My daughter’s school did something similar. It was a project about future city development, where groups of kids could create their own visions of what the harbour in the city should be like.

Some went sciency and made robotic models and programmed led-strips and such, but most just painted the sides of cardboard boxes as a restaurant and printed a menu card, focusing on the business aspects.

The school then invited parents and the city council to come see the presentations and to vote on the best project.

They did all the work in school hours, so it’s not like the parents could assist if they wanted to. Of course some kids could potentially ask their parents for funding for expensive robots but I don’t think anyone did or what the point would be. It wasn’t a graded project and the winners got a bag of candy, so it’s hardly worth cheating for.

Go to the small concert venues and see them play.

No doubt. I’m glad I had my 20s to roam around before getting kids, but I’m even more happy to still be young enough that I can travel the world and participate in physical activities with my kids as well. Having kids doesn’t have to mean giving up on experiencing life. They’re part of it, and they’re the best people to share it with. In hindsight, I probably could have cut my party years short by five years without missing a thing. Having kids was the best thing in my life. It might not be for everybody.

I’m in the late 40s now, and I feel it’s too late to have more by now. I know people who do in that age. Divorced couples going for the late common child or DINKs who finally made enough money. It looks really tough for them. It’s temporarily hard work for a couple of years. It’s hard if you’re young and don’t have money, but it’s also hard when you’re old and less agile and physical on top.

what is stopping women to have kids later in life

Menopause.

But anyway, it’s generally a good idea to have children earlier, because you’ll get to spend more time with them and you won’t be the weird old parent in the school. Also health reasons and whatnot.

As for misogyny, I think it’s mostly from one generation to the next and also more often women to women. Most guys that I know would rather postpone having children as long as possible for the same reasons that you’ve stated.

Look at a population pyramid.

This site has done nice animated options: https://chartingtheglobe.com/demographics/population-pyramid

If you want to see more regional overviews, then the CIA also has some nice selections here:

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/references/population-pyramids-by-region/

The main issue is that the population is getting older. Not enough new borns to pay taxes to care for the old people in twenty years. This can only be solved by immigration from countries with higher birthrates.

There’s only two classes. There’s nothing in the middle.

If you’re in doubt which class you belong to, look at the paycheck. Does it have your name on it? Then you’re one of the ones who get paid.

Finnish Saksa is a reference to the Saxon tribe from Old Saxon in Northern Germany, not the current Sachsen.

I think it’s very neighborhood dependent.

The worst places are in rich neighborhoods where all the bored middle managers act like queens and kings of the grocery store.

Uh, her only mission is to fire people. They’re not even trying to be subtle about it…

Without marked spaces it’s impossible to say.

Someone can park perfectly in the morning, but then with everyone else moving their cars during the day, it can easily appear as a shit parking later on.

It’s a depiction of what happens when Grok writes the kind of soft porn that is sold in paperbacks in airports. This kind of trivial writing is slop to begin with.

A secondary joke is that the story is about a womanewho looks over the shoulder of a man watching porn on his computer, while we the reader of the comic is also watching her over the shoulders as she reads her pulp fiction.

I think there’s a mathematical issue here: There’s no limit on living standards.

If we decrease the population, they’ll simply want more.

Billionaires buy the second yacht because it’s easier than transporting the first yacht to the other coast. On a smaller scales, I also buy 3 t-shirts so I can still have a choice of what to wear when the first one is in the washer. The choice is an unnecessary increase in my living standards.

If we go with your suggested figure of 500 million people, and these people should all have EU standards of living, we’d still be consuming more resources than the Earth can provide. It’s not the 8 billion poor people who are taking the toll on the resources. Removing them wouldn’t fix the issue.

I’d like to think that we can maintain a high living standard by technological advancement, but we do have to be realistic about it. Our living standards in the west are simply unsustainable, even if it was just us on entire globe.

Biosphere 2 didn’t fail at sustaining plants.

It failed because they didn’t account for the concrete structure sucking out oxygen.

Yes 22 would make sense to the alien.

I wish someone could do a modern computer that would be as easy to setup and start developing on and for.

There’s no such thing as “the peak of an average waveform”, since it doesn’t make sense to average them.

They range from 20 Hz to 20000hz, so they have lengths between 2 cm and 1700 cm and peak everywhere in between.

What he was doing was attempting to avoid phase cancellation from stereo, which is an actual issue. You simply have to place yourself in the center, so that the distance to each speaker is the same.

It’s an issue for low frequencies, which have long wavelengths, carry a lot of energy and are usually centered (to avoid phase issues in the first place), so it is both possible and audible if they cancel out after leaving the speakers. However, since they’re long, it also means that there is some wiggle room. Obviously there’s a perfect spot, but It won’t have any noticable negative effect unless you’re like 1 meter away from that and accidentally sit in the perfectly bad position. It is not as much of an issue for higher frequencies, since they have much shorter and more complex wavelengths, that are not necessarily centered in the first place. Even if they also theoretically do cancel out, it is unlikely that you would notice it happening at all, and if you do, you could simply move your head 1 cm to get into the right spot again.

In a car, the driver position is sort of fixed. It would make sense to angle the speakers for this purpose.

I have come to the conclusion that everything, from the largest galaxy clusters to the tiniest quark and all the laws of physics, is nothing more than a fractal caused by rotation in the initial moment of creation of our local instance of existence that we call the universe. There are no particles, no waves. Only rotation.

Based on your description I’m going to take a wild guess: Your father is a “functioning addict”.

It explains everything, including his self destructive behavior.

The picture is from 1970. John Cleese is 30 or 31 years old in that picture…