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@exchemist Understandable. The myth found me (Google gave it). It is purely US issue. Here not existent. I know nobody who takes any opioids (legally or illegally).. ..but they are depressants.. i.e., they make a person less active, less agitated, sleepy.. etc. It is hard to commit suicide if you are drunk and almost sleeping, as long as you have no easy access to weapons (and bike/motor/car).. (You need the statistics of blood analysis of people who committed suicide, how many of them were under the influence of X, Y and Z...) Which opens yet another level of complexity - how many of drunk drivers/motorcyclists were actually suiciders-to-be.., ("did they hit XXX (e.g. tree) and died because they were drunk/intoxicated, or the reverse, they took the last drink with the last stuff, to have courage to hit XXX) "depressant" does not make you "depressed".. People who respond to you are afraid of the image of your portfolio..

The water is cold in winter, so people who want to commit suicide by jumping into the river are afraid of dying from freezing, not drowning.. ps. The availability of weapons in the U.S. (and similar places) makes the situation different than in the rest of the world.. ps2. There are a lot of people in the US who are afraid to be alone, so they take a few people with them..

..you are in one country, JC is in yet another, MigL is yet another country, and I am in yet another.. For which country is it needed? If I show you data for one country that is not yours, you will complain that is not yours (which happened in the past).. It's simple math. No politics. No economics. "Venezuela raises minimum wage in fourth year of hyperinflation" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuela-raises-minimum-wage-fourth-year-hyperinflation-2021-05-01/ "The Venezuelan government increased the monthly minimum wage by 289%, an official said on Saturday" In the first case you should ask "how many people in the country [in question] have the minimum wage," in the second "how many people in the country receive social benefits," and in the third "how many people are in prison." From what I see, in the US, "The minimum wage is scheduled to increase to $9.50 per hour on July 1, 2023." https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/state alternative version: "The federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. This rate applies to covered nonexempt workers. The minimum wage for employees who receive tips is $2.13 per hour. The amount of tips plus the $2.13 must reach at least $7.25 per hour.6 kwi 2023" https://www.usa.gov/minimum-wage (???) "There are at least 1.1 million Americans (or 1.4% of all hourly paid workers) who earn less than or equal to the federal minimum wage as of 2021.9 lut 2023" (usa popuiation 330m) How many people will be "affected"? How many people will use social? (social does not increase inflaction? prisoners don't increase inflation? If government has to give them money, this way or another, gov has debt) Stay objective, if you can. I'm not complaining (and haven't complained) about minimum wages, but about their effect on inflation (which is huge in a country with a large population that draws minimums, and minimal in a country where few draw minimums). (It depends on how we understand "inflation", which is yet another level of complexity) If you put in jail people who were so poor and removed them from registry, it is fake statistics. It's not about minimal wages, but about influence of wages on the prices of the products at shelf. If majority of people of the country in question have some wage, and it is increased, then I have real problem seeing how it could not influence inflation (official version by gov). But how much people get minimal wage is country dependent. You ("swansont"), is living in parallel universe, and the rest of world in their own parallel universes.. ps. The whole topic has so many if-then-else that I have no idea how to write it in English or any non-programming language. A lawyer is like a hacker, trying to find a way to breach it..

@Saber It all depends on the details. When it's winter in the northern hemisphere, it's summer in the southern hemisphere. So, get Australia etc. data, and analyze it, compare with northern hemisphere country..

Very difficult is your path of thinking.. Why? Future politicians want to replace current leaders..

How is that possible? I used this: https://www.google.com/search?q=suicide+rate+per+month and got straight away..

Few people know that you don't even need to download anything to compile programs on Windows. There are three languages that are built into Windows (starting with Windows 7 or Vista): C#, Visual Basic and JavaScript (in the web browser). Source code must be written in wordpad/notepad. No debugging capabilities. No IDE. C-sharp compiler: %SYSTEMROOT%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\csc program-name.cs %SYSTEMROOT%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.XXX\csc program-name.cs %SYSTEMROOT%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\vXXX\csc program-name.cs Replace XXX by appropriate to your OS version and revision (to learn it, use dir "%SYSTEMROOT%\Microsoft.NET\Framework") Visual Basic compiler is in the same folder. ps. Which is abused by hackers..

