.

For instance, in India, FB has been actively censoring news that is inconvenient to the central government.
https://www.indiatvnews.com/ne...

Facebook has also been allowing advertising calling for genocide in India:
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Google and Youtube are also actively engaged in suppressing independent journalism in India.
https://reutersinstitute.polit...

Xerox was out of business? Oh no, this again. Sigh

First just a young boy.

Next time it will take on the entire crowd.

Then the world.

AT&T will receive hundreds of millions of your, and my tax dollars, as subsidies for their failed attempt at their own satellite network. So there's that. While the roads crumble.

in about 5 years. They will deny any knowledge in the short term. In the long term they will neither confirm nor deny. They will embark on a failed endeavor to launch their own satellites. Their CEO will be paid tens of millions.

it's not even clickbait, it's headline fear porn for midwits that only read headlines and continue to pay taxes filtered to billionaires who can "save them."

they've been perfecting this psych bullshit for 80 years

and here we are

They lie about everything.

You will downvote me. Truth is forbidden.

If I were one of the fake downvotebotmods I would downvote you.