What do you mean by "talking up"? If I say the food is really good in China, this doesn't negate any of the things you mentioned.

I was thinking the same thing about ebikes. Those are a game changer for a lot of the complaints posted above about bike commuting. This type of transit is HUGE in China, where they have had decent commuter ebikes for a long time. Many of them have rain covers and such as well.

Yeah I stand corrected here, BeauHD was the submitter in this case.

The editor doesn't write the summary, the submitter does. And we have you to fact check it for us. And the content from other sites is the whole point, so I'm not clear what your problem is on that score either.

They sell millions of those phones to people who don't care about Google apps or can't use them anyway.

An interesting book. It made the point that if you walk down the middle of the road randomly staggering to one side or the other, you will, on average, never be hit by a car. Normal is just an artifact of statistics, like the old saw about the average family had 2.5 kids.

This was obvious when we read

One can dream that they will have to let go of all the tab rounders and menu movers.

I have this complaint about any inordinately long timeout. One example is network timeouts. A packet travels around the world in less than a second, why is this thing waiting ten seconds plus to tell me the connection failed? Is there a case where a firewall grabs the SYN and then waits five seconds to forward it?

I knew a lot of people in college even 30 years ago who were anti-science, anti-expertise, etc. Going to college isn't going to change someone like that.

This claim doesn't really establish why men are dropping at a higher rate than others. Women don't have YouTube?

They also operate via SMS, web ads, and social media platforms. And it isn't just call center scams, these are the same organizations running pig butchering scams.

Remove Google Play services then?

The problem isn't just the mining, it is refining the ore to a usable form. Almost all of that is done in China. The US can't scale up making WW2 era artillery shells for Ukraine, it isn't going to have refining capacity for rare earths anytime soon either.