Let's not compare Delhi or Mumbai in monsoon season. Get the readings from Delhi in summer or winter and then see the pollution yourself.

Meanwhile I was replying to a comment that just cherry-picked a day. Yes, autumn is the brief good time in Beijing due to prevailing winds, shrug.

Cherry picking a single day to try to demonstrate a widely accepted trend is lazy journalism.

Cherry-picking to try to portray the opposite of the generally accepted truth is much more problematic.

I agree. Some guy picks some specific a day in the past, says "look China good". Another one picks a random day (today) and it paints a diff picture. Meanwhile generally accepted truth rooted in facts is the number of coal plants and generally policies that put manufacturing first. individuals using EVs don't make a dent

Glad to hear Delhi solved its air pollution by doing nothing. Delhi's success stody is being studied by experts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution_in_Delhi

I didn't say Delhi solved pollution, I said Beijing didn't

I did comparison of Fastmail, Protonmail and Mailfence. Finally, I decided to go ahead with Mailfence due to their end-to-end encryption and stronger privacy focus. I am very happy with Mailfence so far.

I used to have 34 penfriends when I was in high school. I got all these pen pals from organisation called "International Youth Service (IYS)" based in Turku, Finland. Eventually I lost touch with my penfriends when I moved due to education, jobs etc.

My very first penfriend was Betty Marie Jensen from a small place called Nibe, Denmark. I tried to find her on the internet, sent a letter to her old address. No luck. All I know is her name, old address and birthdate. I have her photos, but I don't want to publish them on the internet for her privacy. Is there any government agency besides postal service who can forward my letter to her?

Recently, I tried to revive this hobby. Unfortunately, IYS is closed now. I found a few good penpals on GlobalPenfriends.com Also tried several other websites like Interpals, Penpal World etc. but they are full of scammers.

uBlock origin does not accept donations. I would have loved to donate to them, but they don't.

Other thing I have started doing is to stop doing any upgrade for things that are already working locally. Example: no more upgrades for HP printer software.

I tend to agree with the sentiment. The only reason I subscribed to ProjectionLab was to appreciate the hard work of Kyle. Otherwise, "New Retirement" (now called Boldin) serves my purpose. It provides similar features and it provides automatic updates too.

Thanks for the recommendation. I just tried Boldin and it looks good, but seems to be US-centric? I'm in the UK and it didn't model my situation very accurately unfortunately

This is really fun. My score was 4307 (top 12%) with average 5.8 years off.

This reminded me the commercial "I am not a lawyer, but I did stay at Holiday Inn last night".

You may win the judgement in small claims court, but how will you collect? That is another dilemma.

Isn't this where the hilarious "sheriff showed up at the office, graciously giving them 30 minutes to cut a check before he started to confiscate the chairs" stories come from?

Given that ticketmaster and live nation own venues all over the place, you should have somewhere for a sheriff to enforce a judgement.

What would be the problem? I imagine it'd be straightforward but I'm naive about this stuff.

I have a basic question somewhat related to this topic. When I am using Mullvad VPN, many websites block access. (E.g. Lowe's or Michaels.com etc). They force me to disable VPN and I don't like it.

My question is how do they detect that I am using a VPN and is there any workaround to access their site when I continue using VPN?

I believe the websites subscribe to a universal list of IP-adresses that are associated with major VPN-providers, and some entity maintains that.

You might be able to get around this by paying a provider like ProtonVPN extra for a static IP outside of the known range associated with ProtonVPN