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What a tremendous effort. Well done and keep it up.

Not a thing in the UK either, perhaps due to an EU law. It’s quite nice buying a handset and shoving any SIM in.

Sure. Had a check on these organisations and they seem reliable.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-responsible-for-95-of-new-coal-power-construction-in-2023-report-says/

https://globalenergymonitor.org/press-release/chinas-coal-power-spree-could-see-over-300-coal-plants-added-before-emissions-peak/

You’ll find stats here: https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-coal-plant-tracker/summary-tables/

Don’t forget nuclear fallout. There’s even a term for when humans started to irrevocably fuck Earth: the Anthropocene.

On September 13, 2021, it was reported that ExpressVPN had been acquired by Kape Technologies, an LSE-listed digital privacy and security company

Not ideal for wheelchair users…

Go to the North in winter and experience true choking pollution from rampant coal furnaces. Even Beijing doesn’t escape that.

Don’t forget where all that electricity comes from to charge those electric vehicles.

Source: me, who lived in China for 6 years until 2022.

Hiking in remote Tasmania, 4 hours from anyone else, let alone help and almost stepped on a tiger snake. Thankful that they left me be to enjoy the rest of my walking tour.

Australia tried to kill me a few times.

Not OP, but i use yt-dlp to great success.

There probably are people making a decent income from selling on these platforms. I assumed such data was alredy shared with HMRC.

Now what about corporate tax evasion? Meta, Starbucks and Amazon need to pay their share.