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7·10 days agoThis daddy’s boy ass-twat is not half as brave, knowledgeable, experienced, wise or strong as the people he has imprisoned. And then he uses his own anniversary to “pardon” them. “Pathetic” doesn’t even begin to describe it.
1·14 days agoThat’s why I said:
Which would of course also require a collective form of prenatal sex selection
If the goal would be to have a stable population size but with fewer births per woman, I think a collective form of prenatal sex selection (of the kind I describe above) would work.
What this sex selection would look like would be another issue. Whether externally fertilized embryos are selected before they are placed in a womb, or whether it would involve forms of abortion (or even infanticide): it’s up to your imagination.
But there are no lies, nor any misapplied statistics?
Thanks all for your replies. Interesting.
I’m a bit surprised that nobody comments on the matriarchal speculation at the end. You’re all fine with that?
Expressed as “the average number of babies that an individual woman needs to have for a certain population to stay the same size”, the replacement rate should not depend on population size, right?
If you express it as an absolute number (e.g. number of babies per year) than obviously it will depend on population size.
From what I understand, the replacement rate (expressed as the average number of babies that an individual woman needs to have for a certain population to stay the same size), depends mostly on what percentage of people die before they (can) have babies.
“Given the soft nature of bronze, historians have previously wondered whether such blades served a ceremonial purpose, rather than a practical purpose on the battlefield. A few years ago, scientists even staged sword fights in order to learn more about how the Bronze Age weapons could have been used effectively in battle, despite being much easier to damage and harder to repair than their iron successors.”
Scientists a sword fight?! Yes:
323·14 days agoIsn’t calling someone or something “camp” classist and elitist?
51·25 days agoOk, fair enough.
But why is the picture showing the rescue of a small horse?
A lot of the work we do is effectively to satisfy the (constantly changing and growing) desires or the wealthy (or let’s say, the desires of the people who employ wage workers).
Simple example: labour productivity has grown with 70% since the 70s while real wages have stayed more or less the same. So that growth in output hasnt been going to workers. (The time that productivity increase could have freed up, is now used to produce stuff that the workers do not get to consume themselves).
22·1 month agoAngles, I think?
The good thing is that you don’t have all these toxic, wealth-dependent, brand-indoctrinating capitalist, environmentally destructive fast fashion pressures for kids.
1·2 months agoAmazing. Day walking around in Milan. Then onwards to Lecce. All trains were on time to the minute. We had cabins to ourselves (went with friends). Did it with Eurorail tickets.
Yes. Took the sleeper train from the Netherlands to Italy last autumn.
0·2 months agoExcept that it also means fuck the people who ordered the killing of unarmed civilians on the Tiananmen square.
Fuck all people who kill unarmed protesters in the name of freedom. Wherever, whenever.
Spot on. This lack of secure employment (and yes, also probably lack of sense of purpose) also undermines the social relationships necessary to collectively bargain (with a union or not) for better working conditions. When workers don’t feel they have each other’s back, they are less likely to pressure an employer for better pay and conditions.