It is only statistically improbable

Depends. Alcohol dissolves things that normally are only fat soluble so you can get an entirely different flavour from common foods (wine and beer tastings/pairings for example)

For fermented beverages the yeast and malt make a pretty unique flavour. Same with hops in a good pale ale or IPA. There's also the body and mouth feel that's hard to replicate without making alcohol. Residual sugars after fermentation are also kind of unique to alcohol since you always have normal sugars mixed in with other foods.

That's a bandaid fix. Everyone is depopulating except like 5 African countries which are going to enter their own negative birth rates in 15 years if they continue developing.

Im Canadian, and India crossed into negative birth rates a few years ago. The median age in India is almost 30 now

With a population of 1.45B people, India has a median age of 29.5 years which makes it the 108/196 oldest country. 24.6% of the demographic are children 0-14 years old, 68.2% are working-age people aged 15-64, and 7.15% are older population aged 65+ years

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What this means is

A) average age is going to go up roughly 1 year every 2 years

B) the average age in India will be roughly 38 or so in 20 years

C) their 65+ cohort increases by a huge margin

Eventually even they are too old and you're importing a demographic they desperately want to retain domestically. Same with the Phillipines and other emigrant nations.

At what point are we just colonizing other nations through immigration? When their best and brightest all leave the country to earn more in a foreign country, start a family there, and the only thing they give back is a remittance. Any kids they would have had are citizens of their new home nation and they're probably not going back (statistically the supermajority) while their home country dips into negative birth rates and having never developed industrially to support a massive cohort of elderly people.

Hilariously I could see a point where an immigrant takes any net benefit they provide in a foreign nation and use it to support their own elderly parents and grand parents in their home country. The entire planet one giant retirement home...

He 100% fed that cat I know Turkish people. They're like an open air living room for cats and dogs they're all so loved and well taken care of.

Yeah if you subtract immigration and first gen immigrants (>14yo at immigration is highly likely to have the same amount of kids as where they're from. <14yo is highly likely to have close to the new host nations family size) the US is already on the other side of the event horizon.

To add to this there's an event horizon birth rate of 1.5 children per women. Once you cross the event horizon you never come back out (there might be one or two exceptions technically but I'm quoting someone else here so don't @ me)

The basic loop is once birth rates are that low things are usually pretty bad for parents. Uncertainty about the future, extreme focus on attaining stability where stability is an impossibility. Once you drop below 1.5 for a sustained period of time you never come back out. The people who could fix it (parents) are overworked, underpaid, living in tiny apartments they can barely afford, have to pay more in childcare than rent just to maintain their living situation...

The young can't be the only ones investing in the future...

I use tailscale when I'm in these situations. It even works behind the most cursed CGNAT like starlink where it's impossible to even port forward.

As long as your tunnel is running you just use the private IP address for your jellyfin machine and your parents will access it like it's local.

It's always the worst ones that ruin it for everyone.

Also paradoxically the ones you want approaching you are more cautious about it or don't approach so they don't get grouped in with creeps like this. It selects for the people who approach women to be more creepy which makes the whole problem worse...

For those who were confused by Kelvin like me, it's equivalent to 564.67 Rankine

Yeah a decent amount would. Even more would say no but do it anyways... Even back in the days when everyone believed they were eternally damned if they killed someone or worse.

Jainism

You coincidentally made all the same arguments a Jainist would make (with different phrasing and exasperation of course) so I joking said I found the Jainist.

Look up the voting machine exhibit at Defcon all those years ago. These kids were taking total control of them within hours including faking a near split vote that barely swung towards whatever candidate they wanted.

This is a much more believable orc statistic

You're noticing a complete disregard for other people's boundaries. That's the issue.

And you would go home and watch MTV with your friends. Ads suck nowadays... The ads back then were actually entertaining! Every kid wanted a notochord and a segmented jaw.

Nah it's getting in the way of class war. You're confusing a symptom with the disease. A white guy targeting Muslim immigrants is a symptom of billionaires and the ownership class monopolizing the media and running non stop propaganda to make the working class fight itself and not them.

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...but how will our donors guarantee their rents?

...if we bring in a competitor our established rent seekers will be forced to actually compete instead of just merging into a duolopoly...

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