Chetzemoka

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[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Already happening.

The only thing you need to do to accomplish this faster is educate girls (making women valuable for things other than childbearing), provide access to birth control and family planning education, and reduce child mortality (reducing the inclination to have "spare children" to replace all the ones you know will die).

Bangladesh provides a good example of these factors at play:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.GROW?locations=BD

"World’s population is projected to nearly stop growing by the end of the century"

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/06/17/worlds-population-is-projected-to-nearly-stop-growing-by-the-end-of-the-century/

And the collective human fertility rate (births per woman) has been falling for decades:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not autistic, but as a person with a chronic medical condition, damn this hits hard.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The onshore tax havens Delaware, Wyoming, and Nevada are vastly worse in scope than any offshore country. They push the narrative about those "terrible foreign countries" to distract us from this fact.

The problem is US tax code, not offshore financial centers.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Reagan kid here, can confirm

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You're younger than I am. For my generation, it was all square dancing.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago

That's very true

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Right, but without Chevron, it just means the federal agencies have to go to court to make changes. All of which cases will be filed in the Fifth Circuit and rubber stamped, I'm sure. I think overturning Chevron would be a mild inconvenience for a second Trump presidency.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's originally about Chevron the company lol. The original Supreme Court case that set the modern precedent was Chevron (the company) vs. Natural Resources Defense Council. That case allowed the EPA to do things like determine safe levels for things like lead in water, particulate matter in air, etc. without explicitly having a whole ass court argument over each and every number that they wanted to set.

Overturning the original Chevron case will literally dismantle the entire regulatory process in the United States.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 13 points 10 months ago (5 children)

You think the courts won't let him do whatever he wants?

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Bonobos.

Human appear to be about halfway between chimps and bonobos on the primate spectrum. The violence of chimps combined with the fluid sexual social habits of bonobos lol

https://phys.org/news/2019-09-insights-same-sex-sexual-interactions-important.amp

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 130 points 11 months ago (18 children)

My grandmother with Alzheimer's passed those clinical tests long after she had already asked us to take away her keys because she knew she wasn't safe to drive anymore. So yeah...

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 14 points 11 months ago

Well shit you're right! I just tend to save things in time order anyway, so I hadn't noticed. I just deliberately saved something out of time order, and sure enough it sorted itself lower down in my save list. Good to know. My bad

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