many asian nations have the same problem - they have a large aging population. old people are less likely to work, less likely to be a reliable tax-base. old people require a lot of care - and that costs. it costs money, time, and resources - a young person caring for an old person is a young person not in the factory making products.

hence the desire to have a +% in population growth. without that, in ~30 to 40 years, China will lose about half of it’s population. most asian countries are in the same boat. Japan has it even worse since they modernized earlier/faster.

why cant the serbians just realize they’ll never be independent?

gravity, the bane of Russian’s existence

i only use it because it comes with Prime, which I do use, quite a bit.

yeah? what are they going to do, fight a two front war? that always totally works out!

thanks Germany!

any system or network is only as strong as its weakest component - in many cases, people are the weakest component.

win10 is still supported for 3 more years - if you pay for it.

oh noes

huh, ok. who enforces that though?

report what is true and verifiable

if they did that there wouldnt be much news, a lot fewer journalists, less jobs overall, and much less advertising revenue.

never gonna happen

ancient ones!

the Prime Minister’s party should retain control if he’s the Prime Minister though? or is Indian politics more convoluted than that?

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jaysus

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unsurprising really.

is that the one they were waiting for or a different one?

once their population crashes in a decade or so it’ll probably be really rough for another decade before they bounce back. Samsung/LG’s days are numbered though, unless they start offshoring everything now