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.
He adds: "Telegram has become my primary news source." But the Ukraine Crisis Media Center's Tsekhanovska points out that communications are often down in zones most affected by the war, making this sort of cross-referencing a luxury many cannot afford. Just days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Durov wrote that Telegram was "increasingly becoming a source of unverified information," and he worried about the app being used to "incite ethnic hatred." "We're seeing really dramatic moves, and it's all really tied to Ukraine right now, and in a secondary way, in terms of interest rates," Octavio Marenzi, CEO of Opimas, told Yahoo Finance Live on Thursday. "This war in Ukraine is going to give the Fed the ammunition, the cover that it needs, to not raise interest rates too quickly. And I think Jay Powell is a very tepid sort of inflation fighter and he's not going to do as much as he needs to do to get that under control. And this seems like an excuse to kick the can further down the road still and not do too much too soon." Telegram does offer end-to-end encrypted communications through Secret Chats, but this is not the default setting. Standard conversations use the MTProto method, enabling server-client encryption but with them stored on the server for ease-of-access. This makes using Telegram across multiple devices simple, but also means that the regular Telegram chats you’re having with folks are not as secure as you may believe.
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