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The Famed YouTuber Gave Away Free Cash to the Crowd in Xinyi Shopping Mall, Arrested for Disturbing the Peace

See how these, younger generations longed for the spotlight?  Getting ARRESTED for public disturbances, how’s that for your, spotlight, huh?  Just because you got the money, that still doesn’t mean, that you need to, “FLASH” it!!!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The YouTuber, “Mr. R”, Lin, two evenings ago, arrived at the alley on Song-Shiou Road in Xinyi District, started pouring out the cash into the crowd, after the news got out on social media, it’d attracted thousands of people there, the police worried about crowd control, that it might turn into another case of the Korean theatre stampede, they’d immediately sent the police forces there to control the crowd, yesterday the police called Lin in, and after they’d interviewed him, Lin was charged on public safety.

after he got arrested, he’d made a, public apology to the press, off of YouTube

In the late of nights two evenings ago, Lin had shot out the thousand dollar bills twice with the spray pumps to the locals gathering, and the rumors were, that Lin would be spreading around $300,000N.T’s in cash, but in reality, only a little over $10,000N.T.s of what’s been “sprayed out” was real, there were the toy bills, but Lin denied it was him, who’d, poured out the cash.

The Xinyi Substaion pointed out, that two evenings ago at eleven, the police were called, and, the police ordered the activities to be halted, and started enforcing the laws, and guided the crowd away from the location, maintained the order in the traffic.

The police stated, that Lin used the online platforms to call the people out, disregarded that the real of fake bills that he’d poured out into the public may cause a rampage, a stampeded, causing death, that his behaviors had impacted the life and safety of others, that he’d broken the criminal laws of public safety.

At noon yesterday, Lin arrived at the station to give a statement, before he went in to get interviewed by the police he’d bowed to the public, apologized for the inconvenience he’d, caused, he’d stated that he’d not had any bad intentions, nor was he sponsored, or had anything to gain, that he was, purely, inspired from a fellow youtuber, wanted to bring what little blessing and joys to the crowd in the hard times.

Lin told, that this wasn’t his first rodeo, that there were the red envelopes he’d handed out from before, he’d prepared ten red envelopes, and there’d been leftovers, he didn’t imagine that this time, there would be so many who’d come, that he will continue to give out the money but in the future, he may work with the orphanages, or the animal shelters to plan these, activities of his.

the photo of people arriving to catch the “free cash” this famed YouTuber is giving out to the crowd…the “promo” poster of his activities, from online

Lin and the actor, Darren Wang were high school classmates, and when asked about his relations, Lin told, that he’d been acquainted with Wang from before, but had lost touch, that this incident had nothing to do with Darren Wang.

Lin told, that he is in the jewelry trade and the encrypted currencies trade, but he’d done his business all legally, stressed that he’d never told that he was rich, that he’d only wanted to spread the joys to all, giving out the free cash.  As for the fake toy cash that were found at the sites, Lin said that he had proof of video, that it was from another YouTuber, “Bacon”, that he had nothing to do with it.

So, this is how FAR these younger generations of “children”, they’re ALL grown-ASS adults by the way, are willing to go, to GAIN their, three nanoseconds (no longer three whole seconds I’m afraid…) of fame, online, and, what this does it???  Oh yeah, teaching people, that you can get arrested on T.V., for causing a possible STAMPEDE, in a public and crowded area somewhere in society, and, you will get arrested for it, but hey, you still got YOUR FACE on tape, so it’s, all, good!

