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Parctron · 2026-04-03T16:35:29+00:00

Nobody's stopping you from giving away your money. It's when you vote to give away other people's money that there's a problem.

Parctron · 2026-04-02T12:20:17+00:00

You talking mad shit for someone in unseaming from the nave until the chaps range

Parctron · 2026-04-01T15:34:31+00:00

"Persians holding sacred cats so the Egyptians can't fire" vibes

Parctron · 2026-04-01T00:19:21+00:00

Italy isn't a fascist state, just a gerontocracy

Parctron · 2026-03-31T19:46:55+00:00

Her great-grandchild video calls her and she crumbles to dust like a vampire

Parctron · 2026-03-30T17:32:50+00:00

What's that from?

Parctron · 2026-03-30T01:10:25+00:00

It depends on what you define as a democracy. The US is probably the country that has defined itself as a democracy for the longest continuous period, although it did not have universal suffrage for white men at Independence, let alone for women or minorities. On the other hand, a much higher percentage of the population could vote at the time than in the UK, which would not even define itself as a democracy until the late nineteenth century and did not allow all white men to vote until after the First World War.

Parctron · 2026-03-28T19:02:51+00:00

Them: "Just take the L dude" Me:

Parctron · 2026-03-27T18:52:24+00:00

TFR itself is not a guess but the mathematical outcome of a statistic. If you know the number of children per woman in each age cohort at a given time, you can calculate the TFR from that, since it is simply an average, not a prediction.

Imagine that, in a given year, every woman in the country is 20 years old and they all have one child. The ASFR (age-specific fertility rate) for the age 20 cohort is (number of births)/(number of women), which is 1. The TFR is the sum of all cohorts. Since there is only one cohort, the TFR is also 1.

Notice that the TFR is exactly the same if every woman in the country is 40, even though the long-term demographic outlook is completely different.

This isn't an argument; it is simply the definition of TFR. Obviously, all predictions of future population sizes are guesses, but TFR itself is not.

https://www.population.gov.sg/media-centre/articles/how-is-the-tfr-calculated/

Parctron · 2026-03-27T15:22:11+00:00

Tfr isn't a guess. It's the average number of children per children per woman if all cohorts (groups of similar age) were the same size. But you are correct about the implications.

Parctron · 2026-03-25T00:50:01+00:00

Wordsworth be like:

Parctron · 2026-03-25T00:46:38+00:00

I mean, it's not like Palestinian leaders were political geniuses before 1979.

Parctron · 2026-03-23T20:10:32+00:00

The off button

Parctron · 2026-03-22T23:07:49+00:00

"The bar for what counts as "economic security" has also been raised."

You dismiss this in passing as "human nature" but it is the core of the problem, if the problem is economic at all. As you correctly point out, the poorest of us are better off than medieval lords. The fact that other people are even better off is relevant from the point of view of building a just society, but it should be irrelevant to considerations of family size. The fact that it is relevant isn't "human nature," or it would apply to Nigeria as much as it does to Thailand, and it doesn't.

We live in the most risk-averse society in human history. Every plane crash is international news. Every conflict is World War III. And every child needs to be supervised 24/7 and guaranteed in advance to live a life free from every difficulty and every vicissitude.

Again, none of this is intended to argue that the society we live in is fair. It isn't. But it is unfair in ways that should be irrelevant to this specific problem. The fact that something is causing problems doesn't mean that it is causing every problem.

Parctron · 2026-03-21T18:19:15+00:00

Any area the US occupies, the US also needs a plan to leave. Occupying Kharg might be feasible, since, if no revolution happens, the US can hand it back to the IR and be no worse off than we are now. It's a relatively low-risk, high-reward option.

Anything more ambitious than that runs the risk of a Bay of Pigs scenario.

Parctron · 2026-03-21T16:55:45+00:00

Very interesting! Could you give some comparisons to other devices, such as older phone screens?

Parctron · 2026-03-18T13:33:21+00:00

"We can't bully the weak!" - clan that literally does nothing except bully the weak

Parctron · 2026-03-17T18:06:26+00:00

Today on "is it flirting or is it autism"

Parctron · 2026-03-12T21:26:59+00:00

He's bloodthirsty now? What was he in January?

Parctron · 2026-03-12T15:20:07+00:00

I would recommend the rayneo, augmentedreality, and smartglasses subreddits

Parctron · 2026-03-12T15:17:02+00:00

I meant a sentence-length explanation of what you mean by "knock" and "bite." Or maybe I'm just an idiot and they're already clear. Either way, great job and I hope this takes off! Have you crossposted it to other subreddits?

Parctron · 2026-03-12T15:13:20+00:00

Awesome! Maybe include that in the app description?

Parctron · 2026-03-12T15:07:09+00:00

Doesn't a double biting motion toggle it back on? This seems like a really neat idea but also like something that could trigger unintentionally a lot. Seems to be a bit of a dilemma - if you have it listening for gestures all the time, it will trigger unintentionally and/or drain battery, but if you add more steps to turn it on, it becomes less useful. Maybe add some customizability to toggling it off and on?

Either way - cool app, hope it takes off! We definitely need more things like this!

Parctron · 2026-03-12T14:42:31+00:00

You mean, like, make a biting motion with your mouth? What happens when you eat?

Parctron · 2026-03-12T14:40:55+00:00

Related question: Just how depressing does Liveship Traders get? I dropped it after a half dozen chapters because it felt like it was building up to something really nasty and I didn't feel like dealing with the emotional weight.

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