These practices include such offenses as fertilizing garlic with human feces and forms of sewage, growing garlic in sewage

From https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/you-asked/it-true-garlic-china-grown-human-feces-and-watered-urine

there is no evidence that garlic in China is fertilized in this fashion. In any case, there is no problem with this, human waste is as effective a fertilizer as is animal waste. Spreading human sewage on fields that grow crops doesn’t sound appealing, but it is safer than you might think.

That would be my guess too at first glance. What do they think manure is if they’re grossed out at sewage? As long as it’s treated properly to reduce pathogens then it’s just “ew yucky I don’t like the real world”.

Yeah he’s rich as fuck but he’s not a trillionaire

Glad for them, the western efforts to sanction and blockade Ughyur trade was going to harm all the people there (as sanctions are basically always guaranteed to do). The West is well aware of this of course, this is why they use sanctions to “punish” opposition so it’s sure strange they’re willing to use that tool against the people they claim are being genocided.

Wasn’t the chastity belt hacking story a fake? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEM6SHbjY7Y

Edit: looking into it more, seems like there was a (maybe) real story about it perhaps and then the YouTuber messaged the writer of the original coverage and pretended he was a second victim.

Modern Warfare 2 (the first one). When you’re climbing the ice wall and you fall and get caught, the level of detail on the face was astounding to kid me. It was like watching something in real life to me.

Probably helped that it was off of my sister’s high def TV.

How can there be civilians at all if mandatory conscription is a thing? Every civilian is a potential soldier in Israel. I feel bad for the people who were just born into the world without making any of these decisions and got hurt but they were, whether they like it or not, going to be used as a tool of terror by the Israeli state.

You can’t use your civilians as weapons and then fall back and claim they’re not a threat.

If Israel ends the mandatory conscription, and lets the civilians stay civilians, I might have more outrage.

To be clear here, while they advocate for UBI this isn’t really a study on the topic as much as it is on direct cash payments to the homeless. Which has been supported by tons of different research in Canada, London, so many places I can’t even remember them all.

but that probably cannot be said about Canada.

Depends on what you’re eating. Even in the most insanely priced areas, beans and rice tend to be pretty damn cheap, and North Americans do not eat a lot of rice or beans or chili or other cheap foods that are staples in lots of Asian diets.

Butterflies are just crazy animals in general. Back in the 1800s there was even a naturalist arrested in Chile because they thought he was spreading lies about them https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/insect-metamorphosis-evolution/

As he explained it, paxlovid has its own side-effects, there isn’t a limitless supply of it, and if you’re young and healthy and vaccinated already you’re not going to see a meaningful reduction in symptoms

Pretty much all of medicine is a balance between risk and reward. This can actually be an issue sometimes with things like screenings or whatever where we pick up things that aren’t actually an issue (even if they’re scary) and are unlikely to pose a threat by the end of a person’s natural life and then put them through an onslaught of medical intervention that hurts their QOL way more than the actual problem was likely to ever do for them.

That’s not to say that screening and treating minor issues is bad or anything, just that we need caution to avoid causing unnecessary harm.

From what I’m aware of, Paxlovid isn’t approved under the FDA normally but rather under emergency authorization which means some pretty big limitations on how it can be prescribed.

Now it’s an absurdity that they haven’t fast tracked the approval process but that’s the main issue at least.

Oh you’re a “free thinker”? Name your top three independent thoughts

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I don’t think it’s particularly unreasonable to conclude that any decent approach to the first will also include the second. That shit is literally designed to be addictive, even the best teachers are gonna struggle to compete.

It’s especially concerning when it extends to global/political issues (this is why I said this might be controversial). Reading a quick Wikipedia summary and/or article can go a long way

One of my favorite examples of people getting things embarrassingly wrong is the “Taiwan is not part of China” crowd. Both sides historically disagree with this. Taiwan being a part of China is not some point that has been in dispute until very recently.

The disagreement has historically been over which is the “rightful government”. Sure sentiments in Taiwan have been changing but even this year there was a former Taiwanese president saying this explicitly

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/we-are-all-chinese-former-taiwan-president-says-while-visiting-china-2023-03-28/

Any of the dumbass Americans who proudly declare “Taiwan is not and never has been a part of China” can be easily dismissed.

This is a big reason that high quality TVs are getting so much more affordable.

There’s a lot of reasons like improved technology and efficiency but yeah, the ability to play such targeted ads based off what you’re doing is pretty insane and they have a vested interest to sell at less profit.

And at the end of the day the amount of people who are willing to just not connect their TV to the internet in the first place or find a way to circumvent them is low. Like it still shocks me every time I see a YouTuber not have adblock on.

“A feature of capitalism is a gap between rich and poor,” said Shih Wing Ching, the owner of Centaline property, the biggest property agency in Hong Kong, who has taken up the golf club’s cause, though he does not play himself. “If you try to erase the feature, say by taking away golf, then it’s not capitalism, it’s socialism.” And he says that is not what Hong Kong needs.

LMAO

I’ve been playing games ever since I was a little kid, I don’t really remember any particular “first game”. We did have an old SNES that I did all the time so probably Super Mario World I guess.

Depends. If we mean “without a personal teacher” sure, but no one is looking at a book of a language the don’t know and just suddenly learning it.

Parents are essential for student growth and education but that doesn’t make them responsible for all of it. The entire point of school is to take on the the major burden of teaching kids with expertise and efficiency and providing a place for children to be with other children.