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Close to Seventy-Percent of Female Physicians Were Sexually Harassed, and There Weren’t Enough Reported Cases

The contributing factors of WHY the birthrate is on the, steady DECLINE in this country, even though, the DDP prided itself on making the strides to give women more rights, practically, it doesn’t work, and these female physicians are handling more than their shares here, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The Physicians’ Labor Laws aren’t Up to Standards, Sixty Percent of Female Medical Professionals Were Asked for Their Plans of Getting Pregnant in the Interviews

The workplace in hospitals and clinics isn’t fitting, not only were the nurses all overworked, the medical doctors are also, faced with the, bad labor conditions, especially the female medical professionals, being sexually discriminated against, the Taipei Physicians’ Guild posted its latest gender-friendly survey results, close to seventy-percent of female physicians had been sexually harassed, but there’s a very low rate of reporting, close to sixty-percent of female physicians were asked about their plans of getting pregnant at the interviews for hire, another thirty percent of female physicians were on duty in the graveyard shifts during their pregnancies.  The guild called out, that there should be the medical labor laws, to protect the medical professionals’ rights.

The secretary of the Taipei Physicians’ Guild, Chen stated that the reduced birthrates is a matter of national security now, the government kept encouraging women to get pregnant, but the medical professions, due to the culture of work, placed a ton of restrictions, limitations on the female physicians; after the female physicians get pregnant, their work rights can’t even match up to that of regular workers; the #MeToo started trending across Taiwan last year, and due to how the field of medicine is dominated by men mostly, the culture of work is too hush-hush, the victims of sexual harassment can’t get the help they required, making the workplace even harsher.

The guild had surveyed a total of 185 female physicians and 97 male physicians.  The results showed, 67.5-percent of surveyed female physicians had been sexually harassed, but the complaints filed was only at 3.2-percent; 22.7-percent of male physicians reported having been sexually harassed, with the rate of filing a complaint being ZERO, other than being too busy at work, they’d worried that the complaints don’t do anything for them, that they can’t collect enough evidence.  The representative of the Taipei Physicians’ Guild, Huang stated, there’s only a limited number of the departments of nominations of physicians, plus how close the culture of work is in the medical field, causing the physicians to prioritize their own means of getting promoted higher up than to report the incidents.

There were close to sixty-percent of female physicians surveyed whom when asked about their plans of marriage, of childrearing in the job interviews, they were hinted by the managers that they can’t get pregnant, or it would affect them getting hired and being, promoted; although the labor laws specified that pregnant women shall NOT work the night shifts, but, other than the resident doctors, the primary physicians aren’t protected under this law, and there are still currently 27.3-percent of female physicians who are working the graveyard shifts right now.

Chen stated, that there’s a ZERO job guarantee protection for female physicians who are pregnant right now, the government should immediately amend this, to strictly prohibit the female physicians who are pregnant from working the graveyard shifts.

And so, this is, a major, contributing FACTOR of what there’s this, decline in birthrate in this country.  The workplace isn’t friendly enough toward women, and not just the doctors, and, there’s this, SEX discrimination in this country that’s, ongoing right now, and it’s still, rooted down in the culture, and to root this bad belief back up, is going to take, more than just, amending the laws to protect women’s right of work when they’re pregnant.

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The Student-Led Movement for Palestine Continued Spreading, Columbia University Canceled Its Larger Scale Commencement

This is, once again, because the schools are afraid of the larger scale riots that will, break out…freedom in exercise in the U.S., call this, a chain reaction if you will, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The multiple student-led protests for the Palestinian cause already disrupted all activities, the courses across the university campuses in the U.S., of the most severe, in Columbia University, the school cancelled the original large scale graduation ceremony for all the college departments on the fifteenth; another university, Emory, that was also greatly impacted by the protests, also announced on the same day, that the graduation will be transferred from the Atlanta campus to the suburbs.

The United Press reported, that the officials of Columbia University stated that this is the decisions agreed upon after discussing with the students, the originally scheduled graduation ceremony on the southside law of the main campus, will be held at the northern campus, or the various colleges will be holding their own smaller scale graduations individually.  There were, the protesting centers taking over the southern lawn of the main campus past few weeks, the students set up the tents, and the tents were finally taken down by police orders last week; during this time, there were, more than two hundred students who protested on the lawn, and got arrested for occupying the school buildings.

the news story on Columbia University cancelling the main commencement, from YouTube

The president of Emory, Fenves in a letter, stated, that the graduation commencement scheduled for the 13th is now, moved to the Duluth Conference Center on the northeastern side of the Atlanta campus, Fenves stated that “this is a decision we’d made after careful thought, please do understand.  This decision is arrived at after thorough discussion with the Emory Police Department, security consultants, and other organizations, and every one of these organizations advised against holding the commencement ceremony in the university campus.”

