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frm88 commented on The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/alephnerd
tsoukase · a day ago
Let's reiterate:

* kids are and were always born in severely underdeveloped places like Africa and during hard times like famines or wars

* worldwide in the last 100 years and maybe throughout all history the education level and social freedom of woman severely impacts her fertility

Draw your own conclusions about the causes and solutions of the demographic problem

frm88 · 20 hours ago
None of those arguments are supported by the article.
frm88 commented on The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/alephnerd
tsoukase · a day ago
Childless women don't age well. If they are saved from the effects of a never-pregnant climax on their arteries/metabolism, they will face a dementia cared by nieces. Not that mothers don't have these but physically and psychologically they are much less burdensome. The hormone flooding of pregnancy is a health blessing.
frm88 · 20 hours ago
Needs citation for your argument. All I read today on this subject claims the contrary:

"Associations between number of children, age at becoming a parent, and dementia risk were similar for both sexes. Lifestyle and socioeconomic factors are more likely to explain the observed associations than normal pregnancy-related physiological changes."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9976501/

frm88 commented on A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content   niemanlab.org/2026/02/a-n... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
elric · 5 days ago
I bought a piece of wooden furniture some time ago. It came with a label saying that the state of California knows it to be a carcinogen. I live in Belgium. It was weird.
frm88 · 5 days ago
The proposition 65 warnings apply to carcinogenic materials used on furniture surfaces which can be released into the air or accumulate in dust. None of these substances are a conditio sine qua non, there are alternatives. https://www.p65warnings.ca.gov/fact-sheets/furniture-product...

The same warnings and labels are used in the EU, for example for formaldehyde which will be severely limited in its use starting in August 2026. https://easecert.com/blogs/insights/formaldehyde-emission-li...

It may look weird, but personally I prefer a warning to being submitted to toxic substance without my knowledge.

frm88 commented on Tesla is committing automotive suicide   electrek.co/2026/01/29/te... · Posted by u/jethronethro
dissent · 13 days ago
I bought a new Model Y a few months ago.

On the whole, it's a great car, it really is. They've pretty much nailed the fundamentals. It's opinionated, not unlike Apple, but if the opinions work for you you'll enjoy the car.

But there are shortcomings, and they are jarring. The parking sensors basically don't work at all due to being vision only - and apparently can't be made to work properly. The lane change and reverse warnings are just crap and may as well not be there. My previous car implemented these to perfection, but I cannot trust the Tesla. The autopilot is a gimmick that offers you nothing but increased risk - and there's no way in hell I'd trust FSD for car that can't accurately detect the distance of my house when parking. The big touchscreen is great for passengers, but outright dangerous for drivers.

Having said all that, it seems strong emotions around Musk and Tesla cause people to want Tesla to fail. They want the car to be bad. There is so much motivated reasoning around this brand that it's hard to take any article like the above, or half the comments in this thread, seriously.

frm88 · 13 days ago
There's also the various reports of federal technical supervision instances that attest Teslas have the highest failure rates:

Germany: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tuev-report-2026-tesla-mo...

Denmark: https://fdm.dk/nyheder/nyt-om-trafik-og-biler/tesla-skandale...

Ireland: https://www.rsa.ie/road-safety/statistics/nct-statistics-and...

At some point you have to acknowledge the data as facts.

frm88 commented on Environmentalists worry Google behind bid to control Oregon town's water   sfgate.com/national-parks... · Posted by u/voxadam
galkk · 17 days ago
At this moment I just assume by default that those “watchdogs”, “environmentalists”, “nonprofits” are mix of nimby-ists and/or thinly veiled attempts of extracting money

(it’s a nice things you got here. It would be a shame if some rare species of a frog would be found here. A small donation for the great cause/good, of course, would help us to work on ensuring that nobody gets in harms way).

frm88 · 17 days ago
There are multiple documentations where people have problems with their water level due to data centres [0]. It's also no longer news that data centres are planned/run in arid/desert areas [1]. Scepticism to Google's intentions before the damage is done should be allowed.

[0] https://youtu.be/RfzwLtWkVjg?si=OTjSgW6kBDR3-0So

[1] https://youtu.be/Mn5ttoXxAe8?si=EvN2jnIkA9yRAvJb

frm88 commented on UN declares that the world has entered an era of 'global water bankruptcy'   smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/pseudolus
alecco · 18 days ago
UN and EU push hard for the closure of reservoirs and dams then cry about lack of freshwater, and shout "climate change" when preventable floods cause mass casualties.
frm88 · 17 days ago
Sedimentation and low filling levels, hence increasing costs. Also

We found that 93% of studied reservoirs have not been fully filled up at least once during 2010–2022. Our analyses revealed that droughts are the most probable culprits. About 86% of the 398 reservoirs with accessible SPEI data exhibited significant susceptibility to drought, while 43% of the 525 reservoirs demonstrated notable sensitivity to ENSO events.

Worth a read: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202...

frm88 commented on UN declares that the world has entered an era of 'global water bankruptcy'   smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/pseudolus
avereveard · 18 days ago
has Iran tried not to farm pistachios and watermelon in drought areas?
frm88 · 17 days ago
California farms alfalafa in drought areas. Also, the article is about water bancrupcy worldwide.
frm88 commented on Yes, It's Fascism   theatlantic.com/ideas/202... · Posted by u/mickle00
solaire_oa · 17 days ago
To be honest, I found this essay a bit meandering and I lost interest in reading the whole thing (coming off the heels of re-reading Civil Disobedience, which by comparison is immediately forthright and to the point).

Skipping ahead to the 14 properties, however, points 5, 7, 11, and 12 are probably the most evident in the present moment.

frm88 · 17 days ago
Bret Deveraux, the American historian, did an analysis in 2024 of Eco's essay with focus on Trump and found all 14 were already a check: https://acoup.blog/2024/10/25/new-acquisitions-1933-and-the-...
frm88 commented on Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"   shreevatsa.net/post/dougl... · Posted by u/speckx
jacquesm · 21 days ago
> Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Mixed feelings.

It's one of those books where you wonder where the author gets his ideas and then you try to find out and it ruins the book for you.

frm88 · 20 days ago
Same but with The Graveyard Book. Discovered Gaiman's Scientology history and his continued support with 30K/year and submitting his daughters.Mixed feelings ever since.
frm88 commented on In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels   e360.yale.edu/digest/euro... · Posted by u/speckx
baxtr · 21 days ago
If you’re interested in this topic I highly recommend Tony Seba’s analyses.

He argues that because solar and wind are now the cheapest forms of new energy generation, they are on an unstoppable exponential "S-curve" that will make coal, gas, and nuclear power obsolete by 2030.

Look up his videos on YT, for example this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj96nxtHdTU

frm88 · 20 days ago
Thank you for that link. His vision of SWB as a global disruptor is spot on. Currently we're seeing massive delays worldwide on that S-curve with subsidies cancelled and political movements calling for a stop to green energy not only in the US, so his time line to transportation as a service might not come as soon as predicted. Off topic but I really can't see precision fermentation replace dairy by 2030. There would be a cheese lover revolt all over Europe :)

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