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...
ShrimpCurler
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Why is the extremely important work of early childcare and teaching not valued as highly as banking or mine working?
This, I think is one of the biggest issues. But, it's not caused by employers discriminating against women. It's also not something individual companies can solve. I think it's an inherent flaw in our capitalist society. Caring for rich people could earn you a decent living, but if you're caring for the people who really need it... Most of them can't pay what it's really worth.
Also, if there's people willing to do the job at minimum wage, then there's going to be CEOs willing to hire them and take all the profit for themselves / shareholders.
But they were using starvation as a weapon weren't they? They were blocking aid workers from bringing food into the area...
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...
David McRaney has some really good content on this topic. I recommend listening to his podcast episode called How Minds Change, about deep canvasing. He has a whole book by the same name, if you want to read more about it.
Edit: I should summarise the key points I've taken from consuming his content:
- Facts and figures don't change minds, stories people can relate to are much more effective
- Changing minds can take a lot of time
- An approach known to have a decent success rate is to have a calm discussion where both people are trying to understand each other and find some common ground while following the steps of deep canvasing
Having said all that, it's best in 1 to 1 conversations. Not sure how effective you can be on the internet, but I do think it's best to try to show understanding of other peoples views and steel man their arguments (opposite of straw man) while sharing your own views.
Just because it's hard doesn't mean it can't be done... I feel like he's got a defeatist attitude toward politics, where if something fails it's not worth trying again. But, social change takes time and persistence. I think being moderate right now is a pretty sure way to lose elections. Because, people aren't happy. People are wanting changes.