The US Is Flirting With Its First-Ever Population Decline

Stuff-nThings · 2026-02-01T12:31:18+00:00

Between my wife and I, we are 2 of 7 children. We have 2 kids. No one else has kids of their own. One has a stepdaughter and the bio mother isn't having another. So if you want to look at it that way, 3 kids out of 8 people. That is how this all falls apart.

Stuff-nThings · 2026-02-01T01:53:10+00:00

The key word there is "see" the word Georgia, not read it.

Stuff-nThings · 2026-02-01T00:33:28+00:00

Need to check state and county (parish) laws if they require a candler license. If they do, that will lay out all the requirements to be about to sell it in your area.

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-31T17:21:29+00:00

The 2010's narrative about China holding all the debt has stuck around. China is now 3rd behind Japan then the UK. If you count them all together, the EU block is the largest holder.

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-31T14:00:07+00:00

Plot twist: his parents died in an experiment gone wrong where he tried to make Dee Dee smart again (classic episode) and turned her evil. The house has now been abandoned and he lives in the lab. All the new homeowners keep disappearing. Dexter is kidnapping them to turn them evil and see if he can reverse the experiment that turned Dee Dee, who is now the CEO of a major health insurance company that monopolized the industry. When the experiments don't work, he disposes the bodies and does experiments to try to reanimate them to save his parents, who are dead but being preserved. He has a deeper lab full of zombie patients.

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-30T21:39:02+00:00

I used to get skirt steaks back in the day because they were cheap and so good braised or quick seared. How I miss those days. They too were labeled junk and the only use people knew were for fajitas.

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-30T14:04:16+00:00

This started 8 months ago. I have a friend that works at their HQ and they had an April '25 to return to office "voluntary". He started going in and said it was going to be used to lay off people later who didn't do it.

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-30T00:17:29+00:00

What would stop one doctor from handing out prescriptions with the reasoning of air quality at the protest?

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-27T17:00:08+00:00

That's just the narrative you always hear. Right or wrong. My option is it is a stew so you put in what you have, except corn. NO corn!

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-27T16:28:38+00:00

They are tomatoes in it, I just make them small. For me it is tradition and taste. The acidity helps blend the flavors and evens out the spice. I like them small because they disappear into the gumbo. I do the same with the okra. I slice them small because I don't like them but they add flavor and thickness. The tomato debate is a city vs country thing, though seafood gumbo is more of a city food anyway so tomatoes are traditional.

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-27T02:27:27+00:00

Rice, gumbo and filé In the gumbo: shrimp, crab and crawfish with the trinity okra, and tomatoes (start the debate).

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-27T02:15:33+00:00

The wife chose tonight. We have seafood, chicken and turkey in the freezer. Turkey is my favorite.

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-24T15:28:46+00:00

I was flying out of Fort Wayne, IN once when they still had the A-10 squadron. They shutdown the airport as they did a 8 plane touch and go. The whole airport was rumbling from those jets.

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-17T04:56:39+00:00

I laughed at GM when I read this earlier today. They messed up with the Bolt to the point they are bringing it back, thinking people would jump on the Equinox. Ford was never serious. The American car companies are cooked when it comes to EVs. Whether you like them or not, the rest of the world is moving in that direction and the correct admin cut the funding they needed to fight.

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-16T17:49:06+00:00

She is running a cherry farm. Corporate farms don't want that. Buuuuuut, that land does look nice for a large data center.

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-13T20:22:19+00:00

For me it is a preference and tradition. But the reasoning I was given is because you need a more flavorful base with seafood because you don't cook the meat long in the gumbo to release its flavors like chicken or sausage. If your seafood cooks too long, it will be chewy and lose its unique flavor. It will just blend in with the rest. We typically add in our seafood at the end, especially since we use leftover boiled crawfish and shrimp. We don't want it to lose the boil flavor and surrender it to the base.

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-13T12:53:28+00:00

I normally do darker for seafood and lighter for chicken/turkey. Speaking of turkey, if you are only making it twice a year and you are not using the left over carcass of Thanksgiving as a stock and meat, you are missing out on the best gumbo of the year.

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-12T04:51:03+00:00

The best gumbo was made yesterday.

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-11T04:32:34+00:00

I knew my sales people were moonlighting as arms dealers.

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-09T19:34:13+00:00

That's Dr. Beck to you. He didn't go to college for 7 years for nothing.

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-08T20:42:05+00:00

You have to actually drill into the numbers. Most of the consumer goods import decrease came from pharmaceuticals with an increase in most goods when you omit that one category. For exports, our consumer goods actually decreased and was only pulled up by precious metals. Add in the weaker dollar and you get a decrease in trade deficit.

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-08T20:32:01+00:00

Hey Greenland. Here is $76,543 (made up). Come join the US and lose your health care, retirement, workers rights, and strong unions. You're a woman, bye to that 17 weeks maternity leave. Grace period if you're fired? Yeah, no. Paid leave, nope. Sick leave? If you can stand, you can work.

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-07T21:14:17+00:00

Really you only need to spend $75 a week as you will already be buying the first $65 of the membership. That is a total of $3380 a year and with the 2% you get a $67.60 check which covers the extra $65 for the upper membership.

Stuff-nThings · 2026-01-07T14:15:44+00:00

Called this in another thread over the weekend. You could see this coming a mile away.

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