There's no such thing as a labor shortage, it's called full employment and it's beneficial to the majority of the population because their labor is in high demand and they can easily find jobs and ask for higher pay.

Naturally, the powers that be don't like it when the masses have it too good so now it's a made up problem that must be solved with globohomo. I was hoping the Slavic world was based enough to resist it but here we are.

Japan could use a lower population, it's an anthill.

But who will pick our cotton!?

There must be a healthy middle ground between communist footsoldier and "LOOK AT ME MY VAGINA IS FERTILE".

Why would Putin do this?

Japan is a nation of 130,000,000 people on a few islands, they could drop by 99% and be fine. The population growth Ponzi scheme needs to stop and reverse at some point so it may as well happen now.

There's an addon called DeArrow which replaces clickbait titles with crowdsourced ones.

When in doubt, gold (and silver).

Who knows, it might be proper grammar in Ebonics.

Sanity, as usual.

In my university days, 51% was called a passing grade. Looks like they took the smart approach, minimum amount of effort to pass the class.

What about this one?

Minor event happens yet again in endless forever war.

All while conveniently ignoring Ukraine's actual nazi problem of course.

Don't forget to refund it.

I just watched a Ken Burns documentary about Lewis and Clark, the first American citizens to reach the west coast. It took them 2.5 years and ~8000 miles (13000 km) in total. That's quite mind-boggling for a European, maybe Russians can comprehend it.

The officials said that while the Ukrainians were likely to use the missiles first against Russian and North Korean troops that threaten Ukrainian forces in Kursk, Mr. Biden could authorize them to use the weapons elsewhere.

According to NYT it's Kursk only at this point.

domination shutdown mesmer such as myself

A man of culture. The number of elementalists who just kept spamming Flare after I put Backfire on them still astounds me to this day.

Always with the walls of text. Brevity is the soul of wit and they don't have wit, brevity or souls.

That's one way to stop abortions.

I thought that was Preach for a second but his hair isn't quite that thick.

Covid and the following permacrisis broke the perception of time and reality. Months feel like weeks, weeks feel like days, it's a blur now. And it's not just getting old, young people are noticing it too.

I swear just the other day it was early 2020 and I was out dining with a large group of friends, most of whom turned into rabid commies during Covid so we don't talk much anymore. Five years used to be a long time.

I noticed it years ago when my Goodreads book recommendations were suddenly 80% women - for science fiction that's dominated by male authors. I've missed the release of several good novels because male writers are being actively suppressed.

2000 years ago the place was called Judea. Jews lived there centuries before islam was a thing.

I was once murdered in Runescape by Alq, an infamous PK. Still my greatest achievement. I also saw Bluerose13x forge the best items in the game. I made a lifelong friend in Conquer Online and remember many people I played Guild Wars and vanilla WoW with.

Then matchmaking and realm phasing arrived and I never talked to anyone again, nor do I remember anyone.