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When "there is no such thing as society," but "it takes a village" to raise children, it's obvious that many choose to simply not have children. There is also a correlation between improving material conditions and lower birth rates, but that only partially explains the current situation in the west.

I learned something interesting about the average gap between children in different mammal species recently. Great apes, I think it was orangutans specifically, have babies roughly eight years apart, as that's how long it takes for an orangutan to mature enough to not need constant care. This being while orangutan babies are more mature and capable at birth than human babies. Whereas in hunter-gatherer human communities the gap is more like four years, not because a four year old is mature enough for the mother to have time to care for another infant, but because child rearing is a communal responsiblity; she has help. In the US this gap has been reduced even further to just two years, even though the average mother in the US has essentially no help with domestic labour and likely has to participate in wage labour as well.

... it's part of why every country on earth [...] has been very "No nukes! Not for any purpose!" all throughout until today. Like everyone understands it's doomsday shit.

Everyone except the arch-ghoul Kissinger and his merry band of war criminals. IIRC his initial political rise had to do with the book he wrote about "tactical" nukes. His thesis was something like, "ok, maybe big nukes are bad, but we can use little ones. As a treat".

German entry ban for Celtic fans in three, two, one...

There are 15 million vacant homes in the US. Some of that will be simply due to homes briefly being between tenants or owner-occupants but even if that would account for the vast majority of vacant homes it still leaves enough to house everyone and then some.

The economy is doing great everyone. /s

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All of this fuss over various non-aligned messaging services is solely to further entrench imperial surveillance capabilities.

If it had anything to do with their usual excuses of counter-terrorism or child abuse they could just use the resources at their disposal and deal with most of it. Even when people use encrypted messaging the rest of their opsec is sloppy enough to find a way in if you're so motivated.

After reading the article and looking into this Dr. Busby I feel like caution is necessary.

While I wouldn't put it past the imperialists to use nuclear weapons, the author has taken some questionable positions in the past. The again said positions are merely not in line with the narrative the imperialist project presents, so maybe there's nothing to be concerned about here.

The UN for example stated in 2006 that his claims of DU munitions being used In Kosovo and Iraq (part two) are empirically false, but since then the US and NATO have admitted to it.

He has a very strange theory of radiation effects on humans, one which doesn't at all match with long established evidence, the mainstream theory, nor more modern theories.

He also claimed the Fukushima disaster (and Chernobyl) was much worse than it's generally agreed to be, and was selling some sort of anti-radiation pill of questionable effectiveness to Japanese people in the area.

The people who already mentioned cold fusion in this thread have made good points as well. I can't find much on this Del Guidice character but there's a bit in the German Wikipedia entry noting that his and his collaborator Giuliano Preparata's ideas on cold fusion and the "memory of water" were not well accepted amongst peers.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory director Harold Brown and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev both described neutron bombs as a "capitalist bomb", because it was designed to destroy people while preserving property.

Some slave owners like Jeff Bezos are so nice that they even thank their slaves for all their hard work that they did to send their master into space for a couple seconds on a phallic rocket.

The US isn't even the best at that grift. Germany spent about double that over a decade while emissions increased.

Sometimes I ask people what made Trump so uniquely bad. The only answer I've gotten so far, one which can't be applied to every other US president, is his unfiltered and brash communication style.

I also think that Trump was good vis a vis nations in the US sphere of influence. The leaders of those countries started thinking about what happens when they're not the US' puppets. Unfortunately those thoughts were all forgotten as soon as Biden was elected, as everything went back to normal.