We already have too many narcissistic leaders everywhere because they can be superficially charming and build up loads of useful connections. It makes sense to have a cut-off for who gets funding at all, but they should all get the same amount of exposure.

Or he Xed it out.

I’m also considering alternatives to Proton myself. I’ve seen the privacy-oriented communities give a bunch of options. Search “Privacy” and you’ll see them listed. Tuta probably isn’t bad as a paid account but the free app left a lot to be desired the last time I checked (no message search or sorting like Proton).

There’s been controversy over a founder’s public backing of the US Republican party.

Instead ICE has the gall to round up indigenous people.

They know it’s best for them not to be seen gathered together all at once. They’ve all been playing a patient long game (even if some among their followers don’t).

Nice to see some good news!

I hope that’s the result. Unfortunately, here in Canada there are companies looking at doing some manufacturing in the US (i.e. sending incomplete parts for finishing).

*edited for grammar error

The second half of the article mostly talks about delayed marriages after the pandemic (since folks don’t want to have kids outside of marriage), and financial incentives. Hard to be sure if they’re really the reason and if the bump isn’t just from a backlog of marriages they were catching up on, as implied.

Your guess is as good as mine.

Sorry I thought I said it was in lemmy.world, but apparently not! Here’s the link: https://lemmy.world/post/24250168

CEO is Singaporean (and according to the BBC article I mentioned in my other comment, he says this report of a sale is “pure fiction”). China has some people on the board though. Not sure what to believe here.

There’s actually a post in the “News” community with a link to a BBC article directly contradicting this very article, per TikTok itself.

Unfortunately those two sets of interests typically aren’t mutually exclusive (except for protectionism or the rare case like that which might hamper trade), so he could largely do both.

Yes, Canada’s Liberal party is pretty much equivalent to the US Democratic party in many ways.