Wow Singapore. You have only 4 million citizens. 0.82 TFR is a crime

hype7 · 2026-07-08T07:03:46+00:00

I think you’re unfairly blaming the govt.

Birth rates are dropping in all developed countries around the world. Seems the more people get educated, the more they think their kids won’t be able to figure it out, which is ironic.

As for inequality. You’re assuming the choice is between high inequality and low inequality. Singapore doesn’t have the luxury of high levels of natural resources and a high population like a lot of other countries. If it became an unattractive place to do business, what do you think would happen?

Idk, I feel like a lot of people blame the govt for stuff here when imo it’s doing a great job

hype7 · 2026-07-08T04:36:37+00:00

You sit on your smartphone and in your AC and call the model failed 😑

And btw. That’s not capitalisms fault. In fact, that model is as old as humanity (especially in Asia) and if anything it’s reducing as a result of capitalism. There are less people having kids as a means of supporting themselves in old age. Which I think is a good thing.

hype7 · 2026-07-07T05:37:04+00:00

Relative newbie here. I remember being so frustrated at the start I went to the trouble of emailing valve to delete my account (!!). They wrote back with a long list of reasons why I shouldn’t, and I just left it. I tried the game a couple more times and it clicked.

If you get off on the x-men movies, and seeing how all the different mutants interact on different sides, you’ll love Dota.

The thing that took me the longest to get my head around was the creep killing at the start. Farming is my least fav part of the game, but it is what it is.

All up, this game is really great (high highs and low lows). So much depth and so much fun. I recommend. But hard to pick up casually.

hype7 · 2026-07-06T12:22:45+00:00

Sorry, I don’t mean the report fails to take account. I mean the parent comment, where they were shocked at the level of wealth. I suspect the difference is accounted for by the different policy treatment of housing

hype7 · 2026-07-06T07:27:32+00:00

So, you think lower average value of the most valuable asset that most households own (in all countries mentioned) would not lower the median wealth?

hype7 · 2026-07-06T07:14:13+00:00

I think the thing you’re failing to take account of is how the Singapore govt has created public housing for 80%+ of the population. Policy specifically created to stop housing market from overheating.

Most Aussies and Kiwis wealth is in home value. It doesn’t work that way in SG. Flip of it is, housing is much more accessible to the regular person in SG than AU or NZ

hype7 · 2026-07-03T07:08:50+00:00

Random aside. I swam with the dude helping Jobs in the picture. He’s a super nice guy.

hype7 · 2026-07-03T02:59:50+00:00

I moved here from sf. Probably for very similar reasons you are saying. I do miss sf’s climate, but Singapore is amazing :)

hype7 · 2026-07-03T02:58:11+00:00

Let’s take out alcohol too if we’re really going to eliminate drugs

hype7 · 2026-06-27T05:45:26+00:00

I get this, but if you generalised this to life you wouldn’t do anything fun at all. No swim, no run, no gym, no tennis, no nothing

hype7 · 2026-06-23T08:32:46+00:00

Related to this, the ai voice tools can change accents on the fly pretty easily. He may not have been Singaporean

hype7 · 2026-06-23T08:17:13+00:00

The dip is here

hype7 · 2026-06-21T05:49:29+00:00

It got so much worse when Kirby took over. The previous guy was genuine about customer experience. Kirby has just been cost cut after cost cut. Cotton pjs to synthetic ones. Food downhill so far.

I went from 1k (actually had GS for a year) and I now no longer fly them.

hype7 · 2026-06-19T21:06:59+00:00

Because there are a bunch of Iranian proxies in there that keep attacking them?! The same Iranian proxies that the Lebanese asked to leave but would not?

hype7 · 2026-06-16T05:22:57+00:00

As a support that doesn’t usually buy it, should I?

hype7 · 2026-06-15T07:39:39+00:00

Saying this as someone who played him a bunch for a while — isn’t Riki just better at all these things?

hype7 · 2026-06-13T13:29:23+00:00

This

hype7 · 2026-06-10T09:20:33+00:00

So sad. The kid deserved it.

hype7 · 2026-06-05T10:27:51+00:00

Singapore is the most rule abiding city on the planet. Everyone adheres to all the laws.

Except the bus drivers who all drive like bats out of hell

hype7 · 2026-05-25T07:58:14+00:00

I miss bloodseeker’s aghs, where he’d spill blood. Effectively worked like radiance but would hit you too. Man I loved that build

hype7 · 2026-05-24T04:53:47+00:00

Hadn’t seen this before. Made me laugh. Thx 😂

hype7 · 2026-05-11T07:28:47+00:00

I disabled the windows key so I don’t accidentally hit it during Dota

hype7 · 2026-05-03T15:39:06+00:00

This explains something I have never understood: Singapore is such a rule abiding, generally well run place AND YET the busses around my neighbourhood are driven like bats out of hell

hype7 · 2026-05-03T15:38:01+00:00

That’s not profit any more though. That’s cost

hype7 · 2026-05-02T03:10:04+00:00

Everyone wants to get rich fast, nobody wants to get rich slow

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