Да, аномальная погода не только в России. В Южно-Африканской Республике выпал снег. Местные СМИ сообщают, что снегопад был мощным: засыпало улицы, парализовано движение на дорогах, больше всего пострадала дорога, соединяющая Йоханнесбург и город Дурбан.
Снегопад — явление хоть и нетипичное для страны, но не аномальное. По словам местных метеорологов, снегопады случаются в Йоханнесбурге примерно раз в пять лет, а сильные снегопады — каждые 10–20 лет. Предыдущий сильный снегопад накрывал город в июле 2023 года.
Да, аномальная погода не только в России. В Южно-Африканской Республике выпал снег. Местные СМИ сообщают, что снегопад был мощным: засыпало улицы, парализовано движение на дорогах, больше всего пострадала дорога, соединяющая Йоханнесбург и город Дурбан.
Снегопад — явление хоть и нетипичное для страны, но не аномальное. По словам местных метеорологов, снегопады случаются в Йоханнесбурге примерно раз в пять лет, а сильные снегопады — каждые 10–20 лет. Предыдущий сильный снегопад накрывал город в июле 2023 года.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 230 points, or 0.7%. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.3% and 2.2%, respectively. All three indexes began the day with gains before selling off. "There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices. On December 23rd, 2020, Pavel Durov posted to his channel that the company would need to start generating revenue. In early 2021, he added that any advertising on the platform would not use user data for targeting, and that it would be focused on “large one-to-many channels.” He pledged that ads would be “non-intrusive” and that most users would simply not notice any change. 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. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform.
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