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fakethenews2022··on Japan readies ‘last hope’ measures to stop falling births
There actually is an example of a human subpopulation that will go extinct due to not reproducing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbathday_Lake_Shaker_Village

Your argument about sub populations can be just as easily applied to humans as a whole. Perhaps humans will be replaced by another species.

If you look at nature more coarsely, you don’t see population stabilization. Instead you see speciation and extinction due to random and constant changes. Perhaps there will be an environmental event that we would otherwise survive that will do us in because of our low population.

fakethenews2022··on Japan readies ‘last hope’ measures to stop falling births
No you didn't: "What’s really the downside of falling birth rates (as long as they stabilize, and they obviously will)?"

There is no way the population stabilizes unless the birth rate increases to replacement rate. The birthrate is WAY, WAY below replacement rate.

Also, why assume that something will stabilize? That assumption seems not rooted on any evidence.

fakethenews2022··on Snow Crash Related Items Auction
It is Hiro Protagonist.
fakethenews2022··on Japan readies ‘last hope’ measures to stop falling births
Also the overbearing burden to support the elderly with a smaller younger population will apply to every generation (barring temporary baby booms) since each generation will be smaller than the previous one.
fakethenews2022··on Japan readies ‘last hope’ measures to stop falling births
Basic math. If your birthrate stabilizes below replacement level then you go extinct because each generation is smaller than the one before. The only way you don't go extinct is if your birthrate over the long haul is at or above replacement level.

For example, the limit of 0.99^n is 0.

fakethenews2022··on Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream
Did any other nation threaten to take out the pipeline? Was any other nation thanked for taking out the pipeline?
fakethenews2022··on Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream
Yes. We can continue to hold reservations but that can be considered evidence. It is akin to someone getting killed and someone else prior saying they would kill that person. It doesn't mean they actually did it, but it is suspicion and motive that should lead to further investigations. That Germany and other countries aren't looking into it can also be considered circumstantial evidence.
fakethenews2022··on Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream
Until someone else takes credit for it, I'll take President Joe Biden's threat as evidence. Video link: https://youtube.com/shorts/FVbEoZXhCrM?feature=share
fakethenews2022··on Google stock tumbles 8% after its Bard AI ad shows inaccurate answer
Maybe they did using Google.
fakethenews2022··on The rise of universities’ diversity bureaucrats (2018)
Except that some of the ethnic groups (Asian Americans) that are being discriminated against by this policy were also discriminated against by redlining back then.
fakethenews2022··on Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair [video]
This isn't the fun video. See the video he does right before for what he really thinks and pay special attention to the last few seconds. Pure gold.

https://youtu.be/7xGBB-717AI [video]

fakethenews2022··on Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to identify leaks
You can also easily narrow it down to a time period. Find out when leak occurred and then look at prints shortly before that.
fakethenews2022··on US annual inflation declines to 7.7% in October vs. 7.9% expected
Of course it probably needs a second graph under it of 2% cumulative CPI for comparison.
fakethenews2022··on US annual inflation declines to 7.7% in October vs. 7.9% expected
Many words for something that can be explained by a single cumulative CPI graph.
fakethenews2022··on NASA puts jet propulsion lab on blast over Psyche mission failures
That is bias on your part. The review also found that lack of informal communication was a factor and recommended minimizing remote and hybrid work.

Pages 32, 33

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/psyche_...

fakethenews2022··on Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation
Nope. The New York Times and others ran headlines that front lined that it was Russian disinformation. They didn't talk much about how the emails were verified. In fact Glenn Greenwald quit because his editor tried to suppress his story on it.
fakethenews2022··on Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation
Did you not read that the New York Times changed their mind a year after your story? Go read the article I linked that was published a full year after your article.

Shame on you for spreading misinformation.

fakethenews2022··on Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation
I just love the partisan hacks that downvote facts because they don’t like this. So Hacker News.
fakethenews2022··on Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation
WRONG. Read the article. It is continuing with monthly meetings.
fakethenews2022··on Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation
Everything in the laptop.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-...

fakethenews2022··on Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation
Yes. Go to the New York Times, Washington Post, etc… Need a link?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-...

fakethenews2022··on Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation
Interestingly the biggest purveyors of organized disinformation are governments. Anyone else remember how the US government had a massive disinformation campaign that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and then orchestrated an invasion?

Even more revealing is that the disinformation campaign was aided and abetted by US media including such supposed stalwarts as the New York Times.

fakethenews2022··on Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation
Among the information labeled as disinformation was the Hunter Biden laptop which turned out to be true. So this disinformation apparatus ended up doing the opposite and suppressed true information. Not only that but the government knew at the time that this information was true.

Just label this for what it is, government censorship supported by big tech.

fakethenews2022··on Blink-182 tickets are so expensive because Ticketmaster is a monopoly
Create your own culture.
fakethenews2022··on Remote work may have fueled a baby boom among U.S. women
Risks are much, much, much higher. Chromosome disorder in 40 year old mothers is 1 in 30. For 25 year olds it is 1 in 1250. So from .08% to 3.33%. Chance of miscarriage is 80% for a 40 year old mother. For a 35 year old, it is 20%.

https://www.webmd.com/baby/over-35-pregnant

fakethenews2022··on S.F. plans to rezone the city to allow the production of just 34,000 new homes
You completely misunderstand or are completely disingenuous. Also your facts are completely wrong.

The most politically connected have always been the Pacific Heights folks. Think Getty, Gavin Newsom's patron.

The Asian population of San Francisco is about 33%. It has had a grand total of 1 Asian mayor in its entire history and he was initially appointed.

Behind the scenes politics in San Francisco has always been dominated by money and that money is virtually all white. Think Getty, Shorenstein, etc before and now Conway, Benioff, etc...

You are most likely completely disingenuous. Guess which parts of San Francisco don't have tram lines and don't want them?

fakethenews2022··on S.F. plans to rezone the city to allow the production of just 34,000 new homes
Funny how the new housing goes into the heavily Chinese American areas of the city but completely sidesteps the richer white areas like Russian Hill, Seacliff, Marina, Cow Hollow, St Francis Wood, and Cole Valley. Those rich white areas have even less new housing development.

https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=File:Racial-distribu...

fakethenews2022··on Cobra Maneuver
Modern fighters are all about sensing and targeting the enemy first since missiles are so deadly. The missiles are much faster than the planes so which way the missile is pointed at matters less and most of the time it is better to be pointed forward.

So the optimizations and tradeoffs are in sensing and targeting further away or being able to rotate a sensor to target an enemy off bore.

fakethenews2022··on Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government?
The paper was published in Oxford Academic by Oxford University Press. I don't think that can be labeled as fringe.

I talked to someone else and apparently this side effect was widely known and accepted in another country far before it was accepted in the US.

The dismissal of facts also happened with the investigation of airborne transmission of covid-19.

fakethenews2022··on Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government?
This wasn't editing. It was censorship. I linked to a Youtube video by a doctor. Included in the video's description was a link to the paper. Dang claims that users flagged it and linked to the FAQ.

There is nothing in the link that would violate the FAQ.

I cussed him out in another comment and he blocked that too.

My link to the paper itself was downvoted too.

https://youtu.be/nBaIRm4610o

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/74/11/1933/6353927

Now myocarditis is accepted and found on the CDC site on the mRNA vaccines.

Hacker News is shit. I have used it far less since that time.

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