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colmvp commented on Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth Rate   xatakaon.com/magnet/japan... · Posted by u/nithinj
andrewclunn · a year ago
Kids are hard. People are selfish. Birth control works. The dating market is torture. Divorce is rampant. We're constantly bombarded with environmental destruction predictions. Most wealthy nations have leaders that seem content to replace the existing populous with poor immigrants. Even the poor nations that these immigrants are coming from are now seeing their birth rates collapse. Culture and laws requiring constant child supervision and care make parenting a full time job (for at least a few years). The prices of basic living expenses keep rising. But don't worry, free child care will save us!

Only the super wealthy and those with no money at all are reproducing above replacement levels, and I'm here to watch as the urban "economic growth at the expense of everything else" culture consumes itself into non-existence in a generation or two.

colmvp · a year ago
Couldn't agree more.

"Kids are hard. People are selfish." - More people than ever before want to live a life free of the responsibilities of having children, which is totally fine but never gets talked about in this discussion about birthrate. I have a lot of financially secure friends who never want kids.

"The dating market is torture." - Expectations of dating, especially online dating are very different from previous generations and kind of wack. I admit to falling into the trap of feeling like someone else out there is better and not giving the person I met online more of a chance past the first date. I'm sure others who I was with had the same reaction. Next thing you know, you're past the age of wanting or even being able to have a child. Either way, it's crazy when you see online discussions about how such and such city has a dearth of good matches which seems statistically improbable.

colmvp commented on 3M executives convinced a scientist forever chemicals in human blood were safe   propublica.org/article/3m... · Posted by u/whereistimbo
jyriand · 2 years ago
This title is unreadable.
colmvp · 2 years ago
I thought the rule was to keep the title the same as the article? The title is: "Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe"
colmvp commented on Jike: The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene   restofworld.org/2023/chin... · Posted by u/palingvel
aurareturn · 2 years ago
Yes, I've seen some. The aggressive moderation does turn casuals away and caps the growth of the subreddit though.
colmvp · 2 years ago
Aggressive moderation can be very toxic. The /r/toronto and /r/askTO subreddits are modded by essentially the same people. They remove comments/posts without explanation as to what rules were broken, and then when you critique them in the comments surprise, surprise, they remove them too!
colmvp commented on 23% of bachelor's degrees and 43% of master's degrees have a negative ROI   reason.com/2024/05/10/nea... · Posted by u/delichon
glimshe · 2 years ago
I don't know your sister so I won't comment on her particular case. One thing I've noticed is that a lot of these "quality of life" career choices often involve a partner - men, more often than not - swallowing the trash in a corporate job.
colmvp · 2 years ago
Or possibly financial assistance from the Bank of Mom and Dad.
colmvp commented on Accenture to Acquire Udacity   techcrunch.com/2024/03/05... · Posted by u/hiyer
colmvp · 2 years ago
> As for Udacity, which was founded in 2011, it gave the usual kinds of statements a company makes when it gets acquired by a much larger organization like Accenture. That is, it believes that it can reach more people and help them acquire skills as part of the larger entity. That goes without saying, but there had been rumors earlier this year that the company was in talks with Indian edtech company Upgrad with an asking price of $80 million. Apparently that deal fell through and Accenture ended up buying them instead.

I wouldn't be shocked if it was low. I remember during the online learning boom of the mid-to-late 2010s I spent some time studying a variety of courses on Udacity but I felt the depth wasn't there.

And now there's a lot of different options for online learning specialized to particular industries that are superior to general platforms like Udacity. For example, when I was learning DL, I joined a local study group that went through fast.ai together.

colmvp commented on YouTube's search function is atrocious now [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=Z3dSk... · Posted by u/nwj
colmvp · 2 years ago
YT search results also show results that have literally nothing to do with the query. Stop showing me videos I watched previously when I'm literally in the midst of trying to find something specific.
colmvp commented on Which shows got their finale right, and which didn't?   statsignificant.com/p/whi... · Posted by u/thunderbong
colmvp · 2 years ago
> Do Finales Define a Show?

It's mind-boggling how much Benioff and Weiss dropped the ball on the final two seasons of GOT. It's hard for me to even re-watch clips of the early seasons on YouTube because of how much I know its going to take a turn for the worst. The sad part is the production value and actors were still on their A game.

In contrast, I can rewatch practically anything from BB or BCS.

colmvp commented on Status Limbo   workingtheorys.com/p/stat... · Posted by u/cristianode
runamuck · 2 years ago
Interesting article. I assume that literally no one REALLY cares about status. Credentials, degrees, accomplishments, titles impress no one. Maybe 1% of the people might think - "Oh that's cool!" at first, but then it wears off. Leverage (what can they do for me) and "good energy" (I feel my best around them) trump all of the "status" nonsense.
colmvp · 2 years ago
You'd be surprised.

I remember meeting a woman who said she doesn't date men who don't have at minimum, a Masters.

A doctor I matched up with on an online dating app asked me to clarify my occupation, and when I replied, she immediately unmatched lol

colmvp commented on California debuts 'turbo roundabout' to fix intersection near Bay Area   sfgate.com/local/article/... · Posted by u/vasco
colmvp · 2 years ago
I'm not sure why roundabouts are so uncommon in North America.

Where I live, at a 4 way small street intersection, two of the entrances have stop signs with a roundabout in the middle. At that point, you might as well get rid of the roundabout.

colmvp commented on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO   twitter.com/openai/status... · Posted by u/staranjeet
colmvp · 2 years ago
So, is he still going to lead some team at Microsoft?

u/colmvp

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