2, my parents were cool when i was little. my mom got sick when i was eight y/o. i suffered because of it for a decade.

if it wasn’t for my mum, it would at least be a 4 though :)

or rather, a 6, my dad was pretty cool :D

i completely agree. people felt the economic upwind and decided to have children because they could afford that.

Better good wages

why bail out the companies and not the people?

(/s, i was joking, of course in US companies value more than human life)

fair game IMHO. if you look at china as one big agent, then they can indeed act like that.

fish but with plants is trees

and also political dissidents, probably soon. considering that trump doesn’t care about the law, and has actively threatened to do so.

according to trump, all immigration is illegal.

Is it really antisemitic if a billionaire does it? /s

trump’s gonna die in office, one way or another

i don’t see him giving up power

like fear of flowing water

1km, 12 minutes walking

The reason why spaceflight stagnated for 50 years is because IT came in the middle of it.

All the smart people went to build computers instead of rockets, and now we have smartphones and the internet.

Now that IT is stagnating (enshittification), smart people will probably go back to spaceflight.

that depends on whether there’s still competence in the grocery market

Grocery value didn’t go up. Real wages went down. We should measure inflation based on cost-of-living.

Groceries don’t really get more expensive, because the methods for producing food don’t really get less efficient over time; if anything, it’s more efficient. So there’s no real reason for them to become more expensive.

Instead, wages declined. I’ve already commented many times that the labor market is a free market, that means it’s regulated by Supply and Demand. I.e., if prices for labor go down, as we can observe, then that can be interpreted such that supply of labor went up (women go to work too, offshoring labor to other countries, immigrants, …) or that demand for labor went down (automation, end of growth, …).

I honestly think that both cases are difficult, where the supply of labor could be a bit reduced by kicking out immigrants and home-shoring labor (and also, to a lesser extent, making it more difficult for women to work), which btw some advisers to trump are seemingly trying to do, but my honest opinion is that it won’t bring wages up to how they were in the 1960s. Demand for labor is shrinking too, due to the end of growth and now AI and other automation techniques. I guess we’ll have to face that.

edit: just to offer an optimistic outlook, i think that consumerism and therefore demand for consumer products could be stimulated by simply giving handouts to people. most people will spend most of the handouts immediately, and that stimulates consumerism. and that in turn stimulates the economy.

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whyyy did you have to post this here?

sth function approaches a straight line, why do you ask?

I suspect that’s where evolution comes in, as it is a strong driving force that’s pushing us in a direction continuously, so in that sense we evolved a sense of happiness or sadness.

yeah it actually did happen to me irl some years ago when we were on a field trip and a girl who had already flirted with me for the past two days suddenly wore a perfume and i think it was that that made it really difficult for me to stay clear-minded. could have also been the flirting though, i’m not sure actually.