These may be dimwitted questions but still want to ask:
1. Did Google, Amazon, Meta, etc benefit by over hiring during the pandemic?
2. Did the benefit of over hiring outweigh the cost of job cuts?
3. If both 1 and 2 are yes, then did they know about the possible layoffs and still intentionally over hired to max benefits?
Authors may be "language pros" but the content can use more proof reading. One (trivial) example:
> Kanji are ideograms imported lock, stock, and barrel from __mainland Asia__ into Japan over hundreds of years, starting around the 5th century, followed by Buddhism in the 6th century.
"mainland Asia"? This makes me laugh. Technically not totally wrong, but, do people really say that? Won't people from India get offended? If someone (e.g, a child) googles "mainland Asia", the first result is Indochina. Did Japan import Chinese characters from Indochina in the 5th century? I believe a textbook should be clear, straightforward, and shouldn't obscure/blur facts.
As a non-native speaker, I don't think I've ever seen this expression, but one can easily guess what it means. Enumerating bits of the whole as a way to emphasize the wholeness, I think, might be common in many languages.
Regarding mainland Asia, I just understand it as "not island" Asia.
Nice app. Keep every word queried in a list and revisit them to enhance memory. This is exactly the same way I expanded my English vocabulary 10 years ago.
My simplistic solution was a command-line script which googles "define {word}" and extracts the definition into the console. The query history is appended to a text file (partitioned by date) saved in Dropbox.
Someone tried to use it in an Alfred workflow. Don't know if they made it or not. It seems it's hard to query google in a script now.
Unfortunately there is no universal golden rule on what "should" be eaten or not. Especially when you are hungry and there isn't many choices. If you didn't die or get sick, you might choose to continue eating a "weird food" because they taste good, even when you have other choices.
It's bizarre to Americans that _some_ Chinese are eating bats[1] and snakes[2].
It's bizarre to Chinese that _some_ Americans are eating alligators[3][4], bears and frogs.
It is human nature to explore and try new things including animals for food. If one has known better, maybe it's better to educate others what are good/bad food sources, with proofs.
Mutual discrimination based on sensational news and locally-biased "common sense" are not making the world a better place.
There are different levels of risk. It's not all the same. I would be just fine with banning consumption of alligators, bears, or frogs if the risk is assessed to be as high as for bats.
So, news in a non-authoritarian country are all truth? Non-authoritarian gov never “muddy the truth and make official and important sounding institutions make official statements that paint a situation in exactly they need it to be to further their own goals” ?
