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Across the world, the biggest smartphone manufacturers are Apple (28%), Samsung (24%), Xiaomi (12%), Oppo (6%) and Vivo (5%). However, there are geographic patterns in popularity, with Apple dominating North America and East Asia, while Samsung leads in South America, Europe, Africa and West Asia in addition to its home turf of South Korea. Xiaomi is the most popular phone brand across South Asia, Spain, Venezuela, Ukraine, Madagascar, Kyrgyzstan and Palestine, while Tecno is popular in West and Central Africa. Oppo, Vivo and Huawei lead in Indonesia, Bhutan and Togo respectively.

Low hanging fruit, but whatever. It is what it is.

(Context: the 2024 Parliament elections in India, for the constituency of Kollam. The numbers in brackets are lead, not change from last election. Source: Election Commission of India)

Source: Part 1 and Part 2

Tl;dw - Unlike China and Japan, medieval Korea followed an extreme school of Confucianism that emphasized hierarchy and age over practicality. After WW2, the South Korean ~~dictatorship~~ government used this tradition to cement their own power. The video argues that these have made South Korea an extremely hierarchical, and in particular, sexist, society. A video game's refusal to sexualize a female character for their (mostly male) audience was thus seen as an attack on the system. A female artist at the studio was accused of being a 'radical feminist', and either fired or resigned to appease fans.

Edit: As Denjin pointed out, it should be Ming Dynasty and not Tang Dynasty.

Hey bro, can I have some antibiotic resistance?

Sure bro, but remember that the heavy metal tolerance gene is a dependency.

Shit, I'm on python 2 but hmrA requires python 3.

Today's result: President wins

Image caption: Panel 1 - A few weeks ago - Putin as the Raiden Shogun promising to let the traveller (Prigozhin) leave Russia alive. Panel 2 - Yesterday - The Raiden Shogun attacking the traveller once they have stepped foot outside.

Context: two people who developed extremely destructive weapons, were horrified by their use, and had biographical films made about them.

Jiro Horikoshi was a Japanese aviation engineer who designed the dreaded Mitsubishi A6M Rei-sen ('Zero' to allied pilots). J Robert Oppenheimer was a US physicist who led the development of the nuclear bomb.

Note that The Wind Rises is only partly based on Horikoshi's life, and also borrows from Hori Tatsuo's semi-autobiographical novel The Wind has Risen (itself named after a French poem) and director Hayao Miyazaki's childhood experiences of WW2.