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code123456789on Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?

Yes, see Great Chinese Firewall. Providing a VPN access to civilians is a criminal offense in PRC. This is not the same as forcing companies to use domestic software, but to illustrate the ability of Chinese government to implement draconian limitations in general.

code123456789on 10% of the top million sites are dead

wixsite.com is a domain for free sites built on Wix, so if your username on Wix is smugma, and your site name is mysite, then you'll have a URL like smugma.wixsite.com/mysite for your Home page.

That's why this domain is in the top

code123456789on Food security and the coming storm

LOL. The article says that to fix the issue we need some international efforts and blah blah blah. Bullshit. All we need is to sink down russian ships in Black sea. Even better will be to help with the liberation of both Kherson and Crimea regions. Zaporizhzhya and Donbas can be liberated later, but Bastion rockets in Crimea endanger ports in Odesa and Yuzhne.

This is the easiest way to provide food to emerging markets. By the way, there are chemical (fertilizer) plants in Ukraine. Today they are not working or occupied. One in Yuzhne is intact, but shut down temporarily. There's also Sumykhimprom plant in Sumy, that's right on the border with russia. The plant is intact, but I think it's not working as well due to war.

If we chase russians off from Ukraine, food prices will return to normal.

code123456789on Average color of each country (using satellite imagery)

Author forgot the Asian part of Russia, it's included neither to Europe, nor to Asia. But it's still on the general map of the world. Anyway it would be green.

code123456789on Advanced city is not where the poor have cars, but the rich use public transport

This kind of advanced city is so expensive that the middle class has to use public transportation, even when they wish to ride a car. That's not about the rich. Really rich people do not use public transportation, they can afford a car with a driver, or a helicopter even in the most expensive cities. Taxis exist all over Europe, even though middle class often uses the public transportation.

So I would rephrase this quote as An advanced city is the one where public transportation is clean, safe, time-reliable and abundant (covers most of the city/metropolis).

code123456789on Kite Turbines

Looks very interesting. Didn't find a word about birds' safety on your landing page. This is even less visible to birds than traditional turbines, if I am not mistaken.