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Strangers Asking People to "Please Watch My Bag" Favor at the Airport

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I was just doing some random Instagram scrolling. However, I realized that after all those annoying AI doctors , I found a blind spot in myself. Up until now, I have usually traveled in groups, even if I book a Grab to go to the airport. However, we have this scam that I never heard of until now,  called the "please watch my bag" scam. How does it happen? I saw some videos on Instagram. One involved an old woman asking a couple ot watch her bag. The old woman said, "I am looking for my grandson. Can you please watch my bag for me?" The couple said, "Can you open your bag, please?" The old woman refused. The old woman tried to play the sympathy card, like, "You're gonna grow old one day, and when you need help—you won't get it! Karma will get you!" Sounds like a Dhar Mann  skit, right? However, life isn't a Dhar Mann video—it's way more complicated than that! The couple had every right to refuse.  It might seem heartless to avoid h...

The Bad Economics of Defund the Police

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This is probably one of the most ridiculous memes I've seen. The meme has been used by leftists or communists to show why we need to defund the police. To defund means to remove funding. To defund the police means to remove funding from the police . The representation of leftists and/or communists is that the police must be defunded in favor of education, universal healthcare, youth services, housing, and other community reinvestments. This has me concerned about the move to defund the police because it means removing funding from the police in favor of other functions. An incident in Cebu City last May 26, 2022, had me scared. It should be a very big concern when the CCLEX, Carbon, and two other areas in Cebu City were given bomb threats. I couldn't imagine for a bit what happened in the United States of America (USA) happened in Cebu City. The incident involving the late George Floyd years ago was caused by police brutality. I'm not going to deny that police brutality exi...