"But at the end of each sales chain is either another landlord or someone who was previously renting."

Or, in many cities, on the end of many sales chains is a Chinese or Saudi who is trying to get wealth away from an oppressive regime.

Or they are part of the oppressive regime and want to launder their money.

Both, they benefit from the regime but don't want their children to grow up under the circumstances they helped to create.

Many countries even have their own internal alcohol belts. Austria has many wine growing regions where Wine dominates alcohol consumption.

Austria's vineyards are concentrated in the eastern part of the country, right? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_wine#Wine_regions)

That's wine production; is wine consumption also predominantly in the east, or do Austrians drink wine no matter where in the country they live?

Yeah, but farming in general is different in Austria, just look at the rates of e.g. cage eggs in the US, where 95% are caged. Plus even in Austria you have to watch out, a lot of the cheaper meat is from large German farms with similar conditions.

No, what they are saying is that cows fed with seaweed AND antibiotics are still more profitable than cows fed only with seaweed.

If you collect the data, some of it will be exposed, that's a very real risk. Especially in cases like this with biometrical data that can't be changed. I wonder if something will change after a few big leaks in this sector.

Yeah, having a immutable input key has always seemed real scary to me. Text/numbers has always seemed the best to me but if you really want something quicker and more natural for humans to do than writing, why not go for something like a pose or hand gesture. That can be easily changed, though I am not sure how many different versions there are of it. Spell out something in sign language?

Past experience strongly suggests that nothing will be learned from it.

I thought Telegram was sending messages encrypted (though not E2E) per default?

It isn't by default. You have to enable it yourself.

This is wrong. All communication is encrypted in transit, even for non-secret chats.

Is it also E2E encrypted though? If not, wouldn't that mean that Telegram servers could snoop in on the non-E2E conversations?

You're talking about "secret chats", the Telegram way of doing E2E, but it doesn't mean that all other communications are sent or stored plain text. And there is no setting in the app to enable encryption (I just checked), because there is no way to disable it. "Not E2E" != "not encrypted"

How is this a purely technical problem? I'd argue it's a purely non-technical problem, especially in the many cases where e.g. the postal worker needs some implicit knowledge to make the right decisions.

There already are VR rooms. I'm stoked to try it out (going next week), but from what I can tell it's still a niche even for the companies where you can do them.

But most of this content will get a negligible amount of views, which means that most of the conplaints come from a much lower number of videos.

It hasn't always been the case, mostly because for most of human history attention wasn't the limiting scarce resource to things.