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Netflix Spent Six Years Telling Customers Love Is Sharing a Password. Once It Started Charging $7.99 a Month Per Shared Password Instead, Subscriber Growth Hit Its Best Year Since the Pandemic.
On March 10, 2017, Netflix's official Twitter account posted four words that would follow the company around for the next six years: "Love is sharing a password." It was a promo tweet for a show called Love, but it was also, unmistakably, a policy statement — an
China GT Says Its Safety Setup Complied With National-Level Standards. The Driver Was Pulled From His Burning Ferrari by a Rival Who Stopped Mid-Race and Took a Fire Extinguisher From a Marshal.
On Saturday 5 September 2026, on the back straight at Shanghai, David Chen of Harmony Racing and Neil Verhagen of TBC by 610Racing made contact and slid through the grass. Chen's Ferrari 296 GT3 struck the Ferrari of Ollie Millroy, which caught fire with Millroy inside it. Loek
Islam Files, No. 5 — The Meccan Verses Say There Is No Compulsion in Religion. The Medinan Verses, Which the Classical Law Treats as Later, Say to Fight Those Who Do Not Believe.
Qur’an 2:256: “There is no compulsion in religion.” It is the verse on the pamphlet. Qur’an 109: “To you your religion, and to me mine.” Meccan, early, recited when the preacher had no army. Qur’an 9:5: kill the polytheists wherever you find them. Qur’an
Islam Files, No. 4 — The Life Is Called the Best-Documented Biography on Earth. The Town at the Center of It Does Not Appear in the Pre-Islamic Record, and the First Full Life Survives from the Ninth Century.
In the standard narrative the Prophet is born in Mecca in 570, receives revelation there from 610, leaves in 622, and dies in 632. The Qur’an names “Makka” once, in 48:24. Everything else is “Masjid al-Haram,” which the later tradition glues to the Kaaba. The sira makes
Ferrero's Vanilla Flavor Comes From Petrochemicals, Not Vanilla Beans, and That's the Most Boring Fact Here. In December 2021, Ferrero Found Salmonella in Its Own Factory and Waited Four Months to Tell Anyone.
The vanilla flavor in Ferrero Rocher does not come from a vanilla bean. The ingredient list says "vanillin," and vanillin, in almost every industrial confectionery product on Earth, is made from guaiacol — a compound derived from petrochemicals — reacted with glyoxylic acid in a process refined since the 1970s.
Islam Files, No. 3 — The Interfaith Brochure Says Anyone May Leave. Reliance of the Traveller, Certified by al-Azhar, Says the One Who Leaves “Deserves to Be Killed.”
Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri died in 1368. His Umdat al-Salik, published in English as Reliance of the Traveller and carrying al-Azhar’s certification, is a standard Shafi‘i handbook, not a Telegram channel. Section o8.1: “When a person who has reached puberty and is sane voluntarily
Apple's iCloud Storage Margins Run Near 80 Percent, a 2024 Lawsuit Alleges. The MicroSD Slot That Let Phone Owners Skip That Bill Disappeared From Flagships the Same Decade Storage Subscriptions Took Off.
For a decade, phone makers gave four reasons for deleting the microSD slot: it lets water in, it lets dust in, cheap cards are too slow for modern software, and the space is needed for bigger batteries. Every one of those reasons is true. None of them explains why the
Islam Files, No. 2 — Sahih al-Bukhari Says the Marriage Was Contracted at Six and Consummated at Nine. The Same Canon Says a Rape Did Not Occur Unless Four Male Muslim Witnesses Saw It.
Sahih al-Bukhari 5134, on the authority of Aisha: he married her when she was six and consummated the marriage when she was nine. Bukhari 3894 puts the same ages in her own voice, including the scene: women washed her, the Prophet arrived mid-morning, she was nine. Bukhari 3896
Islam Files, No. 1 — The Constitution of Medina Named Three Jewish Clans as Allies. The Pact of Umar Later Priced the Rest of the Region’s Christians as a Tax Line.
In 622 the oasis of Yathrib took in a preacher the Meccans had run out of town. The document later called the Constitution of Medina listed the Jewish clans of Banu Qaynuqa, Banu Nadir, and Banu Qurayza among the parties to a common defense. They kept their religion and their
Nepal Asked China in May 2026 for Earlier Warning on Glacier Movements Along Their Border. Three Months Later, a Glacial Collapse Killed Over 1,000 People Downstream With No Warning at All.
On August 26, 2026, a piece of ice and rock roughly a third the size of Central Park broke off Langtang Lirung, a Himalayan peak on the Nepal-China border, fell more than a kilometer, and turned into a debris flood that traveled nearly 100 kilometers down the Trishuli River