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  • also this is global, so I thought there was a strong correlation between agrarian societies, having low or depressed wages, and having lots of kids to help with the farm labor, or because there isn’t much else to do for fun.

    This could be a regressive imperialist view, idk, but its what I was always told about the correlation between wages and children, especially on a global scale - would be interested to see this same chart for singular countries, the USA for example.

    Other commenter pointed out that typically higher incomes generally come with rights for child bearers… So that also could have something to do with it too.

    Anecdotal, but partner and I have put off having children multiple times due to affordability, IE who can take that much time off work and still pay food/rent costs?




  • Hey you read this situation better than I did, props, it was truly a TACO tuesday.

    You’re totally right about the drones, I don’t think our military has the slightest clue what is coming for them on a war scaled against china, and I think China is actually the winner of this war, as saturation missile and drone attacks have been their plans for a long time (missile more than drone, but now why not both?!).

    We keep defunding laser weapons, which may be for good reason, but I always imagine it is because their is no repeatable grift on a laser weapon unlike a missile which requires lots of military industrial complex funding and maintenance on a huge scale.

    They definitely succeeded, our economy is pretty fucked. Curious what long term effects come from this.

    As an aside, I would love to see a comparison of DJ’s 10 point ceasefire deal and the original Obama deal, feels like we are much worse off now as we are responsible for paying for both the weapons we launched, and the damage we did, how dumb can we be?



  • Yeah, one of my intel sources is a call for prefabricated bunkers from the pentagon on 3/28 with a request for delivery options on a 3 day, 14 day, and 30 day timeline.

    Of course this could just be work to harden our bases since a lot of the infrastructure dates back to the early 2000’s, but I think it is a meaningful piece.

    Unsure if there were any orders placed, or where the request went, so we may be a bit premature for putting in troops, I just do not really understand where DJ goes from here if he doesn’t make good on his threat - and they have been hitting kharg island all day.

    Maybe that is the plan though, make Iran think we are going to launch troops tonight to see how they respond, or as a move of brinkmanship.

    Of course, I am trying to apply rational logic to an actor we all know to be irrational, so you may end being right that this is all bluster and no planning.