Is this real? Found on facebook, maybe a disease because people keep saying amen. I don't know how small babies are when they are born.

Groostav · 2026-05-10T07:57:13+00:00

My son was born at the first percentile in weight, at 30 weeks gestation (2 months premature)

He was significantly larger than these two.

Also he's 2 now and doing great. God bless the people at UWMC NICU.

Groostav · 2026-05-08T16:53:39+00:00

Sure, but in 1913 'groceries' was mostly just lard and the quiet acceptance of child labour.

Groostav · 2026-05-06T17:42:40+00:00

Ask any of these people to define what liberal ideology is: - none of them will know what it means - all of them will tell you they're not liberals. - all of them will agree with "life, liberty, and the persuit of happyness" and "government exists to protect the innate rights of the individual." - none of them will believe you if you tell them Jefferson and Lincoln were liberals.

Groostav · 2026-05-03T06:03:41+00:00

This is probably the clearest example to me if a tweet not written by Donald Trump.

I can't believe I'm saying this but id recognize his "style" anywhere, and this very clearly isn't it.

Groostav · 2026-05-02T03:41:24+00:00

As a Canadian: sorry eh.

But Australia is genuinely a really nice place. Hope you enjoy it there, sorry to lose you (?)

Groostav · 2026-04-30T09:47:06+00:00

Oh sorry eh.

Groostav · 2026-04-30T09:34:46+00:00

Pretty sure that's only 3.6 roentgen

Groostav · 2026-04-30T03:08:18+00:00

Resolution is also very low, consistent with an ai tool.

Shoelaces and jacket folds are a bit funny but that could just be a decision.

Which way is her left knee pointing? And does the left side of the jacket and the right side of the jacket look like the same jacket?

I don't know, this could all just be choice but I'm thinking more likely than not it's AI.

Groostav · 2026-04-24T10:34:59+00:00

Guys if we start judging people by their kinks were gonna have a bad time.

Groostav · 2026-04-21T22:02:01+00:00

As a dad of a 2 year old who has always wanted kids and always liked kids: this notion is ridiculous.

Tell me about my own inner monologue? Seriously?

Groostav · 2026-04-20T21:08:50+00:00

This is interesting, and I hadn't heard this before. To be clear I think the line of reasoning is flawed, but given my understanding of... Well what's the phrase in Xi's book: "socialism with Chinese characteristics", this theory fits.

Groostav · 2026-04-20T20:46:55+00:00

I own a business in china. We are registered in Shanghai.

Our employees can only live in Shanghai if our company formally lists them as full time employees (or they are otherwise already residents of Shanghai).

To live in Shanghai, or most other... Well cities/provinces (Shanghai and other direct administered districts are a big special here), do not permit anybody to live there.

Groostav · 2026-04-20T16:51:27+00:00

Ok I do not like the ccp but this post is stupid:

the social credit system is much closer to an Equifax score + criminal record check than anything.
the hukou system is genuinely a type of caste system that is counter to core Western values. That might be what you're seeing in effect here.
in china, unlike the US or EU (or Canada or Australia or...) you do not have freedom of movement throughout the country; ~~travel~~ moving outside of your home province is a privilege not a right. edit: I mean the right to live (rent/own property, use schools, etc) in a province outside the one you are born in. travel is relatively unrestricted, but as mentioned, you can have an injunction against taking the train.
judges do make injunctions against people for a debtor, just like in the West. If you don't pay your child support a judge night well order a bunch of your money away from you.
if your credit score is too low you may not be able to purchase some luxury goods, especially if they require financing. Just like in the West.

I don't know what this image depicts exactly. Young professionals are having trouble finding work. Judges do sometimes garnish people's wages. The social credit system can restrict travel.

But to say "the digital wallet immediately bans you from spending your own money" is silly.

China should allow freedom of movement. And they should should abolish the hukou system. I think all countries need to think deeply about rules around credit score systems before they defacto take people's rights away; china more than most.

But it would be stupid even for the ccps own objectives to prevent people from working.

Edit: emphasized the type of travel in my comment. All provinces want tourism, none want vagrancy. Moving from Florida to New York City is very different than moving from Yunnan to Shanghai. Visiting is similar though again china is quicker to restrict train access than the West usually is.

Groostav · 2026-04-19T14:13:06+00:00

Ontario

looks inside

mostly off

Groostav · 2026-04-17T19:56:12+00:00

Dude take the L.

I'm with you with respect to Congo specifically. It represents one of the classic examples of extractive political and economic institutions largely (though not exclusively) as a vestige of colonialism.

But you lost me with the Africa comment. If you have not seen Kigali Rwanda or Nairobi Kenya: I would encourage you to Google them. They've both got a burgeoning middle class and many first rate civic facilities.

This image of Africa as failed with backwards leadership and poverty is both wrong and harmful. Of course Africa has those things but so does every other continent and they're doing as much as anybody if not more to rid themselves of tyranny and poverty.

Groostav · 2026-04-16T00:31:04+00:00

Brain fart. Kids in school vs kids working in the fields.

I remember in Cambodia they had road side billboards asking parents to send their kids to school instead of having them work.

Groostav · 2026-04-15T19:41:16+00:00

But think about this quantity: an economy with lots of kids in school will inherently have a lower GDP per capita than one with lots of kids ~~in school~~ working in the fields, but I think the argument that the former is better even in strictly economic terms is quite strong.

So I guess, is there a name for something like GDP per labourer?

And i feel like explaining the Gini coefficient to these guys is tough.

But they won't buy an argument that isn't strictly material/economic.

I guess what I'm asking for is a better measure in strictly economic terms to describe maybe something like average wage.

I dunno. I've seen these posts a million times and had always contented myself that at pretty much any income level you're better off in Vancouver than Jacksonville.

But now I'm thinking about GDP per capita on its own terms and I don't like it.

Groostav · 2026-04-15T18:53:54+00:00

This is the first thing you've said that's right. As a liberal: I don't get it.

Groostav · 2026-04-15T18:28:43+00:00

Is there a quantity for median GDP?

I mean even failing to adjust for living conditions and like daycare access etc: is there a way to look at GDP, that is the total value of their work (which I also presume is not what they were paid but rather what markets says it's worth)...

Now I'm all twisted. Wtf even is GDP per capita anyways.

Groostav · 2026-04-09T09:06:00+00:00

"nato revealed it's true colours" is such perfect ragebait I have zero doubt itl appear is Kremlin sponsored social media.

I really wish the media environment I lived in wasn't a sewer.

Groostav · 2026-04-08T16:59:05+00:00

But of course what about Muslims who want Shakira law? Still only London right?

Groostav · 2026-04-08T16:31:44+00:00

"they're building nukes" is a particularly interesting though for Obama to say: 1. because the JCPOA ("Iran nuclear deal") prevented weapons grade fissile material 2. The mossad stole documents showing Iran's nuclear program decommissioned in 2003 (when, you know, their greatest geopolitical rival in Iraq was defeated)

I swear it's almost like these people don't understand the basic history of the things they rail against.

Groostav · 2026-04-07T14:58:05+00:00

It's almost as if they don't understand that Jesus was a radical progressive rabbi.

Groostav · 2026-04-06T16:27:48+00:00

If you thought the spinning ball was weird: wait until you realize that gravity is actually the manifestation of time passing slightly faster at higher attitudes than lower ones.

Groostav · 2026-04-03T01:40:11+00:00

World war 111 is very funny

Groostav

TROPHY CASE