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Today as I was racking my brain to figure out how to get 33 pesos to buy some cigarettes, I came across an article from the U.S. with the heading: “What’s the best tequila to use for a Paloma?” Maybe it was my mood, my frustration with the fact that today is Sunday so the PayPal transfer of $40 won’t land until tomorrow, but I became enraged. The articl… ncG1vNJzZmiqn6O7qrHRopmapqRjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89orqGZpKh6tbTEZpmeq6Riwaa91KKjmmWkpHq2v8Rmnaiq

The rising influence of social media has led many to demand change. And yet, regulators disagree on how to regulate—and sometimes even whether to regulate—social media. In this second post of our blog series, we’ll discuss why designing social media regulations is difficult and describe the legal boundaries that lawmakers must work within. We’ll then survey some of the regulatory proposals on the table, which we divide into four categories: regulating the content, regulating the algorithm, regulating the platform, and regulating access.

After almost 40 years of serving the Durham community, the former Wheels Fun Park closed it’s doors in 2020 and was later purchased by the city of Durham. The eight acre property will now be updated and renovated as part of Durham Parks and Recreations Splash & Play project. Throughout the Splash and Play project community engagement sessions, the public’s ideas emphasized a desire within the community to preserve and re-open the Wheels Skating Center as part of the overall site development.

Do what you love. Follow your passion. We’ve heard this a million times. But what happens if what we love is to get the highest score on Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater? “Do what you love” is fine advice. It taps into the concept of intrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation occurs when we do things out of inherent enjoyment. It’s when we find ourselves doing activities “just because,” and not for likes, bonuses, or other external rewards.

Frank Cook finds it odd that ask is replacing request as a noun. This is a general thing in English of late, and it’s about starting over. Think of an earlier example that no one seems to have noticed — using “a dissolve” in filmmaking when the pedant might say that the noun form of dissolve is dissolution. Dissolution is indeed a word, but it doesn’t mean, in actual usage, only the dissolving — it implies something negative, something you’d rather have stayed intact that went to pieces.

This piece appears in my book Lockdown in Hell World. If you like what you read please subscribe to this newsletter for free or for money thank you. Get 20% off forever If you take a left out of my new house onto the street that looks like they airdropped a cramped Cape Cod neighborhood into the middle of Central Massachusetts then crossed the road where the cars fly by so…

I’ve had a yeast infection for months and it won’t go away! - From a lot of people! This is a common referral to my practice and I get asked a variation on this question a lot on social media. It came up again recently, so I’m going to walk you through how I address this as an expert in the office as I see patients with this exact concern almost daily.

It might just be me, but recently I’ve noticed that clinical terminology related to the field of psychology and mental health is becoming part of everyday language, even more so than it previously has. I can’t quite prove it, but the fact that “gaslighting” was the one of the most searched terms of 2022 does lend some evidence to this observation. This is likely (again, can’t quite prove it) because people are being exposed to this kind of terminology online, predominately on social media.

“A blowout gross domestic product report on Thursday [October 26] showed the economy surged over the summer, driven in part by consumer spending. The 4.9 percent increase in GDP is a great headline for “Bidenomics” [emphasis added] at a time when voters just aren't buying what the president has done for their bank accounts.” -Zachary Warmbrodt, Politico Is it though? As I’ve discussed earlier here on Battleground, a majority of middle class voters feel that they are not seeing the benefits of President Joe Biden’s economic plan.