Since WWII governments have worked tirelessly to divide the populations of the West so we'd fight each other rather than oppose them. Now they're whining about "unity" because they've realized that by dividing us up so badly they've destroyed the cohesion that's required to maintain a first-world society and raise an army to fight whatever enemy-de-jour they may want us to fight.

And they're also shocked that the millions of people they've imported would rather vote for one of their own than for established politicians. Democracy isn't meant to work like that!

Remember: if you got a table with one Nazi and eleven people sitting down taking to her, you got a table with a dozen Nazis. And if you sit down at that table, you're a Nazi too. The only people who will talk with Nazis are other Nazis.

I find paddle shifters to be much more fun than a clutch and stick setup for manual shifting (even if its just telling an auto gearbox what gear to use). But i've always had a disconnect between what my feet, and what my hands, are doing. Driving a two pedal car is already a lot of focus and strain in auto D.

I've tried paddle shifters....and just doesn't work for me...

I mean, how do you down or upshift while turning the wheel...? When turning the wheel hand over hand I can't keep up with which paddle is which...

I've always had manual transmission cars all my life so far...stick on the floor.

Sadly, that's getting harder to find these days....not sure what I"ll get when the current car goes out to pasture...

> That is autocratic BS. We live in western nations, and ideologically we value freedom. Fundamentally we want everyone to have as much freedom as possible, including what career to have, or whether or not to start a family.

Nice, but utterly irrelevant because there'll be no Western nations soon if women aren't having kids.

Again, unless we rapidly change things the future we're heading into is that the white men die out and the immigrants who replace them don't care what women think. Some people still believe we'll make artificial wombs to replace women, but thanks to the Competence Crisis that's no longer possible; maybe China will do it, but we're not capable any more.

> So all we need to do is figure out why women aren't having the kids they want, and that's not actually money, it's that they're pressured to wait, and the window of opportunity closes a lot faster than they think.

And you can't fix that because you want everyone to have as much freedom as possible.

If there's one thing we've learned from the 500 years since The Enlightenment, it's that if you give Normies freedom to make their own decisions they'll go crazy and destroy society. This is why the political avante-garde is pretty much exclusively authoritarian these days.

One explanation is in the rise of women in careers and education.

A woman has roughly 16 years of fertility, from age 14 to 30. At age 30, 10% of couples can't conceive after a year of trying and the numbers get worse after that. Yes, older couples can have kids, but the probability goes way down.

Culturally, having a child before age 18 is assumed to be a bad thing (4 years). Then if the woman has a college education (another 4 years), then goes for an advanced degree (up to 7 years), or wants to establish herself in her career (5 years?), or wants to work off some of the college debt (5 years), the remainder of her fertile years is not enough for population replacement.

It's largely the same for men, at age 22 they may want to start a career and pay off some college debt for several years. Men can father a child at any age, but by and large they tend to marry people roughly their same age.

It's also harder to raise a family in an apartment than in a house, so for both parents it may "make sense" to work for several years to save up for a house.

(Don't take this the wrong way, I personally feel that women should be in colleges and have careers, I'm just pointing out the conflict of interests here.)

It would seem that culture has to change somehow to allow (encourage) couples to have kids earlier, but I'm not sure how that would work given our current economic system.

According to some study I read a couple of years ago, women's brain chemistry changes after they have a kid, and they switch to 'mommy brain' where they want to have more kids. This is probably why the most ardent opposition to having kids typically comes from childless women.

I also suspect that one of the best ways to convince women to have kids is for their friends to have kids so the childless women are surrounded by children all the time. Then being a mother becomes fashionable and everyone wants it.

It's interesting because he ran some other experiments where the population seemed to become self-sustaining rather than going insane. But human society does very much appear to be following the Universe 25 path.

> Eventually the older generations will pass on their accrued wealth

Good luck with that.

Because of modern medicine, many of the older generations will spend years living as vegetables in care homes and all their wealth will be handed over to the people who run the care home. My aunt went into a care home with a paid-off house and came out a few years later in a coffin with pretty much nothing.

And that's assuming the Boomers don't just spend all their money on cruises.

Maybe the US wants both companies to prosper?

Not everything is a team sport...

Yes. The data from around the world seems to show fairly clearly that the way to have more kids is not to educate girls beyond that level they need to have and raise kids.

Religion helps, because religious people whose religion says they should have kids will have kids. But if you send those girls off to college their fertility rate still won't be much higher than the non-religious girls.

Obviously we're not allowed to talk about this. But so long as religious people who don't overeducate their girls continue to outbreed atheists who send their girls to college, the almost inevitable result is that future generations will create a society which is religious and doesn't overeducate their girls.

Imagine a black unit cube cake with white frosting. Take a knife and cut out pieces of the cube to make a black hole outline within the white frosting. When you do this at an angle to the sides, it turns out that a cube 6% larger than the original cube can pass through the outlined hole.

All the platonic solids have this property, along with a lot of other polyhedral solids.

Looking back at what we know of my girlfriend's ancestors (she found a lot more info than I could about mine), they typically either got pregnant in their teens or got a girl pregnant in their teens, got married, and continued having kids into their thirties or forties.

I guess everyone must have been doing it wrong for hundreds of thousands of years before Youtube came along.

There is one thing women can do that men can't.

Have babies.

It's literally the reason women exist. And they're not doing it.

It will not end well, one way or another. In Finland I'd guess white men will die out and the New Finns won't care what women think.

I find it good for brainstorming story ideas and editing the stories after I write them because that fits within the usage limits. Coding probably wouldn't work so well.

I believe the issue is that they actually want to make a profit from selling AI services while many other companies appear to just want to make a profit from pushing up the value of their stock and exercising their stock options. So they can't give us unlimited GWh for free.

Frankly I dont want Google anywhere near my fucking car....period.

And, this means you're going to have to pay another internet/satellite connection for your car, even tho you have a perfectly good phone you pay for?