sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root

Start from scratch

And way too much info

Also featuring: a lack of essential information. Like opening hours to the business or its address.

At least they’re openly advertising that they’re not worth visiting. Before, you went to events like these and got immediately disappointed, now you can tell from afar. Also applies to other businesses, like restaurants.

I’m sorry to say this, but this is survivorship bias. We produced plenty of crap that broke a few months after use even 50 years ago, it’s just that you don’t notice the crap because it was thrown away after it broke and all you see now is the stuff that surprisingly made it for decades. That’s not to say that enshittification and planned obsolescence is not a thing, it’s just not as extreme and “we used to build things that lasted” as people would like to believe.

The only people who could afford them already have human servants. They just want sex dolls.

Not to burst your bubble, but they don’t want dolls. That’s a service that was originally provided by Epstein, now whoever has become his successor.

Here’s a visualization of the birth rates of Japan, Poland and Germany against those of South Korea:
https://georank.org/birth-rate/japan/south-korea
https://georank.org/birth-rate/poland/south-korea
https://georank.org/birth-rate/germany/south-korea

Japan and Poland have been stable, maybe slightly declining, since the early 2000s, and Germany has been stable for 50, all below replacement, whereas South Korea is still going down.

I am no demographic expert, so take this with a grain of salt, but for the moment it doesn’t look like the other countries are going to hit the same problems at the same severity anytime soon whereas South Korea is going to get hit by the full force of their demographic issues within a few short decades.

The growth (or in this case decline) is exponential. 1.08 is bad, 0.80 is terrifying. 1.08 is roughly half of the fertility needed for a stable population (about 2.1 children per woman). This means that per generation your population shrinks by half its size. 0.8 is another 25% lower. At an exponential rate these differences add up fast. The first one gives you (roughly) one child per 8 great grandparents. The other one needs 18. So over 3 generations the population shrinks by another factor of more than a half.

Get a fire-blanket for the small stuff as well. Powder extinguishers make a huge mess, they need to be maintained and eventually replaced, whereas fire blankets basically last forever and for small fires or grease fires they are the better choice.

Pancreatic cancer is pretty fatal even without an alternative approach

He had the one treatable form of pancreatic cancer though. Of course that’s not a guarantee that treatment would have saved him but it would have greatly increased his odds of surviving.

As always, to get approval for a drug, the potential side effects have to outweigh the benefits of the drug. From a purely logical and medical standpoint, there is no medical drawback for a man when the hormonal contraceptive fails and neither is there a medical benefit. If there are serious side effects, they have to outweigh the medical benefit and drawbacks, of which there are none, so that’s pretty hard.

For women on the other hand, medically speaking pregnancy is a huge condition, sometimes dangerous, so there is a benefit and drawback if it doesn’t work and the drugs are approved despite having side effects.

Teams pretends it’s an app that can do a lot of things at once but for literally all of the things it pretends to be good at it is the worst possible choice.