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  • China reversed its one-child policy and people there are having even fewer kids.

    Latin America isn’t at the replacement rate of 2 children per couple any more. You know, the continent with all those Catholics? They aren’t having kids.

    Only Africa now is above the replacement rate. Likely not for long.

    Human population will peak way sooner than expected.

    What will Western billionaires do when the flow of poor brown people stops? They’re dependent on them for cheap labour and to deflect blame onto.




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    6 days ago

    He also believed your soul carries on after death and enters a new body, possibly even an animal’s.

    The story that he was killed because he refused to run away through a field of beans is probably fake. There’s a trope of ancient philosophers getting ironic deaths:

    • Archimedes being killed because he was absorbed in his geometry (he told the attacking soldier “don’t disturb my circles!”)

    • Diogenes was notorious for rejecting social norms and acting dog-like. “Cynic” comes from the Greek word for “dog”. He died of food poisoning after eating raw octopus, showing you can’t really live like a dog.