The reason for Japan's low fertility is its anti-male culture. Men are supposed to work 80 hours a week until they retire, at which point they're useless and should have the decency to die. Nothing is expected of women, so they spend their days sleeping around and complaining about the largely mythical train groping issue. Japanese men don't want to raise families with entitled whores, so instead they just nope out of society.

It's not really a gender issue. It's a labor expectation issue, and it affects women too. People work insane hours in Japan and the work culture is really toxic. Having children would just enslave people to more of the same, so why bother.

Rather, she would seem to be saying that thievery and vandalism are intrinsically non-white qualities.

TSMC is building a fab in Nevada, so it's underway.

China stole some TSMC tech secrets, which implies they are trying to duplicate the technology. If successful, TSMC (and Taiwan) will lose much of their relevance. It seems like a conservative-prudent move.

I'm frustrated because I'm legitimately curious about some in the lower two levels.

Really pointless without titles.

Too bad. It's vertigo time.

Why assume it wasn't for his benefit?

Sounds like she's trying to do some reverse-psychology meme magic, but she's out of touch.

Ah, my bad.

Having most of the stuff you need 15 minutes away isn't despotic: it's good urban planning.

Law is just another thing to subvert.

Decent point. We all pray for the second coming of our Lord that will end the horror.

Click on the link and look at his stupid glasses. That's all you need to know.

If God killed every sinner, we would all die.

On the 10 commandments I think you are wrong, I vaguely remember in several places Christ saying He has not come to replace the old law and He says to a guy that if he follows the 10 commandments then he is a good person.

I am not wrong. Jesus doesn't "replace" the ten commandments: he supersedes them. If you love God and your neighbor, you will by default obey the ten commandments, and more. Regarding the guy who followed the ten commandments, are you talking about the man who left sad after being told "sell all you own, give it to the poor and follow me"? Here's the ever excellent Fulton Sheen explaining the point I was making and mentioning the case you brought up. I assure you it's a great listen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iYaw8uGZOs

For people who want a refresh of Catholic axioms:

The Hebrews and their Jewish descendants had Moses' law: the ten commandments. Our Lord incarnated to die for our sins, to establish the Church and the new law for everyone, that is, the perfected law of God that supersedes the ten commandments. That law is: love God, love your neighbor.

An "extremist" of said philosophy of life is a saint. That's a good thing to be.

Feminism and women's vote only caught on because the men of old kept whoring and drinking while their wives had no recourse. Feminism is just women wanting to sink as low as men do. Not saying "no" to women isn't the root cause of the societal troubles of today.

The issue at the bottom is that people want to be free to do as they please, instead of wanting to be free to do what they ought to. I don't think the root problem will be fixed in this world.

Metaverse is literally just VR internet. It may have it's pros, but it's not necessary at all and it's certainly not revolutionary in the least.

I don't believe that was in the USA.

thx

I almost went with induction. Induction is a newer technology, more common in Europe, purely electric and based on magnetism, but I didn't like how it performed when I tried it out

Can you elaborate? I am close to buying one myself.

Embers aren't coal, though. Embers glow. It has no connection with chocolate cakes.

I guess they weren't neurotic enough to consider redhead feelings. Or maybe they were?

So you say, who knows if that's true, but I didn't say anything about "average".

KiA2 isn't that bad. I'm surprised that anyone here would even know what happens at KiA1, though.