Jack

According to Sayidina:

66.2% of these were high school students (349), 
30.9% middle school students (163), 
02.8% elementary school students (15).

Causes cited (multiple causes means these total to more than 100%):

349 Academic struggles, concerns about future paths.
284 Mental health issues, e.g. depression, 
148 family-related problems. e.g. conflicts with parents.

This is from a non-paywalled older article from 2025-01 which gives the total of school-aged children's suicides in Japan in 2024 at an all-time high of 527 (the 2 more in the newer article probably corrects cases incorrectly classified before).

"A notable increase was observed among female middle and high school students"

"In 2024, the number of suicides [for all ages] in Japan totaled 20,268, marking a decrease of 1,569 from the previous year and reaching the second-lowest level since records began in 1978."

In South Africa, the law determines that if something's labeled "Product of South Africa" it can't have any imported ingredients (tho the packaging can be imported).

"Produced in South Africa" can have imported ingredients - and I've been boycotting almost all of that because of the omnicidal carbon footprint of importing things. It's easier in this country to live ethically tho because we can grow almost everything we need: from food to textiles; tho our energy production is some of the most unethical in the world.

"All it takes for evil to succeed, is good people to say, "it's just business."" - Janet Leahy, Michael Reisz

If you value your time, then maybe only watch finished shows with excellent word-of-mouth/ratings? If it declines instead of ending while still good, then stopping where people suggest? Possibly also skip the initial seasons if it only gets good later.

If you want to talk around the water cooler about the most popular zeitgeist shows, then maybe make exceptions for those that are the buzz after their 1st few episodes like Game of thrones, tho you should be prepared to quit the show after a few consecutive poorer episodes indicating its almost certain decline. (PS: I'd recommend stopping before Game of thrones' 6th season).

"Aid organizations the world over scrambled to prove their work saved lives, seeking permission from the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development to continue operating."

Maybe those who proved they were doing good, were the ones then to get the axe. The cruelty is the point - especially I've found, by the kind of people who claim to be Christians. Maybe lying by saying ghosts and souls and gods and heaven are real, it inculcates lying into all aspects of a peoples' actions.

Rubio's lies, and these actions are helpful in getting Trump more support from the kind of people who voted for him. The deaths and cruelty is the point.

It'll be interesting to see a character following the teachings of Jesus Christ, like

• Luke 16:13 "You cannot serve both God and money."
• Mark 10:21 "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor"
• Matthew 5:39 "If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also."
• Matthew 5:44 "love your enemies"

So there's no chance the character will be a capitalist, troop-supporting, neo-Nazi. Right?

"In November of 2019 Kennedy sent a letter to the prime minister, obtained by Scott Kennedy and shared with Vanity Fair, speculating that the measles outbreak might be attributed to the vaccine itself." https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/robert-kennedy-jr-shocking-history

Try "to function as a society" when the biosphere becomes unlivable. The biggest and root cause of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change is human overpopulation:

• https://phys.org/news/2023-04-population-growth-main-driver-carbon.html
• https://interactive.guim.co.uk/uploader/embed/2017/07/co2_saved/giv-3902H9Q7lx2HE5M7/

The fact that the biggest and root cause of a mass extinction event is being reduced, is a good thing.

I haven't seen any reliable sources say this yet.

An article from February 3 https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/minerals/?hilite=minerals by the country's public broadcaster, quotes the Minister of Minerals and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, saying South Africa's minerals should be withheld from US, but I've seen no reports that it actually will be.

I also couldn't find anything at the government's website https://www.gov.za/, nor via DDG at Reuters or AP.

According to https://www.infographicsarchive.com/united-states-ranked-by-national-and-state-parks/ NJ has the 5th highest percentage of the state covered in national and state parks: 7.28%

If someone does something psychotic a lot, does that make it ethical for someone-else to do it even once?

"should [be] emulated" or "should [have been immo]lated"?