You are a heterosexual individual with a long-term best friend who is of the opposite sex. You two are inseperable and have only ever been platonic. Over the years, your best friend has dated around but their dates have frequently turned jealous and toxic over your friendship, which in turn has hurt your best friend. After a while, you friend finally starts dating again and has found someone that they would want to be in a long-term romantic relationship with.

BRICS is an acronym that stands for a group of five major emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The BRICS countries are characterized by their significant influence on regional and global affairs, as well as their substantial and fast-growing economies. Recently, a number of countries including Saudi Arabia were invited to officially join the organization.

On July 26, 2023, the democratically elected government of Niger was toppled by a military coup headed by General Tchiani. In response, the Economic Community of West African States threatened military intervention in the country if the coup did not reinstate the democratic government by August 6th. The deadline has since passed, yet the coup shows no signs of returning power to the democratic government

For the sake of this debate, a charter school is a school that receives government funding but operates privately and independent from the established state & public education system. The operations and curriculum of the school are determined by private actors, particularly those part of the charter school's board. Unlike other forms of private education, charter schools do not have to subscribe to regulation in education beyond the requirements of having core subjects (i.e. math, science, language, etc.) but the content of subjects, regardless of them being classified as core or specialized, is up to the charter school's board.

Infoslide A: Open data laws would require all companies, state institutions, and research organizations to publish all information to be freely processed, and distributed by the public.

Infoslide B: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a type of hypothetical artificial intelligence that could theoretically perform any task at a human or super-human level

Infoslide C: AI Doomerism is a popular narrative that focuses on the potential negative impacts of the widespread use and growth of Artifical Intelligence

Infoslide A: "There exists a machine that contains a database of all the traumatic memories of every human that has ever lived. This machine allows individuals to download these memories in a procedure known as ""bonding"". People will know that these memories are not theirs, but it is vivid to them as if they lived through the traumatic experience. It is an irreversible process and the memories cannot be forgotten."

Infoslide B: The Song of Songs is one of the megillot (scrolls) found in the last section of the Hebrew Bible. It tells the story of young lovers living in Jerusalem in the days of king Solomon. They are described to be madly inlove ever since their first encounter, and each sees the other as the most virtuous and beautiful person in the world. Due to external circumstances, they never manage to meet again and reunite throughout the story.

Infoslide C: "A ""Bucket List"" means a list of things that one would like to do before dying-that is, before one ""kicks the bucket"". To"" kick the bucket"" is an English idiom, considered a euphemistic, informal, or slang term meaning ""to die"". Therefore, a Bucket List is a number of experiences or achievements that a person hopes to have or accomplish during their lifetime."

Infoslide B: The recent signing of the Public Service Act of the Philippines aims to boost foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country by allowing 100% foreign ownership in specific industrial sectors, namely, railways, airports, expressways, and telecommunications.

Infoslide C: Personal finance influencers are social media practitioners who spread financial information and so-called financial expertise on social media platforms I.e. FinanceJosh, Humphrey Yang etc

Infoslide for motion A: The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) is a regional free trade agreement among ASEAN states, Australia, China, South Korea, New Zealand, Japan, and initially India. The RCEP is one of the biggest global free trade agreements that covers 30% of the global market. It aims towards eliminating tariffs for 90% of the products being traded amongst participating countries and develop new rules & regulations for foreign investment and intellectual property rights to support such extents of free trade. However, India had pulled out due to the rising geopolitical tensions with China.

B: Green Farming refers to the process of growing food using farming techniques that protect the planet and the people who live on it. Sustainable agriculture produces healthy food without depleting natural resources, including land, air and water.