U.S.C. had already cancelled the main graduation commencement, the students were surrounded by the police, and after they’d received threats of arrests, they’d stopped camping out on the campus.  Other universities had, upped the security measures, continued with the plans of the commencements, but the students are still, seeking out every chance to voice their, upset, for instance, in the graduation in Michigan University on the fourth, the ceremonies were interrupted by the chanting of “Free Palestine”; the Northeastern University graduation on the fifth, the students waved the small flags of Israel, or the Palestine flag.

Emory University changing the location where the Commencement is held in wake of the protests, from YouTube

Most of the universities are evaluating in the gray areas of freedom of speech and maintaining campus security, and tried using the means, hoping that the protesters will, take down the camps, or move into other, less concerned areas for their protests.

The interim president of Harvard, Garber warned the students, those who supported the students’ campsites set up to protest for Palestine will be on “involuntary leave of absence”, meant that they will be banned from entering into the university, and lose their dormitory qualifications, banned from the finals too.  On the fifth, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on the fifth, posted on FB, promising, that if the protesters change the location of their protests, the school will “not deduct the points off of their final G.P.A., and drop the breaking and entering charges against the students.”

And so, this is, how it’d worked, the ripple effects of these, peace protests across the universities of the U.S., the larger commencements are all now, cancelled, for “safety purposes”, and, this is expected, with the upset of how U.S. is on the wrong side of what’s morally responsible, naturally these students stood UP, and yet, their actions will only have a small to nonexistent effect on the U.S. government’s actions in its role in the Israeli-Hamas war.

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The Support-Palestine Movement Across the Universities of the U.S., Headed into the Extent of the Anti-Vietnam War Era

History repeats itself, but with the different players now, and, because the U.S. is too persistent on siding with, Israel in the cause, the students are rising up, protesting, and this will, directly impact the November election, as those who are upset with the Democrat are, going to NOT vote for the party, and, chances are, many of these students, won’t vote at all, which means, that the Republican Party has a much higher chance of, winning the election, and then, the U.S. will, be totally SCREWED, because the Republican Party candidate is Trump, and he’s, no good!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

For these past months, the Support-Palestine movement across the campuses on the universities of the U.S. had been gaining momentum, and it’s, growing.  Primarily, it’d started with the campgrounds the Columbia University that the students set up in protests, the police entered into the campus to get them to dissemble, causing a wave of reaction across the U.S., this is now, the largest scale anti-war protest since the Vietnam War Era.  In the internal and external political pressures, the schools took the zero tolerance attitude toward the protesters, of late, there’s the New York City Police Department’s breaching the schools using a fire  engine ladder, along with the L.A.P.D., suing the smoke bombs to get the students to lave the protest grounds, to date, there’d been, more than 2,000 college students arrested by the police.

This can be dissected from three fronts.  One, the freedom of speech, especially the debate of whether or not free speech should be restricted on the college campuses?  The freedom of speech originally should NOT be restricted, but, due to the conflicts of anti-Semitism, and anti-Palestinian growing, some of the Jewish students felt threatened for their lives, and didn’t dare to go to, class.  And for this, the Jewish groups from outside the schools, along with the contributors of the schools, demanded that the universities take actions, to prohibit the anti-Semitic behaviors.  At the Congressional hearing of the end of last year, the presidents of Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania, both supported “absolute freedom of speech”, but both were forced to resign, turning the other universities, beliefs.

in the Vietnam War Era…photo from online

Secondly, rule of law.  The students taking over the school to protest, is protected by the freedom of assembly and speech, but the students who took over the University of Columbia, started vandalizing school properties, taking over the office buildings, this is against the law.  The University of Columbia called in the police, the New York City Police Department came into the school, placing the protesting students under arrest, this is, enforcing the law.  On this front, the opinions leaned toward that the students had done, wrong, the American President, Biden also issued a statement, that he did NOT agree with the students’ means.

