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India's surprise baby bust

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Re: India's surprise baby bust

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Post by btilly »

wolfi1 wrote: post #21
mywittyname wrote: post #16

> One study showed how the arrival of cable television in Indian villages in the 2000s led to a moderate fall in fertility. Soap operas depicting urban, middle-class women with small families may have changed norms (though some wonder whether people were just watching TV rather than having sex). The latter part seems like the most meaningful cause world wide. Sex is a boredom activity and we just aren't bored in the…

when there is a power outage it is most likely that the cell towers are down, too

Most power outages are local, not regional. And cellphone towers will work at a surprising distance.

Therefore my experience has been that cellphones tend to remain up, even though the power is down.

Re: India's surprise baby bust

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Post by calepayson »

i_idiot wrote: post #8

What's the strong case against population dwindling other than supporting aging population? Given the AI armageddon, it just makes sense to reduce the population. If there's less population, we need less production and less workers. Of course, countries have to deal with oldest population for a brief period of time.

Shot in the dark but my sense is that a lot of our economics presumes growth and, if we don’t get it, a lot of terrible stuff happens. I feel pretty confident that ai will eventually be a large driver of growth but I do worry about whether it'll come soon enough.

Re: India's surprise baby bust

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ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #12

> But demographers have long shown that what really counts is girls’ education. That makes sense. I know that having less people is not a good thing, but I was brought up with the "impending population crisis" thing drilled into my head, so it's difficult for me to be alarmed. I'm also all for getting women into parity with men. I know that there are a lot of men that will say that this is a bad thing, but I was rais…

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Re: India's surprise baby bust

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Post by chipsrafferty »

miroljub wrote: post #20
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #12

> But demographers have long shown that what really counts is girls’ education. That makes sense. I know that having less people is not a good thing, but I was brought up with the "impending population crisis" thing drilled into my head, so it's difficult for me to be alarmed. I'm also all for getting women into parity with men. I know that there are a lot of men that will say that this is a bad thing, but I was rais…

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It's racist to say that people who don't believe women should have equal rights and opportunities and are equally capable as men - are neanderthals?

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Post by kuhsaft »

wolfi1 wrote: post #21
mywittyname wrote: post #16

> One study showed how the arrival of cable television in Indian villages in the 2000s led to a moderate fall in fertility. Soap operas depicting urban, middle-class women with small families may have changed norms (though some wonder whether people were just watching TV rather than having sex). The latter part seems like the most meaningful cause world wide. Sex is a boredom activity and we just aren't bored in the…

when there is a power outage it is most likely that the cell towers are down, too

Cell phone towers and communication systems have backup power for emergency communication during power outages.

If you have backup power for your router and ONT/Modem, you should also still have internet service during a power outage. The ISP-owned ONT for a place I lived had a little lead-acid battery attached to it, and during power outages I still had internet service.

Re: India's surprise baby bust

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Post by saulpw »

Ajedi32 wrote: post #17
i_idiot wrote: post #8

What's the strong case against population dwindling other than supporting aging population? Given the AI armageddon, it just makes sense to reduce the population. If there's less population, we need less production and less workers. Of course, countries have to deal with oldest population for a brief period of time.

Well, in the extreme case, human extinction seems like a pretty bad thing.

Humans are the second most populous animal on the planet. We are in no danger of extinction.

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

chipsrafferty wrote: post #44
miroljub wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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It's racist to say that people who don't believe women should have equal rights and opportunities and are equally capable as men - are neanderthals?

You're right. It insults neanderthals, who we are learning were surprisingly advanced.
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