A dermatologist friend told me there are people who react to poison ivy, and people who do not yet react to poison ivy. He explained to the effect that repeated exposure tends to sensitize people. Poison ivy/oak/etc. has no effect on them, then one day it does.
I grew up playing in woods thick with the stuff and never had a problem. Then I had a hell of a reaction to it in high school, and it’s been cruel to me since then.
This article in the WSJ was by an author who decided to induce immunity to poison oak by exposure: eating it. It's... quite the journey, evidently, but possible:
So, one of the problems with leaving trash in Reno is that even if you do it in a way you think is ethical, moral and correct, your trash can be part of the "Burning Man Trash Problem", things I see _every year_:
1. Burners drop trash with people offering to dispose of it for $5 a bag or so, they end up dumping it somewhere else.
2. Burners drop trash at the major hotels and casinos, who buy dumpsters to attract the burners and then people from the local area toss the dumpsters scavaging for things.
3. The normal trash dumping issues Reno has are, for two weeks a year, blamed on burners instead of the locals. I seriously doubt trash bags full of baby diapers, mail and construction debris (all examples I see on the Reno subreddit every year) are from Burning Man.
There are already legit places in Gerlach, Reno, Lakeview and Ceaderville where you can dump trash and know its going to be disposed properly, but not everyone going is really hip to spotting the trash scams and all that.
Unfortunately all this mixes with the percentage of people going to Burning Man who don't dispose of their trash respectfully and it becomes a large, hard to quantify issue.
How exactly does Boeing drive up the cost? The cost of the aircraft is less than 20% of the lifetime cost of operating an airliner and a lot of the maintenance cost is not related to the cost of parts from Boeing, since most parts that get replaced on an aircraft are not made by Boeing and airlines do not go through Boeing to buy them.
FWIW I'm not interested in flying commercial with non-union pilots so that airlines can become cheap labor body shops.
I'm also not interested in saving money by having Boeing outsource to kick as many people out of their machinist union as they can (and screw those people out of retirement and healthcare benefits).
I got my pilot certificate last year (zero plans to go ATP/commercial). Its a lot of work. Then you've got years of getting paid pennies to earn your 1500 hour ATP. Then you've got more years of taking the crap routes and not making super dollars. Much like a doctor its after you've put in 10-15 years that it starts really paying off.
The union also protects pilots from blame culture and trying to game metrics. If it isn't based on seniority then what metrics do you use? And do you want pilots to start making flying decisions based on on-time percentage instead of safety?
If your business needs to screw over labor to survive you don't have a worthwhile business.
As we've seen with multiple incidents across the country, police largely don't want to be a human check. They want the computer to tell them who to arrest, regardless of facts in reality.
Costco has the same sourcing issues a lot of other companies have, they do spend a lot of effort on due diligence when sourcing Kirkland Signature brand products, but sometimes what they get in a production run ends up being something else, or there's unexpected issues with the products once the public gets them.
From my experiences, it does have a higher chance of better outcome, as homeless youth are usually homeless because of some family issue and not because they are unable to hold down a job as a result of drug abuse or being homeless.
Yup. And the longer they’re homeless the higher the likelihood that they do develop health or drug problems and shift from being relatively easy to relatively difficult to get back on their feet.
Plus, homeless youth can include kids as young as 14 or 15, who are especially vulnerable to predators on the street.
Your comparing statistics for homeless adults to homeless youth.
From my experience being a homeless youth 20 years ago, LGBTQ individuals make up a large share of homeless youth, I would guess more than 50% at the time.
There may be less gay or lesbian homeless youth these days, but transgender youth may have grown.
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