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Comment Re:We taught boys and girls to hate marriage (Score 1) 22

Boys don't matter that much here. The fertility limiter in humans is female fertility. Male fertility is basically ~13 years old to around 60-80 depending on individual and ethnic group.

For females, this window is much narrower, and optimal window is very narrow. Optimal starts around 14-16 (depending on ethnic group) and it crashes into geriatric pregnancy between late 20s and early 30s and sterility between mid 30s to early 40s (again depending on ethnic group).

The really fucked up part no one is talking about? Blacks just crashed way below pretty much everyone else. Their fertility window is earlier than the rest, their optimal is something like 14-25, and they slide into geriatric pregnancy around 30 (for europeans and asians, that's usually around 35). So when rich white women finally got the "don't have kids early, have them only after you have full education and career" fertility suppression strategy affect blacks, their ethnic group's fertility crashed much harder than the rest. The sheer amount of "DEI boss babe" black woman types being genuinely distressed that they're in their early 30s and they find out that they're actually so far into their geriatric pregnancy stage that they have low single digit percentage to get pregnant even with modern IVF is staggering, and their ethnic fertility rate is showing it.

Seriously, look up a few of those videos on tiktok. It's genuinely distressing to watch if you have any empathy. These women really want children, they have been told by rich white women that they should put it off as a part of female intersexual competition (human females' primary intersexual competition mechanism is suppressing fertility of other women). And whereas their european and asian colleagues can actually start having kids in early 30s with only minor difficulties, africans are basically off the cliff into geriatric pregnancy/borderline sterility at that point. So system told them their whole lives that if they do this, they'll have the dream family. They structure their whole lives around this lie, and then the dream is shattered when for the first time in their lives, MD tells them the actual truth about their biological limits.

It's heart breaking stuff.

Comment Re:More Blatant Corruption (Score 1) 33

The Big Lie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie) worked in the 3rd Reich (and many other places and continues to work) not because the Nazis were a lot better at using it. The Big Lie works because, generally, people are dumb and without insight. Present the average person with anything where disagreeing might incur a cost, and they will readily agree, regardless of what they agree to and regardless of how evil that makes their action.

Comment Re:Financial in nature, no kidding? (Score 1) 33

In the ruling on Wednesday, the court acknowledged that Anthropic "will likely suffer some degree of irreparable harm absent a stay," but that the company's interests "seem primarily financial in nature."

Yeah, the company's interests are financial. That's what companies are for.

Actually, no. That just seems to be the primary motivation to create companies in the US. It is not the only reason and, for people that are not total greedy scum, it may not even be a goal besides financial viability. Profits a entirely optional and there strong evidence that running a company with a primary motivation of generating profits is detrimental for its survival. And society, incidentally. You have fallen for some thinly veiled religious fundamentalist propaganda.

Comment Re:In other words, (Score 4, Informative) 44

Deere has been the most famous poster child of sticking it to the consumer and locking them in for a very long time. So it is startlingly good news that anything is happening... but it sounds like very little compared to their gains and damage caused. Also I don't get why just 10 years, these things last a long time. This kind of equipment can cost a lot of money per hour of downtime. (Caveat: I've worked on afterservice parts software for a big mining and construction machinery manufacturer... afterservice parts is like the razorblades business model multiplied by lots of expensive time constraints and logistics) Tldr; but what is needed is a law about afterservice parts. Are the owners of the equipment going to be able to buy parts from based on like Cummins parts catalog and run telemetry if that is a thing in Deere? After 10 years if their model's parts and software is no longer supported will they open source it, provide 3D design files or equivalent parts in major catalogs? Will they be able to only provide windows binaries that work with windows 11? Can machines and support packages be transferred? New machines need to become as maintainable as old machines, for as long as the materials last. Probably, they probably have a lot of ways left to fuck with people and still have a big incentive to do so. Not doing so will cut into potential profit.

Comment Daily use but nasty patterns (Score 1) 55

I've been through a few Kindles, honestly would be surprised anything lasts that long. Mainly Kindle Unlimited is an amazing deal. But, if there was a better ereader that is light, book dimensions, e-ink and has big letters with similar library even if I have to pay for each book I would switch. The two main glaring issues besides KU being really addictive are: 1) DRM, and 2) absolutely miniscule system font size. They allow very large text font size, but the fonts used in the file list, UI, About this book etc. are so tiny it is painful to read. They also keep messing with the UI without delivering much that is useful while continuing to ignore that e-ink users might need larger text.

Comment Re:2010 called. (Score 1) 136

You can go down the pedantry route if you want, but this is a story about mcbook neo. And you can certainly run something like a switch 2 version of CP2077 if that ever gets released in the massively cut down version.

Do you know what is one of the big features of those cut down versions? Super compressed low res textures. Guess what takes much if not most of storage space in most modern AAA games?

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