littlexsparkee

I borrow my Criterions from the library or a local movie rental place run by a film fan. I used to use SwapACD for music but activity there has really died off - regret declining titles offered to me …

soil additives for carbon fixing or enhancing ocean alkalinity are much more promising routes, as well as preserving peatlands

from your first line, i think we are in agreement - they want to preserve stability hence they remain childfree, also to not provide fodder to the machine

The biggest drops in fertility around 2007 were among teenage moms, hence fewer unwanted children / poverty. How is it immaterial regardless of pct or raw numbers? My point is that there's n…

The madcap, kneejerk rush out of fear of redundancy / messianic visions - no good decisions are being made in such an atmosphere, if thinking is occurring at all.

learned helplessness is ceasing to try when something is achievable - if change isn't possible, that's just lack of control

link w/ access token: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-26/ai-anxiet... …

Not having kids likely allowed them that stability in the first place; now that they have it, why would they give it up? Times are precarious.

What about - the sacrifice of job stability and earning power in service of higher stock prices and profits for asset holders?

When you've seen social movements fizzle out and understand that wealth outweighs turnout (the aged have both), how can you motivate people in that sort of environment? It feels rigged at that po…

i see lower voting rates for young people as a nihilistic reaction to gerontocracy. i.e. if they are blocked from upward mobility, they see power protects assets and have no clear path to this, isn&#x…

Since social mobility has flatlined, this has more to do with about the decline in birthrates.

Average life expectancy is driven by early age mortality though, guessing that if you get past that gauntlet, aging happens at roughly the same rate as now (less advanced medicine but perhaps better n…

They tend to because typically people in the same stage of life tend to have similar interests to defend but like you say, it could theoretically come from politicians of any age. Younger cohorts are …

Older people as a bloc vote at reliably high rate compared to middle aged or young cohort and are vocal about their interests - politicians see this and react/plan accordingly. That's why SS…

how about: the funding cuts imminent to SS affecting younger participants; howard jarvis, prop 13, and the '70s tax decrease in CA; homeowner resistance to upzoning and building housing; muted ac…

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That's true but this is one of many SF scandals (Nuru & Dept of Public Works, Recology rate-fixing, Dream Keeper Initiative & Sheryl Davis, Hunters Point Tetra Tech botched cleanup, DBI &…

https://archive.ph/ELYTF