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I really appreciate that the "hero" video _asked_ me to click. That already shows you respect me enough not to just auto-play in my face. I think the video suffers from a bit too much dramatization, especially at the end with the triumphant movie trailer music and awkward shots of people looking directly into the camera. I also think some of the copy on the main page could be edited to sound clearer and more natural. For example:

* "Keys only you have access to" -> "Only you have the keys"

* "Room for growth" -> "Room to grow"

* "Gets better over time" -> "Always improving [etc.]"

I mention all the above because I really like what I see here and I'm looking for room in my budget after I post this comment :)

Good luck!

I doesn't rely on China because it decided to leave. Now it has to come back, or it will be shut out of a market of billions.

China is either the first or second largest world economy based on how you want to measure. It's rapid growth alone will assure Chinese economic power if not outright hegemony for the next century. China is also growing it's sphere of influence. Google is a corporation like any other, and if it misses the boat on getting into the Chinese market while it is still developing, it could be the Sears of search tomorrow.

Rich nations get rich by developing their economies. I don't think anyone has done that better than China. The US economy is exporting soybeans and shuffling debt. Who produces all of the high technology and is constantly innovating in the energy sector of tomorrow? China has seized the commanding heights of the economy.

But yeah, really, the world's biggest market is vital for Google.

American journalists from various media outlets all propagandized the Iraq war to the point of deceiving the public:

* https://web.archive.org/web/20070403153921/http://65.109.167...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage_of_the_Iraq_War

Stepping back from the liberal imagination that we are all self-actualizing, free individuals, it's easy to see how journalists function within society and the economy according to class politics.

Just look at how American media & technology companies all shut down Alex Jones:

* https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/6/17656840/alex-jones-infowa...

American elites have been clamoring for corporate and state censorship for years.

It's impossible to take American journalists seriously after decades (almost two now) of apologizing for the systematic murder, torture, and displacement of Muslims across the world. Google understands that America is in decline and China ascendant, it's future depends on access to the Chinese market. The American bourgeoisie are so blinded by ideology they can't see how they are on the cusp of being superseded. Articles demanding censorship appear weekly in American media. Suppose it's freedom of speech for thee, and not for me, then?

If you'd like more context, here's an interesting documentary on the life of Thomas Sankara: https://vimeo.com/46137917

I personally find that labels and anthologies are an easy way to discover artists:

* Awesome Tapes from Africa: https://www.awesometapes.com/

* Analog Africa: https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/

* Sublime Frequencies: http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/

Here's one album, "Bambara Mystic Soul": https://youtu.be/8XWuFG-Sq_g

In that case, these news businesses should not be publishing content on the World Wide Web. Users pay for devices, electricity, and monthly network connection, These publishers seem to be stuck in the last epoch. A website is not a finished product like a book or newspaper, it is publicly-accessible data. Users can scrape, restyle, delete, and add content _at will_ whenever they choose to download this content.

So the ideology of capital, which destroyed community morals, is now having it's own tawdry ethics trashed. It's not news that the news is failing. This Author Wrote 7 Reasons Why You Can't Make 20th Century Business Web-Scale.

Plomin gives very interesting interviews explaining his experiments to a general audience. Here's a recent example discussing the basics and implications of twin studies in education:

https://youtu.be/lk8sdMGJ3m4