Thirdly, external forces.  The New York City Police stated, that in the arrests made on the campus of Columbia and the city college, forty-seven percent weren’t even staff of students of the schools.  The mayor of New York City called these, the “outside inciters”, and are, actively, identifying them, but of them, there were the faces that were involved in the “Black Lives Matter” and the “Occupy Wall Street” movements.  The currently trending conspiracy theory is: the protesters with the goals to create chaos to force the diplomatic ties of U.S. to break with Israel.

This student-led movement, will surely, have a huge effect on the November presidential election.  First, there are, the shocking similarities of this movement with the 1968 anti-Vietnam War movement, both were about the presidents of the Democratic Party, in an unwelcoming, war.  In 1968, it was Johson, in the Vietnam War; and this year, it’s Biden’s government, in support of Israel, committing genocide against the Palestinians.  Back then, Johnson was also, seeking reelection like Biden is right now, and the Democratic Party Convention were held back then, and now in Chicago, but due to the protests across the campuses of U.S. universities gaining momentum, the convention became the focal point of the protests.  Johnson was forced to announce that he wouldn’t seek a second term, and now, it’s, Biden’s, turn.

But there are, the differences of both student-led protests.  The biggest difference, was that there was the drafts back in the Vietnam War era, and the younger males either escaped to Canada to escape the drafts or that they’d, hidden in the school campus, fighting the draft, because everybody was impacted, the movement gained, momentum.  The current politics in the U.S. university campuses, is even more complex than the Vietnam War Era.  Although the mainstream media and politicians are against anti-Semitism, and supporting Israel, but there is now, the added influence of stream-live, and social media, and this many have a huge impact on the upcoming U.S. presidential election.

This movement, is a serious challenge for Biden, and the Chicago Democratic Convention to be held in August, may be an even, bigger, disaster.  All the Democratic Party can hope for now, is that with the coming of the summer vacations, the student protesting will dissolve on their own peacefully, to stop increasing the political momentum.  At the same time, of the prior incident of the national guards moving into Kent State, shooting the students, Biden already announced that no national guards shall enter into the schools.

now, in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict…photo from online

And yet, currently, the support for Biden of the age group of under thirty is, slipping down sharply, to forty-five percent, only eight points ahead of support for Trump.  Comparing to four years ago, when Biden had a thirty-three-percent lead over Trump, the situation is, dangerous.  The younger voters, they may not be switching their supports toward Trump, but they may boycott the election, and, the districts would have the key determinants of who will win the elections in the smallest scale of, difference of number of, votes.

Biden claimed, he will work swiftly to get the Israeli-Hamas peace talks to come through, to get the hostages released, to offer aid to the refugees, to diminish the upset building up against him and his party in the country.  But, the Prime Minister of Israel, Netanyahu still insisted on attacking Rafah, to eradicate the Hamas completely.  If he really acts on this, millions of Palestinian refugees would have no place to escape to, and surely, this would add to the U.S. citizens’ anti-Israeli sentiments.  And then, the grade of student led protests may be getting closer to the level of the anti-war protests in the universities during the Vietnam War Era.

And so, this is, how things are, likely, to develop, because the U.S. is on the WRONG side of what’s right, blindly supporting Israel, and the students are now, gathering, protesting, and this will cause that huge ripple effect on the November election coming up this year, and, chances are, this will be a replay of the Vietnam War Era.

