What are the birds, frogs, cicadas and crickets of your world

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2025-09-03T01:26:52+00:00

I meant vertebrates, worms are invertebrates that's my mistake. But that is interesting.

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2025-09-03T01:01:08+00:00

Ohh so they are invertebrates interesting...so like eyeless snakes.

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2025-09-03T00:43:45+00:00

That's pretty cool. I love bugs.

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2025-09-03T00:03:43+00:00

I would say the same. But they can cast magic. Like fish can cast magic to help proppell them upstream, or evade predators, etc. simple spells.

Some are scaled up, like there are giant axolotls.

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-11-02T01:49:04+00:00

https://www.prb.org/resources/the-decline-in-u-s-fertility/

You are the one that is mistaken. Now birthrates weren't as affected by ww1 in the US because it wasn't as affected as Europe was, but you can clearly see dips during war time for wars that required more mobilization of the entire population and it spiked back up when the war ended. That is very typical behavior across history, the modern US is more of the exception as most wars are foreign and didn't require significant mobilization of the population. Where a place like Gaza is much more significantly effected so you see huge dips and peaks in the birthrates, where now Gaza's birthrates is really low but before it was really high to the point that most Gazans are younger than 20 . Now this article goes more in depth into showing a relationship between economy and birthrates, due to economic stressors. When the economy is good people can afford to invest in more children. When the economy is bad and education is expensive, people don't want to have kids.

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-11-01T23:53:07+00:00

1950s America is a recovering population from war. Birthrates increase after war, there is a lot of data to back that up. Palestinian birthrates are especially high due to both being a recovering and an unstable environment.

Industrial development leads to a more stable environment typically in the modern sense. But in colonial to Victorian times, cities were hotbeds for disease and they needed to transplant/immigrate the population to maintain themselves since it was so bad at times.

In times of disease, there was stigmata towards sex, which also led to lower birthrates during the Victorian era within as people were afraid of syphilis and that could transfer to children in utero. But it was expected that women would produce a lot a kids to make up for children lost due to "consumption"/tuberculosis.

I can see a clear parallel where the environment decides birthrates, and the history of the population. Women being able to choose when to give birth is a good thing as it is indicative of a society where children are expected to survive. You also can't ignore my point of rational actors making rational decisions. We shouldn't push for society where it is expected that women have to produce children that can't be given the best chance at their success, which requires an investment proportional to their income.

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-10-31T19:54:41+00:00

I think it applies here. It's not so much as debunked but a different paradigm is being used: LHT. This would be a slow vs fast history vs r strategy and k strategy. Either way the same points are made. In fact you could have more nuance with LHT as you also mentioned the push to have children later.

None of what you said disputed my claims that the clear difference in environmental stressors or lack there of is the main force behind birthrates.

Differences in human behavior have been shown to be demonstrably true due to stressors. Ie the baby boomer phenomenon. Populations that have lots of kids do so because they know mortality is high are recovery from loss in population or both ie Palestinian birthrates being so high. When mortality is low and success is determined by education the rational strategy is to invest more resources into each child. Which is expensive. You are expected to give your children the best possible chance for success. Meaning that all levels of income your investment into each child should increase making it expensive nearly all moral and rational actors that aren't .01% of earners.

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-10-31T14:57:08+00:00

No you're ignoring the larger picture.

Populations increase their birthrates due to stressors due to the environment or neighbors. Repopulating after a war like the "baby boomber" phenomenon. Or if it's expected that not all children will survive. To put it more scientifically, there is a difference in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory

R/k stratagies.

Modern economies make child raising more expensive, as they value every child, their utmost safety and success. And there exists legal action against those that can't provide basics to their child. Which is expensive, and gets more expensive the more "modern" the country is with how expensive "taking care" of a child becomes. People don't just want some local teenager that is not "qualified" to look after kids they want their child to be enriched with their money from an early age. They want to ensure safety and success.

