• Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Declining population, my ass. There were less than 4.5 billion people on the planet when I was born. That fash-hole is only worried that white people will represent a minority of the future population. Nothing more.

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      3 months ago

      Decline population is an actual thing…? Not defending this asshole or anything but your statement is seemingly based off of a lack of information.

      Birth rates in many developed countries are incredibly low well below maintenance levels. Meaning that aside from immigration the population in most developed countries is actually going down quite rapidly.

      Which given the way our societies and financial systems are structured generally means some form of disaster for those countries if such decline occurs.

      There’s even a pretty good recent video talking about what this looks like in South Korea

      Blue indicates below replacement levels:

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        3 months ago

        Still one billion in 1804
        two billion in 1927
        three billion in 1960
        four billion in 1974
        five billion in 1987
        six billion in 1999
        seven billion in 2011
        eight billion in 2022

        Already too many for my taste.
        And no to all, don’t react with irrelevant “there’s enough food for…” or Malthusian bla bla

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          And no to all, don’t react with irrelevant “there’s enough food for…” or Malthusian bla bla

          So, don’t bother you with the downside of what’s actually going to happen? What’s in the middle of happening? You’re just going to do a little cherry-picking, then tell us don’t bother you with facts?

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBudghsdByQ

          You can already see it in real time by looking at the demographics in South Korea and Japan. The only reason the numbers are offset is that a few countries are still net positive enough to offset them.

          Our great-grandkids are in for one hell of a ride. If we let it drop enough, they’ll be in forced breeding situations.

          • Bloomcole@lemm.ee
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            3 months ago

            A world with a lot less people sounds like a dream TBH.
            No overcrowded cities, no chasing animals of their land or destroying it for resources, etc…

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                3 months ago

                If you can get even low quality robots that can provide some amount of elder care, even if it’s just reminding them to take prescriptions and helping them walk, then you can drastically reduce the economic problems. there will be massive shortages of basic CNA and nursing home care workers.

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                  3 months ago

                  Caring for the elderly is unfortunately a very small piece of the pie. A small number of CNA can handle a pretty decent number of elderly, in a facility.

                  Of course, we (corporate) stretch those CNA as thin as possible.

                  Automation in every industry that we’re so worried about being our undoing will soften the blow.

                  It’s possible that nanny bots could eventually help ease daycare costs.

                  Problematically anytime somebody creates something that reduces financial cost for someone else, They usually end up charging them significant amounts for it. Those inexpensive elderly care robots will end up being subscriptions and have planned obsolescence. Everybody’s got to get a piece of that pie.

  • HelluvaKick@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    This is giving The Office “I want to have 100 kids so I can have 100 friends and no one can say no to being my friend.” energy

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      3 months ago

      It is absolutely not satire. It’s a drooling nethandreal with no higher order thought than “sex sex mine mine!”

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      3 months ago

      We’ve already had reports of him propositioning employees for sex for money. You don’t think he considers everyone on Twitter his property?

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    3 months ago

    As if his sorry assed genetic material should be passed on. Why do all nazis assume they’re the “superior race”?

    • KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      If you have to beg and bully people into fucking you, you’re not part of anything superior.

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        3 months ago

        And he’s lying to these women. He keeps the ones he wants and doesn’t give a shit about the rest.

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      Not to be a spoil sport but rating how good it bad ANY genetic material is always feels icky to me. If we want to fully move away from eugenics, we need to stop its narrative even in case of garbage humans like musk, too.

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        3 months ago

        Inbreeding usually returns pretty ‘icky’ results as far as genetic damage is concerned.

      • hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de
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        3 months ago

        I respect your position but have to disagree.

        Trump, Musk ,and probably most of their circle come from families that have a strong inclination towards psychopathy. While there surely are ecological causes for this the probability of genetic causes supporting this are high.

        Capitalism and before that feudalism has positively selected psychopaths for centuries. It’s time we stopped breeding people incapable of empathy.

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    3 months ago

    This… might just be the craziest thing I’ve read since the election

    Someone should totally try to catfish him, though. Sounds like it wouldn’t be all that challenging

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      3 months ago

      This… might just be the craziest thing I’ve read since the election

      We so far have:

      1. Trump turning the White House in a Tesla dealership
      2. Trump putting tarrifs on penguins, but not on Russia
      3. US warplans leaked because someone doesn’t know how to use his phone
      4. The US becoming a crypto bro.
      5. The US looking to invade Canada, Mexico, Panama, and Greenland while also looking to extort the rest of the fucking planet.
      6. The US stealing the Gulf of Mexico from Mexico.

      Just to name a few. We are only 4 months into his term people. I’d say Elon humping everything that moves is just a regular tuesday.

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        4 months into his term people

        Uhh what? He started in end of January.
        Its been 87 days or about 3 months. If we were to say how long he has left in his presidency it wouldn’t be wrong to just round up still and say 4 years.

  • NostraDavid@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    When she didn’t sign the NDA, the payments were reportedly slashed, and eventually cut again to $20,000 a month.

    Oh no! Only 20,000 dollahs!? That poor woman must now be living on water and bread for the rest of her life!

    Listen, I get it - Musk is using his money to manipulate people and he’s an asshole for that, but the cry story is just bleh.

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      3 months ago

      Jesus fucking Christ, your mentality right now is that hush money is okay. You’re saying that because she’s getting a lot of money she shouldn’t complain.

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        2 months ago

        hush money is okay.

        Weird how I said “Musk is using his money to manipulate people and he’s an asshole for that”, and you completely ignored it…