This.
There is no advantage for the employees. The Internet never forgets and eventually the safe space where ND people talk about health matters can be taken away or weaponised.

Let me add that if it happened now, as actual hostile activity from China, the USA would be defeated permanently.

...an article worth considering from Princeton University's Zeynep Tufekci:

We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives

Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was almost certainly sparked by a research mishap. Some Western scientists quickly suspected the odd virus had resided in a lab freezer for a couple of decades, but they kept mostly quiet for fear of ruffling feathers.

Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks. Many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory, insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in Wuhan, China. And when a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat viruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology â" research that, if conducted with lax safety standards, could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world â" no fewer than 77 Nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization.

So the Wuhan research was totally safe, and the pandemic was definitely caused by natural transmission â" it certainly seemed like consensus.

We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story. And as for that Wuhan laboratoryâ(TM)s research, the details that have since emerged show that safety precautions might have been terrifyingly lax.

Full article

Sorry but that is an objection that comes from misuse of the equipment. Whether outside is 0C or 20, you pick a target temperature and let the thermostat do its thing. You don't allow the house to get to 15C and then complain it took too long to go to 22C.

d) hire a hitman.

At some point there will be an interested party or an industry that does the maths and we'll be talking about conspiracy theories for decades.

Well, that is not true, for obvious reasons. Azure is not 100% based in the USA, and Microsoft has companies set up in many different countries.

I get your analogy, but I think there are many instances with climate change that are more akin to having your network compromised and causing more problems to others than to yourself.

You would not be the first to be out of pocket after not getting what you agreed with at least one of those guys.

As usual in this sort of thread, people start going on about the lack of babies. The demographic problem, the economy problem, the environment problems in the developed countries is the surplus of older people.

Start offering retirement as a lump sum at age 50, followed by a "died peacefully in their sleep" on a random date before age 52 and there won't be a shortage of babies any more.

What if you built a Beowulf cluster of those?

You'd imagine that certain habits would gradually return, such as eating out rather than bringing your tupperware, and some drinks and snacks after office hours. It takes time but the scale of amazon offices matters.

BMW makes a lot of motorcycle engines, so I guess they are still equipped to build hybrid drivetrains like that of the i3.

With battery density increasing, it could be possible to have that small displacement engine there idle most of the time just in case 100 or 200 miles of ev range are not enough.

Rarely is below 0C except all the months from November to February.

Among other things you don't know that the legislation here says that if you want ANY live TV, even a foreign channel via satellite, you must have a TV licence.

It's a bit shit, especially because they needed to call it a licence, suggesting that you're getting something directly in return. It would be right to call it a tax to support provision of specific tv, arts, radio and other media.

I'm not the person you replied to, but the Fairphone 5 meets their specification list.

As a side note, everything the parent asked for is common on older phones. Asking for them all together is not like asking for unrealistic / unicorn options.