I'll never forgive the Saudis for defacing the Sacred Mosque and the Holy Kaaba in Mecca with this grotesque clock tower and the obnoxiously luxurious hotels and resorts surrounding it.
Mecca is supposed to be a place where a person turns his full attention to his Lord, where one lets go of all things worldly, where one bows humbly in prayer at his Majesty. It's not a place for 5 star hotels, Michelin-star dinners, spa resorts and designer clothing stores.
I'll never forgive the Saudis for defacing the Sacred Mosque and the Holy Kaaba in Mecca with this grotesque clock tower and the obnoxiously luxurious hotels and resorts surrounding it.
Mecca is supposed to be a place where a person turns his full attention to his Lord, where one lets go of all things worldly, where one bows humbly in prayer at his Majesty. It's not a place for 5 star hotels, Michelin-star dinners, spa resorts and designer clothing stores.
Individual messages can be fully encrypted. But the user has to turn on that function. It's not automatic, as it is on Signal and WhatsApp. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. Also in the latest update is the ability for users to create a unique @username from the Settings page, providing others with an easy way to contact them via Search or their t.me/username link without sharing their phone number. Telegram has gained a reputation as the “secure” communications app in the post-Soviet states, but whenever you make choices about your digital security, it’s important to start by asking yourself, “What exactly am I securing? And who am I securing it from?” These questions should inform your decisions about whether you are using the right tool or platform for your digital security needs. Telegram is certainly not the most secure messaging app on the market right now. Its security model requires users to place a great deal of trust in Telegram’s ability to protect user data. For some users, this may be good enough for now. For others, it may be wiser to move to a different platform for certain kinds of high-risk communications. And while money initially moved into stocks in the morning, capital moved out of safe-haven assets. The price of the 10-year Treasury note fell Friday, sending its yield up to 2% from a March closing low of 1.73%.
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