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Tokyo's Government Is Building Its Own Dating App to Combat Falling Birthrates

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Re: Tokyo's Government Is Building Its Own Dating App to Combat Falling Birthrates

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Post by corinn3 »

sigmoid10 wrote: post #70
timr wrote: post #17

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> previous generations are leaving them a burning hellscape full of toxic forever chemicals and microplastics that the kids will need to clean up Please , folks, take a step back and realize that most of what you've read about this stuff in the pop media is based on extremely speculative data, usually from weak, observational studies, or small laboratory experiments in non-human animals. The threat to your life, indi…

On microplastics I agree, but on climate change the issue is almost reversed. We have tons of high profile research coming out all the time that even our worst case models were too optimistic and we are bound for a shitshow of unimaginable proportions. This shouldn't come as a surprise for people who know how the IPCC reports are created (sort of a least common denominator between science, politics and lobbyists). So…

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Post by silverquiet »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #80
silverquiet wrote: post #79

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Why are emissions expected to peak in 2024? Are people going to fly or drive less miles? Are we going to live in smaller, more energy efficient houses? Are we going to consume less compute resources? I’m sure we will deploy more renewables; we have certainly seen impressive performance there, but it has supplemented rather than replaced carbon-based sources so far. I believe there are also a lot of new starts for nat…

Biggest impact is wind power replacing carbon sources. A close second is solar power. EV's are a distant but non negligible third. https://climateanalytics.org/comment/will-2024-be-the-year-e...

It is certainly worth hoping for, but I will not believe it until I see it. Until now, we have remained on a dire course.

Re: Tokyo's Government Is Building Its Own Dating App to Combat Falling Birthrates

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Post by karmakurtisaani »

bamboozled wrote: post #76

Has the government ever just done some research and maybe...asked people why they're not having kids and then address the issues? There is something about the way Japan governs that has issues, I think it's because the society is very hierarchical and those at the top never to consider those beneath them might actually have something to say.

I find it somewhat funny how there's sometimes these news about Japan trying to tackle the birth rate problem in various ways, yet remaining extremely conservative in the work culture. What good is the dating app if you have to stay at the office until 11pm every night because that's what your boss does?

Re: Tokyo's Government Is Building Its Own Dating App to Combat Falling Birthrates

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Post by ryanwaggoner »

Funes- wrote: post #72
timr wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> previous generations are leaving them a burning hellscape full of toxic forever chemicals and microplastics that the kids will need to clean up Please , folks, take a step back and realize that most of what you've read about this stuff in the pop media is based on extremely speculative data, usually from weak, observational studies, or small laboratory experiments in non-human animals. The threat to your life, indi…

>You are far more likely to die of eating too much and getting too fat than whatever microplastics are supposedly doing to you. Funny how you can imply that we are still in the dark about how microplastics and other toxins or chemicals (in our food or water supply, for instance) actually affect our health, and, at the same time, assert with such confidence that something else is more likely to kill you. You don't kno…

There is simply zero evidence that microplastics are killing people at higher rates than obesity. If they were, it would be very obvious in the data.

Re: Tokyo's Government Is Building Its Own Dating App to Combat Falling Birthrates

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Post by ryanwaggoner »

beretguy wrote: post #15

Give people 6 hour workday with mandatory no-overtime and the problem will fix itself. It’s not rocket science.

Initiatives like this haven’t seemed to work in Sweden, among other countries. I don’t know if any countries have successfully reversed a plummeting birth rate, but it doesn’t seem to be for lack of trying.

Maybe the reality is that, given the choice, most women don’t want to have more than one or two kids under any circumstances?

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Post by ffsm8 »

silverquiet wrote: post #82
bryanlarsen wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Biggest impact is wind power replacing carbon sources. A close second is solar power. EV's are a distant but non negligible third. https://climateanalytics.org/comment/will-2024-be-the-year-e...

It is certainly worth hoping for, but I will not believe it until I see it. Until now, we have remained on a dire course.

First time I hear that claim as well. The only "peak" I'm aware of is coal burning for electricity.

that is expected to go down going forward, but that's not peak CO2, as coal engines are just one source of CO2 and not even the biggest contributer.

Misinformation is big with everything related to climate change as usual, so I kinda doubt we're anything close to peak CO2, but I'll keep checking the global CO2 averages. Maybe it'll go down from 450 again. It'd be great if itc went back to 290 (thats what it was before the industrial revolution, supposedly)... But I'm not expecting to see any reduction within my lifetime

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Post by fragmede »

ffsm8 wrote: post #86
silverquiet wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is certainly worth hoping for, but I will not believe it until I see it. Until now, we have remained on a dire course.

First time I hear that claim as well. The only "peak" I'm aware of is coal burning for electricity. that is expected to go down going forward, but that's not peak CO2, as coal engines are just one source of CO2 and not even the biggest contributer. Misinformation is big with everything related to climate change as usual, so I kinda doubt we're anything close to peak CO2, but I'll keep checking the global CO2 averages…

With China having brought 47.4 gigawatts (GW) of new coal power online in 2023, why is is expected to go down going forwards?

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Post by LeanderK »

CalRobert wrote: post #69
LeanderK wrote: post #11

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> “go outside and play, come back for dinner” why is this impractical? EDIT: I'm getting downvoted but I am seriously not sure. I don't have kids right now but its part of how I intend to raise them when I get them.

Drivers will kill them, mostly. Also meddling curtain twitchers reporting you to police and the lack of other kids near by.

but the threat of drivers mostly depends on the neighbourhood. The more walkable it is the less of a threat drivers are, right?

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Post by robertlagrant »

TOMDM wrote: post #9
FLT8 wrote: post #4

Why would anyone want to have kids today? Most couples in the western world can barely support themselves while getting into home ownership, let alone trying to support multiple kids and put them through college while saving for retirement. The amount of capacity left in life for good child rearing is minimal. Add to that the fact that it's looking increasingly unlikely that there'll be jobs for their children anyway…

People are wealthier and healthier today than almost any other point in history. Better times than now are a blip in the grand scheme of things. We have a huge number of social ills that contribute towards peoples reasons for not wanting children, but wealth and physical health are not among them.

Not wealthier in every sense. House prices, and houses being really fundamental to our lives, going up due to modern factors are a real issue.

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Post by LeanderK »

Vvector wrote: post #55
LeanderK wrote: post #11

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> “go outside and play, come back for dinner” why is this impractical? EDIT: I'm getting downvoted but I am seriously not sure. I don't have kids right now but its part of how I intend to raise them when I get them.

If someone lets their kids outside while not under direct supervision, there is a real risk of the government taking their kids away from them. Just one example from the news https://reason.com/2022/12/08/emily-fields-pearsiburg-virgin...

I am not in the US. The original post is not even about the US?

Shocking. Is this really true? I grew up with my bicycle, which gave me the freedom to spend the summer holidays how I wanted. Visit friends, and when I got a little bit older cycle with them to a lake, a public swimming pool, get ice cream, play football etc. until the sun came down and I had to come home. Of course, I wasn't allowed to do things alone only with a group of known friends, they knew who I am spending time with and which friend I am visiting. And never to strange places only the familiar ones nearby.

My gf grew up in the city and grew up in her local neighbourhood and her local friends. The parks, playground and also the nearby ice-cream if its hot and sunny :)

Do they sit in their home playing video games all day or what?

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