there are people who have nothing to lose, no family etc. - what about them?

All I'm going to say is that squeezing the middle class like they have been is going to create a lot terminally ill people with otherwise treatable disease. Those people may very well be incredibly pissed off, along with family, and also have the time and resources to do things that might be life-ending anyway.

Which is amazing since pigeons are usually kinda shit at making nests:

Inexplicably, despite having the same parent company, a google (or any engine really) search is going to have far better results for finding videos on youtube. I swear they stopped improving the internal search capability back in 2010, when they could have just punted to google.com ages ago.

I especially like the little glimpses to the advertisement hellscape I'm avoiding when my adblock plugin fails to work (usually right before they need an update). I especially like how the ads are rocking some kind of premium low-latency CDN while the rest of youtube is served from a cluster of used xboxes, presumably co-located in an abandoned Radio Shack in suburban Alaska. Treat your users better, Google.

My initial reaction: "Al(ex) sounds like a know-it-all, but I really need more context here."

It's a whole Sinosphere phenomenon, not just Japan. Take a look at Samsung or Tencent, for example.

It also looks like it's a Kei car. We don't do smart things like that here.

Garak is bi.

I mean, as a former spy, that's just plain useful. Even without Bashir around, it just makes sense.

U.S. military

Being between the ages of 18-25 doesn't count! At that age, you can practically eat pizza for every meal and outrun the drawbacks with minimal exercise and no sleep.