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The guy killed by the girl he was trying to rape becoming a symbol of machismo is oddly fitting.

Most of the things you said are true. What is also true is that he and his descendents established a unified, peaceful empire from Korea to Hungary, from southern Russia to Iran. He unified China, then divided by civil war, and brought in economists and doctors from the Islamic World. He promoted Buddhism, Daoism and Islam, and his successors included Confucians and Christians. He guaranteed safe travel and trade across his empire, as well as religious tolerance and a common set of laws.

He killed thousands (the death tolls are inflated by both his enemies and his own followers - as a warning to those who they were going to attack next), but his actions benefitted millions. How can you form any moral judgement about such a figure? All you can do is try to find out the truth, report it, and let people reach their own conclusions.

According to my Bengali friends, he belongs to an institution called 'civic police', and they are apparently often ex-hooligans. (If you've read One Piece, their relation to the local government seems to be similar to that of the Seven Warlords to the World Government.)

If the accounts spreading on WhatsApp and Telegram groups are true, the incident is far worse than 'just' rape and murder. The lady allegedly found evidence of expensive medicines being incorrectly listed as given to patients, and then being sold outside. The attack is alleged to have been meant to silence her, and scare other employees from speaking out. After her death, the crime scene was disturbed by the college authorities as part of a 'renovation'. Her body was cremated after a post-mortem done in the same hospital where she died, possibly by the same people who wanted to cover things up. Her death was initially called a 'suicide', despite her having multiple injuries on her neck (allegedly due to strangling), ankles, wrists (due to being tied up and beaten) and female organs. Finally, yesterday an unidentified mob broke into the hospital at night and vandalised records, just before the CBI were to start their investigations.

Without a command economy, if we want to bump up our shell production for instance, we need a business that is willing to build a factory that makes and sells shells.

I don't know, maybe don't leave the security of your country to private businesses?

English is the lingua franca of India. If the signs were in Bengali, only people from West Bengal and nearby states would be able to read it.

I hope some OEM (especially those opposed to google) picks up and develops mainline linux like Pine Phone.

Huawei is being forced to do it. But like Android, their HarmonyOS is not 100% open-source. There's also KaiOS, which some Nokia and Alcatel, and all Jio, devices use.

even Dalvik and the android runtime itself is an inefficient relic of 10+ years ago when mobile devices had at most 2gb of ram and a tiny low power ARM processor.

Both the ones I mentioned are designed to be more memory efficient. KaiOS in particular is aimed primarily at feature phones and entry-level smartphones.

Yes. This offer could be aimed at persuading them to return.

If one person demands sex in return for not harming another, it is called rape and we rightly consider it to be a crime. If one person demands sex in return for not starving the other, many people seem to find it acceptable. I would never dare judge someone for the work they are forced to do by their circumstances, but 'sex work' (or whatever you choose to call it) is absolutely not okay. Those trapped in it deserve better.

But all of its atmosphere leaked out into space

Wasn't that because Mars isn't heavy enough?

The older models were also very repairable and customisable. Most newer ones aren't. This is a problem for some users.

It's regulation protecting the quality of education in the nation.

I understand and agree with that logic (although personally I have experienced excellent teachers who had no PhD). But like you said, I don't think it is a useful criteria in research.

My personal opinion/experiences are that those that are the worst in their field are the ones that clutch onto their degrees the most and will think lowly of a mind that hasn't amassed as much documentation

Lol yes!

I know this is increasingly accepted, but …

To be fair, in English most adjectives can also be used as nouns. I suppose I should have said that in this context, using it as an adjective is inappropriate.

System76 and Framework are mostly North America and Western Europe. Pine64 might sell in Australia.

Is a PhD a required qualification in your uni? I know it's expected, but there are quite a few well-respected academics, particularly in engineering and comp sci, who don't have a PhD.

He has a female in his team?

I know this is increasingly accepted, but 'female' is actually an adjective. You could say 'has a female athlete' or even just 'has a lady', but the current wording is a bit off.

I don't know enough about this specific situation. But the history of the IMF and World Bank is such that, if they were to put out a statement saying that the sky is blue, I would immediately go and check if it had somehow changed colour.

Things change slowly, then all at once. We are currently facing the same problems that Europe, the US, Japan and China faced and overcame.

Also, have you considered moving to a different part of India? Not all regions face the same issues. The northeast is a lot less creepy and a lot more civic-minded. The west is more industrialised and 'developed'. The south has better educational systems, and so on.

Okay, but dark pink text on a black background was a choice.

Being a Mary Sue isn't about how often you fail / succeed. Your character can win all the time if their victories are entertaining enough (Munchausen), if they are established as being the best in their field (Saitama) or if their wins feel 'deserved' (Sherlock Holmes[1]). When they win and the audience thinks 'ugh, not again', then you have a Mary Sue. Or if they win at something they should not be good at according to the rest of the story - like Holmes winning a poetry contest or Saitama landing a blow on a mosquito - without any explanation given, you have a Mary Sue.

[1] Yes, I know he fails a couple of times, but again, they're entertaining, which is the important thing.