“The number of births is the first indicator of the hope of a people,” Francis told an annual gathering of pro-family groups on Friday.

Hope comes first, births comes second.

You can't fake an indicator and hope for the situation to improve.

I bet he now expects the remaining employees to work overtime because they're "understaffed".

I swear, it's no longer possible to distinguish satire from reality.

My dad's re-learning Python coding for work rn, and AI saves him a couple of times; Because he'd have no idea how to even start but AI points him in the right direction, mentioning the correct functions to use and all. He can then look up the details in the documentation.

also some minor mental illnesses

I don't like to call it "mental illnesses" because it makes it look like it's a property of the person; however, it is a property of society:

Depression has many causes:

• For once, people work too much. It exhausts the body and we feel tired.
• For two, there's the meaninglessness of life. It's difficult to stay motivated when nothing makes sense/there is no future.
• Thirdly, positive sexual experiences strongly cure depression. Since the dating market is largely fucked (no pun intended), well that option doesn't exist to large parts of the population.
• Fourtly we're socialized to hide depression. As everybody knows, the first step to solve a problem is to recognize it exists. Stigmatization of depression has held back effective treatment for way too long.

I would laugh if it wasn't so painfully true.

the default country

high T alpha male

in other words, an asshole

Just maybe with a bit less sex appeal?

Counter point: sex appeal is fine.

It's the people who are pushy irl who are the problem. IMO you can still be very "sexy" and as long as you don't push it, that's not a problem.

Vampire here.

I don't drink blood (because that's disgusting, and also crual and unfair), I drink vaginal juices.

AMA

It's this meme all over again but this time it's Israel vs. Russia.

Been doing this for the last 12 years of my life; never realized it had a name.

For real what is it with them, where are they even trying to go with this?

Edit: I mean the Israel army. What is their end goal?

I get that online services cost a shitton amount of money to operate,

This is verifiably just false.

How much does food cost you a day? Maybe $25, depending on what you buy.

How much does operating a 1000-user lemmy-instance cost for a day? Around $0.0003 per person per day.

Trust me I did the math on this one. Internet services are not expensive. Internet corporations just try to extract a lot of money out of you.

Damn Biden's on a roll.