Yes. we can. Get chemistry book are (re-)read.. this will be a good start..

c'mon.. who loves Visual Basic?! Who?! You cannot be so old!

A good technique only in prison.. Why do you lie (a politician would say "you presented a different version of reality"), make things up and pretend they are true? Why do you present a twisted version of reality just for the sake of arguing on the forum and make yourself look like a fool.. ? According to your claim, caffeine is not processed by the human metabolism.. BTW, we were talking about drug use, not caffeine use.. which is not (yet) prohibited.. Do you think so homeless drink tea or coffee? How do they make them without having access to hot water, electricity, etc. etc. ? ps. If I flush coffee and/or tea and/or Coca-Cola and/or Pepsi down the toilet, how will that affect your results... ? Google: "How much caffeine is in sewage?" "It is common to find caffeine in effluent wastewater [0.07-126 µg L-1 (Weigel et al., 2004)], in well water [1.7 µg L-1 (Swartz et al., 2006)], in groundwater [0.23 µg L-1 (Seiler et al., 1999)], in coastal waters [15-185 ng L-1 (Cantwell et al., 2016)] and surface water (112-781 ng L-1 [Daneshvar et al., 2012])." So how do you get any level of accuracy from the 0.07-126 ug/L range? .. "caffeine concentration" or "caffeine metabolites processed by the body".. ? https://www.google.com/search?q=caffeine+metabolism "Caffeine is almost completely metabolized with 3% or less being excreted unchanged in urine [3,6]. The main route of metabolism in humans (70–80%) is through N-3-demethylation to paraxanthine also known as 1,7-dimethylxanthine or 17X [3,6,7] (see Fig. 1). This reaction is carried out by CYP1A2 in the liver [6]."

It is politics... Each nation and/or generation learns a different version of history. What you have learned is not the same as what people on this forum have learned, and is not even the same as what people from younger or older generations have learned.. ..but you have no access to "historical facts"... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/history_is_written_by_the_victors "History is often told according to the interpretation and biases of prevailing historical actors, often those who won in geopolitical disputes or otherwise became dominant forces in society." ps. What with Russian independence?

..seriously.. ? The amount of inaccuracies must be counted in hundreds of percents.. ..except the significant amount of drug addicted people don't live in apartments and don't use toilets at all, as they are homeless etc. from which you can take their piss and analyze it, but on the streets and piss wherever they want ("under a cloud").. Such a method would only work reliable for prisoners etc.

@MigL Of course, everything is passed on to end customers, hence the inflation / cost of living increase, etc. Some industries, such as farmers, are affected, other industries, such as IT, are not affected.

What claims? I just wrote indisputable facts.. If I write that 2+2 = 4 does it need dispute? In the OP nobody stated we are constrained and limited to the US.. If you are interested to the talk only about US, then voice of John Cuthber, String Junky, MigL, Genady, me, etc. etc. are meaningless, as we are not citizens of the U.S. .... Basically entire discussion in this thread would be wiped out, if you constrain just to the U.S.. .. Frankly, I have no idea about the United States. It's only 332/8000 = 4% of the world's population.. If I make some claim, it is universal, worldwide.. Seriously? Seriously seriously? That's how in the US you probe the amount of of unemployment rate? How do you in the US measure rate of homelessness? Do you make survey? By text message? By sending e-mail? How do you in the US measure rate addiction from narcotics.. ? Do you make survey? By text message? By sending e-mail?

I asked somebody to ask ChatGPT "what is the number of neutrons in 2.54 grams of water", and ChatGPT gave a pretty good answer. (omitted fractions! I love these fractions!). are you able to write me an answer straightaway? Use a spoiler to keep it from being revealed to other members. I am not joking. God doesn't know how to joke anyway.. Racist! Not dumb, but "thinking differently", idiot! ps. Don't insult your creations.. ps2. I know what you mortals are thinking.. ...should not you be on Kremlin by now.. ?

..I used translator and still have no idea what you said to me.. Google Translator did not know how to convert from "Tamarian Language".. yet.. The thing with my neighborhood saleswoman is that she claims that even if she gets many millions in the lottery, she will still work in a grocery store.. which I highly doubt..

