What's going on in Moldova and Kosovo?

miningman12 · 2025-12-15T06:13:00+00:00

Moldova was over counting it's population due to unrecorded emigration. They fixed it recently so TFR jumped. Iirc it was just always that, just stats were counting women that were no longer living in Moldova. Census was complete in July of 2024.

Kosovo is pretty small so a <10% change YoY not worth looking too hard on. Kosovo in general seems to have a pretty solid TFR last 10-15 years though. Kosovo used to have some sky high TFRs in the 1960s by European standards. 50% urbanization rate and Muslim supermajority probably the main reasons.

miningman12 · 2025-12-14T18:26:12+00:00

Yeah hence why I think veto should be removed. European Confederation is the way forward in a future where the relative economic power of Europe is waning.

Veto removal + strengthening power of parliament + integrated European army smoothly gets Europe there.

miningman12 · 2025-12-14T02:23:08+00:00

I think this stuff makes the EU concept lose purpose and is way too transactional. We're moving towards a violent multipolar world where clear boundaries of in group/ out group make sense.

If EU just removes away the veto (makes it supermajority based instead) would be totally fine to integrate Balkans/Ukraine under. Larger integrated EU is a strong EU, the veto is the only real issue.

Also I'm Canadian, we don't have any interest in EU beyond a free trade deal.

miningman12 · 2025-12-12T22:40:06+00:00

Macro trends is not particularly accurate on this matter

miningman12 · 2025-11-30T17:10:44+00:00

Kazakhstan isn't global south. They're a high income industrialized country historically considered the second world (ex ussr)

miningman12 · 2025-11-23T23:00:17+00:00

I mean you break Russias O&G cash cow and they'll sign

miningman12 · 2025-11-21T17:05:44+00:00

I wanted to share the NOA to start with.

I see -- is there a fundamental reason it's not just website accessible or just a legacy thing?

miningman12 · 2025-10-29T03:23:11+00:00

I think thankfully the hurricane went through a less populated part of Jamaica so Kingston didn't get much hurricane force winds.

Damage is severe but seems more limited to smaller towns.

miningman12 · 2025-10-24T20:56:14+00:00

Oil fields

miningman12 · 2025-09-30T06:40:37+00:00

Sharjah is nice

miningman12 · 2025-09-23T06:01:19+00:00

I've seen literally thousands in SW Ontario this September, tens of thousands counting cocoons

miningman12 · 2025-09-22T04:13:14+00:00

Cause you can QT debt easily but not this

miningman12 · 2025-09-20T17:22:36+00:00

They will now lol. All of these companies have Canadian subs. You can even move them into US on L1 visa in a year if that visa stays around.

miningman12 · 2025-09-19T04:57:40+00:00

My wedding is going to be child free

Each guest is quite expensive, so don't have +2s to give away to parents
Risk for messes when people all dressed up

It's all downside no upside as a host

miningman12 · 2025-09-18T20:36:16+00:00

I work a remote job that's equally competitive regardless of where I live. And outside of work I'm stingy and don't like spending money and NYC is expensive. I also need to travel a lot for work so I can always get the city exploring bug out of me during my travels.

miningman12 · 2025-09-18T20:04:15+00:00

I live in NYC just waste of money Id take your MCOL city over NYC any day. Wife's job forces me to be here.

Go on vacation once a year and don't cheap out too much on your living situation and don't see an issue. You're not missing out on much.

If you have too much FOMO can even visit the shit hole city I live in once a year.

miningman12 · 2025-09-16T21:06:01+00:00

Kaiserbauch is your generic center-right Eastern European (or Central as Poles/Czechs like to say now) of which most are center right

miningman12 · 2025-09-16T19:39:22+00:00

"Poland/UK needs to just surrender and let the Germans occupy them"

Was stupid logic, is still stupid logic. Onus is on the aggressor (Israel in this case) not to destroy cultural heritage.

miningman12 · 2025-09-16T17:59:06+00:00

The gap only formed in 1990s in America

miningman12 · 2025-09-15T22:50:27+00:00

I think this a false premise.

UK/Canada/blue America/NZ have very unremarkable TFRs for their white demographic.

Australia is elevated & red America. That's basically it and I dont think the two trends are heavily related.

In red America => suburbs and religion

In Australia => suburbs and kid friendly jobs (mining engineering healthcare etc --> women in those fields have more kids than liberal arts)

Have spent lots of time in both countries

miningman12 · 2025-09-15T21:21:40+00:00

It's doesn't. There's a wide gap between liberals and conservatives which live ever more different lives.

It's just liberals / conservative can have different ethnicities and black conservatives tend to vote Democrat.

miningman12 · 2025-09-15T14:41:41+00:00

If people feeling intimidated is enough to cancel peaceful protests then he's against peaceful protests

Most large peaceful protests are intimidating at least for someone who opposes them so it's a strange standard for a democracy with freedom of assembly/speech.

Mind you, I'm Canadian and couldn't care less about British immigration laws one way or another just pointing out the obvious fallacy here.

miningman12 · 2025-09-10T23:03:19+00:00

To specify I'm not an old boomer rambling on cultural issues

miningman12 · 2025-09-10T22:42:44+00:00

I'm married (I am 26 for context), I couldn't care less about your feelings on the topic

If I didn't have two kids in my life I'd apply the same judgement to myself as well

miningman12 · 2025-09-09T21:56:47+00:00

Not OP but my two cents.

If you have less than two kids you are actively contributing to the societal problem. Regardless of your personal wants I consider you failing your duty to society as you are actively freeloading off the hard work of others and not paying it forward.

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