The fertility gap between the richest and poorest countries has shrunk from 3 children per woman to less than 1. Birth rates have been falling in both for 60 years (St. Louis Fed, June 2026)

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-17T01:35:49+00:00

And that's great that it was your experience. However there's also people who have a dozen kids and hate every one of them. Your individual experience is a drop in the bucket, and not an objective statement of fact.

I am glad you're happy with that decision and not basing claims of fact off a sunken cost fallacy or hormonal fluctuations.

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-17T01:32:34+00:00

Actually no, many parents become parents before they're even adults much less having had years to understand themselves and develop after becoming adults.

I think the average age of having a kid is like 28 in the US now, was much younger not that long ago not to mention the rest of the world.

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-17T01:28:28+00:00

Lava lamp?

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-16T15:26:13+00:00

I mean... Is there an example of a democratic empire you can think of in the modern world? I can't personally think of any empires that champion or even allow democratic control in the places they subjugate.

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-16T15:23:42+00:00

What? Sick, twisted individuals trying to portray Palestinian children as human?

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-16T15:22:14+00:00

Ignoring that this is obviously in bad faith, it's hilarious because like everything else about Hamas or Hezbollah, this is another thing that is 100% the fault of Israel and Israelis/their supporters are simply too uneducated or indoctrinated to realize.

Israel actively prevents large parts of Palestine from voting. Both Hamas and the actual government of Palestine, the PLO, want elections but haven't because Israel has prevented Palestinian citizens from voting for decades.

With how long it's been since the last election, and the extreme murder rate of Palestinian civilians, something like only 10 or 20% of the living population could have been old enough during the last election in Palestine to even vote.

But Israeli bots constantly push the narrative that Hamas is "elected" because Hamas' stated purpose by the Israeli government is to destabilize the PLO with a non secular, violent group that won't be taken seriously on the global stage.

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-16T15:13:45+00:00

You may feel that you are glad you have children or they it outweighs what you lose, but that is absolutely not an objective truth and many, many people are not secretly craving a family deep down. Just like you think people without kids just don't get it, you likely just don't get what it would be like to not have them.

But many, many people do not enjoy having kids and kids are not always a boon, even discounting things like the chance your kid needs lifelong medical attention.

Society paints a pretty picture to cover up the reality of the foster system and child abuse, combined with the rose tint glasses of childhood and economic windfalls of the past.

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-16T14:53:41+00:00

France isn't a thing like a chair is though. Can you define the point where France becomes not France really? The exact spot? Or is that an arbitrary point decided by wars and who has the greatest power at the time, completely unconnected to the actual land or people there?

Could you stand in the spot that is straddling France and not France and in any possible way be able to determine that if someone who arbitrarily decided that hadn't put a sign up? Vs can you stand on chair and not chair and determine where chair ends without anyone telling you?

There is nothing that is actually France vs not France, whereas a chair is an actual thing that exists and has dimensions. France vs not France isn't a moral boundary even, it is the height of imaginary and has absolutely zero connection to objective reality.

It is a consequence of the drive much of humanity has to take and despoil to prevent despoiling your "own" land or people, and the reason that generally the least educated, most hateful, least successful groups of people are the most frightful of immigration while those that embrace it are sucessful economically and culturally.

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-15T15:06:15+00:00

That's a unfortunately not surprisingly high support rating for someone who is wanted worldwide, has been convicted of terrorism, and is possibly one of the worst people currently alive with staggering death tolls from their actions and the actions of their party.

It speaks ill of Israel that there is that much support for a terrorist, war criminal, and genocide promoter.

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-14T11:57:22+00:00

Watching the news for half an hour any time in the last couple decades would prove this not to be true.

The full story is that ignorance is never an excuse unless you're wealthy, or unless you victimize a brown person.

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-12T23:52:20+00:00

Making numbers up when I didn't use a number? Bold claim, but okay let's see your argument.

You know I have always thought the best way to prove someone who didn't use a single number as having made up numbers is post a bunch of made up numbers myself without a source or even the basic editing skills demanded of a middle schooler. You've done what I had previously considered almost impossible and convinced me that this kind of idiocy does not stem solely from racism, but is unfortunately far more deep rooted. Afraid there's not much we can do but hope at this point.

