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I suspect OP mean declining fertility rate. USA population is still increasing, but is slowing down, and will sharply drop if the fertility rate remains below replacement of ~2 children per woman.
You're moving the goalposts. There's tons we can do to improve US healthcare outcomes (we overspend compared to what we get [1]) by emulating what has succeeded in other countries. But that conversation and solution is different than "nobody has healthcare".
As to defense, I live here, as do the majority of the people I love and like. It's in my interest to have my country continue to exist as a sovereign nation with the ability to defend itself from foreign adversaries.
1. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health...
Most Americans have some form of health insurance [1].
I'd argue that my country is worth defending, despite its many flaws.
1. https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-28...
No one is stopping you, and maybe it's worth trying out!
It seems to be, given how many people voted for "mass deportations".
It also makes it easier for employers to get away with poor working conditions for those workers.
Moving electrons around isn't inherently immoral like slavery is. It's odd to compare the two!
Housing is expensive because homeowners have weaponized zoning laws to make it illegal to build housing the city needs.
A small section of it is.
“Bowtie” bounded by Broadway and Seventh Avenue between 42nd and 47th Streets.
My understanding is that picked fruits and veg are still alive [1], and often respirating [2]. This is a big component in figuring out how to refrigerate them at the optimal temperatures and atmospheric makeup.
1. https://healthland.time.com/2013/06/21/theyre-alive-harveste... 2. https://agriculture.institute/food-chemistry-and-physiology/...
Big agree. Times Square would be a great place to start.
Agree. Also I don't think any adults were forcibly vaccinated again their will, they just lost out on certain societal privileges.
Seems 48.6% of US employees had employer-provided health care in 2023. Lower than I would have thought.
https://www.kff.org/state-health-policy-data/state-indicator...
because healthcare demand is unlimited.
How's that? Beyond some level of care I suspect demand drops of a cliff. No one goes to the doctor for the fun of it.
Ignoring the pandemic, the percentage has been north of 45% since 2014 or so, according to Moody's: https://archive.is/AW6rW
Why would that be better? I think you'd miss out on economies of scale and end up paying more.
I'm mostly cheering for more competition in the field. No reason for advances in life-changing technical progress to belong solely to that one company.
I agree methane leaks (and monitoring programs cuts) are a problem. But even with them, methane burns much more cleanly than coal. The former primarily emits CO2 and H2O, while the latter emits SO2, NOx, heavy metals and more.
While Meta has a non-binding promise to build more renewable energy, the Louisiana Legislature passed a new law that adds natural gas to the definition of green energy, allowing Zuckerberg and others to count Entergy’s gas turbines as “green.”
As much as I prefer burning gas over coal, conflating it with zero(-ish) emission energy sources like wind, solar, and nuclear is bad.
Wikipedia says it would need to be 75x more massive in order to start fusing hydrogen.
Thanks for sharing info about MIPS, it looks great.
Short animation of how it works for anyone else who's unfamiliar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvyoSzAPIBE
I'm no rug expert, heritage or otherwise, but it looks like there are some really expensive rugs out there: this[1] site lists 9 worth over $1M USD. So I'd assume there's a big spread between that and rugs you get at Ikea. So I think he's being genuine, not satirical.
1. https://www.luxxu.net/blog/top-10-most-expensive-rugs-in-the...
Prioritizing pedestrian right of way sounds like a perk to me.
It's an odd choice of words since 1. Most people know it's the largest and heaviest planet 2. They didn't specify planet but are still ignoring the sun, which is 1000x Jupiter's mass.
When I first landed on this page I didn't see any call to action so I left. Adding animation or a label to the button might help.
Agree. Though I imagine the cost to run robot taxis in low density areas would be much higher than in high density areas, as there'd be a higher distance between rides, and so more wasted time and gas. I suspect that would slow adoption.
Also if we dream big here, I wonder how robot buses would work in low density areas, maybe with dynamic routes and pricing?
Well said. Moralizing energy consumption is inefficient and no way to run a market. It'd be better to pass regulation that internalized the externalities in the price of electricity so that it captured the societal costs of emissions.
Not in terms of throughput though. Buses and trains still have em beat.
Seems to me we need a better pricing system for water so the market can sort out if the application is valuable enough.
All human life, sure. Maybe even all mammalian life. But ecosystems around hydrothermal vents won't care about nuclear winter, if that's your scenario.
Wrt housing, since overly restrictive zoning laws make it illegal in many cases to build, I think it'd be good to start by lobbying to change that.