hanrahan
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- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 8 hours ago:
Shame they cant address the root cause:
Thw root cause is giving women agency. Careers education etc and mostly free of religious indoctrination (eg Quiverful etc)
If women have a choice, the majority choose 0,1 or 2. For every woman that chooses 0, you need another woman choosing 5 just to tread water. Hungary and Poland are throwing a fortnue at it and gerting no where, as is Russia. Australia, Sweden etc all have less then replacement, the only reason Australia keeps growing it’s population is immigration. You either do that, or you take away womens right to choose, or your population goes backwards. (Or aim for some sort of stasis where deaths = births + immigration)
You can’t grow the population forever, so you have to address the issuie at some stage anyway.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 9 hours ago:
Will they do this? No, because it would require thinking outside of the box too much and would be seen as too extreme.
That still won’t work. There is no develooed country on the planet eg Sweden, Australia etc thay does not have a less then replacement birthrate. When given agency outside of a patarchial and/or religious society, most women will choose 0,1 or 2 kids, all below replacement.
For every women choosing 0 you need another choosing 5 just to tread water. That Japans and Koreas are less again may be work related but it would still be less then replacement, no matter yours, or any other suggestion.
None of this is a probelm, it’s just differnt.
Growing the population is just kicking the can down the road because you can’t grow it forever anyway… We already have a over strained biosphere; pollution, resource depletion, climate change, accelerated species extinction etc
This entire thing is a nothing burger.
- Comment on It took years to come up with a plan to cut road deaths, and just 11 days to kill it 1 week ago:
Why we use trucks for freight as much we do is beyond me.
Tony Abbott had Lindsay Fox “toys” on his prime ministerial book shelves as an examplw.
Why ? becase we keep.voting for politcans who have little interst in rail or oublic tranzport in general.
Even when we do something belated, like the Inland.Rail project, it doesn’t go to the port in Brisbane, nor carries in to port of Gladstone but ends in teucking depot in Brisbane.
As many people were killed by traffic murders on the day of the Boncli shootings as by gun.
- Comment on This is what my coworker pictures every time I say lemmy. 1 week ago:
Looking for the down side here…
- Comment on This is what my coworker pictures every time I say lemmy. 1 week ago:
Firat time I heard it was on the Kenny Evertt Video Show
Kenny was a bit of legend, rumor has it he was the one that first played Bohemian Rhapsody on his BBC music radio show, everyone else said it was rubbish or too long.
- Comment on New Community: Pen & Paper 1 week ago:
Swapped back to poefed and this time it worked… i have.no idea.why…
- Comment on New Community: Pen & Paper 1 week ago:
I keep.getting an error when logged i to Piefed.social and rying to sunscribe but it works with my Lemmy instance
- Comment on Recommended email providers? 2 weeks ago:
Tuta ?
- Comment on If you are a refugee, you will be turned away by both close allies and the most hostile adversaries of your home country. 3 weeks ago:
In 1943 Hanna Ardent weote a small essay called “We Refugees”
- Comment on A vote to approve an AFL stadium on Hobart's waterfront will now pass 3 weeks ago:
If people didn’t want this shit horror they could have voted Green at the last election, I know I did. Alas…
- Comment on Australian diet set to worsen as national food policy is drawn up by profit-driven industry, experts warn 4 weeks ago:
And we encoruge them by rewarding their behaviour with our vite
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 4 weeks ago:
Paying someone 70 hours has the same cost as paying two persons 35 hours, right? (In my country technically no, because higher base taxation)
What he wants is to pay one person for 70hrs, the same as he’d pay one person for 35 hrs.
- Comment on How do people with epilepsy triggered by flashing lights, drive past trees that are backlit by the sun? 4 weeks ago:
They can’t drive
- Comment on E-bike rules in Australia will soon change with possible ban on sale of bikes faster than 25km/h 4 weeks ago:
FFS…300km/hr from a car, no proeblms, 25 km/hr o a pushie, literally armageddon
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 5 weeks ago:
The Simpsons.Principal Skinner meme writ large.
- Comment on Police detonated a ‘stinger’ grenade at a Melbourne protest. Now two activists may sue over their injuries 5 weeks ago:
No, they’re the voilet arm of governments. A police force is a sign of a failed state. You’re just outsourcing your bullying and violence.
This chain of ludicrous events
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-29/…/105474690
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-19/…/105794888
www.9news.com.au/…/d1a3613f-8884-40cb-a48a-150b83…
Senior Constable Christopher Davis, 33, has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and recklessly causing grievous bodily harm over the violent altercation.
- Comment on Can someone please identify this plant ?? 5 weeks ago:
I can agree, it is a plant.
- China lets fly world's largest kite in Inner Mongolia for electric power generationwww.bangkokpost.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 10 comments
- Comment on World Appears on Track to Triple Renewable Capacity by 2030 1 month ago:
And still emsisions are going up, coal use went. UP last year ffs
This is a demand side issue not supply side. Until we curtail energy use severely, then it can only get worse
And all of that aside, climate chnahe is but one issue; pollition, resource overuse (building endless green shit), plastics, forest clearing, soxt mass extinction and on and on.
Clean energy might help deal with emissions, but it does nothing to reverse deforestation, overfishing, soil depletion and mass extinction. A growth-obsessed economy powered by clean energy will still tip us into ecological disaster.” - Jason Hickel
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 2 months ago:
Press x for doubt
A bit closer to he got a wee bit violent and a legal bruh ha ha ensued.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
We’re slowly building ours up.
- Comment on White House joins Bluesky and immediately trolls Trump opponents 2 months ago:
Gab and Truth Social use Mastodon as their base, they just don’t federate.
- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 2 months ago:
Welp, i agree with 4chan.
- Comment on Australia's baby recession deepens, new ABS data says 2 months ago:
So this is goos news. On a planet that should have around 100-500 milluon at most
- Comment on Australia's baby recession deepens, new ABS data says 2 months ago:
Agreed that 80% of voters have something wrong in the head but here we are.
theguardian.com/…/un-expert-human-rights-climate-…
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’
- Comment on Looking for a good kindle reader alternative 2 months ago:
A few thousand means ?
I have 11000 ebooks on Calibre and am looking at alternatives.
- Comment on Pocock reinvited to parliamentary sports club after PM weighs in [after being kicked out for criticising their gambling sponsor] 2 months ago:
How is any of this childishness news ? Sigh…
- Comment on When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible? 2 months ago:
Religions a grift, this fits that ethos.
- Comment on This is a real post from the official DHS account on X 2 months ago:
Sepratiob of church and state indeed.
- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 2 months ago:
It’s head hair being excreted out yoir ears. Takes time to work its way down, like medival glass slumping.
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