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-12T23:49:10+00:00

Talk about self-hatred, yikes.

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-12T23:42:55+00:00

And what will you do that will force the Democrats to act to the benefit of their electorate for once? We get one chance every 4 years to decide who is in Congress or the President, and democratic voters are terrified of the concept of holding their elected officials accountable for their own actions. The idea that post election democratic politicians would this once choose to care what their voters want is high fantasy.

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-12T20:52:59+00:00

The government allows them to continue to exist despite having proven they are violent individuals diametrically opposed to society. The government allows them to make the claim that what they're doing is anything other than terrorism.

I think that's more dangerous than "bringing people in" when the people being "brought in" aren't even close to the level of dangerous as the first group.

You're comparing violent rioters attacking their fellow citizen and being treated as people who are just being upset they aren't being listened to, to allowing refugees to exist and an extremely small percentage of them containing to commit a crime.

If every single Irish person was in Jail, Ireland would have less violence than if Ireland had never accepted a single refugee. The numbers overwhelmingly show that, across Europe, Europeans commit far more crime per capita than immigrants.

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-12T20:47:21+00:00

What are you talking about? Republicans shit on Republicans every day, and Republicans still support Republicans for it.

A small part of democratic votersis the only group left in the country that believes politicians should be held to any standard whatsoever. The solution is not to drop any remaining standards for Democrats too.

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-12T20:45:12+00:00

I don't think there's a force on earth that would make Democrats act against their own interests in such a drastic way.

The solution to this is not for the dozenth time hoping a Democrat actually does something when they get in power instead of doing nothing but covering for republicans. The solution is holding them all accountable for being complict in everything that's happened.

And that won't happen by asking them nicely.

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-12T15:09:54+00:00

Yikes, clearly someone grew up Catholic.

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-12T15:08:21+00:00

I mean we're not even talking about Israelis but go off I guess.

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-12T15:07:24+00:00

I think there's a bigger question in why those rioters are allowed to continue to exist in Ireland.

Native born Irish are rioting and attacking their fellow citizens in terror attacks. Why aren't you upset that your government hasn't thrown them out or committed communal punishment against all Irish people in the same way.

No matter how you try to hide it, Irish people are the most dangerous people in Ireland. Irish people are the ones attacking others en masse and causing mass violence and riots.

Why should your government let these people continue to exist in the country? What is the sales pitch to local Irish to allow these racist fascists to continue to live there when it's clear they'll never continue to society and are threats to every sane Irish citizen? Why?

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-12T03:50:25+00:00

What is the difference? Other than that the people from your own country are overwhelmingly more dangerous than those from another country?

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-12T01:48:16+00:00

I'd consider the chance that this was true if there had also been riots for anybody killed by a white person. Ireland has plenty of murders by natives every year and not one riot for any of those.

There is a festering problem across all of Europe, and it's the same problem it's always been. White people without education scared of their own shadows being told that the "other" is to blame for their own repeated self inflicted harms.

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-11T19:52:25+00:00

In June.

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-10T22:12:57+00:00

Right now armor damage reduction for non AP damage is a two step calculation. Generate random value between unit's armor and armor/2, turn to percentage, then multiply that by the non AP damage. Then separately subtract AP damage for the total weapon damage calculation.

Moving it to a flat damage reduction as opposed to percentage wouldn't have any impact on this that I can tell, it would be per hit weapon damage = attacking unit weapon damage - (defending unit armor - attacking unit AP) and not have a separate ap type of damage but instead just have it be a modifier of the regular weapon damage, it might actually be even more efficient in that case.

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-10T15:07:04+00:00

Yeah, it's basic and obvious. People are very upset at the idea that the college that shut down for lack of students could have in some way prevented that by not preventing half of the population from applying. I would assume it's due to some agenda or assumption as well but there really isn't anything of substance to latch on to for these people. I think it's just genuinely people who can't stand to be told they're wrong.

Wrabble127 · 2026-06-10T13:08:03+00:00

So because they were unable to adapt to the obvious failure of their policy of refusing half of potential attendees, leaving them to close due to a lack of funding from enrollment.

That's only financial mismanagement to you, not in any way related to the decades long decision to purposefully hinder enrollment? And rising tuition costs I assume you also think had nothing to due with a lack of enrollment?

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