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Wow your example of applied psychology is stunning, the example goes slightly into linguistics and less into psychology. Plus your example is already based on a subjective base question. Regarding my reply to your question towards my nationality.
My applied psychology advise is, why don't you use your skills and a few episodes of "Lie to me" to find out why I didn't answer in the way you would have liked.....sorry mate, just pulling your leg.
But that is what I was posting earlier, if you wanted to prove a point you will loose objectivity and try to find your proofs leaning towards your theory. (Something that reall scientist clinical or appllied, really try to avoid)
By the way being alive and doing ones daily stuff isn't exactly applied psychology, it's pretty clinical based if not even more to prove the accuracy of the paradigms and results.
sidenote: If you would have read more carefully you could just read that I am from Europe and if I'm not from an Anglo-Saxxonian state, there is a very small chance that I am Native English speaker.
And yes some mistakes are becasue I am not a Native English speaker but I think the majority of them are because I am not in the right environment to post in forums (@work, with a supervisor right next to me, plus that I am proofread-lazy.)
I forgot though, that spelling and grammar is the most important part in an Expat Forum in China... :)
But if you have stones left ...please go on and throw some more!!!! :D
About the kids GOOD/EVERY thing, sorry for the language mix up, but actually I was intentionally using EVERY, becasue all parents are good parents (or bad if you will), depends on the POV (I would agree we shouldn't use molesters, beating and messed up parents as an example for the good parents).
So every not socially suspicious parent should be considered to be good and good enough to be able to spot a lie, but they aren't.
You will see when you have a teeneage child and you are disappointed a few times through that stage and amazed how you weren't able to discover their lies.
A look at Yunnan's evolving anti-drug strategy
Posted byWhat you are talking about vicar, and alien are so called gateway drugs.
Most gateway drugs must have a strong physical addiction potential, or because they are extremely easy to get. And most important it depends on when you are starting with substances which could lead to addiction.
And then number one gateway drug[s] are alcohol and tobacco.
As most kids experiment with these two early on, then the way is paved.
Weed comes in [usually] at a later age, at which you should have already physically and psychologically learned, how to say no.
Otherwise, how is it that states with open cannabis laws, have a lower addiction rate for harder drugs?
In my opinion alcohol and nicotine are the worst of all drugs and gateway drugs.
If you are talking crime, then legalizing the ones that do less harm than the legal drugs, is a necessary step.
Tax alcohol 300%, tobacco 800% and state grown cannabis, peyote, mushrooms at Value Added Tax and 300% if it's blended in with tobacco. And you will see, less barfights, domestic violence, rape, murder, drug sales, vs. increases in consumption of cartoons and animations, boosting the snacks industry, music awareness, camping, et cetera. Lol
Alcohol is a nerve toxin. THC isn't.
In general people wanna get high, always get high.
Is there any person ever getting robbed for weed? The purse snatching story is more in the line of alcohol, meth or crack.
The best way is to stay away form any substances that alter your state of mind, ...if you can.
A look at Yunnan's evolving anti-drug strategy
Posted byWar on drugs has always failed and will always fail.
Humans are crazy about getting high, for whatever reasons.
It's just about choosing your drug.
Sport, coffee, tea, alcohol, chocolate, tobacco, sex, talking crap in forums and chat lines, there is nothing people can't get addicted to.
And people will always get high if they want to.
So decriminalizing, prevention, education is the way to go.
State controlled outlets for drugs, addicts get free and clean needles, and check ups for typical drug fiend diseases.
Holland has worked fine, and so are Canada, and most of the states in the US, as far as you can say over the short period of time.
The judicial system get's relieved over something it cannot stop anyway.
Taking care of the hard drug users and addicts, and education and prevention from the taxes on legal drugs, and you have a good chance to succeed.
China is playing USA in the 1980's, a few crop incentives won't help, while people are being thrown in jail over smoking a bit of pot, or taking XTC. But hopefully they will see the stupidity of it.
@vicar
It's incorrect weed or soft drugs don't lead to addiction or demand for harder drugs.
It's an individual problem, some people take heroin, once and never feel like taking drugs again. Some drink a few drinks and soon are hitting it hard.
There is no rule or solution for personal addiction.
Dali Bar begins free community e-waste recycling program
Posted byGreat! Thanks for putting it up.
Do they also accept scooter and e-bike parts?
I mean not through Salvador, perhaps. I guess they wouldn't like their café to be an 'old scooter storage'.
But since every idiot is hailing Tesla's and e-mobility, and forgetting that they riding toxic waste and mountains of carbon fumes around, it would be worth knowing how to at least get rid of the old batteries and e-parts,....-properly!
Lijiang vendors strike, protesting old town entry fee
Posted byI don't have much sympathy for the shop owners. I agree with Haali, Mike and Tiger.
They sell cheap taobao, crap for up to 500% its value, most stuff has nothing to do with Lijiang and 5 drum shops on 200meters of road is a bit overkill.
None of the stuff ever sold in China, is by customer demand. Some Dongbei bloke, thinks Lijiang needs fake African drums, and shiny toy drones, so they open 60 shops in the old town, because they have money. And think the more annoying, loud and screamy advertisement you have the more people buy.
All others investors, due to lack of creativity, will open shops with the exact same product, in 30 shops of their own, in Chinese, then it's called cultural preservation. No shop owner in Lijiang is local. The locals all rent out, cause they can make tons of money. They don't give a crap. If you own property in the old town, you are rich.
Lijiang and Dali = greed, from all sides.
The tourists buy the crap that is offered, cos they have no idea, what is local culture....hence China not having any real culture left, after the Revolution....
So welcome to Yunnan Disneyland.
For all I care, charge 500RMB each time you enter the old town, 1000RMB if you must.
Let the shops go out of business, I rather see a run down but original old town, than that freak show.
I don't go there anyway, I rather go to small village guesthouses, in the area, and spend my money on hiking, good local food and relaxation, rather then squeezing through million of tourists, on roads that are barely big enough to let squirrels pass.
Lijiang and Dali were once really beautiful spots. Now they are just money laundering and cash mills. The real China is never found in touristy old town.
Wrongful murder conviction spawns US$1.45 million lawsuit
Posted by@scally
The article is great and thanks for putting it back into the view of the public. Yeah that girl and her lawyer, really have balls, to go against the people convicting her.
But these people don't like to be messed with. They will probably put her against bars again.
But I hope they also try to find the murderer, otherwise there is still a babykiller on the loose. See Steven Avery.