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yoz , to worldnews in China's fertility rate drops to record low 1.09 in 2022

Why is this happening across the world ? I personally know friends who are trying to have a baby but can’t

iridaniotter ,
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That’s called infertility, and it’s a separate issue. Fertility rate refers to children per woman, and this is decreasing globally to unsustainable levels. There is a phenomenon known as the “demographic transition” that refers to the demographic shift of pre-industrial high births and high mortality, to high births and low mortality due to modern science, to finally low births and low mortality. The only successful policy to reverse baked-in population decline so far has been to accept large numbers of immigrants. Obviously this can’t be universally applied because those immigrants have to come from somewhere.

CookieJarObserver , to worldnews in Poland holds huge military parade as voters focus on defence
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Piss does Election campaign

ineedaunion , to news in New Covid vaccines are on the way as 'Eris' variant rises

I just want one that’s bad enough to wipe out at least half of us. Nature says we need to go.

LeateWonceslace ,

I’m against extinction, actually.

zephyrvs , (edited ) to worldnews in New Covid vaccines are on the way as 'Eris' variant rises

If I had to do it all over again, I’d skip the shots and rely on my immune system. Something definitely wasn’t right with these shots, in my view.

There have been sane scientific reports about impurities and traces of foreign DNA being found in samples of the vaccines from all vendors and a study implying that two shots caused cancers in mice (www.frontiersin.org/journals/…/fonc.2023.1158124) doesn’t inspire confidence either. I know all the “fact checks” around the topic, no need to link me to it. They’re all written by people with no medical expertise.

The entire reporting about the pandemic was (in my opinion) highly unscientific, excluded critical voices (real doctors, not some snake oil salespeople) and came basically down to “just have faith in the science” and I feel terribly stupid for having participated in the sharade (not implying the entire pandemic was fake, but the way it was handled) and I hated myself for quite some time for having given into the pressure instead of listening to my intuition.

These vaccines definitely screwed with my health. My heart didn’t perform as well for about a year (confirmed by a doctor), I felt fatigued despite having been active and fit despite the lockdowns (also confirmed by a doctor), I definitely had some issues with blood flow/clotting and my lymphatic system is definitely still trying to get rid of something.

I’m not giving health advice here but please be aware that even if we accept the official number of 1/10000 likelihood of the vaccines having severe side effects (and I don’t think that’s true anymore based just on observations in my family and social circles, like women having screwed up periods, several miscarriages of otherwise healthy women, sudden appearances of cancer in people under 50) - if you’re the 1, it’ll fuck you up and no one will give damn. After talking to a few people who now can no longer work after having taken the shots, prepare for massive gaslighting, especially from doctors. Don’t trust in whatever is left of social security systems to care about you. They’ve all been told they’re imagining things or that they just had a genetic predisposition and would’ve had these issues even without the shots.

My trust in the medical establishment is at an all time low. And now they’re planning on dumping mRNA into everything, like animal vaccines and crops. This doesn’t seem right. I have a real bad feeling about this.

I’ll accept the risk if getting COVID from now on.

I was never anti vaccines, btw. But there’s been so much suspicious shit going on around this whole topic that my trust “in (capitalist) science” is in shambles. Just the appearance of “sudden adult death syndrome” right after the vaccinations started was highly suspicious and should’ve warranted at least a pause of the vaccinations. At the very least, I’ll have to assume that it was more important for people to get back to work as quick as possible and to “return to normal” was a terrible driving force behind the way of this pandemic was handled.

I’m sure people will come at me for all of this. I’m not (alt) right, I’m not anti science, but I worry that the rushed rollout of these shots was a big mistake. That doesn’t mean that the extreme anti vaxxers were right either.

Edit: Not to mention how my girlfriend’s migraines have increased severely and that her Astrazeneca and Moderna batches are known for having headaches as a side effect according to VAERS.

To the first 2 downvotes: Thanks for proving my point.

OfficerBribe , to world in Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection.

I am actually surprised Internet Archive has not had copyright problems in the past because I have ocasionally downloaded videos that are 1:1 contents from now dead/unseeded torrents.

exohuman , to worldnews in Bank of China starts nationwide move to reduce salary gap among employees, manager levels -sources
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Why do pay cuts for managers instead of pay raises for other employees? How is a cut helping anyone?

HumanPenguin ,
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They will argue. Pay rise for everyone. Will nject huge amounts of money into the econ. Raising inflation. While this means the low earners gain or lose little. Amd the rich lose much.

It will totally destroy those that cannot work or earn at all. IE retired poor or unemployed.

postmeridiem ,
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Should be fine tbh, China actually had a bit of shrinking of consumer spending recently so this is well timed.

HumanPenguin ,
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Issue is 2 fold.

One. Lets face it. No econ can handle such a huge raise in income. Without it seriously effecting the internal market.

And that huge increase will slowly if at all move to those not currently earning. IE retired or disabled etc.

But even if the econ could manage it. By for example borrowing to raise unemployed incomes while things settle.

Those making the decisions will worry more about the effect on their econ and currency compared to other nations. Not doing the same thing.

In genral governments tend to ( to some extent rightly) value their currencies buying power with other nations. More then the internal markets.

At this time in history. No nation is truly 100% self sufficient. Mainly most nations over the last 50 years have not tried to be. So it can be seen as governments own choice.

But huge changes in the value of a currency has a huge negative effect on the ability for any nations citizen’s to thrive.

This not only effects the poor drematically. But often more to the worry of governments. The rich and government spending power overall.

The later is a death blow for democratic nations. But even more so for a nation that has been using its buying power to position itself in the world for decades. Such as China.

