sevenapples

You mean the social media where people pay for content to be shoved down your throat? That social media?

Not really, since bits and bytes represent the same dimension of data.

Your argument is like saying "why say a car can do km/h when it is really m/s"

Belly? That illustration is (far) slimmer than the average middle-aged American

How so? You get a detailed bill each 2-3 months, and the percentage each apartment pays is always the same. It's not a random dude pooling together money each month, there's a detailed process involved. There are managerial firms that take over the process if the people at building decide so, at like 1 euro or so per apartment (per month)

The issues with this system are people not paying and that it's harder to maintain the building before something breaks (plus "aesthetic" expenses, such as painting it) because people don't want to pay more

That's true if one person owns every other apartment in the building, but it could be the case that every apartment is owned by different people.

That's usually the case here in Greece. No one owns the building itself and everyone pays a monthly amount towards the building's utility bills (the costs of running the elevator, entrance lights etc). The larger your apartment the more you contribute. When the apartment is rented, the renter usually pays the bill, but when there's maintenance costs involved (for example, the building's elevator broke), the landlord pays that part.

Why?

You're equating monthly cloud storage payments to paying 40$ per TB of external HDD storage?

For reference, 200GB of iCloud storage are 3$/month, so 36$ per year.

Check prices before you make comments like this.

He is coming from a country that suffered terrorist attacks organized by the US (Operation Mongoose), being ready to fire his country's deterrent weapons if they don't stop receiving such attacks makes sense to me.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cuba-trafficking-idUSKBN1WC00X

I wouldn't trust the country that tried to assassinate Cuba's leader, overthrow their government and organized terrorist attacks in its land to have valid criticisms for Cuba.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/07/23/cuba-repressive-rules-doctors-working-abroad

Health workers may also face criminal penalties if they “abandon” their jobs.

This sounds bad, but then again they're on a foreign mission, with their country's reputation on the line. A considerable amount of health workers abandoning their jobs might make the mission infeasible, which could create diplomatic issues for Cuba. Also, I wonder if that's the case on soldiers (American or otherwise) on foreign missions. I would expect that they can't abandon their jobs without penalty, and I don't see how this is that different.

it is considered a “disciplinary offense” to have “relationships” with anyone whose “actions are not consistent with the principles and values of the Cuban society,” as well as to be “friends or establish any other links” with Cuban dissidents, people who have “hostile or contrary views to the Cuban revolution,” or who are “promoters of a way of life contrary to the principles that a Cuban collaborator abroad must represent.”

Again, these seem restrictions that would apply on soldiers on foreign missions, so it doesn't seem weird to me that they apply to Cuba's medical missions.

Under Resolution 168, doctors need “authorization and instructions” to “express opinions” to the media about “internal situations in the workplace” or that “put the Cuban collaboration at risk.” It is also an offense to “disseminate or propagate opinions or rumors that undermine the morals or prestige of the group or any of its members.”

I believe Cuba wouldn't need to enforce this if they weren't under -economic- siege by the US and their allies. What the doctors do or say on the missions could be the start of a diplomatic incident.

Others said they joined in the hope of leaving the country or of obtaining access to food, such as meat, which they cannot buy with their salaries in Cuba.

I can't help but wonder if meat would be cheaper in Cuba without the embargo against them.

Campus would be better because of the mountains adjacency bonus

Ian also happens to be dead

firing squads are probably a better idea than the lethal injection