The 722 abortions in 2023 added to the 43383 births wouldn’t change that. I’m sick of all this fearmongering about fertility rates and using it to attack women’s autonomy is absolutely appalling.

They should be Canadans

Probably because we don’t make cars, or anything else. We dig stuff up, send it to China and buy it back in the form of goods.

I’m 47 and the twentysomethings at work still think i’m their age, its hilarious, some people my age wouldn’t even talk to me until they found out im old like them. Some of us just habve great genes.

I once got a message from spotify saying congratulations, your musical taste is unique, you haven’t liked a single song we have recommended. They haven’t stopped trying though.

Remember: we live in an economy and children are our most valuable resource.

I actually like annoying vegans. The truth is that you are right and I just don’t care enough about the planet. You’re far better people than I am. I also think that’s an awfully frustrating thing to say to a vegan.

The cognitive dissonance says i should really try to make some kind of vegan food… Don’t give up.

Angry boomers will love it, also the masculinists who think boys are too weak these days.

“We’ve lost everything. We lost our family life. We lost our livelihoods. And we have nowhere to go,” said the Israeli soldier

Huh? People are just turning everything upside down now.

Oh dear… the dejected warp core is oozing fucks

The only options are fan forced, grill with fan and grill without fan. I might try the grill option and put some foil on a rack above the cake to stop the top from burning. I’ve had to do this for many years as my last two ovens only had functioning grills.

I have never had a properly functioning oven before and now my brand new one is still wrong. :(

I decided to split the difference and bake my cake at 170, it took half an hour longer than it should to cook and got dried out (i was poking it with a stick every 5 minutes for the last half hour), does that mean 170 in the dial is actually 150?

I don’t have the manual unfortunately.

The tech world wants the easy money made from payment processing, as well as all the data they can get.

How is having numerous private companies all concerned with billing in any way efficient? Imagine if everyone was covered and the money and time and intelligence used to decide how much they pay and how much you pay went towards actual healthcare. The whole existence of health insurance is an inefficiency.

Technological progress neutralised the Malthusian warning: “The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.”

Malthus always gets a mention in talk on population. He didn’t know about the tech bros and their space colonisation plans.

I think we need to talk about what constitutes quality of life. I don’t need a pet robot when i can’t afford a home. I’d rather have a little land than fashion and air fryers. What are we building with all tbis productivity? Computers are awesome but most of what is sold these days seems like waste to me. I save 50% of my income and i can’t afford anything but a 2 room shithole.

Ok, stupid question: if you have freedom of speech then why do you require anonymity? Because speech has consequences? Both for the speaker and the spoken too/about.

What if we had a social network with real names but a short memory. Would be feel more free to speak but also more responsible?

“If a judicial officer decides there is reasonable suspicion that a serious crime has been committed, and it is necessary for law enforcement to access information to investigate that serious crime, tech companies should respect the rule of law and the order of a court, or independent judicial authority, and provide that information,” he said.

That does sound entirely reasonable. If you want real privacy in life then you might need to stay offline, ss long as we’re using computers for everything then what expectation of privacy can we really have?

I hear his voice, may he find his way to the halls of his fathers

I’m sorry you got downvoted because you are calling out a cruel stigma. You are very right and people who suffer from incontinence should not be laughed at. We must offer more dignity and compassion to people.