Demosthenes @Demosthenes@qoto.org

@fortune he must not have had social anxiety

@Secftblgirl Hillary's old news and not the president.

@Crusader777 is that the practice of eating several grams of psilocybinic mushrooms every week? Because I've done that for years and haven't got covid yet

@thor yes

@Ricardus Yea but journalism is rigged by the rich too. It's all fake, which erodes trust and opens up the chance for abuse

@mxsiege@octodon.social you gave a quotation that said "you have to risk getting covid as a test of strength and faith"

No republican has said that.
There's plenty of legitimate retardation from the right, there's no need to make stuff up.

@mxsiege@octodon.social hyperbole is unproductive

@stevenkabc when you are infected with a disease causing a pandemic, yet you go back and expose everyone you can, all while binge tweeting from the energy and hyperglycemia that steroids bring, that's gonna draw some flack.

@boob
"Take my hand if you want COVID!"

ftfy

@js0000 what are you doing to prepare? I'm really thinking there will be conflict on or around election day.

@Cyborgneticz not really. Many books aren't worth reading.

What do you think the chances are of widespread conflict on or around the US election?

@Jdogg247 libs owned by Trump spreading a severe disease within the White House? Grow up dude, lol

I don't like infrastructure making political statements

@Phaedrus it's unlikely but possible that I was born a jelly donut. Ask any physicist.

@GVRon BREAKING NEWS: Skin of old man moves when he smiles

@freemo sounds good! Keep in mind a lot of this was already hashed out in the book I mentioned, and I'm not mathematically inclined enough to discuss the effectiveness of new mathematical models. I will be interested in what you find though.

Thanks for following up!

@freemo The US fertility rate barely got above 2 between 1990 and 2005, only getting above the replacement rate of 2.1 in 2006 and 2007. If the rates are below 2.1, then you have a decline in population over time without immigration.

The fertility rates of many other nations have _consistently_ trended well below this rate.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?locations=US-CA-JP-ES-DE

@freemo the graph itself does not itself depict momentum, but every other country that has seen economic growth and a drop in childhood mortality has seen a drop in the fertility rate towards or below 2. In that way, economic growth _is_ predictive of a drop in fertility rate.

Your entire premise is that the population will always increase and use the US as an example, yet the US has a fertility rate of just 1.7, well below the rate needed to keep the population stable. Canada's is 1.5, and even India's is just 2.2 now. And India is definitely not post-industrial.

@freemo It's absolutely trending towards a <2 figure. Look at the given link. The fertility rate has been declining linearly since 1980. At this rate it will take several decades to reach 2, but all indications show that it will get there. The fertility rates of many other countries have been dropping faster than Sudan.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?locations=SD