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The Post-Pandemic Rise of Children Who Witnessed Violence at Home

The Post-Pandemic Rise of Children Who Witnessed Violence at Home

A trend, that’s NOWHERE N-E-A-R, good here, and yet, this is a vicious cycle, with the systems of counseling not set up functionally enough, and everything goes bust underneath, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

Most of the Children Who Were Witnesses to Domestic Violence Usually Sent into Counseling at School, the Trials Can’t Catch up to the Cases that are Occurring, the Children Who Were Traumatizes are Falling Through the Holes

There’s a huge increase of violence at home globally during the pandemic, based off of the statistics reported by the Department of Health Welfare & Sanitations, even in the post-pandemic times, there’s still a continual hike in the number of cases of domestic violence reports, the “witnessing children” of these violence, on the rise also, it’s just, that as the number of witnesses steadily gets higher, the cases of counseling these children who witnessed the abuse continued at the steady rate of around 1,500 cases per year, and the schools which are the direct agencies relating to the children witnessing, have NO follow-up means, and the children who were abused, are falling through the, cracks.

Based off of estimates, the adult cases being reported back in 2019 was 26,258, to 2023, it’d gone up to 35,793, an increase of over 9,500 cases, and the cases overseen by social workers was around 1,500 on average, the highest was in 2021, with 1,674, most of the cases were counseled by the adult protection agency’s social workers themselves, with the average of over 8,300 individuals getting counseled, the remaining over 15,000 were referred to the educational resources.

Du, the C.E.O. of Women Rescue Foundation stated, that the cases that were offered the assistance were mostly the children who live in the violent environments, the children who only witnessed the violence at home, are mostly counseled by the local organizations’ social workers, but, the social workers of the private sectors, have less resources available compared to the public agencies, and can’t provide enough help to those in need.

The legislator, Lin stated, that currently, the Department of Health and Social Welfare handed the children of seven and older who’d witnessed violence at home to the individual educational departments, but how to practically offer the care and concern, it’d lacked the management means, for instance, should it be the school instructors or the school counselors, there should be the rules set up clearly, “otherwise, both would believed, that each had done it, but in reality, nobody does a thing.”

Du told, that in counseling the children who lives in the environment of domestic violence, mostly, the children’s cases are being handled by the adult protection social workers, but, these workers needed to sort through the matters of the parents’ domestic violence already, and had to take care of the minors’ cares, it’s not practical, and the degree of help offered is also, limited.  She also mentioned, if the children who witnessed the violence weren’t counseled by the children protection services’ social workers, they’re counseled by the school, and there would be the window of no help offered during the winter and summer vacation months.

And so, this IS, the lacking in the, systems, because the social workers are asked to carry everything, they’re not only in charge of getting the adults who are caught in the domestic violence interactions directly, they also have to, oversee that the children from these families are, receiving the needed care, counseling, and the trials to hear these cases are still not, coming, fast enough, and so, naturally, children fall through the, cracks here.

The systems need to be reset, reordered, reconstructed, to work better, but we lacked the personnel, the funding, and so, children will still die off, really, fast…

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The Hardest of Counseling the At-Risk Students is the Lack of Understanding of the Parents

How this problem is going to, expand, into the workforces, if these students don’t get the help they are in need of, once they’re adults, chances are, they won’t be willing to get into  treatment programs that will actually, help them become better adapted into the society, and we will have, loose time bombs, everywhere, that’s going to go, B-O-O-M, regularly…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

Have started the plans the “Three Leveled Counseling” for many years, Taiwan is ahead in Asia in Asian countries, and yet, there are still the cases of the at-risk students in Hsinbei neck slashing case, the Keelung three-on-one beating occurring.  It’d made the society question the efficacy of these, counseling means.

Th current three-level counseling system, the homeroom instructors who are at the frontlines of this, had enormous pressures on them.  Although, with their observations, they can note many “signals”, but, currently, the system zooms in on the middle and high school levels.  Certainly, this is the teenage rebellion age, the students are easily influenced by their peers, and easily fallen to temptation from the outside, once they’d gone astray, it may be next to impossible to set them back on the right tracks, again; and yet, with the age getting older, the compounding factors of school, work, economics, peers, social interactions, etc., etc., etc., the pressures grows, with the school instructors, counselors, faced with, an even harder to tackle problems in counseling.

