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US fertility rates just hit another record low In 2025, the US general fertility rate fell to 53.1 - the lowest level ever recorded Japan, South Korea, and Germany have already been shrinking for years. Japan has been shrinking for years, South Korea’s population has already started to decline, and Germany would be shrinking without immigration Now the UK joins them - deaths will outnumber births every single year starting in 2026 No economy grows without people No pension system survives without young workers No culture persists without families having children This is the slowest civilizational crisis in human history

XFreeze's tweet photo. US fertility rates just hit another record low

In 2025, the US general fertility rate fell to 53.1 - the lowest level ever recorded

Japan, South Korea, and Germany have already been shrinking for years. Japan has been shrinking for years, South Korea’s population has already started to decline, and Germany would be shrinking without immigration

Now the UK joins them - deaths will outnumber births every single year starting in 2026

No economy grows without people
No pension system survives without young workers
No culture persists without families having children

This is the slowest civilizational crisis in human history

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Swartluiperd 🇿🇦

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3 months ago

@EmmanuelSpamer It’s there 😹

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Mario Nawfal

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4 months ago

🇿🇦 A senior South African politician just got caught lying about Starlink to protect mobile network operators. Parliamentary communications chair Khusela Diko claimed Starlink "doesn't move the needle" on school connectivity. Here's what she left out: 16,000 schools still have no internet after 12 years, a missed deadline, and mobile operators billions over budget. Starlink offered to connect 5,000 schools for free and was turned away. A rural mobile tower costs around $61,000 and can serve just a single school. The numbers don't lie. The politician did. Source: MyBroadband

MarioNawfal's tweet photo. 🇿🇦 A senior South African politician just got caught lying about Starlink to protect mobile network operators.

Parliamentary communications chair Khusela Diko claimed Starlink "doesn't move the needle" on school connectivity.

Here's what she left out: 16,000 schools still have no internet after 12 years, a missed deadline, and mobile operators billions over budget.

Starlink offered to connect 5,000 schools for free and was turned away.

A rural mobile tower costs around $61,000 and can serve just a single school.

The numbers don't lie. The politician did.

Source: MyBroadband

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@swartluiperd

4 months ago

Elementary, my dear Watson

Shruti

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4 months ago

China deployed a 1,300-ton data center on the ocean floor off the coast of Hainan. No cooling towers or air conditioning. Just cold seawater doing the job for free. The result? Cooling costs drop from ~50% of total energy to under 10%.