ExLisper

joined 9 months ago
[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net -1 points 10 hours ago

The 90s have called. They want their take on China back.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I'm on X11 and I do it in Awesome WM with couple of lua scripts. I tried doing it with KDE on Wayland and it didn't have some of features Awesome has do I went back to X11.

Of course it does! Linux rules.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Can you have different taskbar setup depending on the number of monitors and have it change automatically when you connect/disconnect external monitors?

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The french lady said she was dizzy and prone to fainting if I remember correctly. She went to see a doctor couple of times but they didn't find anything.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 18 points 2 days ago

Legal means legal. It means one of them had permits for the guns. People in Australia have shotguns and rifles for hunting same as everywhere else. You don't need ISIS people inside the administration to get permits. Taking away legal guns used in those attacks would absolutely help.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 2 days ago

Interesting. I looks like it starts going up around the 1% threshold again. This is the level where kids are not a chore anymore. People have nannies to take care of the kids when they wake up at night, change diapers, feed them, drive them to school and so on. Maybe you're right. When you hit a level of income that lets you have kids and live your life at the same time people will opt for more kids. You know what? You convinced me. We should aim for making everyone a millionaire. I have no idea if it's economically feasible or how would it work but it's a nice goal to have.

Do people you know just not like their kids? Parents generally really like their offspring.

Of course they like their kids but kids are also a major pain in the ass. They are always happy when they can leave kids with grandparents or at childcare. I know a couple where the mother doesn't work and they still leave the kid at childcare. Even during holidays when both of them don't work they still take the kid to childcare. I guess they all aim for the 1% experience of only spending quality time with kids, not having them around all the time.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The guns used in the attack where legal.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Surprise surprise, they agreed to do the bare minimum to keep the war running. Let's remember who negotiated it. If war with Russia starts in the future they will claim they did everything they could to prevent it. They didn't.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, the thing is there's no way to "share the risk". Belgium is legally responsible for the money. Other countries can promise or sign obligations that they will pay it back to Belgium in case they are held responsible in the future but in the end there's no way to guarantee it (governments can change, countries can pull out of treaties). So he's basically saying "we only do this if you do something impossible". In the end it's his decision to take and he decided he would rather not help.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Makes sense. I guess that's why the poorest people have the least children.

Oh, wait:

That's why I was asking for a source. Your theories have no backing in reality. The truth is that people simply don't want to have a lot of kids because it's a chore. Society puts pressure on people to form a family by constant propaganda in popular media and by using peer pressure (once all your friends have kids all they do is stuff for kids. people without children are left out). My guess is poor people have more kids because they don't have family planning education and resources to do it. Once you satisfy the societal need to form a family unit (usually by having one child) there's no more pressure and people stop having children. I'm sure there are many people that would like to have one child by can't afford it (or they think they can't afford it) and government can help them but no matter what you do people will not go back to having 4 or 5 kids. There's no "natural drive" to do it.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Isn’t this my original point? I didn’t say everyone wanted to have an entire litter. There are plenty of people who want to have a family without sacrificing opportunity.

Is it? Oh, I though you meant that people want to have as many kids as possible. If you mean people want to have one or two kids I can agree (I think this is societal need, not biological but it's just my opinion). This is still way below replacement levels and just this need will not guarantee long term survival of society. So I guess we agree that natural needs of people will not solve demographic issues developed countries are facing.

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