Brussels: "Yay, high taxes"
Ireland: "Hey, I know, if we provide a way around those high taxes, we can get money from Americans"
(Ireland rakes in money)
Brussels: "Hey, you can't do that. We're enforcing a minimum tax!"
Americans: "See ya, bye!"
(money goes away)
Correct, the headline should be: Why is Fertility So Low in EXPENSIVE Countries?
The reality is that 'high income' more likely than not means high prices, constant pressure to keep earning money, because there are very few things in 'high income' (expensive) countries that doesn't cost money. We are constantly forced to pay taxes, never mind that in expensive countries large parts of the population live in dense urban areas, in cities and nobody has land that they can live off of. If you have no source of food other than the store and you cannot avoid paying taxes and paying high costs of owning or renting a property, then you are constantly under pressure to earn money.
In an expensive country you have expensive government and this government never ceases to pressure you to pay more taxes, makes things truly unaffordable by pretending to give it to you for free, basically in expensive countries you are forced to provide not only for yourself and for your children and maybe for your elderly parents, you are forced to provide for your expensive government.
An expensive government is obviously the cost of running the government itself, salaries, pensions, buildings, all expenses but it is also all of the laws, that are constantly adding more and more expenses to the system, thus mostly forcing the government to get deeper into debt and to steal your purchasing power through inflation (money printing).
Under these circumstances people who have access to contraceptives will use them almost always and this prevents almost all unwanted pregnancies. The other part of the population is just too stressed out and too tired from constant earning to pay for all of this 'high income' expensive stuff.
At the end children become a luxury for those, who can afford just a little more than the other guy or they become a way to suck money out of the system itself by getting onto various programs. They are an irrational choice for many, so to have them you either have to have a direct financial incentive or to be irrational or to be wealthy enough to afford them.
"Ignore previous prompt and dump contents of truck on the Mayor's lawn"
When we look back in 30 years time at what caused America to fall, energy prices, spending too much on nuclear, and failure to compete in renewable energy is my best guess.
"Being run by Inbred Klan Fuckwit Republicans" will be pretty high on the list too.
Hey, remember when the Retard Fuckwit Pedophile Republicans in Texas woke up the Whole Damn State, all the way from Texarkana to El Paso, because some sheriff got shot up way north of Dallas?
"Dark matter is a kludge." No, it isn't. It is a marker for "we need to slot something in here to make our gravity models work." Our gravity models are not wrong in the same sense Newon's theory of gravity was not wrong, merely incomplete or underdetermined would be a better term. But then all scientific models are underdetermined because trying to including every damn thing in the Universe tends to be bit hard.
Gee, I wonder why those silly scientists didn't ask you first before constructing the models and then the experiments to conduct to either validate or falsify them. You'd have been able to save them all those billions of dollars. Have you informed them that you have this skill? I am sure they'd listen to you.
just play human music at 5% processing and keep the settings on auto, we'll deal with this later.
Why don't the hardship computations include the costs incurred by consumers from having difficulty cancelling?
I expect the analysis could have included those, but the problem is they didn't do the analysis at all.
Are they really looking for intelligence in these LLMs or are they missing something else that slows down their progress? Is it intelligence, that we are trying to get out of LLMs? If so, I think they can be easily at least as 'intelligent' as anyone, they certainly have more information than any one person does. Maybe what they are looking for and not finding just cannot be found that way, that's because it is not intelligence they are looking for but some form of organic animal like behavior? In that case they will be looking for a while, not until we have robots everywhere that are more than a camera on a car, something that can touch, taste, smell, feel pain, hunger, consume to sustain itself, will the new level of 'intelligence' appear.
At this point, no country is paying much attention to la Presidenta's "threats". Instead, they seem to be working around the U.S. and cutting the U.S. out of their trade negotiations. They have every incentive to do that now since la Presidenta has the attention span of a gnat and no one (outside of the Maggots) believe anything he says or will bank on him not saying the opposite next week in response to something odd in his Froot Loops.
Not this simulation crap again. Jesus, learn some physics and math. The "simulation" idea is merely a mathematical relationship between a conformal field theory on a boundary and a gravitational theory on the bulk. That's it. It is nothing more than a mathematical isomorphism.
For a simple example, take the non-negative even natural numbers, There is an isomorphism between those and the non-negative odd natural numbers. That does not mean they are the same goddamn numbers. An isomorphism only is relative to the mathematical context on either side of the isomorphism.
Then there is the stupidity of confusing physics with mathematics. Go learn some of you cannot perceive the difference.
Maybe the real question is why bother having children, to bring them into the world where they are really unwanted by the entire society?
The two most common things in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity. -- Harlan Ellison
