This is standard Cloudfire screen made to prevent diversity in communities via so called "DDOS protection" solution.

Certain races and places are considered as "ddos attackers", no matter that.

I talked to few people who run communities and they agreed that members activity from Eastern Europe, exUSSR and Asia, especially China, dropped significantly. As Cloudfire consider almost all of them as criminals and make it very hard for them to participate.

Of course, Cloudfire also sells results of their recognition captcha for reinforcement learning in object classification. :-) They are greedy bastards, after all.

For many corporate sites "protection plans" Cloudfire have such default state of checkmarks that visitors from same countries won't have any screen, instead connection will be dropped totally.

Presently it brings around 10x more profits compared to consumer cloud plans.

Wholesale HDD priced doubled already, retail prices for large drives triples in most countries.

It can be real reason behind chip shortages.

Taiwan authorities now lie about private orders that they give to factories to restrict production and turn off lines.

By May 20, Google must comply with the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court and restore the account of the Tsargrad TV channel on the YouTube video service - or file an appeal. Otherwise, the Russian LLC Google will be charged a progressive court penalty in favor of Tsargrad Media: its initial value will be 100,000 rubles for each day of non-execution of the court's decision, and the amount will double every week.

According to the estimates of the law firm Baker & McKenzie, which acted as Google's representative in court, in seven months the amount of the penalty will reach 94 trillion rubles and will almost equal the capitalization of Google's parent company, Alphabet.

Youtube banning is near.

Almost 15 percent of greenhouse gas emissions globally come from livestock (and everything involved in raising it); 61 percent of those emissions can be traced back to beef. Cows are 20 times less efficient to raise than beans and roughly three times less efficient than poultry and pork. It might not feel like much, but cutting out just a single ingredient—beef—can have an outsize impact on making a person’s cooking more environmentally friendly.

Today Epicurious announces that we’ve done just that: We’ve cut out beef. Beef won’t appear in new Epicurious recipes, articles, or newsletters. It will not show up on our homepage. It will be absent from our Instagram feed.

We know that some people might assume that this decision signals some sort of vendetta against cows—or the people who eat them. But this decision was not made because we hate hamburgers (we don’t!). Instead, our shift is solely about sustainability, about not giving airtime to one of the world’s worst climate offenders. We think of this decision as not anti-beef but rather pro-planet.

I firmly stand for extreme repressions after total review by working class.

Will try to eat more beef (sorry, my Indian friends, but I must now).

Several regions, including China, the US and Europe, allow carmakers to comply with emissions regulations by buying "emission permits" from groups selling cleaner cars. Selling "permits" to competitors has been a financial survival strategy for Tesla, accounting for virtually all of the group's profitability, while its core EV business is struggling to make ends meet.

For example, Tesla received $ 518 million from the sale of "permits" in the last quarter, while reporting a net profit of $438 million. During 2020 alone, the company earned about $ 1.6 billion from selling "permits" around the world. Under European emission regulations, carmakers were required to reduce the average CO2 emissions of their car fleets to 95 grams per km by last year, or they faced heavy fines.

Note that all other Tesla "profits" came from crypto scam. and so called "investments" in Bitcoin and alike

The USSR had a military budget, say, in 1988, estimated at $319 billion, and the US military budget that year was at $293 billion. There was what is called "parity".

In 2021, US defense spending is $740.5 billion. In 2013, only the US espionage and sabotage agencies received $52.6 billion a year.

Mordor in 2013 had 90.4 billion dollars allocated for defense, but already in 2017 this amount immediately dropped to 48.5 billion. and in plans for 2021, defense spending has been further reduced to 42.1 billion - less than in the United States spent only on spies and special operations!

And this despite the fact that in all the leading countries of the world, military spending either increased (in China from 178 to 266.5 billion), or remained at the same level.

Not only the Germans with their military expenditures of 79.0 billion US dollars, but also the British (from 49.9), and the French (from 52.2), without any NATO alone, are stronger than Mordor and even Saudi Arabia spends more.

Remember this as you will be hearing some warmongers propaganda.