yeah guys always get the wrong idea, after all /s

Is there something I miss here?

Yes, the stigmatization of high school boys.

I was in this very situation where a girl gave me hints but took a step back every time i approached her. I decided not to be too aggressive and ask her out, because i was raised (2012) in a time where it felt like even asking a girl out would be seen as sexual harassment.

In retrospect i must say i feel terrible about it because i feel as if i should have just told her how i feel.

I remember the lady who started talking to me (while i was working) and wouldn’t shut up. It was my first day at work.

The thing is you can’t treat starvation with medicine or hospital beds. The only thing that actually improves the situation is to supply food, lots of food.

The only true solution to this problem is that the so-called developed world starts dispatching lots and lots and lots of food to Gaza right now.

Well acschually oxygen is a corrosive chemical and probably damages your lungs (since that’s the tissue that comes in most contact with it). And also the Great Oxydation Event is probably one of the greatest - if not the greatest - mass extinction of all times, so …

thanks, very well put. I’m not from India, but this explanation makes sense to me.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

more active workers than retirees.

Well, no, that’s actually incorrect. You only need enough productive output to sustain a social welfare system; if people’s productivity would increase to 10,000%, then 1% active workforce in the population could sustain up to 70% elderly people (assuming another 29% younger unproductive people).

It’s just that society chooses to skim off that additional wealth to some rich parasitical class.

Fear of decline

Edit: after reading the article, it’s about something else. Indian parlamentary seats depend on share of population, not on economic strengths, so some states worry to lose out.

Edit again: Well, no, my first instinct was right. The article is full of stupid people spitting hate at women for choosing to have fewer children. The article also seems to mostly think of offspring as future workforce, in other words slaves to the economy. The human population has been less than 1/1000 of what it currently is just a few thousand years ago (as can be seen in this diagram) and humanity prospered. I don’t see the problem.

Einzelfälle as we say in german.

Unchain yourself from the criticisms of figures your country has implanted in you over your lifetime, and think in terms of ideas.

Realistically, that’s not gonna happen for most people. Hear me out:

In 1500s when the printing press was invented, Martin Luther (not to be confused with Martin Luther King) saw the opportunity to print “bibles for everyone” to transform everybody into a priest - an enlightened being that always (or at least mostly) does the good/right thing.

We know from history that that didn’t succeed. Not everybody turned into a priest, not even close. Instead, he caused Evangelism, and is partially causal for the Thirty Years’ War.

Realistically, people thinking in terms of ideas is an inclination you’re born with (or so I believe). There’s just a lot of people who are not gonna do that. Especially if people see themselves at a (economic) disadvantage because of it. Most people just wanna live through ordinary life.

BTW, I guess something similar happened with the internet. When the internet was first invented, people guessed that it would lead to the total education of all human beings. Instead, it has caused smartphones, “social” media (which is more antisocial media tbh), and a lot of spreading dumb narratives. So i’m not sure it really “enlightened” the people.

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funny “cat” videos

cat as in pussy

tbf the internet is going to consist mostly of 3 things in the future:

• propaganda
• scientific information
• funny cat videos

So I guess it’s not really a surprise that this is happening.

If I may add, to some people, connecting to nature is their “real life”, while building empires and going on adventurous journeys is but a struggle they have to endure.

don’t worry, you’re doing fine