To be more precise: there was a massive spike in voting in 2020, disproportionately among Democrats. Prior to 2020, no Presidential candidate came anywhere close to topping 70MM votes. But then Biden topped 81MM votes in 2020.
This was accompanied by a steep dropoff in 2024. And I can testify, being part of the early voting process, that dropoff was almost entirely within Democratic mail-in voting and specifically Democratic mail-in voting.
Most conspiracy theories fail to explain why 2024 was such a steep dropoff compared to 2020. Personally, I believe that COVID-19 plus Zuckbucks created the unique situation wherein someone could just stand outside a door and bother that person until they finally signed off on a ballot. The 24/7 lock-ins made that a guarantee.
WOW
In recent decades in the U.S. and across the developed world, birth rates have barely changed for right-wingers.
The more left-wing, the more fertility rates have fallen!
One of the UK grooming gang ringleaders has received £285k of taxpayer money to dodge deportation
Rauf was the ringleader of a gang that r*ped 47 girls, some as young as 12
Infuriating
"Elon Musk is just an extraordinary engineer, and I love working with him. We're going to build many more computers together. I'm delighted to be working with him. I think the Optimus opportunity is just right around the corner. It's very likely that human robots are going to be robots that we can deploy into the world relatively easily & this is the first robot that really has a chance to achieve the high volume and technology scale necessary to advance technology and I think this is likely to be the next multi trillion dollar industry."
一 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
A Dire Warning: The UK’s Plummeting Birth Rates Threaten Its Future
The United Kingdom teeters on the edge of a demographic catastrophe that could destabilize its society.
Recent data reveals a harrowing truth: birth rates across the nation are plummeting, with the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in England and Wales dropping to an unprecedented low of 1.41 children per woman in 2024, down from 1.44 the previous year. Scotland’s TFR has fallen to a record low of 1.25, while even the highest regional rate—1.64 in Northern Ireland—remains far below the 2.1 replacement level required to maintain the population.
This decline spans every region of the UK, underscoring the crisis’s breadth. The South West (1.31) and London (1.35) rank among the lowest, with Wales matching London at 1.35. Even regions with slightly higher rates, such as the West Midlands (1.59) and East of England (1.53), offer little reassurance amid the nationwide downturn. These figures, sourced from the Office for National Statistics and supplementary data, signal a stark reality: the UK’s population is not merely stagnating. It is contracting.
The consequences are alarming. A sustained decline in birth rates threatens to shrink the UK’s workforce, undermine its pension systems, and strain its healthcare infrastructure as an aging population increasingly relies on a diminishing number of younger contributors. Schools may empty, communities may erode, and the economic vitality that has defined the UK could fade.
Without immediate action, the nation faces a future of decline and instability. The time for intervention is now, before this demographic collapse becomes irreversible.
Elon Musk just threw a brick through Britain's Overton Window.
We can quibble about what to call it and how to do it, but the solution is clear:
There are millions of people who do not belong here. They hate us, break our laws, and will not recreate our civilisation.
They must leave.
From Airbnb to the Trump Administration's DOGE initiative—my conversation with Airbnb co-founder @jgebbia covers his remarkable journey and what's next.
0:00 - Introduction
1:14 - Joe’s background
3:13 - First website
4:57 - Airbnb foudning
11:07 - First guests
15:04 - South by Southwest
17:48 - Trough of sorrow
18:56 - Selling cereal to keep dream alive
20:43 - Holding a grudge
21:13 - First investor pitch
23:54 - Building trust
24:37 - Greatest unforeseen challenge
26:59 - Favorite Airbnb
30:48 - Backing President Trump
32:19 - Macrobiotic diet
34:00 - Make America Healthy Again
34:37 - Biden’s border crisis
36:47 - America’s Chief Design Officer
39:43 - Improving the retirement process
41:46 - National Design Studio
45:46 - The private sector versus government
46:50 - First government website redesign
48:39 - Serving in the Trump Administration
50:37 - Being a billionaire
55:50 - Rapid fire questions
57:51 - Would You Rather
59:52 - Departing Airbnb
1:01:29 - Worst idea
1:02:07 - Best investment
1:02:38 - Genuine intentions
1:04:27 - Dream dinner party
1:06:02 - Next endeavor
@nunes_nunes9@CurtaVermelha Talvez mas o jogador está longe e a bola podia sobrar…
Eu não estou a reclamar atenção… não acho nenhum descalabro ser assinalado, é interpretação do árbitro e tá tudo ok