Reddit never offered a chance for apps to pay; this became very clear during negotiations.
Mods left because a lot of moderator tools developed by moderators requires API access and Reddit was very slow to develop acceptable internal tools. At that point, a lot of mods got frustrated and left.
So in the whole anti-natalism/pro-natalism conversation (which I’m mostly agnostic/undecided on, currently), my friend who is a pro-natalist, argued that the success/stability of our world economy is dependent on procreating more children each year than the previous year, so that we not only replace the numbers of the people...
In terms of overall resources, it is probably better that we don’t expand the population.
In terms of economics, we are finding more that, while people are living longer, they aren’t living at the same quality of life, which means their economic utility drops significantly while still requiring an income. The current funding of retirement won’t work going forward. Taxes from the wealthy could pay for it, especially as productivity keeps increasing and the rich seem to gain the most. But, there is going to be a push and shove against it as retirement of that many people effectively becomes an age based universal basic income.
I’ve always wondered why the consensus seems to be that it’s 100% necessary for an economy to continue growing for society to function
You start running into issues with the economy when people are incentivized to not participate in it. People hoard money instead of investing it, industries that rely on growth stop which increases unemployment, and the economy becomes inefficient in general over time.
People generally think that no growth means the economy stays as is, but it would be more akin to a depression that never ends.
You need a reason for a large group to choose to maintain a single language over over smaller groups creating their own.
Look at Latin, it stayed mainly cohesive due to the Roman Empire and splintered off as the empire collapsed and the necessity for commoners to maintain communication across thousands of miles dwindled.
English is the current lingua francia because the dominant nation has been speaking English for the past two hundred years and created a pop culture market that is both large and rich, creating a positive feedback loop making the market larger and richer.
It is strange that this job went from glamorous to real shit.
You had a government mandated floor on prices until the 70’s in the USA and the 90’s in the EU, which meant that airlines had to compete on amenities and other ways to pull traffic to their airline. Once that price floor was removed, it became apparent that ticket prices were what drove most traffic, so airlines started doing whatever they could to drop ticket prices.
As someone also measured as gifted and put in gifted classes, there was an interesting discussion that I had with one of the teachers about how the views for approaching gifted education was changing.
For a lot of schools, the “gifted” students are gifts; you don’t have to spend time on their education and they may end up helping the classes they are in. So, it is ok to treat them like normal kids and they won’t become a problem.
However, studies have shown that to be really bad for the “gifted” students. You get a lot of underperforming students who don’t engage with the material as it is mentally underwhelming. Soft skills that they were supposed to learn were never developed because they never had to. You even had issues with developing social skills as the distance in standard deviations between gifted and normal children are the same as between a normal kid and a “special education” kid.
The findings were showing you had to treat the “gifted” students with the same care as those in “special education” as the common teaching techniques don’t work, issues are much more varied between children, and being able to lean on talent in some cases leads to skills not being learned because they never needed to be.
their budgets are SO extremely deep and large. And this cap? This cap is the best they could come up with?
You’re assuming that there was an expensive program to replace the entire bottling line and redesign the bottles in order to meet the EU regulation while achieving satisfactory user experience.
What likely happened is that the engineers in charge of the cap design were told to change as little as possible and came up with a design that only required changing the cap moulds. Everything else got to stay the same, saving the company’s budget for other things
Dutch woman, 29, granted euthanasia approval on grounds of mental suffering (www.theguardian.com)
Reddit Blackout was just mods choosing to be a personal army for app developer
In my opinion, the Reddit Blackout was essentially moderators acting as a personal army for app developer....
Do we need to create increasingly more children for a stable economy?
So in the whole anti-natalism/pro-natalism conversation (which I’m mostly agnostic/undecided on, currently), my friend who is a pro-natalist, argued that the success/stability of our world economy is dependent on procreating more children each year than the previous year, so that we not only replace the numbers of the people...
I have to teach my daughter different things than my son (lemmy.world)
In what subtle (or significant) ways has your hometown changed since your childhood?
Now that google is going all in on ai what are some sites you plan on bookmarking.
Just curious since I think it is about to get a whole lot harder to search using google. hopefully this will signal the end of their monopoly.
NYC's 'Portal' to Dublin to temporarily close after incidents of joy, mischief, occasional nudity (www.fox5ny.com)
What's your most unpopular opinion about music ?
For me : Trippie Redd’s “!” Is actually a great album
Why is there no global language that at least nearly half the world speaks (3.5 billion, I'm talkin', including non-native speakers)
Is the Tower of Babel still affecting us or something?...
Where did she go? (i.imgflip.com)
Jerry Seinfeld Apologizes for Bee Movie's ‘Sexual Undertones’ During Duke Commencement Address (people.com)
Jerry Seinfeld jokingly apologized for the 'sexual undertones' in 2007's 'Bee Movie' while giving a commencement speech at Duke University on May 12.
The Price is Right television show is a low-key way to normalize inflation.
Prices presented in the show are presented without question. At no point does anyone question their absurdity.
American Airlines is Issuing 'Poverty Verification Letters' For New-Hire Flight Attendants Because Their Wages Are So Low (www.paddleyourownkanoo.com)
Gotta use all those brain cells (sh.itjust.works)
Euro bottles are so much better now (toobnix.org)
I know they’re supposed to be good for the environment but… God I hate those caps.