You’d think by now Jean-Luc Picard would be a well known example and systems are able to deal with it.

Yeah, this is his daughter

“We call her Carrie, because of the carriage return.”

You can also try to give the child NULL as middle name for additional fun.

A patriarchal religion is going to put a male figure in charge of course.

In church I’ve been saying in the name of the father and the son, not mother and daughter, so that’s an easy assumption to make.

In my mind, this is the only correct backdrop for that bowl.

What you say is correct and is also what is happening. Some have no children, some one of two. The end is fertility rate below replacement rate. Many people that want children stop at 2 because then it becomes too hard to combine with a job and costs too much. If there government wants more children, support is needed.

Voyager uses plutonium 238 which has a half-life of 83 years. So after 50 years, its fuel has decayed too much and it’s running out of power. The article didn’t make that clear.

Pay women a decent wage per child, like a good part of the average wage per child until the child turns 18. That’ll be a clear incentive to get children. Everything else is just ineffective tinkering. In a classic rural setting children were a labor force. In a modern urban setting they’re a very expensive hobby with lots of unpaid labor. In a quid pro quo world, pay up. Children are not free. If that’s not possible then a growing population is not economically viable in the current system. Better luck in the next system.

Some regimes have tried to force the issue, banning all abortions and contraceptives. The end result was a population that was shrinking more slowly and orphanages overflowing because children were dumped as people didn’t have enough money to support them.

(about $4,000)

Usually civilian targets are avoided because it galvanizes the population’s opinion to pro war but in Russia’s case it doesn’t seem to matter much anymore.

Vance doesn’t know that

Insult Musk on Twitter, wait until posts are censored, sue X for not having freedom of speech. How’s that for American values?

Sci-fi comedy predicting the future again.

https://youtu.be/sP2tUW0HDHA

It’s from the movie Idiocracy.

It’s why taxes were invented. Nothing gives currency value as being beaten by not giving it back to the king’s men.

Didn’t Erdogan try to do the same in Türkiye? After some currency crashing and cost of living crisis he did change his tune.

but this is really about predicting what trump will do

Trump plays pigeon chess — it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.

It’s football. Attacking civilians because they wave around the wrong flag, or just wearing the wrong color of t-shirt or scarf is reason enough for a beating.

That’s probably the perception. Democrats have been in power for 4 years, things didn’t get better for a lot of people and then they say to vote for them for more of the same. Surprisingly that doesn’t help with voter enthusiasm. They’ll have more chance next time with messaging things won’t get worse with them after Trump mishandled stuff.