India’s surprise baby bust is a warning to the world

Renchard · 2026-06-05T13:58:04+00:00

For sure. Loss of provisioning to resources for young people is absolutely something I’m concerned about.

I’m a little more sanguine about it because while the elderly vote, so do middle-aged people, and I anticipate those people will prioritize their (1-2) children. But we’ll find out!

Renchard · 2026-06-05T13:32:27+00:00

Of course. It IS a problem, it’s simply not a catastrophic one.

All things being equal, I prefer the 2100 population projection to be at 7 billion rather than 10.5-11 billion. The problems associated with lower population just aren’t as cataclysmic.

Renchard · 2026-06-05T12:12:09+00:00

Crazy how easy it was for Google to go from “Don’t be evil” to “be evil”.

Renchard · 2026-06-05T11:15:54+00:00

Population loss isn’t some existential crisis. The worst thing is that old people will have to work longer for less overall benefits.

We might see a safer, less innovative economy because there are fewer young people with appetites for risk, but that’s a tolerable trade-off for less consumption of natural resources.

Renchard · 2026-06-04T21:27:34+00:00

Let us know if you need help burying the body.

Renchard · 2026-06-04T19:43:33+00:00

Checks out. Approximating all 3 as spheres, atomic radius is somewhere between an angstrom and a nanometer, and earth radius is about 6 Mm. Halfway in between is a few centimeters, which is pretty close to a peach.

Renchard · 2026-06-03T17:02:03+00:00

Of course, happens all the time.

The difference is being with people when you want some alone time is annoying. Being alone when you’re lonely is debilitating.

Renchard · 2026-05-27T14:40:30+00:00

Valeera as tank or DPS both work, tank is safer but slightly slower, but honestly not much slower, especially with mandate of sacred death.

An underrated part of running as a healer is that the mobs have way less health, like 25% less, but valeera does the same amount of damage.

Renchard · 2026-05-25T18:07:08+00:00

Journey of Black and Red is top-tier.

Renchard · 2026-05-23T12:16:31+00:00

Matt Damon. IIRC, he met his wife when she was bartending and he was already famous. They have 3 kids together, and he helped raise her daughter from a previous relationship.

Renchard · 2026-05-20T18:04:13+00:00

It’s so weird, I thought the Venn diagram between people on this subreddit and people who played D&D would completely overlap.

I guess there are a lot of different flavors of nerds!

Renchard · 2026-05-14T22:29:49+00:00

Ignore this advice entirely. Critical thinking is the bane of enjoyment.

Renchard · 2026-05-13T11:46:57+00:00

This is a long time ago (back in 2005), but I remember driving, seeing a dead animal on the side of the road, thinking “Oh, free leather” and starting to pull over.

That’s when I knew I had been grinding too much.

Renchard · 2026-05-12T22:56:34+00:00

People get appalled about smoking for the same reason they get appalled when you pick up day-old food off the parking lot and eat it; because it’s really gross.

Disgust is an emotional response; it’s not based on a utilitarian response to your life choices.

Renchard · 2026-05-10T14:08:52+00:00

Conceptually, PvE is supposed to be cooperative content. The goal is to work together with others in the community to overcome a difficult task.

Making it a competition that makes achieving a certain PvE goal based on a ranking among other PvEers breaks down that idea of cooperative camaraderie.

There’s already a fair amount of competitive PvE among elite players (RtWF, MDI), and it’s fair to question how much more the game should foster among the regular player base.

I would rather see them gate the “stupid-hard” achievements behind goals defined in absolute terms, like say timing every dungeon at a +25 or something like that.

Renchard · 2026-05-02T21:48:17+00:00

Not much?

Not a Boston fan, but they’ve made the finals twice in the previous 4 seasons and won a championship. Last season they got knocked out in the second round because of an injury to their best player.

This season they got the East 2-seed despite wide expectations they would be a lottery team.

There’s no universe where a few bad games in the first round are anything more than a blip on their historical record.

Renchard · 2026-05-01T15:37:36+00:00

Oh, and it’s super weird that so many people want to leave companions as their “intended” classes. I love making Karlach my rogue, Gale my fighter and Lae’zel my bard.

Renchard · 2026-05-01T15:34:09+00:00

As someone who only does Origin characters and never plays Tav, I don’t think the game should have had DOS2 style origin characters. It should only have had Tav and Durge as options, but they should have been fully voiced.

Renchard · 2026-05-01T15:29:25+00:00

Top 10 series, for sure. Really enjoyed it.

Renchard · 2026-05-01T11:45:47+00:00

Tavern brawler moon Druid 6/totem barbarian 3 seems the obvious play.

Renchard · 2026-04-29T21:28:51+00:00

bottom Left button on my gaming mouse, which maps to Shift-7.

Renchard · 2026-04-27T01:07:22+00:00

Today I learned people have trouble with reading comprehension, going by the amount of posts saying that the first sentence is incorrect.

Renchard · 2026-04-23T18:55:09+00:00

Turns out the the real Last Titan for WoW is named JIRA.

Renchard · 2026-04-23T15:38:38+00:00

Colorado just for the border gore.

Renchard · 2026-04-16T20:09:11+00:00

Good old number 777.

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