I’d worked as a primary instructor for the technical university for close to three decades, I continued carrying the mindset of respect, trust, and empathy toward my students, listening to their problems, to help them find a way to resolve, and I’d, also felt cheated, for being too involved, and after the students’ lies were busted, the losses of money is small, what’s more difficult to deal with, was the oppositions between the students and instructors, and the parents’ misunderstandings.

And, there were the two female students who started developing the homosexual attraction to each other that their parents are against, one of them was the weaker, the other more possessive same sex partner always gets jealous, if the student is friends with those of the same sex, or gotten acquainted with members of the opposite sex, the misunderstandings, the upsets caused the girl to attempt suicide by leaping off of the building at school, but was caught by her roommate, her life didn’t get, lost.

There is also a female student from parents who were divorced, and remarried separately, who’d had to manage everything for school, student loans, boarding, meal plans, by part-timing herself, and had to deal with her mother who’d just had a child, who’d constantly asked her for money.  And she was forced to work as a waitress at a night club, and, gotten off work in the midnight hours, and, in a few short hours, she’d had to get back up for her schools, and naturally, she’d, missed on hundred of, lecture sessions.

All of these cases, are the ones that came to disclose their situations, as I’d found that something was not quite right with them on their own, while, some don’t even, trust the counselors.  And, if I’d wanted to refer them to a second, or a third level counseling service referral, I’d had to, get consent from them.  The university students are already, adults, so things we can’t help them on, and, we can’t, do, anything, for, them.

There were 215,000 younger generations who were on anti-depressants in 2020, “psychological illnesses” are getting younger and younger at onset, and, it’s usually, hard to tell from looking.  These individuals, no matter if they’re in school, or in the workforce, they all needed assistance and the shows of care and concerns.  Is the current system of counseling, up to standard for the needs of these, persons?

If you aren’t aware enough, that you are mentally ill, then, chances are, you can’t get the assistance you need, and, most people, due to the general taboos of the realms of being labeled as “mentally ill”, “on anti-psychotic medication”, that’s why, the adult population are less likely to seek out the assistance they needed, and, this will cause the workforce to become, unstable, because, you don’t know if you’re working with someone who’s, mentally troubled, who must might, take a gun to work, and start, shooting everybody who was there at the office one day…

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People Will Believe, EVERYTHING

Because, of how EMPTY the souls of, modern day man, are…

People will believe, EVERYTHING you sell to them, all it takes, is that very first, cow (like the book told, of how the roads in, Maine was it, got started???), to lead the rest.

People will believe, EVERYTHING, because they are so, lost, because they all needed some form of a “higher power” to tell them that everything IS, okay, that’s how the CULT gets, its, too many-to-count, and still-increasing-in-number, “followers”.

“follow that dude with the red”! Illustration from online

It does NOT matter if the preacher (that HEAD HONCHO) makes sense or not, we the people, just want, someone, to LEAD us, so we don’t have to, take responsibilities for our own, lives, besides, this world’s, too messed up right now, it’s a good thing, to have, FAITH in that, higher, being.

And that, is how religions make us, STUPID, and it’s still, preying on the WEAKNESS of human nature, our need to, have some forms of control over our, lives, which we, really, don’t……….

People will believe in, EVERYTHING you’re, selling to them, just make your “sales pitch”, sound enough (it doesn’t really have to be factual or anything, just have to, SOUND like it!), and, get that very first, IDIOT to follow you around, then, there would be, all those, IDIOTS (no offense but as I said, feel free to take), will follow around that very FIRST, IDIOT, kinda like how the Republican Party, and the DDP works right now, doesn’t it???  Surely does.

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The A.I. Frenzy is Here, Exacerbating to Ageism

Because they’re what??? 50s, 60s, they can’t be adept enough, to handle the new technologies, is that it?  Yeah, a lot of the older population members can learn better than all of you, younger “kids” out there, and yet, they’re still having it hard, finding work again, because of the STEREOTYPES of old…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The members of Generation X are now finding it hard to find work, the employers mostly believed that the younger generations have higher plasticity, can learn to use A.I. and other newer technologies more fluidly, and, Generation X no matter what positions they are entering, can’t beat the younger generations.

