In my country we had always had massive unemployment rates.
People just live with family and keep studying until they can land a job. Plenty of people here hasn't got a job until their thirties, and rarely in the field the initially thought they'd be working.
It's shit living with your parents until you are 35, but it has been the deal here until very recently.
Who even uses steam big picture?
In my experience it has always had an horrible experience.
Also pc gaming has always been a thing.
It's just that consoles have been harder to justify not only because pc gaming have gotten better. But because consoles have gotten worse. It's no longer plug and play, now you have to do the same steps of installing, downloading things, checking if your version of the console can run that game... At that point big consoles are harder and harder to justify.
Sony will go behind of they don't do some changes. Xbox fell sooner because they had a thinner base. But sony is not out of danger.
Nintendo is probably fine as they rotated to handhelds, which are a different niche than normal pcs. And because they hold massive exclusive IPs.
There's no conspiracy. It's just people being lazy about good writing.
Also it doesn't happen just in western society. There are plenty of asian movies which fall in the same problem.
Performative nazism, lol.
Anyway, just for educational purposes. Bookstores usually not just buy books in bulk and hope not to go bankrupt for a bad purchase. They do not take all the risk. When books are bought by a bookstore contracts are made, usually the store pay the publisher after a set amount of time, and if books are not sold, they return the books to the publisher. Contract between publisher and author tend to imply a percentage of sells, so if that books were not sold author won't see the money either.
In this case if books are burn by a mob, the bookstore might just not be able to pay the publisher, so the publisher won't be able to pay the author.
Not to even begin with editions and batches. A bookstore won't buy all the books they pretend to sell on a single batch, they will be buying by batches. If at some point they get raided they just will stop trying to buy more batches. Same fron publisher perspective with editions. They will print out more editions depending on the sales. If a book is not being sold, because it's being burned, they won't print more editions. No more editions = no money to author either.
Not necessarily. They could go to the store and burn all the stock of one particular book.
I'm not American. bbc is also a external news source for me.
I mean.. why do that?
If the government want to kill people in a country where they can get away with it they'll just send armed men to shoot them.
Poisoning water supply is something the joker would do in a comic book, but on reality it won't make a lot of sense for any big city. Going there and shooting people is probably much more effective, less expensive and let you with a not-poisoned city to settle with your own people.
People burning books usually burn other people's books, not their own.
Why?
My country's passport is categorized as the 3rd better in the word, but I never really used it or saw any special advantage to it.
I suppose it can be useful if you travel a lot internationally, but if that's not the case is not really that big of a deal.
In my life experience the only way to test the reliability of a news source is to actually live some events and see how they are reported by different media.
I have no such experience with al Jazeera, so I couldn't tell you reliably if they are or not reliable. Best advice with media is, unless you are certain they are reliable, treat them as unreliable.
Snails are the cutest. I used go have them.
They also love scaping their enclosure and hiding. Some of them scape more than others and some had favourite hiding spots.