It's surprising that more of these people haven't gotten taken in before by videos of celebrity impersonators hawking dubious stocks or whatever. Or maybe they have, and that's why they only have the price of a used car to lose to the latest scams.
Dude. There is this thing called "treatment-resistant depression" that medicine still can't find any way to help. A diagnosis of "depression" doesn't mean that anything can be done.
Chances are good this woman has already been through treatment and psychiatric evaluation to get her existing diagnoses.
If it's "an easily treated chemical imbalance", they would have diagnosed it by now. The MAID process is far from instantaneous. She's had plenty of opportunity to be evaluated, and her father has had plenty of opportunity to persuade her to be evaluated.
He has no idea what her life is like from the inside or what degree of suffering she may be experiencing, because he is not her. All he knows is that her opting for MAID will cause him suffering.
If she's competent to manage her own finances and legal affairs, she's also competent to make this decision. Either she is an independent adult, or she is not. There's no halfway.
If she did have a gun, then yes, it was reasonable for the officer to shoot her.
If the police were just yelling that to improve the optics, or because they weren't putting enough effort into identifying a non-gun object that she was carrying, well . . .
Exactly. Unless they pose an immediate risk to others, let 'em run if you don't have any nonlethal options for stopping them. Police firearms should be a last resort for heading off physical danger.
Most recycling isn't currently profitable without some kind of subsidy or legislation pushing it (exceptions: some metals, paper, maybe glass). If dealing with the increasing mountains of dead electronics made money, it would be getting done on a much larger scale than individual junk-pickers in the developing world scavenging in dumps. In addition to reducing the volume of waste being created, we need to provide a market for the recycled material that pays enough to push financing of new plants to do recycling at scale (and make sure that the recycling doesn't create negative externalities of its own).
The reason I phrased it that way is that it struck me as the sort of feature that might have gotten removed from one or more popular browsers in the name of "simplification". The right-click functionality still exists in the browser I daily-drive (Pale Moon, a Firefox fork that retains a lot of features its parent has jettisoned, so I couldn't be sure this wasn't one of them).
From other news sources, I gather that "young" in this case means ~30, not teens. That is, people who are out of school, have jobs, and many of whom are at least considering things like home ownership and having kids.
I don't think that's Spanish. Nahuatl, which is an indigenous language spoken in Mexico, does use x- to transcribe the sound commonly written as sh- in English, so that's probably a Nahuatl place-name.
In the case of Xitter, though, the reference is generally to Mandarin Chinese, which uses x- to transcribe one of the two or three distinct sounds in that language that all sound like sh- to Anglophones.
Thing is, there's no "existential threat" to Israel. If they would just retreat behind the borders suggested by the UN in the late 1940s and stay there, the other nations of the world would defend them to the death. The Israeli government keeps getting greedy and then acts surprised when their fingers get burned.
As for Palestine, turn the lot over to the government of the West Bank and support them in restoring order in the Gaza Strip. It isn't ideal, but it's the sanest solution I can see at this point, and it doesn't reward Hamas.
I think the most common advice is, "if you live in an area where this edible mushroom and this impossible-to-tell-apart poisonous lookalike both grow, don't pick either of them."
Living will also kill you, eventually.