This looks to be completely political, their profits are huge and from the article it seems like the closures are largely just reshuffles, with the real job losses coming in management... I really wouldn't be surprised if they end up refilling the positions though and just wanted to make a point that they don't like being taxed on their huge profits

In Portuguese (as spoken in Portugal, Brazil, USA, Japan, Ghana, wherever) they're an americano/a but in English (as spoken in USA, UK, Brazil, Portugal, Nepal, wherever) they're South American but not American because it's a linguistic difference rather than a geographical/cultural one

The reason they have to manipulate the audience is because people look for validation and so feel good when other people react to things in the same way as them. If another equally funny show has a laugh track and you don't, yours will likely be less enjoyable to watch unless it's a specific form of humour which benefits from not having a laugh track.

Basically a laugh track can't save a terrible show, but it can manipulate people into finding a mediocre show more enjoyable to watch, but a mediocre show will make people laugh organically at least a few times anyway.

Apart from tigers and a few others which went through even worse bottlenecks

What OS doesn't do that, even linux has xdg dirs

Not voting for Israel wasn't going to have an impact if you weren't voting for them anyway, however people who support Israel in the conflict voting for them will have an effect that there's very little you can do to stop. You don't think Russia would have had voting farms to stop Ukraine if it was possible? That's why they got so many votes - if they have 15% support, then they'll get that 15% of votes which is a significant number.

Still more than the 10 days I imagine you get by stating it as 2 weeks though I guess

You don't see it again and again but you usually recommend it to other friends so they go see it with their other friends?

"Baby are you ok? You've barely touched your plate of beige

Spotify take a standard cut?

It's record labels that are scamming small artists, and frankly spotify offer a better chance for them to go independent than having to rely on connections to get radio play so someone will buy their music

Do you need to know?

It could be interesting to have it just be a canonical "black hole, ie nobody knows what's there - it started with people, animals and plants disappearing and then jumped to hills, buildings and even weather systems until there was nothing there at all as far as the outside world is aware; nobody who goes there ever comes back, satellite photos come back corrupted, and people are scared to even mention it

Some things "just work" on linux where they don't on windows. Fewer things "just work" on windows where they don't on linux. The stuff that doesn't "just work" on windows can probably be made to work with 1-2 hours of fiddling at most. The stuff that doesn't "just work" on Linux will more than likely take most of your day to get working if you can get it working at all.