Oh, yeah. Mods are crazy sometimes.

As I’ve said to a good few people: if they don’t want me to call them out, the block button is right there. It’s as level of a playing field as it gets!

Not with that sttitude

Not terribly often, it’s mostly reserved for the spammers. I like being able to tell bad people to fuck themselves more than once.

Multiple concussions from sports as a kid. It’s great to never know if my memory issues and depression are a result of that or if I was just fucked from the start.

Bingo

Yooooo nice nanner

“how did we survive?”

Ask anyone not wearing a helmet that got hit by a car or smacked their head on the concrete after going over their handlebars. Oh, right, you can’t.

This type of person cannot fathom that their singular experience is not representative of everyone else’s experience. Conservatism in a nutshell.

What sad news, the forest service does really important work. I’m sure that this means an even more aggressive selling off of land and more destruction of untouched habitats.

I see, I thought you were saying that was the only factor. 👍

Right, but the US - with the exception of the 1% - is not becoming more rich.

I understand the generalization of GDP/capita going up = lower fertility. It does appear to hold true from a global perspective. That’s a country level statistic though, which does not reflect income inequality within a country. Assuming that the situation is as simple as that is foolish at best and does not adequately explain collapsing fertility rates in poorer demographics.

The Great Recession contributed to the decline in the early part of this period, but we are unable to identify any other economic, policy, or social factor that has changed since 2007 that is responsible for much of the decline beyond that. Mechanically, the falling birth rate can be attributed to changes in birth patterns across recent cohorts of women moving through childbearing age. We conjecture that the “shifting priorities” of more recent cohorts, reflecting changes in preferences for having children, aspirations for life, and parenting norms, may be responsible.

The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession - American Economic Association https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Fjep.36.1.151

Incomes for the bottom 99% have stagnated over the last 30 years, so how do you reconcile that with this reported drop in fertility? I don’t think it’s weird that people see a causal relationship where one obviously exists. I think that the inverse relationship that you’re talking about is only one factor in influencing fertility rates, and you’re conflating incomes with affordability.

Lol no

Man, they are gonna have to start actually paying the wage slaves if they want them to make more wage slaves.

If Elton John was an evangelical preacher

Based gardener

It’s not even an economic issue for me. It’s an issue of “why the fuck would I pay for a service and still receive ads?”. These companies just keep getting greedier and offering less. Why should I pay for a worse experience than a pirate streaming site?

This is probably why stupid people like LLMs so much, too. It’ll tell them that they are right when every human capable of rational thought would tell them that they are an idiot. LLM chatbots are effectively just individualized echo chambers.

Warplanes levelled several buildings in the centre of Beirut, filling the skies with smoke in what Israel’s defence minister said was “a surprise strike” on the pro-Iranian group Hezbollah.

How is bombing the middle of a city filled with civilians a strike on Hezbollah? Israel only knows how to be terrorists, this is the same playbook as Palestine. Kill mountains of civilians in civilian areas, then make a vague claim of insurgent activity in the area.

The herbalizer. Discovered them after they already broke up