Consoles are usually sold at a loss and profit is made on the software i.e games and nowadays subscriptions. Selling hardware at a loss with no follow up is going to hurt.
This is world news. Which world capital are you talking about?
While in the past, parents who had a girl first were more likely to keep trying to have children in an effort to have a boy, the opposite is now true — couples who have a girl first are less likely to keep trying.
This line suggests that parents place less value on boys and it’s possible this will lead to them failing to vaccinate them or delaying seeking medical advice when they’re sick. I haven’t looked into it beyond that.
Shouldn’t the author of this piece be concerned that boys will be aborted and neglected in favour of girls? It’s interesting that the thought didn’t occur to him or her. They already found evidence of this by mentioning the higher number of couples who try again after having a boy rather than a girl. It’s not a huge leap to think they might not want to continue the pregnancy if it’s another boy.
They use spare hydro power during the off season so the net impact on the environment is negligible.
It’s shameful that we can’t think of something better to do with all that electricity. Data centers, supercomputers even LLMs would create something of social value.
Some are some aren’t. This crackdown kicked off after a Chinese celebrity was kidnapped by one of these gangs after being lured to Bangkok with an offer of an acting gig. The fact that multiple compounds were raided but not a single gangster was arrested stinks. The fact that it’s assumed all the workers are victims with hearts as pure as snow is bullshit. The AP isn’t even covering half the story in this article.
The Thais are making a big show of shutting down a couple of compounds in the hopes that the Chinese tourists will come back and forgive them for turning a blind eye for so long but they can’t even be bothered to identify or investigate the people who run them.
Many of them knowingly and willingly signed up to work as scammers and deserve to be sent to prison before they are sent home. I have little sympathy for them.
The headline is misleading, many of these people knew full well that they were going to work in scam centers they were just naive or ignorant about the horrendous working conditions that awaited them. They should be sent to court and then prison before they are sent home.
The fact that 300,000 people work in this industry makes it impossible for them all to be victims of subterfuge by traffickers.
Tesla is suing Chinese customers for defamation if they publicly blame its cars for causing crashes that hospitalise them. It even went so far as to doxx one woman after she protested at a trade show.
Journalists in Shanghai have been told the company is off limits for criticism.
Musk maintains a close relationship with Li Qiang, the 2nd highest ranking member of CPP.
The free speech absolutist strikes again!
Good idea if you don’t want publishers to send you any advanced copies of their games in the future, which is just as well since your review won’t be relevant to anyone. At that point it’s just a preview.
Chinese people are much more nationalistic than their government is. If it were a democracy it would have invaded Taiwan long ago.
It’s good to see people engaging in cultural exchange and learning about each other through the app. Rednote sounds like an interesting place; most online spaces are dominated by men with relatively few women.
They also developed a way of writing with roman characters (called pinyin) so they could type on computers and phones. Taiwan developed a different method and Japan uses its own alphabet .
Chinese uses ideograms, which are the same for all dialects and are even used in Japan.
trans-inclusive radical feminists
TIRFs?
Personally I prefer the company of trans-agnostic practicing sexists or TAPS.
The suffragettes are remembered fondly. They even had a rail line named after them in London.
Scaffolding was set up for renovations and the fire was able to spread quickly by bypassing all the fire breaks that are built into high rises and shooting up the outside. Hong Kong is unique in its use of bamboo scaffolding, which is obviously more flammable than steel.