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I remember being annoyed when reading The Jungle because it correctly called out problems with industry, politics, and I think unions, but posited socialism as the way forward.

Now I see that I was just under the spell of capitalistic dogma, and it was completely correct in every way. 😄

I don't know... it can last as long as the "great leader". Spain's fascism lasted almost 40 years.

Born to be fucked? 🤔

Farmers tend to be right wing, and often exist as Republican counties in Democratic states. So probably also these farmers.

The global fertility rate (the number of child born per woman) has been declining since 1963 or so, and is almost at replacement level, which is usually considered 2.1 or so.

Population is still going up since global life expectancy is still rising, but the expectation is that population will peak in 50 years or so.

The weird thing is that the book presented the idea of only veterans being allowed to vote as a good thing, unironically. The Wikipedia entry is interesting:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers#Reception

That's Starship Troopers. 😄

I thought that it was the Spanish in Cuba who invented the concentration camp. Although both the UK and the US immediately thought, "great idea, let's do that!"

Don't you have ~~mountains~~ hills between you and England?

Is it true that modern factory jobs are sitting at a computer? I've watched a few "how stuff is made" videos and am always amazed at how much labor goes into almost every step.

It's also possible that the military had been using such a device for decades and it was actually prior art that invalidated the patent, but this was lost in the retelling. 🤔

Sorry I should have just deleted that rambling text before posting, but oh well.

To be clear when mention gay there I just mean sexual attraction to the same sex, independent of any attraction or not to the other sex (or non-binary people or whatever).