I have not seen that movie. Thanks.

Another thing is food and health. Eating cheap food and skipping stuff like dental cleanings often bankrupts you, later, when the doctors' bills start piling up and you find it difficult to keep a job because you are too ill.

The cheap boot théorème.

The population of the globe will not go down to zero. The last few people (and it won't even go that far) will not just decide to not have children because that is the trend and the norm.

Extrapolation is the tool of ignorance. You can extrapolate the population up towards Malthusian starvation, but you can also extrapolate the population down to zero. And believing either way is nuts.

The population will change. Over the very long term it will bounce around a lot, sometimes going down. Just because it is going down now, for the first time in our lives, doesn't mean "panic!". The only problems we will encounter are ponzi scheme collapses, but those are probably good to clear off the table now and then.

This is all I really meant by my last post about population. I wasn't defending the 1960s view. I was attacking the 2020s view.

I have more respect for Norman Borlaug than for Elon Musk.

Are you positing that it doesn't? There's a reason why so many American political dissenters use crypto, after all. And why they've now trying to grab the on/off ramps.

"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet." -Men At Arms (1993), Terry Pratchett

It is so extremely expensive to be poor. It's hard to understand this for people who've never came close to this but it is extremely difficult to get out of misery alone.

When you're poor every problem compounds in bigger problems. You see a small problem with you car and you think "I'll go get that fixed in 2 months when I have the money" but before you get there the problem compounds into something bigger so not it's even more expensive and you have to wait 4 months. By then your car break down and you lose your job. That's if you're rich enough to get a car in the first place.

It's expensive to be poor.

So Vietnam closes 86m bank accounts ..

If you didn't supply biometric data to your bank then they closed your account; so whilst no sane person has a single bank or single bank account in this day and age, it's also interesting to note that ..

The population of Vietnam (2025) is 101m

One thing holding Nostr back from further growth is nobody on this network is funny (outside of nostr:npub1jk9h2jsa8hjmtm9qlcca942473gnyhuynz5rmgve0dlu6hpeazxqc3lqz7, in his own way). Everyone I know who loves Instagram/TikTok/Twitter are laughing at their phones. They want to feel joy. I do not feel joy using Nostr

Americans:

"The 2nd Amendment is to protect us from a tyrannical government". 😎

Also Americans:

"The United States has the largest known prison population in the world. It has 5% of the world’s population while having 20% of the world’s incarcerated persons. China, with more than four times more inhabitants, has fewer persons in prison." 🥴

#justsaying

Freud's nephew who was a pioneer of propaganda. If I could go back in time to kill one person it would be him, not Hitler.

I can't imagine being the French President and some American podcaster forces you to provide convincing evidence that your wife isn't a dude.

Bizarre.

the Core/knots debate is still ongoing

It doesn't translate well.

Haltlos is a bit like ruthless.

This guy is seriously mentally disturbed. Another American mass shooter waiting to happen

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