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TikTokers are also telling men to leave women alone and women don't need men.
I spend a lot of time thinking about this question, i.e. “where and how do you meet people IRL,” and it’s equal parts interesting and deeply maddening to me that nobody I can find seems to have an actual good answer to it. Even the featured article, while it does acknowledge the issue and the common somewhat-answers to it you’ll often see repeated like the pickleball thing, it doesn’t have a clear conclusion as to wh…
In Berlin I tell people to join clubs and other communities centred around hobbies. Regular exposure to the same people encourages deeper interaction in a more relaxed context. In general I recommend people to work with the garage door open, and to actively interact with people on local online communities. I forgot who wrote that a blog post is a search query for like-minded people. I met a ton of people through my p…
Another thing is to not to "wait for Godot" by passively waiting for others' initiative and instead be the source of initiative by default.
Finally, PSA: don't buy into any of the immature objectification, stereotyping, or egotistical nonsense... be real and treat others as human beings, not a means to an end.
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>“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” ― Aldous Huxley Interestingly, though he didn't intend it (he thought he was writing dystopian fiction), Aldous Huxley actually predicted humanity's best possible future with "Brave New World". Without traditional (basically pre-technological) societies where women are essentially slaves, people earnestly believe in ridicu…
That was lost on me, because the second quote felt like a prediction of the impact of technology on our social lives.
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Fewer people means less insurance in case of natural disaster, less innovation, less of everything really. Of course, that has to be balanced with resource consumption, environmental effects, etc. Also, a declining population doesn't just mean "go back to a more sustainable level". It's not like people are suddenly going to start having babies again when the population gets to, say, 1B, and things will carry on susta…
If we can survive population decline at all (fwiw I think is still an open question on a planetary scale), we shouldn't worry about rebounding for a long time yet. So many problems we face that would be easier to solve at 1B people than 10B would also be even easier with 100M. The "market" will clear and human population long term will settle into something that can be sustained with available resources and biosphere…
How do you think wars are going to be avoided when there's a demographic collapse? With so many old people and so few young people to support them, something's going to break. People don't normally just put up with failed economies; wars are a frequent result. Famine is also a strong possibility: the elderly people probably aren't going to be doing all the farming, but they still need to eat.
People who talk about population reduction as a good thing always seem to assume that the demographics will be similar to today, with plenty of young people to balance the old people, and that's absolutely not what's in store.
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If we can survive population decline at all (fwiw I think is still an open question on a planetary scale), we shouldn't worry about rebounding for a long time yet. So many problems we face that would be easier to solve at 1B people than 10B would also be even easier with 100M. The "market" will clear and human population long term will settle into something that can be sustained with available resources and biosphere…
>Getting there via "attrition" is preferable to getting there via apocalyptic wars, famines, genocides, and diseases. How do you think wars are going to be avoided when there's a demographic collapse? With so many old people and so few young people to support them, something's going to break. People don't normally just put up with failed economies; wars are a frequent result. Famine is also a strong possibility: the…