Actually it is quite the opposite. But just look where the birth rate is growing. Usually it is poor, underdeveloped countries.

The more developed the nation, the more expensive the life is. Like in Munich, good luck having kids, where a 3-room apartment costs almost like the average salary. Then think for a second or third kid. No way.

Plus, we now have entertainment in our hands, 24/7, called mobile phones, be it Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, Facebook. Who wants a sloppy sex, when you can spend the time binge watching the latest TV series or having dopamine kicks from your favourite social media.

They are practicing this in India if I am not wrong, but it is done by the parents. They are collecting CVs of prospective partners and sharing them with their kids. So it is like Tinder for parents kind of.

I also have a Pakistani colleague and he told me that they have a dating app, but for marriages. You see the profile of the girl/boy, where they share how many kids they want to have, etc.

Nah, there is simply too much money involved. And sadly money influences absolutely everything from politics, moral decisions, war warfare, etc.

I was astonished that one of my colleagues is actually a fan of Andrew Tate. Mind you he is also based in Europe, where people tend to be more self aware.

He actually is also into Trump and is a global warming denier, so I guess he fits the profile and still I think this is the first person I personally know who sympathizes with them.

The far right is really on the rise and we as humanity seems to have learned absolutely nothing from history.

I really feel sorry for those guys, they are recruited to fight someone else’s war in a foreign country and are literally exchanged for food, money and space technology like a cattle.

This shows how much the NK government values the lives of their citizens. Grim!

Why don’t you use something like Tailscale? Other than that using non standard ports greatly reduces the risks of you getting compromised. The majority of attacks come from port scanners scanning for default ports and trying to use known vulnerabilities.

And here you are wrong, Palestinians have no citizenship and nowhere to go. A lot of Ukrainians escaped the war, Palestinians simply can’t do that. They are stuck in a very small land rendered completely inhabitable by now, with no escape and no future.

During COVID they learned they can make the same profit by ditching mass market vehicles and concentrating on high margin SUVs and still preserve their profit margin. I guess this is now biting their asses.

62 K for full spec. Crazy expensive.

That’s I guess how nature is giving us a sneak peek of what’s to come if we continue this road.

That’s why all the outstanding democracies have democratic in their names.

Yesterday someone posted a screenshot of the price of a fully trimmed ID3 costing 63K €. Mind you ID3 is a small compact car. That’s absolutely insane, and then VW is wondering why their profit and sales are sliding down the drain. They were supposed to be producing mass market affordable cars.

I don’t think that those tariffs will help much, and it will be counterproductive in the long term for the European car industry.

Wasn’t this also correlated with a lot of carbon heavy EU industries migrating to parts of the world with cheaper labor force and energy?

Today I read an article in DW, that in Germany

In July industrial production was almost 10% below the level it had been at, at the beginning of 2023.

Isn’t this an uplifting news?

Why is the European discount only 50%?

Exactly how I am feeling. AI took the fun part away of cracking a problem and the satisfaction of solving it is now gone.

Is this mod worth it?

It is indeed Reuters, I didn’t clarify, I am using Libredirect on my mobile to strip some websites as I believe Reuters has a limit of articles you can read per month/day.