BBC report, that ageism had been the problem in employment for a long, long time, btu the major scale layoffs, the uncertainty of economical growth in the post-pandemic era, the speed to technological advancements, along with the growth-into-being of artificial intelligence, it’d hit Generation X the hardest.

says W-H-O, the elderly population can’t learn how to operate high-tech devices???

photo from online

Studies showed, that the older employees (ages fifty-five to sixty-four) with the middle working age employees (ages forty-five to fifty-four), are faced with the various stereotypes and misunderstandings.  And this is where the Generation X-ers are.

Members of Generation X usually want to get to a higher up managerial position by switching jobs, but, with the reduction of the positions of these, also due to the baby boomer generation’s delaying their retirement ages.  When these positions finally opened up, the managers hiring are then, considering the younger generations of “aboriginals of the digital age” first.

Porter who advocates age-tolerance, is also a member of Generation X.  He proposes, that Generation X-ers are more adaptable than popularly believed, that the employers often, are misinformed into believing that younger means, more digitally, agile.

tech-savvy in old age…photo from online

So, this is, still, stereotype at work, because of how the older populations are less agile in learning new things (as that’s what we are all, socialized to think?), this is why these baby boomers are having it hard, finding work in today’s companies right now, despite how they still all have the abilities to learn new technologies, they’re still, screwed by the STEREOTYPES of being, TOO O-L-D to learn anything that’s high-tech.  And until the society get rid of this ageist belief about this particular group of people, there will always BE age-description, in the workforces, and, this is not good for the economy one bit!

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In Five Years, the Adolescent-Involved Fraud Cases Nearly Doubled

Expandable, without their fully developed PREFRONTAL cortexes, the EASY targets for the scam artists, and besides, we are all in need of some quick cash that can be made easily these days, aren’t we?  And, it’s still due to the BRAIN developments of these, almost adult (but still NOT yet), “children”, and they all became, PATSIES!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The middle school neck-slashing case in Hsinbei shocked the society, and it’d brought out the related issues of overprotecting of underage offenders, the scam rings’ using the younger people to commit the crimes.  The Justice Department stated, that in recent years, a lot of adolescents were misused by the criminals, which was one of the causes of why the fraud cases are currently on the rise.

The crimes in schools, the frauds and the illegal substances, are they all, related?  Do the interventions work, the system of law enforcement connect to the schools, this also came into focus for the legislators.  Hsieh, the KMT legislator believes, that the police can’t enforce the laws in the schools, the adolescent offenders increased in numbers, and when they all get tried, they receive lighter sentences; Chuang, the DDP legislator stated, that the adolescents who’d done bad, got caught, sent to juvenile detention, and became worse, we can’t use corporal punishment, can’t scold them, we must, first, “reeducate”, take out the “cycles of payback”, the efficacy of correction is, questionable.

The legislator, Wu reminded the Justice Department, that in recent years, a lot of teens were caught for working as pickup delivery for the scam rings, but the government can only catch the individual pickup delivery persons, they can’t even catch the head of the pickup delivery, and can’t have enough evidence, nor can they be tried using the organized crime laws, or punished as adults.

with the general trend of the lines going upward…graph from online

In 2018, the cases of adolescent fraud got as high as 3,254 cases, this is 21.94-percent of the newly received cases of fraud, but to last year, the increase went up to 6,323 cases total, with the rate of adolescent criminals getting to 29.4-percent.

To protect the juveniles, if the courts don’t evaluate and place them correctly, more than fifty-percent of the adolescent fraud cases, the offenders get returned back to the parents or legal guardians to discipline, and forty-four percent received only warnings.

