well i’ve seen cats breed just fine in “captivity” (i.e. living in a human environment). i think it’s a bit more complicated than that

i think that’s blatantly wrong because people in the US in 1960 had a lot of wealth and also good education yet had a lot of children.

yeah i have been saying the same thing to a friend just yesterday

MANN: In this crowded city, it’s hard to see the scale of depopulation and rapid aging already underway. But Li works in China’s sagging real estate industry, and she says she’s already feeling the change.

LI: Housing prices will fall, and the number of home buyers will decrease as well.

Oh no, what a tragedy. (/s)

please please no, i don’t want a huge wave of normies infiltrating our space.

skin does have a “horny layer”

me too, bud, me too

good article overall, well researched and well written, feels very balanced when reading it.

Sure enough, he ended up finding a dead rat. Unsurprising, considering he previously used a dead rat as an “alarm clock” because the sun would begin cooking the corpse, causing it to smell, and the stench would wake him up.

Damn i like that guy. Funny, at least.

“I change my pillowcases, I’ve done it before. It’s happened, I think twice,” he said. “One time I had a girlfriend move in and she said, ‘you need to change your pillowcases,’ and that was in 2019.”

Damn that is exactly my kind of humor.

Humans like shiny.

guess what’s also shiny? all the advertisement that companies put out for stupid products. doesn’t that make a lot of other things just as shiny?

Gold has utility

not really. IMHO gold is about as useful as aluminum or any other metal, i.e. $10/kg would be justified, but not $70k/kg, which it currently is.

like, $10/kg is real usefulness, the remaining $69990/kg are people’s irrational belief that gold is valuable somehow.

the only thing that cryptocurrency lacks IMO is inherent value. there needs to be real use-cases for something to have value, at least in my imagination. i fail to see the use-case in cryptocurrency.

edit: Actually, there are some nice use-cases. like, iirc, “doge” uses an algorithm for mining that produces protein-folding-predictions as a side-result, which is useful in biochemistry and molecular biology, which could be used for new drugs for medicine.

if society ended silver isn’t gonna be worth anything

i doubt that.

guess what farts are …

Feces is the ultimate insult

“shitshow” is widely regarded as a bad thing by a wide part of the population though …

“lol you’re so triggered right now” gets me every time

haha yeah :) but no, actually, i want them to have UBI, i just want everyone else to have it as well :) that’s a difference.

also by the way what i find interesting is that UBI wouldn’t actually have to pay for 100% of people’s living expenses. imagine i get a $100, then i’m gonna spend $30 of that on food at a nearby restaurant, so the chef and waiters are gonna get money, which they then spend again … what i’m saying is that $1 in UBI does far more than $1, because people are gonna spend it and then other people are gonna have it … so you probably need to pay far less than 100% of living expenses, only like maybe 30% could be enough.

also by the way what i find interesting is that UBI wouldn’t actually have to pay for 100% of people’s living expenses. imagine i get a $100, then i’m gonna spend $30 of that on food at a nearby restaurant, so the chef and waiters are gonna get money, which they then spend again … what i’m saying is that $1 in UBI does far more than $1, because people are gonna spend it and then other people are gonna have it … so you probably need to pay far less than 100% of living expenses, only like maybe 30% could be enough.

edit: this has nothing to do with your comment, i just wanted to write it somewhere.

ireland fought a bloody war of independence from the UK as far as i know. i’m not an expert of irish history but the irish have hated england after being mistreated by england for a long time or sth.

mostly with large tax breaks for ARTISTS

i mean yeah that barely costs ireland anything as artists are typically poor and therefore barely pay taxes anyways … /s