Chetzemoka

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[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 16 points 2 years ago

Yeah, this would be a long, scary night of being pretty sure you were going to die. Glad she endured

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

Show me your data on that one

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

This is already a tracked statistic. It's called the fertility rate. Yes, it's tracked per uterus, and it's actually been falling precipitously for decades:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Already happening.

The only thing you need to do to accomplish this faster is educate girls (making women valuable for things other than childbearing), provide access to birth control and family planning education, and reduce child mortality (reducing the inclination to have "spare children" to replace all the ones you know will die).

Bangladesh provides a good example of these factors at play:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.GROW?locations=BD

"World’s population is projected to nearly stop growing by the end of the century"

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/06/17/worlds-population-is-projected-to-nearly-stop-growing-by-the-end-of-the-century/

And the collective human fertility rate (births per woman) has been falling for decades:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not autistic, but as a person with a chronic medical condition, damn this hits hard.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hedgehog! Brave bird haha

Cute isn't everything! I don't find the GHOs that populate my neighborhood particularly cute, but I still love them and get giddy when I hear them. I feel like VEO has some real "ancient witch/wizard" vibes working in its favor, unlike GHO which just reminds me of those old "Woodsy Owl" PSAs 😂

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodsy_Owl

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The onshore tax havens Delaware, Wyoming, and Nevada are vastly worse in scope than any offshore country. They push the narrative about those "terrible foreign countries" to distract us from this fact.

The problem is US tax code, not offshore financial centers.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Damn, what a great reference. I really wish I had this during our 3.5 month unionizing drive because those motherfuckers tried ALL OF THIS.

I'm proud to report that three weeks ago we won our union vote by a margin of 5:1. Our union organizers all said they've never seen a success ratio like that in their careers. We're a very spirited community hospital.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I actually just gasped out loud as I was scrolling. That thing is amazing

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

That's very true

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 15 points 2 years ago

Lmfao, just a nurse chiming in to say I appreciate the shit out of you. Pun intended

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