And so, because they’re all underage minors, we can’t charge them as adults, besides, they didn’t do the major crimes such as committing mass murder, and so, they all received tiny slaps on the wrists, and this sort of placing them in juvenile detention or returning them back to their parents to discipline doesn’t do SHIT, and if you don’t set them straight, when they’re caught, doing evil, then, how will they learn, to NOT do bad things?  That is why the crime rates among these younger generations are so high, and the fact, that those bigger crime bosses knew, that the law goes easy on the younger, underage “kids”, so that is why they are, recruited, and, in the teenage years, we’re, too easily influenced by our peers, with that need to belong, which made these younger generations EASY targets!

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The Ventilators, the Electric Wheelchairs……..All Required Electricity to Run, with the Cost of Ordinary Uses of Electricity Hiking, Those Who are on the Lower Ends of the Socioeconomic Statuses, are Having it, Even, Harder

This IS, how SURVIVAL of the FITTEST is working now, and by being the “fit”, you have to have the money, and if you don’t, then, you DESEERVE to D-I-E off, because you can’t afford the heat during the cold hard winters, and the winters are going to get, colder by the years, as that is, the “side effect” of global warming, and, you CAN’T live, if you don’t have enough money, to pay for the electricity to RUN the needed VENTILATORS that you’re hooked on, to help you NOT D-I-E too, so, this is, an alternative version of the SURVIVAL of the FITTEST that we’re about, to “enter into” right now…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The Department of Economics set the increases of utilities to April first, this caused huge effects for the shops, the manufacturing plants, as well as ordinary, families too.  Other than impacting the operations of the enterprises, and the ability to make a living for the ordinary citizens, it’d also, diminished the capacity for the country’s economical, growth, and so, the CNAIC recommended the government to NOT adjust the cost of electricity in the next, few, year’s time.

from TEN years ago, and the line still curved, UPWARDS, higher, higher, and higher to this, very, day…graph from online

The usage charges of the various levels of uses are set to rises, anywhere from three-percent to ten-percent, and, the residential usage fees will get to as high as eight dollars N.T. per degree.  Those who live in social housing suggested, that there’s the need for the air-conditioning to be running, with the hikes of the costs of electricity, and the summer months’ adjusted, rates, it would cause them to have even more economical pressures, and so, the group hoped that the government can give the reimbursements, to help them lower the costs of electricity they’re, set to, pay during the summer months.

On the other side, after the adjustments of the costs of electricity had been set, the medical realm stated that “they can’t make it”; as for the affects, “the larger the hospitals, the less of an effect, the smaller-scaled the hospitals, the bigger”, and so, the medical professionals hoped, that the government can freeze the rising rates of electricity for these medical treatment centers, or to list the medical centers into the budgeting to help make up for the lacking.

The above messages made me think, of how several years ago, when my father came to stay at home, and was in need of a ventilator to run 24/7.  Back then, we live in the urban areas, when we turned on the ventilators, the entire apartment felt like it was on fire, although we’d not used the air-conditioning, our electricity bills always were, too, high.  After the hikes, these who are in need of these electricity-powered medical machines, who can’t afford to pay, will have it, even, harder, those who are physically handicapped, who are relying on the electric wheelchair, those who are in need of the ventilators, will have to pay an even, higher, electricity, bill.

relying solely on GREEN ENERGY will NEVER work! Photo from online

Anyway, the hikes of costs in electricity, will cause the cost of living needs, to get to an all-time high.  To, help reduce the burdens of economics for those on the lower end of the socioeconomic statuses, I hope that the government can give the reimbursements in provisions of the ventilators, the electric wheelchairs, and other machines needed to keep these, individuals, alive.

And so, this is, a perfect time for the LAW of EVOLUTION to work ITS, magic, only, this time, it is NOT running on who eats who, but who CAN, afford electricity, and, with the summers getting hotter by the year, and the reopening of Nuclear FOUR not gotten passed (due to DDP manipulations of the voters???), we are, all going to, get so totally, BURNED in the summers, and, how many of us will, make it through the summer, with the colder, harsher winters, heading our, ways, how many of us, will, SURVIVE???  Because, that, is what this

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