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Volvo cars was sold to Geely but Volvo Buses (+ trucks) is still a Swedish company.

> She was entitled to a refund or vouchers. Is this true? Many (most?) airlines offered vouchers en masse when they had to cancel most flights during COVID, with no option for full…

At least Air Canada was forced by the Canadian government to pay back vouchers to people who asked for them, as part of a deal for financing. I was able to claim the full value of …

It's widely accepted that the Huanan market cases are an early super-spreader event and not the first human infections. Basically we don't know who and where the first infected hum…

Trillions and trillions of mutations and still the most dangerous H5N1 viruses were created a decade ago by Fouchier and Kawaoka. And how did that help us prepare for the inevitabl…

I found it suspicious that it mentions "sleeping in cars" which shouldn't be needed for day trips as most places in the country are at most 3 hours drive from Amsterdam and places …

Seems to cover more than that, things we should be ignorant of could simply be labeled as False. Malinformation seems to be about how facts should only be interpreted in a certain …

Actually controlling inflation means slowing it down. So the gallon of milk will be only 7 cents more expensive than last month, not 70 cents.

But a public company has higher public transparency obligations than a private one. Why do you think being afraid of Elon will make them more transparent than being afraid of the S…

> For 2021, national tourist board Visit Britain has forecast that visitor numbers will be lower even than in 2020, when travel restrictions were at their highest. Not sure how the…

The point is that she gets called because of buzzwords such as Blockchain and AI and what have you. If the education and job experience is made up, how do you know you're not getti…

How so? If these days a house listed for x gets offers at x+10%, after average wages increase it will receive offers at x+20%. Is there any historical precedent of house prices not…

I agree, religion offers simple ways to classify actions as good or bad. Following the church teachings or priest's guidance was enough to make an individual confident they are a g…

Also it seems the agreement is that 7 countries agree that all countries in the world need to have that minimum rate? How would they convince the rest of 180+ countries? Especially…

The same was true of Yahoo in its last days as an independent company. Their holdings in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan (an independent, successful company) were worth more than Yahoo's m…

Wearing masks when sick is a good hygiene practice in general. But in COVID context with significant asymptomatic spread it won't help as much as it does for colds and flu.

Could be. But one thing that was pointed out to me is that once our generation gets closer to retirement age, the governments will be more willing to address our concerns. Probably…

Infected animals were found in the market where the outbreak began 4 months after it started. We have nothing comparable a year and a half after COVID.

Wikipedia [1] seems to include sources: > In late May 2003, studies were conducted using samples of wild animals sold as food in the local market in Guangdong, China. The results f…

> if you made statements like "this started in Wuhan, in the lab there, not in the animal market next to it," you were called racist, even though race had nothing to do with it. Ho…

One reason this theory is becoming more mainstream lately is the lack of results looking for the natural reservoir of the virus after more than 1 year of searching and an amazing n…

It's been written everywhere that the horseshoe bats most likely to carry coronaviruses live in Yunnan province, more than 1000 km away. It's where the closest COVID relative was f…

I read it's because he only wants the most absolutely committed investors owning shares, not superficial speculators. You would overthink if you had to spend that much on a single …

And the ones you mentioned have major regulatory hurdles to expand internationally. In industries where a single player can dominate multiple markets we are down to 2-3 major compe…