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  1. Oct 2024
  2. Apr 2024
    1. The second more radical change was the legalisation of large-scale commercial cannabis production and sale of cannabis for non-medicinal use, sometimes called recreational use

    2. "The inclusion of cannabis in UN drug treaties has long been controversial because it causes much less harm than do illicit opioids and stimulants2 or legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco."x p 1580

  3. Oct 2023
    1. News is a business, a

      There's a reason why there are clickbait. people need money and in order to make money people need to click on

    2. It is a form that induces anticipation, and with that, anxiety; a state of always expecting the new.

      People are expecting something new and interesting

    3. headlines would form the basis for conversation as people gathered and read them in cafés.

      there used to be a culture around headlines because of the fact that they weren't always accessible to people but now people have to create titles to draw people into the titles. The culture around how we approach newspapers is changing eith time.

    4. newsboys yelped them out to attract passersby

      ways that headlines used to be used in the past

    5. These phenomena are not new; the words we use to describe them with have changed. Hashtags become headlines, and tweets are reported as both the headline and the story. Headlines are algorithmically

      The concept is the same but terms will evolve to adapt to the modern times that we live

    6. headlines have always been used as clickbait

      authors use headlines to attract readers to the article so that even if the title isn't fake- it's still clickbait.

    7. they frame a story.

      The headlines give you something to expect

  4. Sep 2023
    1. To come to know Italian cuisine in all its variety is to discover the monumental differences, not only of language but of taste, mentality, creativity, sense of humor, attitude toward suffering and death,

      Every part of Italy has its own culture and in order to "understand" it you would have to go to every region and immerse yourself within their life.

    2. talian dialects vary from region to region. If a Sicilian hears a Piedmontese from the northwest speaking, he will often not understand a word he is hearing.

      There is so much difference within the country itself

    3. because it is always limited by a hill on the right, or by the modest relief of a mountain on the left, and the road is continuously interrupted by small villages

      Italy is a winding a crazy country when it comes to landscape and that's what makes it so special.

    1. Self and Other in

      SELF VS OTHER

      Area studies developed

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    1. But Rae was selling her fans a different dream: the dream of an ordinary girl who finds herself, quite surprisingly, swept up in the world of glamour.

      Change the narrative