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Look at Portugal. They treated drugs as a social issue and are making great progress.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...
https://time.com/longform/portugal-drug-use-decriminalizatio...
But this problem is nearly universal to all boyfriend/girlfriend roleplay asmr videos.
What if the person watching is much older or younger(like an 8 year old or 50 year old) etc.
Youtube doesn't offer much in terms of setting an age group for an intended audience. You could tag is as mature, but that only splits it to 18+/ or not 18+. And even if someone were to tag their video as being for a specific gender or age group, there is no preventing someone from outside that group watching it.
It may be awkward, but it comes with the territory. Asmr artists on youtube have pretty much come to accept it.
Having corrupt aides is bad. But there will continue to be people who demand dirt on the actual person in question before considering impeachment.
Texas for the most part is not prepared for blizzards or icy conditions. We do not have winter tires, we do not carry snow shovels. There are no snowplows that I have ever seen or heard of. We close schools after 1 to 2 inches of snow, and we put sand on roads.
Most people have heavy coats/jackets, but rarely ever wear them. But despite our under-preparedness, not many people die from cold weather in Texas.
This data is a bit old(2003-2008), but is illustrative.
https://www.dshs.texas.gov/chs/vstat/Hotcolddths/hotcolddths...
Preparedness for summer is deeply ingrained in everyone's minds here. Many Apartment complexes treat issues with AC units as emergency situations, reach out to on-call handymen and give high priority to their fix.
In the city of Dallas, city code requires that property owners provide refrigerated air to tenants from April 1 to Nov. 1.
"According to state law, landlords must fix any condition that threatens a tenant's health or safety. In Texas, that condition can include a sweltering day in a stuffy apartment with no air conditioning."
It is my hope that people in France look for ways to prepare and better safeguard the health and well-being of their citizens against the heat.
Some information taken from https://www.dallasnews.com/news/investigations/2009/10/07/dm...
I assume the left out the part where they take Nitrogen from the air as part of the fermentation process.
I am not sure I understand how this is different from any other company. Most corporations have bylaws that force them to optimize for profit.
In fact many corporations, if they don't optimize for profit, they can be sued by shareholders for securities fraud.
To be clear, I am not saying this is right, or there is not a human toll to this mentality. I am just not able to see "Big Tech" as acting any differently than other large companies with similar size, reach, and economic power.
I realize she is making a similar point, but why single out one group?
When you read an article at Forbes, you are assaulted by scrolling ads, banners and other stuff from every direction. The appearance and experience is chaotic and clingy.
If we are going by appearances, why should Examine.com have worse search indexing than Forbes articles?
Here is an example from both: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2019/07/25/a-billio...
But I do recall there was one type of genetically modified corn that was made to produce a specific chemical that caused insects' stomachs to explode. Supposedly it was there to reduce the need for pesticides. I recall thinking to myself, If it does that to insect stomachs, what would it do it animals' stomachs?
The other issue that we haven't fully gotten figured out is cross pollination concerns. Aside from the problem of Monsanto's suicide seeds that grow only once and can't be harvested again accidentally cross pollinating with regular seeds from nearby fields, there is another problem with people becoming legally liable for the actions of bees, butterflies and other pollinators. Some GMO's have unreasonably restrictive licensing. This has resulted in a person's field getting pollinated with by bees who were pollinating GMO plants from a neighboring field now getting sued for having plants they haven't licensed even though did not originally plant that particular variety.
Some smaller companies are fine. But the ones that aren't very profitable and are older, or are a child company of a parent company, no guarantees.
But I have seen the bad kind. You think you are in a work-hard play-hard environment and it turns out it is really a "good old boys" setup.
I've seen people play football outside for over an hour some days, but then someone else gets fired for pulling out a bed and resting for 15 minutes during their lunch break. And yes there was a bed in the closet at the office.
It could be argued either way.
You could say its more efficient not to have the T/V distinction because then you don't have to think about how you want to express yourself.
Conversely, if you wanted to be very polite or very rude, people would have to rely more on context or vocal cues. Thus less efficient because now you have to express the politeness or rudeness in other ways.
But in Japanese, you are not only convening politeness information, which can be in the form of polite verbs (Keigo), polite verb endings, and polite pronouns, and honorifics, you are also partially conveying your own perception of your self importance and sense of masculinity or femininity.
Japanese has 4 words for "If" each one is used in a different set of circumstances and has a slightly different meaning and flavor.
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/conditionals#Ho...
While all of those circumstances are covered by the English "If", the flavor and connotation is lost.
Similarly with Japanese and personal pronouns.
There is one word for "I" in English, but many many words for "I" in Japanese, each with it's own flavor and implications.
http://nihonshock.com/2009/11/the-many-ways-to-say-i/
These other "I"s express additional information about the person using them. It's not that this information cannot be expressed alternatively, but it's very efficient to simply use the right "I" to convey the right meaning.
My dad however is nearly bald with grey hair and his skin is a little worse for the wear.
I am very sad to seem him like this and wish I could do something for him. The only thing I can think of though is to tell him to look for remote roles so that they don't see what he actually looks like and won't discriminate against him.
Believe it or not, for me, low appetite is often goes hand in hand with not getting enough salt. I have found that I can fix low appetite by getting more salt.
I don't know the exact mechanism, but I suspect the Chloride part of Sodium Chloride contributes to the Chloride part of Hydrochloric acid in my stomach.
Here is an example in case you thought I was making up this genre:
Though honestly, it's not enough.
How much damage can someone do with my name and social security number? I bet you it's more than 125 dollars can fix.
This data could end up circulating the web or dark web for years and years.
https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/refunds/eq...
So I strongly doubt it is a scam.
But I am glad to see they aren't getting out with a slap on the wrist.
If you know of ones that are high quality please point me in the right direction.
If they had 1/3 as many shows but those shows were 3 times better. I am sure I would have no problem.