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- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 4 days ago:
Zuckerberg had to testify last week lemmy.world/post/43284616
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 1 week ago:
the amount of money would be so staggering as to be impossible for anyone but another giant evil company to have a hope at being able to afford it… FACK
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 1 week ago:
download yt videos and lets reupload everything onto peertube idk
- Comment on This "March for Billionaires" event in SF happening today 2 weeks ago:
Same for that news anchor’s Savannah Guthrie’s mother :( I do hope they find her
Image - Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 3 weeks ago:
AFL-CIO is the umbrella, aka every industry falls under it
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 1 month ago:
You can turn secret chats on on telegram that do use encryption, I thought?
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 1 month ago:
oooooo but thats not enough evidence right? or is it? If your phone was in some area doesnt mean you attended a protest per se
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 1 month ago:
Cant u just use encrypted messaging services like whatsapp signal telegram? SMS isn’t encrypted
- Comment on Let's end Anti-Circumvention. We should own the things we buy! 1 month ago:
😭😭 SAME whats wrong w me 😭😂😂
- Comment on How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE 1 month ago:
Yall are frickin heroes
- Comment on Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 1 month ago:
And the blackmail in daily life
- Comment on TIL Russian students are being presented with an ultra-nationalist curriculum, full of militarism and hatred toward Ukraine. 'Mr Nobody Against Putin' 1 month ago:
Coming to theaters on 2026-01-15
Its coming out in two weeks ! Maybe I should’ve posted this in two weeks when the movie was out lmao sorry for the confusion
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 1 month ago:
Repost: The power and influence of billionaire tech companies over the government is enormous. Ofcourse workers don’t have any rights in america, none is lobbying for them lol, nobody in Washington is fighting for us
- A measure you would normally impose on convicted criminals or terrorist leaders is now being used by the U.S. against these three people:
- former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who was responsible for European legislation including on social media;
- Imran Ahmed, who researches online hate, A US judge has temporarily blocked the detention of British social media campaigner Imran Ahmed, who took legal action against the US government over having his visa removed. Mr Ahmed, a US permanent resident, had warned that being detained and possibly deported would tear him away from his American wife and child. 😳;
- and Clare Melford, who maps disinformation with her organization.
- Trumps inauguration lmao
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- A measure you would normally impose on convicted criminals or terrorist leaders is now being used by the U.S. against these three people:
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 month ago:
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 Get this guy a geography class RIGHT NOW
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 month ago:
Birth rates usually don’t fall because people don’t want kids, but because:
- housing is too expensive
- work and family are hard to combine
- childcare isn’t well organized
- there’s too little security Countries like France and the Scandinavian nations do better:
- affordable childcare
- parental leave
- flexible work
- stable housing certainty Result: higher birth rates than Japan, Italy, Spain, and formerly Germany. If you want a “younger” society → invest structurally in good family life.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 month ago:
Japan before WWII
- high infant and child mortality
- shorter life expectancy
- many people didn’t live to old age
- there was population growth, but it was slower and much younger
So:
→ lots of children
→ many young adults
→ few elderly**Japan after WWII **
→ baby boom
→ improved healthcare- better nutrition
- rising prosperity
- vaccinations
- medical technology Japan becomes world champion in life expectancy (over 80 years on average).
→ Japan gives women more freedom to study and work. But… the system around family, work, and care barely changes.
- women can pursue careers
- but the country still expects women to:
- run the household
- raise children
- often care for in-laws
- and employers still expect:
- extremely long working hours
- almost no flexible schedules
- full-time loyalty to the company
→ Conclusion: children are discouraged
Fertility collapses + a huge adult generation (from the baby boom) From the 1970s onward, the birth rate drops dramatically due to:
- career-focused culture
- high cost of living
- marrying later
- limited childcare
- women working + conservative family structure
→ Japan falls to about 1.2 children per woman → structural population decline.
Lessons / Conclusion: Japan shows what happens when you don’t make structural changes for a long time. Too few workers + too many elderly = shortages of labor, money, and care.
Solutions
- More children (slow solution) Birth rates usually don’t fall because people don’t want kids, but because:
- housing is too expensive
- work and family are hard to combine
- childcare isn’t well organized
- there’s too little security
Countries like France and the Scandinavian nations do better:
- affordable childcare
- parental leave
- flexible work
- stable housing certainty
Result: higher birth rates than Japan, Italy, Spain, and formerly Germany. If you want a “younger” society → invest structurally in good family life.
- Raising the retirement age (helps a bit)
- Robots and automation (already implemented by Japan)
- Immigration / controlled immigration (the fastest solution)
Without immigration → extreme population decline and extreme aging.
In Europe: immigration + integration makes aging far less severe.Japan can insist “we don’t want immigration,” “we are homogeneous,” “we’ll manage through discipline,” but eventually this collides with simple math. If we want to preserve our way of life, we have to take demographic reality seriously, with better childcare, higher productivity, and controlled immigration.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 month ago:
“People do it all over the world.” False it should be “Uneducated people do it all over the world” Look into geography and sociology and let me know why it is that uneducated poor people usually get more children :D
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 month ago:
“The problem that historians, economics, geographers and other researchers have studied for decades is made up. Trust me bro”
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 month ago:
/s
- TIL Russian students are being presented with an ultra-nationalist curriculum, full of militarism and hatred toward Ukraine. 'Mr Nobody Against Putin'www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 7 comments
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- Comment on World would be a better place 4 months ago:
I love us
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- Comment on Social media platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp have been restricted in Turkey 5 months ago:
Thats awesome
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 5 months ago:
You know what would be weird? A president of USA doing anything that trump’s doing…
- Comment on Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great" 5 months ago:
Move to mastodon and lemmy
- Comment on Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great" 5 months ago:
They censor everything, also pro abortion posts get removed
- Comment on Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU 6 months ago:
Two more months to fight this fightchatcontrol.eu
- Comment on playlist for one of those days 6 months ago:
Who?
