In terms of absolute number of incarcerated persons, though, the US is ahead of everyone else by a country mile. Depending on which inmate pools you include or exclude, the US holds 20-25% of all incarcerated persons in the world.
Of course. At this point further analysis must be qualitative then quantitative (why this and that, what properly describes the clusters etc.), but certainly some interpretation of your idea is defensible defining implicit subsets.
I'd definitely say the 20% is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Anybody who has eaten raw and roasted cacao nibs should be able to easily identify the same flavors pervasively in chocolate, and which are from the raw cacao and which are from the roasting. Although the more sugar, dairy, and other adjuncts in the chocolate, the less the cacao flavors come through.
I live on a shared driveway with two other neighbors. The zoning laws in my town require an HOA for any shared driveways. So I technically live under an HOA. But we’ve all agreed to not fund it or bring it to life in any way. We just work out the shared responsibilities of the driveway informally over a bottle of whiskey.
I had an interaction with a raven in California that made me sure it has seen the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who. I was sitting on the ground, and it was behind me. It clearly wanted a bit of the sandwich I was eating, but it didn't move a muscle. Every time I turned around, it continued to be dead still, but was just a little closer to me. When it was finally about a foot away from me and just as statuesque as ever, I told it to buzz off because I wasn't going to feed it. It seemed to have understood and just walked away slowly, looking back at me occasionally with a hurt look in its eyes.
One of my son's old toys is up in some box in the attic. Whenever I go up there, about one in three times it says, "The lions says 'Roar'", when I'm walking back down the attic stairs. I don't know why that is what trips it, as walking up them doesn't seem to, and I don't know what box it is in and can't be bothered to look for it the pull the batteries out. It's been doing that for years, as he's in college now.
"These people are factually correct in everything they say"
Are they? I don't know the German movement, but the talking points I hear coming from US BARF people seem to mostly be a mix of FUD, naturalistic fallacy, anti-vax, and misunderstanding of biology.
Your opinion is wrong in my opinion. BARF is very much practised in the US as feeding whole raw unprocessed food. Like, chicken (with feathers, poop, stomach contents and everything that came with the bird), lamb (again everything that came with the lamb), fish (everything that…… you get the idea). And that really keeps the dogs healthy, no teeth problems, no cancer, nothing. I have a 11 year old Tervuren that outruns and outperforms 3-4 year old working Malinois.
Right, the "this diet cures cancer!" claims are probably why the parent comment has their opinion.
Both are likely correct. Highly processed foods are likely as bad for dogs as they are for humans, AND the people who lean hard into those claims tend to be nutters who are coincidentally correct about this alongside the antivax, anti seed oil, naturalistic bullshit that they use as virtue signaling.
I've made it a rule to only donate significant money (whatever "significant" might mean) to charities where I know the people and/or have visited them first hand. I love the idea of donating for a kid's education, and indeed have been "sponsoring a child" at jhamtse.org for the past several years. Because I've met the principles of the place, and have had family members involved on the ground there, I know the money is well spent. I know the "sponsorship" doesn't actually mean the money only goes to help that one individual kid, but I don't mind, and I like getting the updates about the progress of this particular boy.
Touching someone when asking them to do something is a well known psychological trick. It immediately increases intimacy, which makes the person more likely to do what you ask. Though it can also backfire if the person is particularly sensitive and finds the intimacy uncomfortable.
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