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by klipt 4y ago
Isn't that rate disproportionately owed to religious immigrants? Seems to me even France mostly relies on a religious drive to have kids, just an imported one. Among the non religious population, the rate is well below replacement and
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by klipt 4y ago
> The fertility rate is high in European countries "High" is very relative, France is still well below replacement fertility despite all their efforts. Meanwhile very religious groups like the Amish have much higher fertility r
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by klipt 4y ago
> People are quite hard wired to have kids. We're definitely hard wired to have sex, which used to be the same thing, but now there's birth control. Maybe evolution needs a little more time to dial up our cultural or genetic
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by klipt 4y ago
> The team at Great Ormond Street used a technology called base editing, which was invented only six years ago. Fun fact: J M Barrie who wrote Peter Pan donated the copyright of both the book and play in perpetuity to Ormond Street child
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by klipt 4y ago
Okay how about modern medicine then? If you got a cancer that only became treatable in the last ten years, would you trade your life away so that everyone in the last century could work 15 hour weeks and most likely never discover the treat
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by klipt 4y ago
> If the needs of a society can be met with 3-4 hours of work a day That's a very subjective question. Suppose we could have maintained a 19th century standard of living for everyone with reduced work, but without the scientific and
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by klipt 4y ago
> outright irradiate its user E.g. Radithor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor
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by klipt 4y ago
And Fourier continued in that tradition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Jos...
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by klipt 4y ago
Compensation in the SF Bay Area is another level but so is cost of housing in the SF Bay Area. So it's kind of a wash. Although if you're willing to rent and live frugally in the Bay Area you can save a lot.
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by klipt 4y ago
Don't movies already have stereo sound? Is going from two audio channels to four really that difficult?
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by klipt 4y ago
So you learned a lot of subtle features that helped you pick items more efficiently? But robots can have senses that humans can't. Why don't they just embed an RFID chip in every box, give the robot sensors to triangulate the posi
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by klipt 4y ago
Toxic metals have been understood for a while so I would hope they are better regulated. Plasticizers are clearly not well regulated yet, "BPA free" stuff just uses BPS which is just as bad.
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by klipt 4y ago
> The plastic itself (PTFE) isn’t the problem, it’s the additives Yes and what additives are being added to the PTFE in your non stick pan now? Do you know? Are they proven safe or merely not banned yet ?
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by klipt 4y ago
Right but in the absence of regulation, I would treat with suspicion e.g. fast food in any plastic container (or waterproofed "paper" container which usually means a plastic layer too). I consider glass, stainless steel, and cast
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by klipt 4y ago
Yeah I think it's actually the opposite, in extremely homophobic middle eastern countries it's not uncommon to see close straight male friends holding hands etc, because it would be unthinkable to insinuate they are gay given the
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by klipt 4y ago
I wonder how much of it is men having to move more for work than in the past. Easier to stay in contact with your highschool friends if you can all find good jobs in your hometown. If that friend group overlaps with the bowling league and t
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by klipt 4y ago
But then inflation...
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by klipt 4y ago
Looking at my grandparents, they definitely had some good retirement years. Then some medical issue hits and it seems things go downhill very fast. Point is, you never know how many good years you'll get...
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by klipt 4y ago
This catspiracy goes all the way to the top!
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by klipt 4y ago
Yes you could definitely make an argument that democrats benefit from poverty, or that republicans benefit from illegal immigration. People in poverty receiving benefits vote democrat because they're afraid republicans will cut benefit
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by klipt 4y ago
> The problem is, younger generations all want to move to the same handful of cities Because that's where the jobs are? Perhaps the real problem is that the jobs are concentrated in a handful of cities (and those cities also host a
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by klipt 4y ago
Yeah all that batteries do is time-shift power usage. If there's an overall shortfall of power generation, batteries don't really help on a systemic level. And every little business having its own diesel generator is just like bui
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by klipt 4y ago
> For example, we can probably agree that Bruce Willis is manlier than PeeWee Herman. So now we're policing people's gender based on their habits? "If you wear pants you're not a REAL woman"?
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by klipt 4y ago
Not at birth. They might have one added later on?
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by klipt 4y ago
Nobody said she "should" freeze her eggs, and the fact that you jumped to that assumption is extremely creepy.
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Or egg freezing.
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by klipt 4y ago
> Unfortunately, HB567 amended only family law, not criminal law. This meant the cops were still free to punish Wallace. Legislators failed to change the criminal law.
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by klipt 4y ago
Fundamentally it's the fault of the politicians who passed the law and the people who voted for them. If you don't want to be arrested for breaking a stupid law, vote for someone who will repeal it. Sure the police could in theory
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by klipt 4y ago
> And if you have the guns, you can just take wealth from the trades-folk. “In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. E
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by klipt 4y ago
"Just a little light swinging, just on special occasions."

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