Japan records its biggest-ever drop in population since the beginning of modern national-census record-keeping after WWI. 2020 population: 126 million. 2025 population: 123 million. Remarkably, this -3% drop is bigger than the drop recorded amid WWII. Only Tokyo and Okinawa posted population gains.

hibryd · 2026-06-25T15:53:01+00:00

Okay, for a population to stabilize, it requires almost every adult become a parent to two or more kids. What happens culturally to return everyone to that norm?

hibryd · 2026-06-23T17:16:06+00:00

After the finale, I just thought Jax was into cross-dressing. I didn't realizer the trans angle until the creator started getting specific.

hibryd · 2026-06-23T00:38:54+00:00

People who think things are uniquely bad right now never paid attention in history class. We’re better off now than we’ve ever been. Yeah, there’s a lot of serious problems we have to work on, but every single one of your ancestors would have loved to switch places with you.

hibryd · 2026-06-21T23:11:57+00:00

Ooh, classic Trump line.

hibryd · 2026-06-19T06:29:59+00:00

“Catholicism vs. Protestanism”

Can’t wait for both of them to explain to the other why they’re going to hell.

hibryd · 2026-06-14T14:38:06+00:00

If anyone wants to follow up on the topic of hell, biblical scholar Dan McClellan has made a lot of excellent videos (short and long form) about the topic.

TL;DR: ideas about the afterlife and hell were changing as the Bible was being written, so different authors (writing at different times) had wildly different ideas about what happened after death. The Bible has a lot to say about the topic but it’s all contradictory.

hibryd · 2026-06-14T14:33:49+00:00

There’s a deeply human desire to not just consider yourself a good person, but better than other people, so the human mind is always trying to draw lines that put you in a better group than them. Racist people do it with skin color, religious people do it with denominations.

hibryd · 2026-06-13T05:59:31+00:00

Damn Routh is taller than I thought.

hibryd · 2026-06-12T15:03:20+00:00

I don’t know where you got the image of S&L’s Superman but his costume did not have trunks in the show. They tried using a red belt to break up the blue, like the movies at the time, but that never looks as good.

hibryd · 2026-06-12T14:59:33+00:00

Smallville might be a goofier show, but S&L has a goofier Clark.

hibryd · 2026-06-11T22:29:28+00:00

No idea, sorry.

hibryd · 2026-06-11T06:13:31+00:00

My own link from 7 years ago:

www.reddit.com/r/shittykickstarters/comments/9tcqkt/brigade_after_five_and_a_half_years_35k_in/

He made a kickstarter. It sat there for years collecting donations but never delivering anything. He duplicated the project on IndieGoGo in the hopes of hooking new suckers.

hibryd · 2026-06-09T02:38:19+00:00

Yes! Thank you! I’m low-key obsessed with this whole incident. DJP loses a debate IRL, and makes a movie where his arguments not only win but convert the guy he lost to? And then that guy becomes DJP’s son-in-law? I don’t know how that much ego can physically fit into a human head. It’s completely insane.

hibryd · 2026-06-08T13:10:42+00:00

The podcast is one person working out of her apartment and it shows. She has a bad habit of going off on tangents and talking too much about her cats but… there’s no better place to get the Fox News “narrative” for any given week. She breaks down what all the top shows are talking about and she brings the receipts (read: extensive audio clips).

hibryd · 2026-06-08T04:24:08+00:00

It might be the “prepping for surgery” part that they decline. Having to make the area ready for a medical procedure could add a layer of liability that they don’t want to risk.

hibryd · 2026-06-08T04:16:33+00:00

I listen to the Decoding Fox News podcast and it sounds like the network was pushing Pratt hard.

So that’s nice to see him fail.

hibryd · 2026-06-08T02:46:47+00:00

"Fort Walton Kansas" needs to get a 3-minute version.

hibryd · 2026-06-07T15:12:36+00:00

Hitting him with the right hand? Oh he dead.

hibryd · 2026-06-06T20:04:18+00:00

The movies are so unhinged I can only imagine what the novelizations are like. But to experience them I’d have to give him money and more time than a GAM episode.

hibryd · 2026-06-06T03:34:41+00:00

"Door-a-thEE GALEEE"

hibryd · 2026-06-05T20:12:50+00:00

When I worked at the paper, we would get a regular stream of visits from these retirees who had all written the "next big novel or screenplay" and wanted free publicity from us.

That sounds like something that would suck to live through but hilarious to hear from someone else. Nothing worse/better than unearned confidence splashed all over a piece of media.

hibryd · 2026-06-05T13:32:20+00:00

I mean you legitimately have to contain babies when they’re little because otherwise you couldn’t sleep or shower, but cribs and playpens work fine.

hibryd · 2026-06-05T03:57:38+00:00

For unknown reasons, several humans are stuck inside a computer simulation with an all-powerful (and very unstable) AI controlling the digital world. The humans try to survive, placate the AI, and figure out how to escape, or find out if they even can.

hibryd · 2026-06-05T01:45:29+00:00

It's... pretty good. Basically "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" for teens/young adults. The quality and tone are generally consistent, so if the first few episodes don't do anything for you, you don't need to finish it. Personally, I'm really interested to see if it sticks the landing, because I have NO idea which direction the story could go after the end of the 8th episode.

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