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Buddhists are humans too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ There's also the Rohingyan genocide where Buddhist nationalism is involved. If you want to read a good non-fiction on the Sri Lankan civil war, c…

Although I do agree with criticisms of his writing and have felt the same in his later books (as I was too young to feel the poor writing when I read A&D, Da Vinci Code etc.), I kn…

> Once a while I turn off ad-blocker to remind myself how bad it got It's pretty obvious that this is not what the person you're replying to's talking about

This video is a pretty good one on how it works in practice: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-research2023-media/media...

Yeah

Very interesting, thanks for the link!

> Also they're often criticised for overrunning verticals with their own offerings. My favourite example being celebritynetworth. Sorry didn't get this, what do you mean exactly?

Due to heavy regulations on the shipbreaking industry in Western countries, > 50% of ships worldwide are (or were, when the documentary was made) dismantled in Alang, India. The in…

YouTube Music / Premium does this if I'm not wrong

> In addition to some amazing first-person narrative about life at sea, it does answer a lot of the "why don't they just" questions in this thread. Yeah it puts into perspective ho…

I'm from a coastal state in India (Kerala), and although non-fish meat is also quite popular here, majority eat fish almost daily (often with rice).

For anyone even mildly interested in crime, exploitation, vigilantes and other human stories across the oceans, check out The Outlaw Ocean by NYT journalist Ian Urbina. Brilliant w…

Hangouts is being replaced by Chat and Meet.

Weird name to go with in the first place.

Tangential, but any suggestions for sites that publish on art? Artnews, as expected, is more about the latest updates in the international art scene. I'd like to know of one with a…

Not exactly what they mentioned, but check this out [1]. It talks about the perception of time in the middle ages, and how merchant time slowly substituted the impractical notions …

Yeah, this lack of knowledge in what exactly we're reading (except for a few oft-occurring words here and there) can be seen in the inability to read, say, an Arabic newspaper. Wri…