Just to clarify what is otherwise a valid point: Uyghurs are less than 1% of China's population, about 11 million in total. So while stuff you buy from China *may* have been partly made with Uyghur slave labor, it probably isn't.

But what it is *very* likely to have contributed to making something you buy from China is labor from ethnic Han (Chinese) internal migrants. There's 295 million of *them* and their working and living conditions are horrific. They are a permanent, hereditary legal underclass that cannot receive government protections and benefits where they work because of laws from the 1950s intended to keep peasants and their descendents in rural areas growing food. They can't protest or organize to improve working conditions because the Communist Party is supposed to represent workers.

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And minivans are no better than SUVs in terms of fuel economy or emissions.

A lot of people over 40 years old, have a hard time getting into and out of those lower-to-the ground cars.
A lot of people find it hard to carry home a piece of plywood for their latest DIY project, in a car.
A lot of people find it hard to get their children strapped in to that lower-to-the ground car.

Sure, if you're a young adult living in an apartment, with no babies to strap into that back seat, it makes sense that you wouldn't see the advantages of an SUV.

When we talk about authentication and authorization, we usually refer to them as a single collection of security precautions. In many contexts, we don't _have_ to distinguish between the two. Every single authentication platform or component, also does authorization, and vice versa. OAuth, MS Identity Server, whatever, they all do both. It's handy to just be able to use one short word to describe the collection of security features.

Just ask anybody that has tried to place Google Ads on their website, the rules, and the resulting traffic, fluctuates wildly. A lot of this fluctuation results from Google's constant battle with SEOs, which they try to thwart. So whatever this leak revealed, won't be in effect for long.

So how do ads get into this database of yours? For each one, somebody's got to be the guinea pig that gets that particular ad for the very first time. Would you trust the "first watchers" to do a got job of carefully marking the end point, for the benefit of everyone else?

I have a TiVo, which has an ad-skipping feature. They hire people to watch all the shows and mark the start and end of each ad block. They do a pretty crappy job of it, and it's literally their job. In a single show, they get it right maybe once. Usually, they mark the end of the ad block too early. Sometimes, they miss an ad block entirely. Unpaid "first watchers" aren't likely to do any better.

While I don't want to stomp on your narrative, the majority of oceanic plastic isn't from us. The Philippines, China, Thailand and some African nations are dumping most of the perfectly recyclable, domestically produced PVC plastic.

The US and Europe contribute only around 10 percent of the total.

I get UN reports about efforts to curb plastic dumping in Africa, and it is sort of amusing, because they have to stick to the narrative that it is the fault of the USA as close as possible, knowing that despite the handy target, they can't make it look like it is the presumed victims. They make their own PVC, they put their own products into it, then it's into the river.

The mode of plastic injection into the ocean starts at the rivers, where after using the contents the containers are just tossed in the local waterway. then the happy plastic floats to the ocean.

There are a number of solutions like recycle programs, riverine collection, and sweepers.

I'm not certain where Egypt falls on the plastic problem, but my guess is they essentially don't. That country recycles.

And of course there is the problem of the countries that produce most of the oceanic plastic will likely ignore this news even if it is somehow good.

The Philippines, China, Thailand, and Some African nations are the major players in the ocean plastic issue.

The Philippines are working to solve their contributions, the UN is working with th eAfrican nations, I'm not certin about Thailand, and the Chinese don't care much, unless things have changed.

The US and Europe probably will, but combined, we contribute around ten percent of oceanic plastic. So even if we got it to 0, it won't matter.

A real pity for such a recyclable product

Personally, I think that ADHD is less of an illness and more of a quirk, but it's a quirk that makes succeeding in modern society quite difficult. Society is built for the majority, for the normal, and that inevitably leaves some people behind. Untreated, I was much less successful, although I could still manage to get by in life. Drugs help to level the playing field a little in my case.

I wish my parents had listened to the advice of professionals when I was a child - I would have probably completed my education along with my peers, rather than having to go back and do so later in life.

I agree it is a quirk. We are too quick to name things illnesses. And yes, society is built for the normies.

In my own case, I ended up not caring a whole lot about society's mores. That's a complicated issue between my upbringing, family, and discovering my capabilities. Now, despite my mental oddness, I can fit right in with my peers socially. I don't talk near as much as they do - and kryste, so many talk a lot - to excess IMO. Of course, they are happy to have a listener.

Anyhow, looks like you found the fix for your quirk. My own fix is getting away from everyone at least one day a week. It allows my batteries to recharge while letting my mind work issues that I kept getting interrupted on while dealing with people. I hop in the Jeep, and drive until I'm ready to come back.

That sounds like introversion, but it isn't.

Cost.

First, there's the work to merge the two video streams into one. That would be a one-time technology cost.
Second, and more important, the ads don't come from the same servers, and maybe not even from Google's infrastructure. Funneling these ads through Google's infrastructure would add a significant ongoing cost to Google, for things like bandwidth.

These ad videos don't remain static or attached to the content you are trying to watch. Every time you watch a single video, the ad before it (and the length of that ad) could change.

The fight over "ultra processed" foods struggles with the definition of terms.

"Processed" foods are any foods that are not eaten whole and raw. Some examples of processes include cooking, baking, mixing ingredients, crushing, grinding, cutting. Source: https://www.webmd.com/diet/wha...

Processed foods include...anything you make using a recipe. There is *NO* evidence that processing, in and of itself, is harmful. In fact, some processes actually unlock nutrients, making the foods more beneficial to humans.

The truth is more complicated. Processed foods that incorporate ingredients simply for the sake of saving money for the manufacturer, probably aren't going to be as good for you. That squishy cheap white bread, for example, is not so good. Homemade whole-wheat sourdough, pretty good. Grape drink (which contains no grapes), not so good, 100% grape juice, pretty darn good for you. All four of these are "ultra-processed."

The devil, as they say, is in the details.

Seems a bit recursive.

Bribing is what you call it when the other side does it, lobbying is what you call it when your own side does it.