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- Comment on Why is suicide considered selfish? If your like 80 or something and rely on your family for care. Would it not be a burden off of them? 1 day ago:
Have you lost a close relative? Have you personally lived that pain?
When people call suicide selfish, they’re not talking about your infirm 80 year old.
- Comment on it's a hoax 5 days ago:
For example, a TV antenna transmits in all directions, while a lunar rover transmits strictly upwards
Do you know…what a parabolic antenna…IS?
- Comment on it's a hoax 5 days ago:
No. Gravity isn’t gay. Gravity is pansexual. It’s attracted to everything.
- Comment on Why? 1 week ago:
What exactly am I looking at here?
- Comment on Anon joins girl's night 1 week ago:
But femboys aren’t girls. That’s literally their entire thing.
- Comment on If the legalization of drugs reduces crime, why can't the same be said about the legalization of guns? 1 week ago:
What’s the question here? These are two factual questions. You assess them with data, not speculation. The truth of one is completely independent of the other.
- Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline 1 week ago:
India for example, a country with lots of poverty that is already struggling to feed its population after just a little bit of fuel price jumping, has no business being at what, 1.4 billion? Why should we continue to grow even further beyond the limits of a country?
India is already below replacement rate.
Well, there is, if you don’t use a binary indicator of above/below replacement rate, and don’t just take “south” as geographically south, but rather as “poor, exploited countries, usually (but not always and exclusively) in the south”.
You’re missing the point. This isn’t about geography. This is about the actual countries that get labeled as the global south. That includes India, China, Southeast Asia, South America, etc. These are the countries that experienced the worst of colonialism. And they’re all heading straight towards population decline, just like the global north.
- Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline 1 week ago:
You’re trying to move the goalposts. We’re talking about the future and how birth rates are trending. Now you’re trying to change the conversation to the present, “Are you suggesting that birthrates don’t remain high in the global south?” Obviously they’re higher in some countries, but those rates are collapsing like they are everywhere else. And there isn’t a good match between those countries and what is usually described as the global south.
Since you’re too lazy, I did your homework for you: statista.com/…/fertility-rate-world-continents-19…
You can look up more information here: www.birthrate.io/fertility
We’re talking about the future need for workers, not the present. So please don’t try to move the goalposts by asking the obvious question of are birth rates still higher in the SOME PARTS of the global south relative to the north.
But there’s a very clear trend here. Every single country undergoes a decline in birth rates as it industrializes. The global south is not an infinite source of labor you can rely on forever.
You need to let go of this myopic North/South, Imperialist/Colonized framework you seem to be trying to shoehorn into every problem. Here are the countries that have above replacement fertility rates (in green):
There’s no real connection here between these countries and “the global south.” Counties such as India, most of South America, Iran, SE Asia, etc are all below replacement rates.
Here’s what fertility rates are currently projected to look like in 2100: Image
We’re on track to have less than a handful of countries around the world with above-replacement fertility rates. The global south doesn’t have elevated fertility rates, the specific regions of Subsaharan Africa and Central Asia do. Even Somalia will barely be above the replacement rate.
You’re too lost in a surface-level understanding of “theory” (read: socialist memes) that it’s clouding your judgment. Within a generation, countries all over the world, including countries in the global south, will be fighting each other to attract immigrants.
- Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline 1 week ago:
Put down the socialist theory and look up actual demographic numbers. You’re just wrong.
- Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline 1 week ago:
We’re talking about a global phenomenon here. It’s pretty racist to assume that other groups of human beings are somehow fundamentally different from your own. It’s pretty xenophobic to believe that the countries with high birth rates will just maintain them forever.
The problem isn’t the US running out of workers. The problem is the entire world running out of workers.
- Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline 1 week ago:
Why the obsession with only retirees? What matters is the dependency ratio.Image
The dependency ratio counts the total number of dependents, not just the retirees the eugenicists like to focus on. By the end of the century, globally we’ll have a dependency ratio similar to the level it was in the mid-20th century.
- Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline 1 week ago:
Hogwash. You forgot the other half of the equation. We don’t have as many children to support. Notice how people obsessed over birth rate always focus on the retiree:worker ratio rather than the dependent:worker ratio? The problem disappears once you realize we can simply take money that we were spending on childcare and shift it to eldercare.
- Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline 1 week ago:
I mean, this is a pretty silly response. Is there a hidden population of Martians I’m not aware of, eager to immigrate to Earth to work our low skill jobs?
- Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline 1 week ago:
Even the fears about the economy and government spending are bullshit. Notice the folks obsessing over birthrates always quote the retiree to worker ratio. They don’t talk about the dependent to worker ratio, and that’s what really matters. Yes, our populations are aging, and yes that means relatively more old people to take care of. But we in turn also have far fewer children to take care of. If we can adapt to the Baby Boom era, we can adapt to an aging population.
Further afield, fears about human extinction are total bullshit. No country is a monolith; every nation has groups within it with higher and lower relative birth rates. If the birth rate stays low and never recovers among the mainstream society, eventually the smaller groups end up composing most of the population, and then the birth rate recovers. The Amish inherit the Earth.
Or, if even that fails, ultimately technology loss alone stabilizes your birthrates. Eventually your population falls so low that you just can’t physically manufacture reliable birth control anymore. That’s a product of industrial production. It requires a certain minimum population size to run a factory. Below that and we just regress to earlier technological eras. Eventually we end up back in a mostly agrarian state, and suddenly having kids is once again economically beneficial.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 1 week ago:
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 1 week ago:
What if I replace most of my organs with younger ones? If a billionaire gets a whole body transplant, does that also de-age his brain?
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 1 week ago:
I don’t know. I can think of some space probes that were pretty fuckin’ fire.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 1 week ago:
700 Thespians who did not have some macho ridiculous warrior creed
Such drama queens.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 1 week ago:
And yet, if I show you various things, you’ll be able to tell me if they are a vegetable or not. Vegetables are a social construct, not a biological construct. But that’s OK. Money is also a social construct.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 1 week ago:
We should pass a funny law that requires all humanoid robots to grunt as they move.
- Comment on A good reminder that it can always get worse 1 week ago:
May a cat let you rub its belly in the near future.
- Comment on A good reminder that it can always get worse 1 week ago:
They have no faces. They have no eyes. Their ears are smooth slabs. They cannot taste, smell, hear, or see. They cannot even breathe the air around them. They cannot speak. And yet, they somehow persist, kept animate and aware by unknown Eldritch forces. They have no mouths, yet they must scream.
A plant phasing through walls? Strangely blue-shifted light? Whose to say how physics works in their Godless world? I do not know what Hell these beings dwell in, but I pray that I am never reincarnated there.
- Comment on A good reminder that it can always get worse 1 week ago:
The worst future: AI art continues to improve until it actually is indistinguishable from human art for 99% of the population. But the cost in turn rises. It costs maybe a quarter of what a human artist would need to charge for the same work. Still cheap enough to mostly put human artists out of business, but still by no means cheap or affordable. The AI companies drive the real artists out of their fields, and then raise the prices as high as they can without allowing a new crop of commercial artists to spring up.
- Comment on In the US can a felon own a gun if it is dismantled and hanging like a piece of art? 2 weeks ago:
What if I manufacture a blunderbuss right now, in the Year of Our Lord 2026? Is that a firearm?
- Comment on In the US can a felon own a gun if it is dismantled and hanging like a piece of art? 2 weeks ago:
Probably a felon that doesn’t want to end up back in jail?
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 2 weeks ago:
You have poor reading comprehension.
- Comment on Logical 3 weeks ago:
Collecting all the Infinity Stones just seems like too much effort. How many do I need to just be able to alter people’s sexual orientation as a prank or act of vengeance?
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 3 weeks ago:
Think you responded to the wrong person.
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 3 weeks ago:
I would argue HRT changes your sex.
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 3 weeks ago:
Frankly I prefer that to the wishy washy language around gender.
