especially the ones made over the injections of workers
Well there's the problem! As good as it sounds, you actually lose a lot of the nutrition when employees are processed into injectable paste. Ultra processed workers are bad for you.
Eat them raw as capitalism intended!
"Oh, if only I had children I wouldn't be able to afford this hospital visit and could've cried in squalor, knowing I contributed something other than minor economic output!"
These are the same people that would download a car!
I always viewed this more like: Men only get one title because nobody gives a fuck about men. Single, married, whatever. It's irrelevant. "Here, have a nice, generic title that means literally nothing other than you are male. Now get back to work so you can create some value for ~~your rich land owner~~ society!"
Unmarried women, however, have inherent (societal) value beyond their ability to work. That's why they get extra titles. It's the same reason why most societies don't use women in war.
Once you have that Mrs in front of your name, you're considered to have "succeeded." According to the old traditions, anyway. A married woman was viewed as having been put to work (by society). That was her primary job, and people cared a lot about it!
Of course, women were still expected to also do actual work but the sexist nature of these traditions meant that it didn't count for much. Mostly because "muscle" (ability to perform manual labor for a full 12-or-more hour work day) was what ran the economy. Serfs in the fields!
What are you talking about? Everyone is already using *nix every day, they just don't realize it!
Pollution would make sense if people were trying to have kids but couldn't. But they're not trying to have kids at all!
The more likely explanation—related to tech—is that we don't need kids anymore. For 99% of human history, children were necessary and not having kids was basically impossible (horny kids and no birth control). Kids were how humans kept alive/stable as well as expanded their power and influence! It's also how they got cared for in old age (though that's a much lesser concern because I seriously doubt humans of the past thought that hard about such things when living to 40 was considered amazing).
Now we have birth control and—in Western societies—stability/safety is much more likely if you don't have kids. We've basically flipped the script on our evolution.
You want people to have kids? Flip the script back! Make anyone under 30 without kids pay a massive tax that pays for the kids of people who have them! Basically, make everyone who didn't have kids pay child support.
Make having kids the best damned economic decision anyone can make with diminishing returns after two (kids).
You make AI voice generation sound like it's a one-step process, "clone voice X." While you can do that, here's where it's heading in reality:
"Generate a voice that's sounds like a male version of Scarlett Johansson".
"That sounds good, but I want it to sound smoother."
"Ooh that's close! Make it slightly higher pitch."
In a process like that, do you think Scarlett Johansson would have legal standing to sue?
What if you started with cloning your own voice but after many tweaks the end result ends up sounding similar to Taylor Swift? Does she have standing?
In court, you'd have expert witnesses saying they don't sound the same. "They don't even have the same inflection or accent!" You'd have voice analysis experts saying their voice patterns don't match. Not even a little bit.
But about half the jury would be like, "yeah, that does sound similar." And you could convict a completely innocent person.
The population of North Korea is approximately 26.5 million while South Korea is around 51.7 million. North Korea has already overtaken the South in total number of births per year (~340,000 VS ~250,000 in the South).
If the current trend continues (which I doubt it will), that means North Korea's population will overtake South Korea some time around 2090-2100.
Instead, what's going to happen is South Korea will have a regime collapse and then they're going to have a "come to Korea" moment (like a "come to Jesus" moment, but Korean-themed and much more literal). There's all sorts of things they can do to improve their situation practically overnight (from a geopolitical perspective) but they've so far refused to do so (for racist reasons).
Either they're going to fortify their population with foreign stock or they're going to demonstrate "the superiority of the Korean race" by going extinct.
SK is not going to be a good example because, in addition to the usual reasons for a declining birth rate, they also have some pretty extreme racism, sexism, and a work culture that even worse than Japan in many ways. Why would you want to have kids in South Korea‽
Let's say you do have a wife and kids... Good luck getting home to see them on time on the regular!
What's incredible is that the government's stance on this situation is that it is preserving their culture. What they really mean is that they're keeping out foreigners and not cross-breeding with the riffraff (which is... The rest of the world).
They will "preserve" themselves right into extinction.
The GOP should just setup a copy of the press room at the White House in a retirement home where everything is painted gold. Every day, they can place dementia Don in front of the podium and tell him, "there's a million viewers."
He'll keep himself busy like that until a bigger stroke than the last takes him down to hell.
Nothing says, "our culture/political system is the best" more than a 2,000-question ideological test that attempts to make sure it will not be questioned.
~~Reunify~~ Conquer.
If Taiwan loses its independence, it will immediately lose its status as a special place for cheap manufacturing of high tech chips. It will just be another island. I don't understand how China doesn't get this.
If I were in Xi's shoes I would cease the blustering and focus more on partnering. Guarantee their independence. Protect it, in fact. Let them know that China is not a threat to their freedoms and give them special protection when visiting China so Taiwanese citizens can participate in both economies simultaneously.
Simple things like NOT treating their criticisms of the Chinese government as crimes would go a long way towards peaceful cooperation.
Of course, China considers criticism of China to be extremely anti-China and must not be allowed. It apparently never occurs to them that this lack of freedom is the very thing that gets in the way of their technological development.
It's cultural from the ground up, too: If the boss was appointed by the Chinese government (or just close with the one ruling party), criticism of the boss is considered criticism of China. You can't get much innovation out of a workplace where critical feedback can result in your arrest.
Even the bosses at employers can have their decisions overruled by the government and there's nothing they can do about it. This lack of freedom is what leads to situations like this:
"OK... I guess we're putting melamine in the baby formula."