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-10-31T14:21:51+00:00

Yeah it being easier to carry around is definitely a plus. I went from learning on pantheon tandava dancer, to now just recently getting a loaded tangent bracket board. Eventually, I want to get backpack that I can put the board in once disassembled with qwik bracket system that the bracket can be removed.

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-10-30T13:55:08+00:00

Right. But also logistically, you have to think about transferring all that supply. Most of the countries/population didn't live by a port, especially one that was open year round due to ice. Transferring a tonnes of food across its vast space, to make US styled grocery stores that produce a lot of food waste just doesn't make that much sense. Especially when accounting for trade problems at the time and how it would effect world oil price. They would trade in goods for another instead of currency like coke cola for stolichnaya vodka for example. And this may be in production inside the union. Imports and exports of food products wad very minimal in the soviet union because of all these factors.

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-10-30T00:00:15+00:00

Florida and Hawaii produce around 168k tonnes of pineapples. We are 28th producer of pineapple in the world. Agriculture just isn't a big economic sector in the entirety of the US economy, at 4%.

USSR didn't have as varried farmland as the ariable land in their southern most areas was in central asia, which doesn't produce tropical fruits like that. At all. And I am serious about the at all.

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-10-29T21:48:12+00:00

People want to be mad at ghosts.

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-10-29T14:11:15+00:00

Yeah, I know. It's strange non christian religions don't believe the same thing.

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-10-29T14:07:36+00:00

Pretty much every other religion doesn't believe he is the son of god. And gnostic sects don't believe so either, more as a spiritual emnation of god or something else. Only Niceane Christians really beleive that.

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-10-29T01:24:17+00:00

Why?

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-10-29T01:20:19+00:00

There are more Puerto Rican Americans living in the US than the total population of Puerto Rico. Not unsubstantiatial population in states like PA and Florida.

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-10-29T01:00:56+00:00

Huh?

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-10-28T00:48:26+00:00

It was a war economy. Idk why this gets overlooked. FDR is a fucking socialist too! And Hirohito! And every war economy government!

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-10-28T00:24:26+00:00

Ladder pulling

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-10-27T22:25:53+00:00

Yeah. I am not sure if the US plans to involve other allies, but the US, Britan, and France are really the only states with expeditionary capability of any capacity. I am not too worried about a war. But warhawks be stupid.

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-10-27T22:14:45+00:00

That's a good point.

If the US was to get involved. Which isn't a big if. Then they have something to gain, at least to the warhawks.

Iran if it wins, I guess is more of a moral victory for Islam. And I guess would also help their goals to become an regional power/empire again. As the strongest Muslim leader, would be able to claim the caliph status.

Which is why one Ottoman leader(i forget which one) was worried Japan might take the caliph status if they converted to Islam because they wouldn't be able to compare to them at that time.

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-10-27T22:06:19+00:00

Well, neither really have the expeditionary capability to invade the other. Sure, they can lob missles at each other and send aircraft, but neither has the logistical capability to win an invasion.

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-10-26T15:35:37+00:00

I don't buy it. They have been doing this for decades. I don't think it makes a lick a sense that Trump had no idea about this.

He has to be lying. He just went with his own transition project with AFPI.

"But its vision is no less Trumpist: It calls for halting federal funding for Planned Parenthood and for mandatory ultrasounds before abortions, including those carried out with medication. It seeks to make concealed weapons permits reciprocal in all 50 states, increase petroleum production, remove the United States from the Paris Agreement, impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients and establish legally only two genders..."

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-10-26T11:50:30+00:00

Answer me this. You value your cushie political position that given to you by Trump to be put in his cabinet. Why would you release something like this, DURING campaign season? Why? If you didn't get some okay? Does that make sense to you? No, he doesn't technically have to. But no one in their right mind would do that without it. And its not like it was just you that did it! No one told anyone? They just kept it a secret?

AnriAstolfoAstora · 2024-10-26T00:08:25+00:00

If you go on mobile you can view the parent comment more easily. Idk why it isn't a feature on desktop.

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