the population decline spiral begins or more like in progress

https://news.sky.com/story/china-imposes-13-tax-on-condoms-as-birth-rate-declines-13485073

- heavy gender imbalance
- scarcity of women, leading to higher expectations of a partner (没房没车不要谈 min requirements is owning a house a car)
- rising cost of living
- people aren’t feeling safe enough to have kids
- more career focused women, refusal to be housewives or settle down
- increasingly digital hence lonely world
- increase in incel culture

feels inevitable because i doubt slapping baby incentives will help either

taxing condoms might increase birth rates slightly, but there’ll be more unwanted babies and abortions too

was it inevitable from the start in pursuit of economical growth?

is capitalism suicidal?

https://capitalaspower.com/casp-forum/topic/is-capitalism-suicidal-a-note-on-population-aging/

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what a privilege

Immortality
by Clare Harner

I am not there, I did not die.

question for the channel, if i may, not sure if its fitting, but:

how would you like to be remembered? another pov could be, what would you like for your eulogy to be?

for me, i would like to be remembered as someone that inspires others

hopefully that day comes in the future above all other things

to have loved and be loved

good to ponder about

good observation

my normie female friends are already carrying songmont

i don’t think it stops here

https://x.com/okaythenfuture/status/2002366035572187506?s=46&t=nluSw7cwYGx8zFxfoYi5Iw

am reminded of this ^

interesting post on HGH

rich parents are giving their kids HGH to make them taller

https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/2002919315306131465?s=46&t=nluSw7cwYGx8zFxfoYi5Iw

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/rdaniel-foster/2025/03/31/luxury-has-evolved-its-now-an-immersive-deeply-felt-experience/

UK alcohol consumption at an all-time low

ironic process theory

https://x.com/promptllm/status/2003125297319985209?s=46&t=nluSw7cwYGx8zFxfoYi5Iw

gratitude is powerful

https://x.com/questmoosa/status/2003100273988788587?s=46&t=nluSw7cwYGx8zFxfoYi5Iw

me until recent times

after deciding that i can just do things

mental masturbation and waiting to be ready or for perfection are the pitfalls i had

today i was watching shopping in japan when i overheard a small kid asking his father

*pointing to the display cases of luxury watches*
“arent these just watches?”

“yes,” said dad

“why are they so expensive? they can only tell the time, right?”

“yes,” sighed dad as he continued browsing

“can’t you just look at your phone?”

couldn’t help but laugh because the purity of the child is spot on

I tell you, if one wants to be active, one mustn’t be afraid to do something wrong sometimes, not afraid to lapse into some mistakes. To be good — many people think that they’ll achieve it by doing no harm — and that’s a lie, and you said yourself in the past that it was a lie. That leads to stagnation, to mediocrity. Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

You don’t know how paralyzing it is, that stare from a blank canvas that says to the painter you can’t do anything. The canvas has an idiotic stare, and mesmerizes some painters so that they turn into idiots themselves.

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares — and who has once broken the spell of ‘you can’t’.

Life itself likewise always turns towards one an infinitely meaningless, discouraging, dispiriting blank side on which there is nothing, any more than on a blank canvas.

But however meaningless and vain, however dead life appears, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, and who knows something, doesn’t let himself be fobbed off like that. He steps in and does something, and hangs on to that, in short, breaks, ‘violates’ — they say.

Vincent van Gogh

https://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let464/letter.html