Education and well balanced people.

Education is well known to cause a population to tend to have fewer children. As people become more educated, more capable and more well cared for … they tend to not want to have as many children. Conversely, when people are poorer and less educated, they tend to survive by having more children … it’s our survival instinct because not all the children may survive but enough offspring survive long enough to have lots more children again.

So if you have a planet full of well educated and well off people everywhere, they will have less children and everyone that is alive will all work towards making things better for everyone else. It’s probably a fantasy or a magical utopia that we can never achieve … but we can hope that we can move in that direction.

Don’t say things like that … now polar bears in Florida are in danger of something happening with Florida man.

Dying unhoused people don’t effect the economy which is why no one cares … unless we can use them as indentured servants or outright slaves, then we could care more about them.

We have people like the Joker who give us philosophical questions about our civilization but we’ve yet to see a billionaire use their infinite money and resources to dress up in a suit and mask, fight crime and build a fancy car or jet with exotic weapons to fight real life villains.

limited resources on Earth

That is also what we are all led to believe. If wealth were equally distributed to everyone, everywhere … there would be more than enough food, water and shelter for every living being on the planet. It’s not that the resources are running out, it has more to do with how our economy, wealth and control is distributed. The resources and wealth are held by a few people while everyone else goes without.

Which is the basis of the quote … “Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.”

This doesn’t sound very honourable … what the hell is in that tea?

Rich people don’t want people to die … they want poor to stay alive and live as their obedient slaves that serve them.

I love how the Vader father figure is played by Alexander the son … and the Skywalker son character is played by Worf the deadbeat father

Happy Worfsday!

I love how the different scifi franchises easily drift into very specific camps

• space explorers and scientists
• space religious fanatics, wizards and fascists
• space warriors and soldiers
• space pirates
• space goofballs

The best one to me is the space goofballs. We like to think that there is intelligent life out there. But there is also the possibility that we could run into space travellers that have no clue what they are doing and just run into us and don’t know what to do and either just hand over technology to us or blow us up by accident. It could be like an intergalactic truck driver making a shipment that happened to blow an engine and decided to park here for a while, give us replicators or exotic material or something dangerous, fix their engine, kill a bunch of soldiers that gave them a hard time, blow up a few things and then went on their way, never caring what they did or what they left. Leaving us all to believe that there is intelligent life out there that wants something to do with us because we think we are important.

Reminds of Far Side - by Gary Larson -

After being denied … everyone else’s premiums increased by 20%

Doctor: HEY! … I know what to do! … Let’s make a website and ask the public what we should call this disease! We’ll get a sponsor and turn it into a fundraiser and awareness campaign. We’ll get everyone to vote on it and the one with the most votes will have the disease be called that name. What could go wrong!

If you live in a first world country with drive supports, take your time and research the benefits and services you would get if you were laid off or fired.

If you’re in a situation where you don’t have access to anything and you can weather a few weeks or months not making any money … just get out now because it won’t make any difference if you do it later. The longer you wait, the more you’ll be taken advantage of and the less you’ll want to move.

More like … a permanent watermark in your vision whether you are awake or asleep for ‘X.com’ … or you have to pay $9.99 a month to remove it.

Especially this time of year when people are panicking for whatever reason, people are travelling, people are coming and going, people are buying laptops, devices and phones and the majority of them don’t know how digital files or folders even work (or where they are in a digital system).

If you know anything about computers … just pretend you don’t know anything like everyone else. It will save you so much work and headaches this time of year.

And don’t get soft either … cute girl asking for help? NO … old grandma has a new laptop? NO … your dying relative has a new phone? NO! … your two year old niece has a new tablet? NO! … your drug dealer wants to lower your debt in exchange for fixing their PC? HELL NO!!!

Lol … I thought you comment said “Texas”

Cruise ships will have to shut off their engines 200miles from shore and coast in with their engines turned off … don’t know how they will leave port tho? … rowing like a Roman Trireme maybe?

There is a good chance you may have fathered most of the people on Lemmy

TIL … Graz is the anus of Osterreich