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Oh yeah, who wouldn't prefer to look at their phone instead of banging?

People have had the baby conversation. The stumbling block is money, not Reels or Tiktok. A 50% drop in fertility if true, is low compared to the percentage increase in the cost of childcare, nutrition and education. Especially in a country like Argentina where the locals do not see a future for themselves there even as the billionaires like Gates and Thiel buy up farmland and luxury real estate like no tomorrow - pun intended.


She's in prison because she defrauded enterprise customers. If she went B2C, she'd probably be head of the FTC by now.

World's best AI models doesn't offset public resentment caused by putting data centers in residential areas, openly buying off the White House and Congress with PAC "donations" and constantly threatening to eliminate everyone's job.

As if the endless deluge of AI, Meta Glasses and Flock camera articles are full of friendly banter.

If you have showdead=true, you will see way, way more flagged comments under anything that is political, or even has a Israel connection in it.

Well before 9/11, US troops were intervening in Somalia, Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Iraq, Haiti, Panama, Libya, Lebanon and Grenada.


Some of those were (limited) unilateral strikes but a lot of those were multinational endeavors done with the blessing of the international community.

2029? By then the pendulum would swing back to it being considered "deep state intervention" and a "waste of taxpayer funds" especially since "the national debt is higher than ever".


If anybody really cared about the national debt they would stop passing giant tax cuts.


GOP Voters don’t care when the ones they vote for are in power. Meanwhile the Dems reduce the debt and are pilloried for it


If a site has PayPal as a payment method, I'm using PayPal. It's a million times more convenient than punching my CC into yet another site.

I don't use mobile wallets. I've had a PP account since the time it was required to buy anything on Ebay.

The best feature it has is being able to cancel newspaper subscriptions without the hassle of calling and talking to a retention agent.


They've all had multi-billion bond issues in 2026 so I wouldn't exactly call it "their" money.


35 years ago, the enormously popular animated series Captain Planet taught kids about protecting the ozone layer, using biodegradable materials and renewable energy.

Absolutely none of that mattered in the long run because capital markets think environmental destruction is a small price to pay as long as some people get rich.

What kids learn about personal cooling tech and what not won't matter when the supply of the raw materials required to make them is reserved for some VC-funded trillion-dollar 'startup' trying to synthesize an undetectable chemical weapon to get past the bureaucratic red tape of international treaties.


> Where people are arbitrarily jailed if they voice an opinion against the government?

I take it this ambitious Canadian grad hasn't had the temerity to protect his privacy before entering the land of the free[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386895


I hope after this case that it becomes common sense to not destroy evidence after it’s been asked for.


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