While a simple solution for a popularity contest, it has great drawbacks when looking for techique comparison. Someone’s family may be bigger or louder than others, some people may have more fans in the audience, who can afford to attend will skew the vote, being an international event would mean that it’s likely the home team has the advantage as people from the host country have a greater opportunity to attend, some event crowds may be determined by time of day or by public transportation, and the audience may not see the whole (5 hour breakdancing) event and certainly won’t see the performers as well/as close as the judges would. Additionally the audience has so many new viewers during the Olympics that don’t know how hard certain moves/sequence of moves are while some easy flashy moves will wow a crowd every single time. None of those things show particularly compelling qualification to determine how technically good the performer/performance is.

Someone once described Oklahoma’s weather pattern with this list:

It’s Wednesday my dudes! (2014 meme)

Buying Brands:

-Nuoc Mam Vegetarian

-Nuoc Mam Vegan

-24Vegan

-Tofuna Fysh

-Bep Ong Bui

-Ocean’s Halo

Making Recipes:

-Tasty Thai

-Minimalist Baker

-Epicurious

There also exists a vegan version of fish sauce for any herbivores, vegans, or general fish haters out there.

Their blogs just got integrated fairly recently with the fediverse.

Dogs can and do eat people. https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/animals/would-your-dog-eat-you-if-you-died-get-the-facts

I do agree that OP should look into already existing services that are actively monitored.

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(Un)surprisingly, the US had lots of public pools, but they got removed because of racism. Definitely affects everyone especially the poor with little means of travel. https://www.marketplace.org/2021/02/15/public-pools-used-to-be-everywhere-in-america-then-racism-shut-them-down/

Are there any other good mushroom bible books to check out?

I believe it stands for Linus Tech Tips and Linus Media Group

Yes it’s a thing in the US and has been around for many years. That said, culturally teacher respect has gone down during that time while gun usage/accessability has only gone up. So while you can ask/demand the student to participate or hand over their phone, there is no incentive nor authority to have them comply. And good luck getting their parent to care or even bother to listen to you or show up to a meeting. The US press has labeled teachers as indoctrinators, pedos, and lazy overpayed child care. The administration will throw you under the bus immediately to not deal with bad press regardless of what happened. Additionally you’re paid worse than some much easier entry level jobs that pay more with much shorter hours. So it’s not really that it’s new or strange, but rather that the situation has changed and the current “just take the device” doesn’t work as effectively as it once did.