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I'm telling ya, China is the country most culturally similar to America. It's not Canada, the UK, or Australia. It's China.

bring back company names like these

My theory (and solution) on the fertility "crisis" has been consistent for years: Young people move to the The City for school, opportunity, adventure etc. But they are reaching the (not unreasonable) conclusion that having kids means moving away. So they delay. This is *partly* due to the cost of family housing, childcare + education ... but the primary driver has become social or cultural: they just DO NOT SEE families around them. This becomes a self reinforcing downward loop. Fewer kids means reduced services for families: schools close, fewer high chairs and kid's menus in restaurants etc. This is exacerbated by the higher costs the cities impose on childcare and the ~monopoly they have on schools and enforcement of disorder. It's an incredibly difficult cycle to reverse and the only practical solution is an incremental one: make it easier for very young families to decide to stay. Appeal to the people who ALREADY love the City to make it their home when they have their first child. This starts by building housing designed FOR families, but also in improving safety, public education, local elementary schools etc. And slowly by adding more babies and toddlers, we make it more socially customary for places to be child friendly. Families who have lived in neighborhoods for years decide to send their kids to the local schools with their friends. And then hopefully as more of these pioneer families grow and flourish, the younger people around them see this and think: "Well if they are making it work ... then I guess I could too."

ONE MILLION ANIMALS GET KILLED BY HUMAN DRIVERS EVERY FUCKING DAY

@juliandorey lots of people complained about the left calling people hitler who also hate neocons and hate that they call people hitler. i know you didn't mean to suggest that the majority of people upset at the left for crying hitler are neocons, but clearly the majority are regular folks

the neocons who complained about the left calling anything they didn’t like “HITLER” are the SAME neocons now calling iran & their leadership “nazi” & “hitler” this comparison is an effrontery to the intelligence of ANYONE who has ever studied history in short, here’s why 🧵⤵️

Iran has been consistent and clear that any ceasefire or peace deal must include Lebanon, and any observer should assume Iran will not abandon Hezbollah after the group’s loyalty against ISIS, and now in this current war. Hez has distinguished itself as the best light infantry force in the region, and Iran’s deterrent depends on the loyalty of its regional allies. If Trump allows Israel to continue pounding Lebanon, the war will resume, simple as that. Peace is on the table. Iran and the Trump administration clearly want it. If Israel doesn’t want it, it’s not our problem, and Trump should let them fight their own war.

The reason you can’t buy a house is because of money printing. Not because of greedy landlords.

@hexesandspell excellent

The universe meets you at depth of your surrender

@zekramu yeah. they're called solar panels

@nickimoraa this doesnt sound like a hypersexualized culture, it sounds like a sexual shame culture

your relationship with discipline changes so much when you shift doing things from shame to love. from ‘i have to clean’ to realizing i deserve to have a clean home. from ‘i need to work out’ to i deserve to have a healthy body. you deserve to have the best from yourself.

Always being in a hurry is a terrible way to live your life.

The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by some LLM right now.

"Americans age 65 and older received an estimated $2.7 trillion in federal outlays last year, six times more than the $449 billion for Americans under 26 years old," per WaPo.

People under 30 might not remember that we could go weeks without hearing from or thinking about the President of the United States.

Jacobin is aghast at my proposal to cut benefits to rich retirees. The answer, they say, is higher taxes. So the government must keep paying millionaire Boomer households 100k+ / yr in SS, just tax them even more at the same time? Seems there may be a more direct way …

americans rn

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