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  • but also enriched the country as a whole

    Superficially. Most of those projects were for show, much similar to Ceausescu, but kept a lot of glaring poverty hidden from visitors, some whole slums either behind tall walls or just demolished en masse. During most of the 20-year reign more than half the loans the Marcoses acquired and meant for development were instead spent on luxuries.

    What kept the Marcoses from being thrown into jail was not only an army of lawyers but also their personality cult, many of them were once children during their regime (hence why the Marcoses heavily invested in some public education in addition to controlling media).



















  • Stuff like medical record portals, financial websites for my companies retirement plan. Stuff I have little choice about. And most fail silently.

    I recall how South Korea literally painted itself into a corner for becoming too dependent on Internet Explorer after years of using it with a security implementation based entirely on ActiveX.

    I’m currently using a user-agent switcher plugin. Allows me to spoof servers into believing I’m running a different browser.