Infamousblt ,
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Did you even read the article? The article says the plan includes raises for the lower and middle paid employees that is being paid for by cuts to the upper executives. So they’re doing exactly what you proposed

Under the plan, the salary package for employees below mid-level managers was raised by about 10% to 15%, and salaries for higher-level managers were reduced by a similar range, a second source said.

exohuman ,
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I read the summary. This is good!

robot ,

Why do high-level managers need help?

Cutting their wages leaves more money to pay workers at the bottom.

autotldr Bot , to worldnews in China's Country Garden seeks to delay onshore bond repayment, fanning market fears [real estate market]

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Anxiety about contagion risks is spreading through global markets, putting China’s government under mounting pressure to deliver support for the ailing real estate sector, which accounts for roughly a quarter of the economy.

In a move that dealt a fresh blow to investors’ sentiment, two Chinese listed companies said over the weekend that they had not received payment on maturing investment products from Zhongrong International Trust Co.

Concerns about the outsized exposure of China’s shadow banks - a $3 trillion industry, roughly the size of Britain’s economy - to property developers have grown over the past year as the sector lurched from one crisis to another.

JPMorgan in a research note on Monday said that rising trust defaults would drag down China’s economic growth by 0.3-0.4 percentage points directly, and that it expects a “vicious cycle” of real estate financing challenges.

A source with direct knowledge said on Monday that Country Garden has proposed to creditors to extend repayment for an onshore private bond due Sept. 2 , with an outstanding of 3.9 billion yuan, by three years in seven instalments.

China’s economy grew at a frail pace in the second quarter as demand weakened at home and abroad, prompting top leaders to promise further policy support and analysts to downgrade their growth forecasts for the year.


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autotldr Bot , to worldnews in Argentine far-right outsider Javier Milei posts shock win in primary election

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With some 90% of ballots counted, far-right libertarian economist Javier Milei had 30.5% of the vote, far higher than predicted, with the main conservative opposition bloc behind on 28% and the ruling Peronist coalition in third place on 27%.

The result is a stinging rebuke to the center-left Peronist coalition and the main Together for Change conservative opposition bloc with inflation at 116% and a cost-of-living crisis leaving four in 10 people in poverty.

The October election will be key for policy affecting Argentina’s huge farm sector, one of the world’s top exporters of soy, corn and beef, the peso currency and bonds, and ongoing talks over a $44 billion debt deal with the International Monetary Fund.

As polls closed in the early evening after voting system glitches caused long lines in capital Buenos Aires, all the talk in campaign hubs was about Milei, a brash outsider who has pledged to shutter the central bank and dollarize the economy.

In the most important leadership race, within the Together for Change coalition, hard-line conservative Patricia Bullrich, a former security minister, beat out moderate Buenos Aires Mayor Horacio Larreta, who pledged to get behind her campaign.

Whoever wins in October, or more likely in a November runoff, will have big decisions to make on rebuilding depleted foreign reserves, boosting grains exports, reining in inflation and on how to unwind a thicket of currency controls.


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4am , to news in Exclusive: SoftBank in talks to buy Vision Fund's 25% stake in Arm -sources

Welp, there goes ARM…

autotldr Bot , to datahoarder in The Internet Archive might reach a deal with the publishers to remove THEIR books from the lending library

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Aug 11 (Reuters) - The Internet Archive and a group of leading book publishers told a Manhattan federal court on Friday that they have resolved aspects of their legal battle over the Archive’s digital lending of their scanned books.

If accepted, the consent judgment would settle questions over potential money damages in the case and the scope of a ban on the Archive’s lending and would clear the way for the Archive to appeal U.S. District Judge John Koeltl’s decision that it infringed the publishers’ copyrights.

The proposed order would require the Archive to pay Lagardere SCA’s (LAGA.PA) Hachette Book Group, News Corp’s (NWSA.O) HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons (WLY.N) and Bertelsmann SE & Co’s (BTGGg.F) Penguin Random House an undisclosed amount of money if it loses its appeal.

The order would also permanently block the Archive from lending out copies of the publishers’ books without permission, pending the result of the appeal.

The Internet Archive said in a blog post that the fight was “far from over,” and founder Brewster Kahle said in a statement that “we must have strong libraries, which is why we are appealing this decision.”

The publishers sued in 2020 over the Archive’s free lending of scanned copies of their print books, which began after libraries closed during the COVID-19 pandemic.


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SulaymanF , to news in U.S.-led naval group warns ships to avoid Iranian waters to avoid seizure

Well if the US wasn’t seizing Iranian ships we wouldn’t have this problem now would we?

dartos ,

I mean someone has to /s

FormerlyChucks , to piracy in Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection

Oy vey shut it down

eran_morad , to news in Judge warns Trump not to threaten witnesses in 2020 election subversion case

Lock him the fuck up.

AnonTwo , to datahoarder in Music Industry sues Internet Archive

Just wondering, but if you digitize 78-RPM records, what is the actual difference between them and the digital copies existing on other websites? Just that they're the original recorded copies?

Calcium5332 ,

They probably sound slightly differently, and have more historical value to them. I just digitized my grandfathers cassette collection, because it was his, and are a different experience (because of how cassettes sound).

theodewere , to worldnews in Taiwan reports second large-scale China air force incursion this week
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oh yeah, lots of internal economic pressure on the CCP as their property market comes CRASHING down.. Emperor Xi the Eternal needs a big distraction quick.. and he needs to be a bully, so that people think he's strong.. and bullying Taiwan is so easy for him..

what a big, brave, clever Winnie the Pooh

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