Well now I have to use a condom to put my shoes on ๐ข
ShrimpCurler
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I think they've purposefully worded it in a way that's less intuitive for more engagement. Obviously there would be many things that would adversely impact both semen quality and lifespan...
Discord is great (ignoring privacy concerns) for playing games and chatting with some friends. But, it's crazy that so many people seem to think it's good for more public information sharing and support.
Primitive is a relative term. As long as we continue to progress, we won't be primitive for the current time. But, would be considered primitive in the future.
I'd recommend trying mindfulness and meditation. It's helped me immensely and there's real science to back up its benefits. You should also find a good therapist / consider medication and everything else that others are suggesting, but meditation is something you can try right now and see if it can help more quickly.
I've found the Headspace Guide to Meditation to be a very good introduction. It's on Netflix, but looks like people have been uploading it to DailyMotion. You can also try the open source Medito app (iOS, Android).
I've found it really helps me step away from all the horrible thoughts/stress/anxiety, relax, and then deal with things in a more healthy way.
All the best!
A different context, but I think this is actually a pretty good rule for software engineering. A number of times I was sure a problem was someone elses fault, only for them to find my own silly mistake that I was overlooking. Sometimes the opposite also happens to me. Now I really make sure and typically find the actual root cause of problems before I suggest someone else caused it.
Yeah people in the US tend to assume everything is about the US. Sometimes it's good to remind them that other places exist and have internet.
You got me curious and I wasn't satisfied with any of the existing responses to this. I agree that public sightings would certainly be correlated with whale population, but it would have plenty of other compounding factors, so it's a pretty poor way to estimate population.
The Internation Whaling Commission will do sighting surveys do get an actual population estimate. This is with groups of specific people going out in boats and/or planes to spot them and using those numbers to extrapolate population number with certain confidence intervals. I'm not sure how they do the extrapolation, but I can't be bothered looking into it further.
I did also find this plot using population estimates, including a projection to 2030 (made in 2019)
I'm guessing we would have the capability to gather more accurate measurements, but there's probably just no funding for that and the current sighting surveys are good enough for what we need...
Well there wouldn't be much point to the Great Chinese Firewall if lots of uncontrolled information was flowing in and out through social media.
So reduce their numbers and get gun control. What's not to like?