It’s like 9g (mini/snack) vs 17g (fun).

Doesn’t the US’s geography rule it out as an efficient source of ‘energy products’ for europe?

So do you recommend a high fat diet?

The ‘demographic crisis’ is one of economics and states, not the persistence of the human race. The ratio of the old to the young is increasing drastically. Our global economic systems are simply not designed to support this. Our states cannot exist —as they are—without constant growth and those that fall behind are left behind.

The solution to the ‘demographic crisis’ is to move towards economies that are not based on constant growth so that the phenomenon is no longer a problem. Ironically people will probably be more interested in having babies in this scenario as well. Global capitalism is depressing, soulless, and does not make me go “wow I hope my decedents get to experience this.”

Haha my first thought was those modern cars that have rat problems because they wrapped the wires in a plant based wrapping that rats enjoy

Trump’s never had to use a shower head that’s basically a limp hose because the building’s water pressure doesn’t pressure near the top of an old apt building:( Using a low flow valve can be a huge qol improvement if you already have shitty water pressure.

Crocodile done deal

Really well written—thank you. I’ve been thinking a lot about the price of outsourcing our responsibility to cooperate with each other and with the climate to politicians. Everyone organizing towards their own community’s subsistence also gives us valuable knowledge and skills related to self-governance and seems far and away more ‘scalable’ than what we are doing.

separately, It’s sobering that the gates foundation is cutting its climate funding in line with the trump admin.

My community has an ice watch network so I would start filming then notify the network

Just like they’re showing up en masse to defend free speech and are outraged that men are being disproportionately deported!

NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan said last week that the science and engineering research agency would no longer “support research with the goal of combating ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ and ‘malinformation’ that could be used to infringe on the constitutionally protected speech rights” of Americans.

While bashing in people’s doors for protected speech…

Sure but economically states are worried about births— they need population replacement to persist

Yep even the regions that were previously holdouts (like sub-saharan africa) are showing significant downtrends in births.

I didn’t realize he even had a formal contract

Surprised they didn’t mention the wwe/ufc merger. Trump’s always loved professional wrestling and the mcmahon family.

One of the early executive orders this admin was for a celebration of the 250th anniversary of US independence (july 4 2026). I’m convinced it will be a coliseum fight or a ‘games’ a la the medieval king era.

Someone should make a participation trophy meme

Fun size actually is the ideal ratio.

Snack sized sucks

That must feel soul sucking to build :(

One of the programs that has been defunded by the trump admin at my work was a program giving academics with families the opportunity to collaborate to make progress on research projects— something that becomes harder with kids especially if your collaborators are in other countries. We essentially reserve some spots in local schools so we can provide childcare (or else we pay for a caretaker to watch them back home).

It might be a good time to check for local food co-ops in your area. Usually these arrange for you to order items directly from local farms and pick up from someone in your neighborhood. Some of them are produce only but some offer local dairy and meat and even baked goods too. Do some digging (ask on nextdoor?) if you can’t find one because sometimes they’re quite small. In college I used one that accepted EBT!