Sheepsquatch is the new jackalope
Chetzemoka
joined 1 year ago
I grew up with a trans girl who is now 38 years old.
Trans people existed before the internet. Their existence is not a fad.
Yeah, this would be a long, scary night of being pretty sure you were going to die. Glad she endured
Show me your data on that one
This is already a tracked statistic. It's called the fertility rate. Yes, it's tracked per uterus, and it's actually been falling precipitously for decades:
Already happening.
The only thing you need to do to accomplish this faster is educate girls (making women valuable for things other than childbearing), provide access to birth control and family planning education, and reduce child mortality (reducing the inclination to have "spare children" to replace all the ones you know will die).
Bangladesh provides a good example of these factors at play:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.GROW?locations=BD
"World’s population is projected to nearly stop growing by the end of the century"
And the collective human fertility rate (births per woman) has been falling for decades:
Not autistic, but as a person with a chronic medical condition, damn this hits hard.
Hedgehog! Brave bird haha
Cute isn't everything! I don't find the GHOs that populate my neighborhood particularly cute, but I still love them and get giddy when I hear them. I feel like VEO has some real "ancient witch/wizard" vibes working in its favor, unlike GHO which just reminds me of those old "Woodsy Owl" PSAs 😂
The onshore tax havens Delaware, Wyoming, and Nevada are vastly worse in scope than any offshore country. They push the narrative about those "terrible foreign countries" to distract us from this fact.
The problem is US tax code, not offshore financial centers.
Thanks! We're all happy. But it's not over for us just yet. The corporation that owns our hospital (Tenet Healthcare) is notorious for shenanigans, and we're anticipating they'll try to drag this out to see if they can induce us to revote in a year because we're dissatisfied with the union. (I think our vote margin finally got them to give up on just trying to make us all so miserable that we quit.) But we'll keep fighting. We live here; this is OUR hospital.
I wish you all the best in your campaign. I think the only advice from my experience that I would offer is be willing to extend grace. Patience with the ignorance and stubbornness of some of our coworkers bought us a lot of new yes votes by the end of our campaign. Especially when they were actively receiving the opposite from our administration.
Wow, this is great to know! I had no idea.