Good to know!

I don’t think that many people are buying shit quality products second hand

Well-functioning second hand markets encourage buying quality products new, cause they have resell value. If the quality is truly shit, nobody would be paying money for it, especially second hand.

A few thoughts:

• Depends how much money you are spending to buy those clothes. If it’s almost the same as the price as new, it makes it easier for the people who buy the clothes new to keep buying more and more stuff.
• If you aren’t spending a lot of money, this is like the opposite of fast fashion. You are making the life cycle of those clothes longer by buying them.

PS. I don’t think we should individualize things like this. A significant chunk of the clothes we buy – and other things as well – are made under miserable conditions and/or by children, and it’s very difficult to avoid all of that. It’s a systemic issue that needs to be solved on a systemic level.

Yes, for example hypothyroidism

They might be increasing in weight due to absorbing more water into their body

I don’t and I’m 30. Almost anything before the age of 7 and quite little between 7 and 14.

But AFAIK most people do remember quite some stuff from their childhood for the rest of their life. And forget some of course. I guess it varies.

Clearly its not universal but rather a cultural phenomenon if they were fine but you feel humiliated

Apart from the obvious ones of like, getting a visa and difficulty of getting a passport, in rough order of my completely non-scientific guesstimate

• Stability, safety
• Long-term track record of employment opportunities, and pay vs cost of living. You want to be able to find a job, and not starve.
• Price and quality of government services such as healthcare, education etc.
• Language situation. As an English speaker, you’d either want to go for English speaking, or somewhere where people speak alright English but let you practice their language so that you can eventually learn it. Also, see language difficulty for English speakers
• Culture and attitudes towards immigration; how difficult is it to socially integrate
• Matters of taste, would you like the culture, food, climate etc.

Paywalls only move this to the consumer:

If art doesn’t make you money, only rich people can make art.

Under the current system, you can make money making art, but only access it if you’re not poor (or pirate it lol).

Either way, much of art becomes an image of the experiences of rich people, either through the artists themselves or the audience.

A more fundamental change is needed if you really want to solve this issue.

There are oral rapid tests for drugs in my country that the police use

1. get each traffic cop one 2) there are similar devices for the rapid testing of drugs as well

No? This all sounds so weird to me. Breathalyzers exist.

Do some countries really use dumb tests like this to enforce DUI laws? What?

Sorry if this sounds rude, but based on your comments it seems that you’re just entering the early phase of the Dunning-Kruger curve on nutrition. Which means, you’ve started learning and are getting overly confident, despite not knowing that much in the grand scheme of things.

Don’t make big dietary changes because you just read something online. Don’t fall for fad diets. Don’t quit eating a large group of foods because they vaguely feel “unhealthy”. Learn about nutrition thoroughly, from reputable sources.

It’s good that you’re asking questions, though.

Never heard of this and cannot relate, maybe the better phrasing would be “why do I like the taste of ethanol so much”.

Irrational customer behavior is usually manufactured by well-funded marketing departments.

They don’t ”have to”, they know it’s not gonna fix anything. Strategically, it’s perfect though: it only increases instability and makes the economy worse, which in turn is just further going to fuel authoritarianism.

You might have had shitty experiences with some particular women, but generalizing that to other women is bad for both women in general and you.

Free music archive https://freemusicarchive.org/ has a lot of music licensef under the various creative commons licences