'Long Legs, Private Beach' (2022) -- a Blazing Hot Day at the Beach in the Shade and the Glorious Tropical Waters, Railay, Krabi Province, Southern Thailand
Only 8% of the world’s population actually lives in a full, functioning democracy, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
Meanwhile, another 37% of people live in some type of “flawed democracy”, while 55% of the world does not live in democracy at all, based on the EIU’s latest Democracy Index Report.
The Big Buddha (Tian Tan Buddha) is a large bronze statue of Buddha, completed in 1993, and located at Ngong Ping, Lantau Island, in Hong Kong. The statue is sited near Po Lin Monastery and symbolises the harmonious relationship between man and nature, people…
Nestled in the old Hong Kong district of Wan Chai, the Chung Wui mansion sits right in the middle of an intersection, similar to New York’s Flat Iron Building, but with a lot more pastel flair.
Vietnam records highest ever temperature of 44.1C (111.38F).
A climate scientist told AFP: "I believe this record will be repeated many times. It confirms that extreme climate models are being proven to be true.”
Me: Pre-colonial times, the people of what we later known as “Filipinos” were already feared across what we know today as Asia-Pacific. Post-colonial times, Filipinos are still a force to reckon with, and they know to never wake the sleeping Philippine eagle if they want to keep the current status quo.
@nikikursalow Welcome to Paktodon.Asia, the first Pakistani mastodon instance!
Heres some tips for you to get started, feel free to ask around for helpful, its a very nice community here. #WelcomeWednesday
You must be using either the Tusky app on android, a web browser on a pc, or any other third-party app; the official mastodon app has very limited features:
It is home to several #UNESCO#World#Heritage Sites, including the ancient city of Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva. Uzbekistan is also known for its traditional #crafts, such as ceramics, #embroidery, and #weaving .
One of the highest birth rate in #ASEAN, down to third lowest in the region.
2022 Birth per woman down to 1.9 after 7 decades
The UN projects that in the next 3 decades there will just be 8 countries responsible for half of the world's population growth, and the only ASEAN country in it is the Philippines.
In the 1960s, the Philippines had the highest birth rate in #Asia.
1960s population was 36 million, today it is 110 million.
I used to work for #L2SEA as a content officer, which included #webdevelopment and community forums administration (backend, frontend, managed the community team) Oh, that included the #GuildWars (#GW) 1 Philippine community forums and website.
It was a blast working with the company, with #NCsoft Korea our partner and game developer, my managers and my team, and all the players I've met both online and offline events.
I don't think people are realising the danger the Fediverse is in.
The only thing stopping corporations and VCs taking over this place is that the Fediverse is spread out on many different servers, which makes it very difficult to purchase.
If most of the Fediverse ends up on mastodon.social, which is now a strong possibility, there will be nothing to stop most of it being sold to Musk or Zuckerberg or whoever.
The bigger mastodon.social becomes, the more likely a buyout is to happen.
When something is lacking in Mastodon, people assume it is the Fediverse / ActivityPub that is lacking. That is like saying chicken is the worst food because you've tasted McDonald's chicken, when there #Jollibee's #ChickenJoy is tastier and juicier.
There are now even people who praise a non-fediverse network based on those false assumptions above. They have time to research a non-fediverse network, but doesn't have the time to do their due diligence about the Fediverse; all because they falsely assumed they've seen everything.
It's like moving to a new country, settling in a new home, exploring their new neighbourhood, and then assumed that village they're in is a representation of the entire country.
If we can make people see, and make people explore their own “city” and “country”, then maybe, just maybe, the distribution of people in the fediverse will start to balance between the different forks, projects, and instances. It won't happen overnight, but maybe we can plant the seeds.