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Even without evidence of contraceptions impact on fertility, when you repeatedly disrupt a natural process such as through abortion, is it any surprise that most development countries have dwindling birth rates? Is it a surprise that a country like South Korea with high abortion rate have the lowest birth rate?
Correlation may not mean causation but the probability is high. What doesn't help is that we censor/cancel people for even mentioning that abortion/contraception have unknown impact on fertility and we are left guessing what else it could be: plastic? air pollution? marijuana? All of these have been without previous generation but what was absent then compared to today was the ready availability of contraceptives/abortion.
Women have more power and independence than anytime in history, they can have a career, they can be sexually active, they can abort their fetus or put in their body all sorts of ways to prevent pregnancy. Is it any surprise that they are now finding it difficult to conceive?
I wish East Asia was more proactive with digital nomads. For example, Japan is notoriously tough to get in. Korea offers visas for Korean diaspora but not much for foreigners.
My dream would be remote working in Japan but they still rely on fax machines and stupidly outdated formal procedures, it was like living in the 90s, but I loved it while I was there shortly. Many foreigners I saw were working remotely but never reported it on their "tourist" visa. I wonder if this is sustainable.
what better way to never have to redeem ppl than being sanctioned? oh we are a stablecoin and we want to cash your tether to USD but unfortunately we got sanctioned ---> pass blame to USG
I can't believe they are this stupid and brazen enough to challenge the USG like this.
Just more wokeness to destroy California.
In fact this type of virtue signaling only hurts the people on the fringes because now the ICE car market and dealers will just cite this ban to markup their cars even more on top of the supply chain excuse.
This is a "let them eat cake" moment on already widened wealth gap. The people at the top sure do care more about these things than their fellow Americans who are barely above the poverty line.
this is national virtue signaling and there's no way that ICE cars are going away. I know several people who sold their electric cars and are back to ICE because these electric cars struggle during cold weather, snow, and uphills. Not everybody lives in a flat terrain
ICE cars are not going away unless they are able to suddenly produce EV in such massive numbers that it will become cheaper than ICE AND handle the load on the grid.
EVs struggle in mountainous and cold weather regions which Japan and South Korea regularly go through. On top of that there is a growing water shortage which means the nuclear power plants being built will be capped.
All of this weird wokeness and virtue signaling is only making the world a worse place. The bulk of the co2 production comes from countries that make cheap goods for Californians and in wealthy nations. But you won't give up your goods now for a better world right? It has to be the talking points by ESG lobbyist and corporate interest.
What a sad pathetic world. At this rate MIT is dead on money about society collapsing.
curious to know if some external firewall running on raspberry pi that sits between windows 10 desktop and the wifi exists. it would be ideal for inspecting network traffic
asking for a friend, she wants to know how to do this, she is very privacy conscious.
> I nearly forgot to mention the phone's VPN-type firewall.
also she wonders what vpn service you use here
> logcat log-displaying program on a rooted smartphone without additional privacy protection steps being taken is astounded
and one last thing she wants to know is how would you do this for a windows 10 laptop? can you hook it up to some raspberry pi device that can monitor outgoing and incoming packets? I suspect its rooted but people keep telling her how its impossible to trojan windows 10.
> one's privacy has considerably lessened in recent decades,
just to add my piece, people have been collectively brainwashed to place lot of value to essentially phantom points, be it instagram likes, followers on twitter, retweets and crypto. they are willing to go above and beyond to do the surveillance voluntarily.
I watched a piece on instagram thieves who chuckled how easy their victims make their job for them by showing off what they've got and when they are away from home. I imagine this is the same for people who believe they are building a startup legally.
Remember the quote from the biggest social media creator: "They trust me dumb **s"
and this just highlights the issue in Canada: we can't even agree as to what the underlying issues are, instead we scapegoat minority groups because it has worked since the 80s.
Wages has not changed here since the 80s and tech also underpays people for the same role. Meanwhile condo sales sees no sign of slowing down, everywhere real estate is on the decline, here it seems to continue.
I wonder if this is sustainable, there is a large number of multi bedroom condo units asking well above $5000 CAD / month
Market has already listened and are going to favor the latter group and the remote environment is going to be here with us indefinitely. If for whatever reason you feel like going against this new market trend/correction, you stand to lose out.
Companies who are demanding hybrid or return to office are unironically putting themselves in walls that will limit their competitiveness in the long run. Again this is what the market tells us, many companies are realizing they can save on expensive commercial rent/logistic overhead and hire more remote workers.
For example, tiktok was recently outed to run keyloggers, and those genz who are "stanning" are also likely sending back all these crucial data points. This is not a conspiracy theory but the very reality that we are dealing with that those who do not share our values and way of life are able to not only cast a wide surveillance of its most vulnerable demographic but manipulate reality for them in all sorts of ways to identify "enemies of the movement" and overwhelm them.
What disturbs me most is that there is this disjointed, water-and-oil dynamism between the two political spectrums engaged in this toxic social media warfare aimed at sowing discord and turning its masses to feel ill, with society, stability and question everything we have.
It is this unwitting participation by the genz of the grander ulterior motives and agendas highlighted by special interest groups that have overlapping values with foreign states that know what strings to pull and the silence in response that worries me.
America's hostile nations know they cannot beat it militarily and they have developed very imaginative and creative asymmetric solutions to subvert and sabotage it from within, and the current state of this side vs that side makes it impossible to formulate a collective bipartisan response to steer the ship in the right direction.
We are not taking this issue of weaponized social media seriously and we see this first hand by how little enforcement/recourse there is for data privacy breach. We know that privacy of the individual is one of THE key pillars of open society and unfortunately the waters are murky and there is no guidance anymore.
In a few decades we will see what the result of this trojan horse experiment is but the current trajectory is not looking good. Gen Z suffer from the highest rate of mental health issues, have access to unprecedented amount of information and foreign subversion. When I realized your own flag is becoming a symbol of hatred, we reached a potentially irreversible stage of complexity and with that only increases risks.
Those times I save I directly deliver in value working remote. I can work more hours and I can be more efficient since I'm not tired. not to mention the ridiculous tax and rent costs due to property prices that do not reflect local wages adding to the stress.
yeah, NO THANK YOU. I get local recruiters hitting me up and not only is the salary here ridiculously low, they are either hybrid or require showing up at the office. Vancouver recruiters are a special breed: they won't list salary ranges, and get angry when you ask for it, require 2~3x the work experience for the same position elsewhere, and 40~50% haircut when we have the highest living cost in the region. There's a reason why most of its workforce in tech do not speak English at the office, they rather have new immigrants who can put up with this toxicity, and the management exploits them. Modern day colonialism.
In Korea a blogger was able to see how BTS fans or "bots" were able to game the music ranking. What's interesting to me is how they seemingly correlate with wumaos as well.
I don't have solid evidence but it appears that much of the "stan" (kpop mob on social media) are very much politically aware and push a certain side of the spectrum.
All of this makes for some bizarre dynamics and I'm afraid that youngsters who are caught up in the craze don't know that they are being manipulated by very large crowd that behaves in bot like behavior or are herded into specific political flashpoints without understanding the underlying nuances.