@kristenmag That speculation is based off knowledge of the history of vote counting in California. The Democrats will find however many votes they need.
@JenniferSey A rational motivation would be: the Democratic party exists primarily to hand money to NGOs. If you or a member of your family work for an NGO, you are still personally better off in a terrible city where you are given free money than having to, you know, get a real job.
@ianmSC The market is saying: "we don't believe that California vote counts are legitimate and the Democrats will always find enough votes to produce the result they want".
The market is right.
I didn't fall victim to the mass hysteria for even one second and I don't really think your four categories describe me very well:
1. this is close to accurate; I've always assumed that the press is lying, that institutions are evil.
2. the main principle covid violated for me was "who the fuck do you think you are"... to tell me to stay inside, to tell businesses to close, to tell me to stay away from my friends and family, just who the fuck do you think you are?
3. I didn't need anybody to support me; I knew I was right and if every other person on Earth is wrong it isn't going to impact my decision one iota.
4. I enjoy the social exclusion. Because I assume most people are morons, I like it when everyone thinks I'm wrong. As I tell my children "a million people can't be right"...
You are assuming that it stops at half... the number of babies born is actually down 75%. Which implies that the population will decline by 75%. But, as there are fewer and fewer kids around, people become less inclined to have a child. It could become a death spiral leading to the complete demise of South Korea all together.
When population pyramids become inverted a fertility rate of 2.1 will not prevent demographic collapse.
In Korea there are only 10 million women under 40. If the fertility rate immediately rose to 2.1 the population would still decline more than 30%.
The die has already been cast.
@covidtweets But does that explain the recent declines in fertility in less developed nations? South America now has a fertility rate lower than North America. Fertility rates are declining everywhere and seem to be converging at between 1.4 and 1.8 regardless of wealth.
@covidtweets@JasonWeekley5 Robots have only every been good at simple, repetitive tasks. I'd sooner believe we can train monkeys to take over household maintenance than they were will be able to create general use robots.
@xevnoc@AntiCommieBecca The Renaissance was not caused by the plague nor by population decline. It was caused by global warming, caffeine replacing alcohol, and many other proximate causes but primarily due to the Mongols stopping the spread of Islam and re-openning global trade.
@BWalkerTTAGGG Yeah, but way more people would smoke if they weren't worried about lung cancer so the net coolness factor of humanity would increase exponentially.
@JasonWeekley5 AI is never going to fix a powerline or put a new roof on your house or pump your septic tank. AI is only going to replace useless phony office jobs that were never needed in the first place.
When has the global population declined by a couple billion people in 50 years?
And, I'm not at all concerned about the welfare state - I'm worried about who you think is going to maintain the infrastructure meant to support 60 million Koreans when there are 10 million elderly Koreans?
@RichardAMilton@PeterTong9@NickFreiling My Tundra TRD Pro has only depreciated $8K in the 10 years I've owned it... because it was one of the last with the 5.7 V8.
@PeterTong9@NickFreiling That's why you buy a used Toyota. Get a Tacoma with 200K miles on it and you can drive it basically maintenance free for another 10 years.