Sorry. I don't understand. How government knows (and can count, and share online) who is "actively seeking for work" if people don't register at their office.. ? Didn't read about US officials ability to mind reading.. so.. ps. In the North Korea, I guess, there is very little unemployment rate.. Let's see: https://www.google.com/search?q=north+korea+unemployment+rate "Unemployment refers to the share of the labor force that is without work but available for and seeking employment. North Korea unemployment rate for 2021 was 2.59%, a 0.33% decline from 2020. North Korea unemployment rate for 2020 was 2.92%, a 0.33% increase from 2019." Do you believe these data? How come they have issues with foods? Or it's US propaganda against NK (and they are full of happiness) ? In Western countries during the medieval period, it was customary to place homeless people in prisons.. I said it pretty clear - it is easier to measure employment rate of the country.. i.e. how many people pay PIT every year.. ..all these unemployment rates are bull-shit worth trashes.. You start to sound like pro-politician propaganda.. regardless of the wing.. please be more objective/open to the world (i.e. your country != entire world).. Do you really believe so? Let's give them $1 mln on the lottery and see what happens.. I joked about it with my neighborhood saleswoman at store, that if she will get millions on the lottery she will continue work at her store (she claimed so)..

If wages are raised, the employer must 1) increase productivity or 2) raise the prices of the products. Which means inflation, an increase in the cost of living and reduced competitiveness in the global market. People see higher prices in stores and that their increased salary is not enough anymore, so they demand a raise and the cycle repeats itself. Meanwhile, another country with lower wages can create the same product at a lower price. In the open global market, the product is imported and sold to people who want a lower product price. That's when populist politicians step in and demand increased import tariffs to "save their hard-working fellow citizens" and "save the domestic market from countries that produce their products below the cost of production"). That is, they want to raise the price of the product for fellow citizens. Subsidies to farmers are needed to keep farms operating, otherwise they would sink. Many branches heavily dependent on workers' wages have sunk, unable to deliver product at an acceptable price to their customers. How social welfare spending has evolved over the years? Are welfare recipients counted as unemployed? How homelessness rates have changed over the years? Are homeless counted as unemployed? How have crime rates changed over the years? Are criminals counted among the unemployed? And so on, so on.. Here, if you don't go and register as unemployed, you are not counted as unemployed, but as employed. The only reason people register here is for unemployment benefits, but they are only granted for a few months (depending on how long you were previously employed). Thus, it is easy to bend the unemployment rate, as there is not just one way to calculate it.. It would be easier to count the employment rate, not the unemployment rate, because the employed pay PIT. "The unemployment rate is, for example, 5%..." What does that even mean? 5% of what? If it were 5% of the country's total population *), it would give a meaningful comparison between countries. *) in some countries children and teenagers work, in others, mainly Western countries, they do not.

But that way you won't have the smell of freshly cut grass, which is nice.. I have a brilliant idea - rotating laser and mirrors on the edges of the field.. Actually, this would also work well on a regular farm if you need to quickly cut an entire flat field.. Advantages 1) quick 2) noiseless 3) jobless lawn mowers..

..it's still too early to get the lawn mower out of the garage.. Let the grass grow.. One of the most annoying things here in spring and summer is mowing the lawn. Design a quiet/soundless lawnmower and you will become a millionaire. Apart from changes in the engine etc., I was thinking about (recording and) emitting anti-sound. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_noise_control

It's larvae. Photo is not sharp enough. It looks similar to biston betularia. https://www.google.com/search?q=biston+betularia https://www.google.com/search?q=peppered+moth+larvae

There are just three vowels (e, i, i). There are not many words made up of consonants alone... If each row and column must have at least one vowel, they cannot have the same x and y index (which simplifies their search procedure). If one word has two vowels, then some word will have be made of just consonants..

There is not just one answer.. Dunno why, Linux has built-in English word dictionary with 100k+ English words in /usr/share/dict/words (and a couple other locations). So: $ cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep -Eo [redlining]{9} | wc -l 48 $ cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep -Eo [redlining]{9} Unfortunately, this method will also include repetition of some letters.. Do you see the word wanted by you in this list?

A related, similar HR question is "where do you see yourself in five years?”".. I searched the net to verify how to spell it and got this: I don't believe that people honestly answer such stupid questions.. "If I win the lottery, I will buy this company, just to fire you..."