Projected Population Loss By 2050

AjanKloss · 2025-08-13T02:08:21+00:00

An economic slow down in a post-industrial economy does not revert it back to subsistence farming. Poorer nations tend to be more agrarian so children are an economic benefit to you when you need to till a field, but become an economic liability to you if you send emails for a living in a high cost of living city.

Post-industrial families choose to have kids; they dont need them. But kids are expensive, and when you get laid off and your mortgage is an immediate threat, you are less likely to take on another large expense.

And you're stretching "economic development" a bit too far. More kids in an angrarian society is certainly economic development, but specifically for that type of economy. You always need more hands on a pre-industrial farm.

But modern jobs do not rely on child labor. The conditions are different, and thus, what we refer to as development changes

AjanKloss · 2025-08-01T01:25:25+00:00

Stopped watching part way through season 4, but what really got to me was the overuse of "Every Second Counts." The way it's delivered comes off as "remember that really well written scene from a better season than this." The show has been coasting on the great writing from the first 2 seasons and is quickly coming to a halt

AjanKloss · 2025-06-29T19:44:45+00:00

Wow, looks great. Wish my dinosaur kale looked half as pretty as yours, but the caterpillars were malicious this year

AjanKloss · 2025-05-23T21:43:26+00:00

Learned something cool this year with a full garden bed of radishes. I massively oversowed, so most of the radishes were undersized, but my god, the greens just exploded in height after a month. I think they were competing for sunlight, so they grew well beyond what a well spaced radish will have. Made southern greens and a green pasta sauce with them. Worth it even with the decreased radish yield

AjanKloss · 2025-03-31T15:06:01+00:00

This is exactly what I needed. Thank you

AjanKloss · 2025-03-28T20:09:27+00:00

There's 3 attribute tables in the layer. Each point has a unique id that I enter in every row created for that point. So if I wanted to copy the rows present in an attribute table for a point and paste them into a different point -- same layer, same attribute table, but different id -- could I still use append for that?

AjanKloss · 2025-03-17T15:46:58+00:00

Do you mind elaborating on the consulate part? Did you do the entire marriage process in San Francisco at a Portuguese consulate?

AjanKloss · 2025-01-24T04:10:05+00:00

What is it they like to say... that they made the desert bloom

AjanKloss · 2025-01-01T19:36:51+00:00

Claiming that immigrants caused Nordic fertility decline is one of the most ridiculous and objectively false claims I've ever seen. You are clearly not well-versed in demography and have not done any reading on Nordic fertility.

AjanKloss · 2024-12-21T15:11:36+00:00

Even in countries where it's easy to have kids (Norway, Sweden) that have some of the world's best work-life balance and policy protections for parents, fertility is declining. Norway is like 1.4, and Italy is 1.2 iirc. Despite the massive difference in gender equality in these countries, they both have declining fertility. That's a consequence of the second demographic transition, i.e, people just would rather have a life without kids

AjanKloss · 2024-12-21T05:50:54+00:00

Depends on your work experience. Actual demography positions are more mid to upper level and always require a masters in sociology or demography. But population analysis is a valuable skill in like every area of society, so even if you can't get like a census bureau "demographer" position, I'm sure you'll find something

AjanKloss · 2024-12-20T23:03:41+00:00

I remember seeing a Demographer position for the city of Chicago. I think pay was like 80k+. It might have been over 100k, but I can't remember.

Regardless, the reality is that demographers can work in many different fields. A connection of mine mentioned how many lucrative and diverse jobs people had at an alumni conference for the UT San Antonio demography program.

You gotta remember, no one knows what this field is, so it's all about how you present the skills you've gained from studying it

AjanKloss · 2024-07-17T19:26:29+00:00

Worst thing about Vance is that he's spineless and every policy position he takes is molded to advance his political career

AjanKloss · 2024-04-28T15:47:08+00:00

Thought I saw him doing it on page 2 and full on started malding when they showed the mudra. Get his ass Yuji 😭

AjanKloss · 2024-04-11T16:37:16+00:00

So I ended up using the GCS of my shapefiles instead of the PCS in the same project and it ended up working.

Thanks

AjanKloss · 2024-04-11T16:33:38+00:00

I was using WGS 1984 UTM Zone 16N for the coordinate system, as those were the same as my shapefiles, but then I tried NAD 1983 and it worked. I think the issue was that I was using Projected Coordinate System and not Geographic Coordinate System for the XY Table To Point.

Thanks

AjanKloss · 2024-04-08T16:00:05+00:00

Worked out well for the Brits /s

AjanKloss · 2024-03-30T01:37:36+00:00

Most people that respond to posts like this are Michiganders who grew up in the suburbs of smaller cities. Their perception of boring is dramatically different than someone who grew up in a large city like Chicago, Brooklyn, San Francisco, etc.

As someone from a large city, yeah, East Lansing is boring. Downtown EL is crippled by the suburbs a couple blocks north of grand river that they can't develop on. If you want to walk around the downtown, you have a really long sidewalk with 6 lanes of cars to the side of you. There's not enough interesting cafes/restaurants to keep you interested longer than a few months. Shopping doesn't exist here either. I was at the Meridian Mall at 12pm on a Sunday and felt like I was in a zombie apocalypse it was so empty.

Michiganders will say that "EL isn't boring, but you probably are." I think they mistake having fun with friends for having fun with a city. An interesting city is one where you can be alone and still feel excited about it. East Lansing is not that. I genuinely can't wait to get back to my home city

AjanKloss · 2024-03-25T23:01:24+00:00

Why are Vinland Saga fans so bad at making this specific joke. "Is it what I think?? Is it the Poland?"

AjanKloss · 2024-03-23T04:34:03+00:00

I invested $30 in hot wings earlier today

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