> Somewhat related, even Walmart relented and now supports Apple Pay/Contactless.

Walmart USA.

Walmart Canada allowed contactless pretty much from the start over a decade ago

Always confused me on trips to USA when I’d have to insert a card

I suspect more modern computers would have chipsets with dead leads for rs232 if your soldering is fine enough

> because they leave them on UA plates

which EU country permits non-EU plates (and insurance?) indefinitely?

Bangladesh is already at ~3x the population density as India

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

For whatever reason, India had quite a lead on pharma manufacturing and still runs carries its own pretty well

For ~90% of the population, it’s right there under 200km away.

It’s really not that unusual to manufacture in bulk at one facility and package in another.

Also let’s multiple “competitors” consolidate packaging into one big operation. Or localized to destination. Also a space thing: can ship more in bulk and make it all fluffier closer to point of sale.

Shoeboxes, among other packages, are a lot of air, why fill your truck/container/aircraft “unit load device” with it.

China isn’t a member but IEA requires its 32 members to have 90d stockpile worth of oil imports:

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/oil-stock...

My long term fear, here in the rust belt, is their corrosion protection.

Meanwhile Google keeps giving me “please wait, do not reload page” walls, so I ctrl-r as rapidly as possible. Or is that the human test and response?

It is anti-bot proof-of-work defence.

When did Google replace their CAPTCHA with Anubis? I've never seen Anubis on Google.