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Our plan to confuse the liberals is working...
From bottom to top: 1986 policy change, 1997 recession, 2008 recession. It's actually pretty cool.
they went around literally the entire store
and apparently Brann is playing today because every tram I caught on the way home was chock full and had to leave people standing on the platform. So I walked home.
Wearing a sweater today was way too warm. It looks like we'll get fantastic weather for the national day tomorrow.
Yay!
also I should have been in the shower already and had the cooking underway. But lying here seemed nicer.
I think I'll stick to my 6 pack of coolers for $10 thanks
Thanatos: anyone who lives in the sticks is hitler
Don't let these ideas touch - they'll rip the fabric of the universe!
*shrug*
at some point the bubble will burst and we will have to accept that land, resources, food, infastructure, pretty much all the things we need to support an ever growing population are finite
if that's a fact you can't live with then we really need to get cracking on space travel and terraforming technology
He lives on as cheezburger grease in our hearts.
I hate how officially the Latitude D410 seems to use an Intel wireless chip, but it actually uses a Broadcom chip and the drivers for this chip aren't included in the kernel
PIECE OF POOP
A yes but let us ignore the real elephant in the room when talking about US infrastructure.
It is underfunded and under repaired and under upgrade not do to population strain but because of politics and the push not to spend such money.
Most of the US has population densities that are very low. The population growth as a country is stalling and immigration is a huge reason it is growing at all. Last census was below estimates put out in 2000/1990's. You have the whole demographic transition of less kids, more old people and so on so pop controls are really not needed.
What you do have is a system where the idea of raising revenue and then focusing it on infrastructure repair or borrowing for such repair is considered anathema to many politicians so it doesn't happen thus the bill gets bigger and the infrastructure gets worse.
@skippydumptruck
I sometimes feel that my propensity to trend toward putting in the minimum effort just to get by will either catch up with me in some big dramatic way (overlook something, get fired, never get another job) or via a slow, inexorable creep through a life of mediocrity.
hell no i didn't say that
i'm just saying it seems to be a pretty common problem wherever i look that schools, hospitals, transport infastructure is behind the curve of our population growth
it doesn't take a crystal ball to see what will happen if we carry on following this trend
build more shit or place a limit on how many kids people can have
pick one
He lives on as cheezburger grease in our hearts.
I don't know what a cooler is.
Also I bought bourbon, vermouth, gin, vodka and cognac.
I was thinking of sending the Texas Rangers over to your place for a little "meet & greet". Do you like Colt rev-err baseball?
Ain't got no goddamn jurisdiction on this side of the gulf.
going all china is not the only way to affect population growth.
and not the even the best way to control the population of cities.
because i can point out an obvious trend instead of ignoring it while playing "freedom isn't free" in the background?
come on spool
the number of times i've seen you kick off at someone for far less blatant straw manning than this...
He lives on as cheezburger grease in our hearts.
The Southwest has some population concerns re: water, as do various parts of Florida, but there is no "coming reckoning" re: american cities and population.
But this is entirely wrong. People are having fewer kids, not more. There is no overpopulation problem.
There is no overpopulation problem. Not even worldwide. Resource distribution is borked in much of the planet, but that's not a population issue.
Trying to get Americans to have even fewer children than we do now is madness. It's national suicide.
I feel you don't quite grasp how baseball is played in this case.
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somebody went a little overboard methinks
i think most of us are thinking the pretty obvious solution is to build more shit
and are boggling a bit at the fact that you consider population control to be just as reasonable
Sounds pretty legit
I'm joking around, but that's a fair cop.
The thing is that you're wrong about the trend. So wrong that I was not sure if you were serious at first!
then stop yur goshdarn belly-aching pay your fucking taxes and build more fucking infastructure
He lives on as cheezburger grease in our hearts.
I could be wrong, but I think Spool has gotten on the infrastructure train?
hmm
I am not sure I parse this, really
I mean, either your career is not a huge focus and you continue to develop your cool hobbies and interests
or it is a focus and you put time and effort into it while still maintaining your free time things
i don't
i push it as an unpalatable alternative to doing the obvious thing
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Fun part, humanities population growth is already slowing!
Epidemiological transition effecting the demographic transition or aka why Europe and Japans population is shrinking. It is one of those cool things that we have found out in the last 20 years. Once people live longer, have less kids die in the first year and have a shift in how their health over their lifetime is they have less kids. Way less kids. In fact so many fewer kids populations shrink. Kind of why Japan will lost almost 20 million of population in the next 20 years type of deal.
And guess what? It is happening in all high income countries and starting to happen in most middle income countries. US population growth isn't really growth in the traditional having babies sense it is a mix of babies, though some groups are at or below replacement, and immigration which makes up the rest which also has been shrinking. So it is more like population reshuffle.
It seems that the world is going to top out at about 9 billion people if most trends keep going. Even much of the Southern Hemisphere is starting to stall out on growth as they move along those curves.
Still that is a lot. But so far we can as a species produce more than enough food to feed the world(but again this is culture getting in the way more than limits on production) thanks to the green revolution. The move away from fossil fuels is a big one and probably won't happen till most of Oceania is under water. But hey we are still bad at this.
But the Malthusian apocalypse isn't nearly as imminent as we thought in the 1970's.
it is apparently a very good vodka. Won prizes and shit.
Me I'm happy with something that I can drink with a minimum risk of blindness or death.
On the bold: That's because noone bothers to listen the people who they allot taxpayer money to to figure this shit out. And then the problem gets worse so the response to more people trying to figure out why these issues are becoming more problematic are met with "WTF are we paying you for?"
Current Playthroughs: Neverwinter Closed Beta|Let's Build! Sim City
wonderful
perhaps he could get his party and fellow conservatives on board too
He lives on as cheezburger grease in our hearts.
ah
i apologize for the misunderstanding then
ho ho ho I see what you did there.
This did all start with me mentioning that if I got a job downtown I'd need to decide between the sensitivity training car and the vegan car when I take our silly train into work.