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There has been strong social support systems in Finland for example, but even there birth rates here have been falling. I can tell you that when you have an aggressive neighbor pushing a war right next door, job prospects are uncertain, inflation is eating away at wages, and social safety nets are being cut or dismantled, it fundamentally changes how people think about having children. That kind of instability and uncertainty about the future makes starting a family feel like too big a risk for many people.

I can also add that Trump is also screwing over the planet with his damn tariffs. This has caused variation in availability and fluctuations in pricing. It’s also continuing greedflation.

We hear about it every day. Now, let’s see how women feel about cranking out more tax payers.

Likewise. Lifetime pass, but I’ll never touch their product again. They really dicked over a lot of people to please corporate threats. Now it’s just an enshittified dumpster fire to me.

How is having physical access to their phone different from having their wallet with credit cards and id?

In your scenario either way, the thief has it. My wallet doesn’t have any facial recognition or passcode option, or native GPS tracker if it’s stolen.

I went with Garuda. It’s pretty. Steam games are hit and miss a bit still tho :/ I have Nvidia and intel stuff. I9-9900k /RTX super 2070.

That’s glaringly obvious.

Butt, that’s where it comes from

Helllll naw. Gimme booty baby 😁

Staring*?

“Glaring” like… “fucking ass. I hate asses.” 😠

What drives me insane, is when you tell someone something… you explain it. They just say “Yeah I know.” Even though they really clearly didn’t understand. Then they need it explained again…

Likewise I am sick of people getting ‘annoyed’ by being told something ‘they already know’.

I don’t live inside your fucking brain. You might know. Next person might not. Don’t snap at me for your impatience.

It was a very good article. Roth followed his uncle into a different line than he was told, and ended up surviving. If he had gone where he was told he wouldn’t be alive. He ate dog food scraps to stay alive at one point. Very resourceful and brave.

God bless him, and all those who lost their lives fighting in that dark moment of humanity’s history.

Earth ships are so cool

At first I was like, what AI is this… Oho. Very cool!

O you’ll take the high road and I’ll take the low road
And  I’ll be in Scotland afore ye

Gasp! Wha… what are they in the midst of?

“Everywhere I go! It’s Tracy! Tracy! TRACY!”

Truth 👆

Well, what else are those worms in his brain going to eat? They’ve got nothing else at this point!

That is clever human thinking. I like!

I think it’s admirable we find heart even for ‘predators of the deep’. Though, I feel like that was still super dangerous… like if it was hurt and accidentally hurt it trying to move it and it thrashes a tail or that massive head full of teeth… humans aren’t exactly agile in standing water like that.

Ofc, the desire to help internally is still there. I feel like I would have made a call to the coast guard to pull it out to sea more.

I don’t live there though, just working through the mental checklist of “what would I do”