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The reason I'm thinking of it is I recently read this lemmy thread. The article itself is probably AI and not that convincing but I think people are making some good points about the pressures imposed by expense of housing and how those affect the desirability and difficulty of having children.

Of course a prerequisite for that to matter is that not having children is more of a real choice than it is for people with no resources in a state of poverty. But it isn't necessarily the case that the difficulty of raising children decreases with country-wide affluence, because wealth inequality is a thing, required resources (like housing space) might become more expensive relative to income despite overall increase in income, and other factors like an increasingly atomized career focused society where community can't be relied on as much to help raise children and the expectations placed on parents are higher, maybe requiring high daycare expenses.

So bringing capable workers in means they pay into taxes that support the aging and school-age population, and never had to have their school-age years paid for. They’re a productive member with half the cost over their lifetime.

I agree in principle with the logic here, but if those capable workers are being placed in competition with a population that is financially struggling, and those taxes are not being used to give those people more breathing room, that productivity isn't helping and is being employed on the wrong side of a class struggle.

I don't think immigration is bad, but if the "problem" of fertility below replacement is caused by the other problem of people who might otherwise want kids not being able to have them because of economic constraints, focusing on solving the first problem by importing competitive and ambitious skilled professionals seems at least kind of questionable.

I remember spending a very long time trying to download a demo of that game over dialup, was absolutely worth it

I guess the only reason the headline doesn't specify is that it is a Florida local news site

They have pepper spray, ramming capabilities, and speakers. Supposedly the idea is to distract the shooter to buy time and give away their position.

If that's what's available I will argue it's still a better option, because it's isolated. You can make transactions with QR codes and do nothing with the device except run the wallet app, which removes most options for an attacker, including some that could work on a hardware wallet (ie. more complex transactions where it doesn't display enough info about what is happening to know not to approve it).

At this point people should not keep substantial amounts of crypto on their main PC anymore. Either get a hardware wallet or an old smartphone or other device to dedicate to that purpose and not install anything else on it.

I played the first one but after that the formula felt pretty samey and I was bored of it. Would a fourth Borderlands game even be good if it wasn't laggy?

The main point is, Discord is a totally centralized service under US control, you can't know whether the outcome of Discord polls is at all real. That doesn't mean it's necessarily fake, but as a choice of tool it seems really stupid to me. There's precedent, incentive, and means for significant interference and deception here, whether not it did in fact happen. If this type of use of services like Discord continues going forward, it will be safe to assume that it is happening, because of course it will.

This type of shit is what cryptography is good for, it should be used when it matters. I think adversarial use of cryptography is really cool, and it honestly pisses me off a little bit that the article keeps namedropping cryptocurrency, as if unconditionally trusting Discord is what it's all about, when it should really be the opposite.

Better to be a discord employee who wanted all along to help the CIA appoint rulers of other nations

I'm not assuming that, I just don't see why would it even matter if it's from another instance.

Is it a mistake? Wouldn't federated content still count the same way legally, since an instance is also a website?