Your reasons are why i generally still use Reddit (i didnt feel butthurt losing access to most 3rd party apps as im mainly desktop user - however i do frequent Tildes more than Lemmy) - most of the communities i use never left reddit (dont see intention to either) and there isnt comparable equivalents on Lemmy (not on Tildes either but i prefer the more indepth discussions there)

Is 70% correct?. I thought Thailand and Vietnam were just as big of producers? (we get more rice from thailand/vietnam/cambodia/+ grow our own locally here in australia). I never buy basmati…

40-45C happens in our summers on a semi regular basis (thank f*** last summer we only had a handful of days like that). Inner Oz can reach close to 50C in some areas…