I thought it was 80% migrants? Also, except for the bit about permission to leave country (crazy, imo) that sounds like a normal work permit in many conventionally democratic countries, where employer also uses it's power over migrant workers. It might be worse in practice, of course, that depends on courts

Well, everyone is about to start asking for an ID on the web, it seems, so you might be about right soon

For some reason I thought the original message was "rich in sugar/starch". Yeah, they have 3% of carbohydrates, which is 33% starch, 30% glucose, and 35% sucrose, so yes they have

Which, I'm guessing, cucumbers are not for both ingredients

If this apparent relationship between flares and decay rates proves true, it could lead to a method of predicting solar flares prior to their occurrence

So, can we predict the flares now? I've taken a look at Ephraim Fischbach's articles and it seems that we're very far from that, so the article you linked is interesting but overstates the facts by a lot. This is what I found the best explanation so far:

Some experiments seem to yield strong evidence of variability of beta-decay rates, but other experiments may show little or no such evidence. Some recent experiments help clarify the situation. In particular, a certain oscillation appears in neutrino measurements made at the Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Observatory and in radon beta-decay measurements made at the Geological Survey of Israel, with identical frequency (9.43 years ⁻¹ ), amplitude and phase, strengthening the case for an influence of neutrinos on beta decays. A review of current experimental information leads us to suggest that 1) beta-decay rates do not change, but 2) the angular distribution of decay products may be anisotropic, and 3) the angular distribution of decay products may be influenced by the ambient neutrino flux. It appears that experiments at standards laboratories tend to be insensitive to direction, and this may be the reason that they tend not to exhibit evidence of variability.

And even this I would take with a grain of salt

I expect it's not suited for kernel, yeah, but it sounds like a fun thing to try other than for kernel stuff

The this:

[Author] portrays Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. In the novel, the people who live in Shangri-La are almost immortal, living hundreds of years beyond the normal lifespan and only very slowly ageing in appearance

Sounds interesting:

Fennel is a programming language that brings together the simplicity, speed, and reach of Lua with the flexibility of a lisp syntax and macro system.

I don't know, I've seen grown ups pissing in the park in Shanghai, not somewhere deep in the bushes but right beside the pavement and buildings. That was not indoors, at least

Tbf, being a small business they may never had any customer service beyond the same person who runs it.

Still same, these two lists seem to not be enough

Ah, you're right, I missed that there are three links, and kept clicking the same word. I'll try to add that list, thanks