Many Nikon DX DSLR cameras and lenses are out of stock in the US:
- Most Nikon D3500 camera combinations are out of stock
- The same is the situation with the Nikon D5600
- Even the D7500 is not available in many configurations
- The Nikon D500 has been out of stock for months
This year sales of DSLR cameras are planned to drop 2-3 times by Nikon management, lenses sales can drop 4 times.
This is standard Cloudfire screen made to prevent diversity in communities via so called "DDOS protection" solution.
Certain races and places are considered as "ddos attackers", no matter that.
I talked to few people who run communities and they agreed that members activity from Eastern Europe, exUSSR and Asia, especially China, dropped significantly. As Cloudfire consider almost all of them as criminals and make it very hard for them to participate.
Of course, Cloudfire also sells results of their recognition captcha for reinforcement learning in object classification. :-) They are greedy bastards, after all.
For many corporate sites "protection plans" Cloudfire have such default state of checkmarks that visitors from same countries won't have any screen, instead connection will be dropped totally.
Companies are considering to use HDD capacity to mine Chia crypto currency.
Presently it brings around 10x more profits compared to consumer cloud plans.
Wholesale HDD priced doubled already, retail prices for large drives triples in most countries.
It can be real reason behind chip shortages.
Taiwan authorities now lie about private orders that they give to factories to restrict production and turn off lines.
By May 20, Google must comply with the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court and restore the account of the Tsargrad TV channel on the YouTube video service - or file an appeal. Otherwise, the Russian LLC Google will be charged a progressive court penalty in favor of Tsargrad Media: its initial value will be 100,000 rubles for each day of non-execution of the court's decision, and the amount will double every week.
According to the estimates of the law firm Baker & McKenzie, which acted as Google's representative in court, in seven months the amount of the penalty will reach 94 trillion rubles and will almost equal the capitalization of Google's parent company, Alphabet.
Youtube banning is near.
Almost 15 percent of greenhouse gas emissions globally come from livestock (and everything involved in raising it); 61 percent of those emissions can be traced back to beef. Cows are 20 times less efficient to raise than beans and roughly three times less efficient than poultry and pork. It might not feel like much, but cutting out just a single ingredient—beef—can have an outsize impact on making a person’s cooking more environmentally friendly.
Today Epicurious announces that we’ve done just that: We’ve cut out beef. Beef won’t appear in new Epicurious recipes, articles, or newsletters. It will not show up on our homepage. It will be absent from our Instagram feed.
We know that some people might assume that this decision signals some sort of vendetta against cows—or the people who eat them. But this decision was not made because we hate hamburgers (we don’t!). Instead, our shift is solely about sustainability, about not giving airtime to one of the world’s worst climate offenders. We think of this decision as not anti-beef but rather pro-planet.
I firmly stand for extreme repressions after total review by working class.
Will try to eat more beef (sorry, my Indian friends, but I must now).
Several regions, including China, the US and Europe, allow carmakers to comply with emissions regulations by buying "emission permits" from groups selling cleaner cars. Selling "permits" to competitors has been a financial survival strategy for Tesla, accounting for virtually all of the group's profitability, while its core EV business is struggling to make ends meet.
For example, Tesla received $ 518 million from the sale of "permits" in the last quarter, while reporting a net profit of $438 million. During 2020 alone, the company earned about $ 1.6 billion from selling "permits" around the world. Under European emission regulations, carmakers were required to reduce the average CO2 emissions of their car fleets to 95 grams per km by last year, or they faced heavy fines.
Note that all other Tesla "profits" came from crypto scam. and so called "investments" in Bitcoin and alike
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