Be mindful of the distinction between ‘births per year’ and ‘births per woman:’
Ceteris paribus, births per year could decrease due to demographics alone.
(I don’t like the label ‘fertility rate’ because it shifts the blame on biology, like eggs or sperm count, which arguably did not change.)
However, reportedly both are slumping in Japan.
Thinking about the ‘tomorrow you.’
(Admittedly you’ve asked for metrics, not points. Bear with me.)
Electric bicycles got better (as did scooters). Pair with a train ride and you can have a blast in nature for little.
Lightweight tents as well.
Video quality on mainstream streaming sites. (Honorary mention: https://www.youtube.com/@TPENT/videos Tiger Pictures Entertainment, chinese movies )
3D-printing!
Concept2, famous for their indoor rowing machines, have decided to convert the company into a trust, removing it from the capitalist tendency of enshittification.
Linux and ecosystem
You’re conveying the feelings and insight well.
On your concept of a line—when it comes to ‘them’ I have found joy in blurring it by learning what a particular person is receptive to, to offer what could grow to be a small dissonance in their worldview. Maybe it won’t reach the extents of a mosaic, but it’s pleasing to learn when some ideas have spread. For example, on infrastructure try: “Road’s been erected by the state, everyone paid for it proportionally to their taxes—but now, rich or hardly-paying pauper, everyone leaves the same amount at the toll booth.” Any ‘unfair!’ will do at that point, like the rich shall be exempt. The dissonance is anchored.
Mamdani’s proposed rent-control, in particular to prevent gentrification close to new construction? “If they left too soon, their vacancies would tank real-estate value.” Depends on how clever they are with what you can get away with. Some mems will backfire—but that’s okay, utilize as your cover. (Try to discover who has a propensity to splitting.)
However I notice you’re focusing on ‘them.’ Maybe for the point, maybe out of discretion; but allow me to use the opportunity to point out work on a ‘us’ is perhaps more important.
I hope your wife shares your convictions. I’m entertaining the thought of a secret handshake for when dating. Printing out the hexbear logo or some such as sticker, claiming I just found it on the street to enquire whether it means something to my date or whether to bin it.—Having been open with my previous partners always made for good long-lasting companionship.
Same when expanding your circles, generally speaking, which I believe is everyone’s lifelong task. Chat up kindred spirits, stay connected, offer connections. Not always, but the others buy, mere simulacra at times, what we’re able to give ourselves: The pleasure of good company.
Comparing this to how venture capitalists do their due-diligence before investing, and regularly check fundamentals and viability of their investment after that: In many aspects they serve as additional directors.
Star Citizen makes a good case-study for why regulation is needed when mass-markets are addressed: Individuals are not granted that insight easily, the power-gradient is extremely tilted.
Also, but that’s just me, the press should get serious and start the clock on every game once it’s collecting money from the public: Doesn’t matter if you call it beta, alpha, early release—after N years your grace period is up, a line drawn; review and score whatever is tangible.
Examining the data, reading about it alone gives me mild sympathetic panic.
I recall having seen ‘chocolate pizza’ some time ago.
Half of the country was occupied by the Brits and US.
Also, fun fact: Cartographers, to spot copy-cats, frequently add figments into their works. Like an insignificant path that’s never been there and no reasonable person would want to walk, or cities that never existed nor anyone would ever want to visit. Bielefeld, for example. Dr. Oetker is such a product for ALDI.
Bonus: Germans have discounters with funny names such as Hit and Jawoll! (with exclamation point). The latter has the largest selection of industrial chemistry. You literally can find gallons of pure acid a shelf away from chocolate.
Fixed it. Thank you so much!
This could come down to a misunderstanding how those “weight jabs” work, one that’s maybe intentionally pushed by advertisments.
Jabs alone won’t do it, you will need to change your lifestyle (sleep, stress, environmental stressors…), eating habits (also because solid food will linger in your digestive tract way longer), and still work out: On a jab-regime alone you will be losing not only fat but also muscles that’ll need extra effort to be retained. So, you need to put attention and effort into the things you would for bodybuilding as well.
stereotypes to illustrate use-cases
That overweight dude who has a history of visiting the gym but needs a little extra to move sooner to rowing and endurance sports: Prime candidate. That elderly women who goes swimming anyway and is disciplined with her food intake, would take protein through whey or soy pulver (battle-hardened ex-slimfast crowd): Can do.
An old person who claims golfing (or motor“sports”) as his sport, refuses even mild reha on its own or tries to make it someone else’s task, not disciplined in any way, will remain gorging on sugars and processed food: He’ll become apparently thinner but increasingly weaker and frailer.
You do, though that also depends on your location relative to datacenters in serviced markets.
In practice—I’m a former Stadia customer—it didn’t matter much even for shooters. I did play Cyberpunk 2077, Doom; Wolfenstein, Return to the Savage Planet—and it was okay, even for multiplayer with friends.
To some extent you can predict the world’s as well as the player’s behaviour to put latency mitigating measures in place.
Cloud Gaming changes some dynamics in the relation between “publisher” towards their customers: You no longer have to accept a publisher’s dictate regarding PC requirements, they henceforth need to please a single and stronger party that the cloud gaming provider is. You can no longer remain ignored on bugs and crashes, because (similar to consoles) the blame cannot be summarily shifted on a “non-standard” runtime environment. Also moves the focus from capital (customer, buy to make it run…) to labour (the studio needs to rework…).
You don’t own your “Steam library” anyway, to remind everyone.
To support your point, compare: Poland’s “economy” goes up, they’ll even be admitted to the G20 soon. It’s still a relatively “religious” country—yet the TFR is trending down.
— Changing Fertility Patterns in Poland: Urban, Suburban, and Rural Dimensions (Nov 2025)
The tale it were contraceptions and whatnot is humbug for an agenda. We do have them in the West for decades now, yet the birthrate is continuously slumping even across income brackets, i. e. no mere jump to a plateau. They have been available for as long in Japan, and abortions carry less stigma. Religiosity is and was also different in Japan.
You’re not making that point, but I don’t believe people who spend most of their waking hours on activities around work or work preparation (commute into a big city because you’re priced out of an apartment; recovery from workplace circumstances and uncertainty) are inclined to have children. Once you toil, in SK, US, and Japan, you have to have a high savings rate to have hope to escape that lifestyle and forced infantilization—which will move age-at-first-birth up, yet desire to get children (naturally) decreases with age, for men and women. (It’s at 3 for early 20s, plateaus at early 40s.)