A more natural way to see it is that Chinese does not really have tenses in the first place.

Actually, it does, it's just not so fixed about them.

For instance: "I have gone", "I had gone" are said the same way, but there is a slight difference when you say "I have been going" and there is really no way to say "I had been going" unless contextual tokens are added onto.

Many banks nowadays charge higher fees for teller service.

I went in to cash a check at a bank a few years ago and they made a huge show of it, taking over half an hour and various employees for a couple hundred dollars. They will absolutely win if they want to. A large organization can easily create more friction than an individual can bear.

Thats their issue that they want to pay several staff half an hours wage for cashing a cheque. I would have been enjoying every second of the farce.

Your time must not be valuable to you, which is a very limited perspective.

You don't understand. They will make you pay for it by charging a handling fee. How about $10 flat per transaction?

I didnt understand that because the parent comment made no mention of that, only the time the bank took. So I would argue you dont understand, as maybe some banks do charge for the privilege, but that is not the point that was made and I was replying to.

The impact is rather that is explains the failure of attempts to cultivate cell cultures of brainstem cells.

I heard adipose tissue also retains hormones and fat-soluble pollutants, and losing weight releases them and they have to be dealt with by the body in other ways. Specifically, the hormones can cause mood swings, which some individuals have learned to react to with binge eating.

Fill your freezer with frozen food other than ice cream.

The digestive tract could also be seen as a single organ since they are connected. I think the deciding criteria should be the one applied in this study, i.e., how an organ develops.

> It should probably be noted that this specific case led to a conviction of an actual crime (Bank fraud and money laundering).

That's pretty much irrelevant to the discussion. Of course a lot more crimes would get prosecuted if we lived in a total police state.

I think it is important because the case was not about guilt or innocence. It was about the governments right to search without any cause. If the case was about whether there was enough cause for the search we would be having a much different discussion here.

I should probably have said this in my original comment.

The problem is the 100 mile rule, which effectively puts most of the population under the purview of border control measures.

Apart from that, an airport is a comparatively small area of land that is magnitudes easier to monitor than a border that only exists as a thousands of miles long line on the map, therefore the 100 miles rule should not be applied. And everyone getting off an international flight in the USA has already been searched multiple times.

How is the law subverted if one doesn't make all data immediately available?

> It’s hard to say what happened but these collapses sometimes have paradoxical outcomes e.g. we have evidence that the quality of life and health improved for Western Europeans at least in some places after the Roman Empire collapsed (less population pressure, no crippling taxes etc.)

The collapse of the Western Roman Empire was not an instantaneous collapse of civilization altogether, just of Rome's control over the empire being snuffed out for good. Already long before the final collapse the people in charge (which were not necessarily the Emperor) had only very tenuous control over large parts of the empire.

Full civilizational breakdown happened in a few places only, like Britain or southern Germany. Italy was widely depopulated because of the various wars between the Goths and the Eastern Roman Empire trying to recover the western half.