I feel like the largest threat may be C-sections over natural births. A lot of births in developed countries are C-sections, with a lot of it being because the babies are too large to fit comfortably through their mothers' hips.

As baby size increases and has benefits post birth, there may come a day where some human populations need to rely on C-sections to propagate.

I've had a few of the Jones Soda holiday packs, where they would make the tastes of various winter holidays into sodas. Cranberry sauce soda was ok. Turkey soda, not so much. However, the worst was Christmas Garland, which tasted like Pine-sol.

Nothing is a peace.

I hope she finds the peace she didn't have in life.

And if you don't like the content on one streaming service, you don't pay for it.

Wikipedia.

I didn't say all mods.

Reddit never offered a chance for apps to pay; this became very clear during negotiations.

Mods left because a lot of moderator tools developed by moderators requires API access and Reddit was very slow to develop acceptable internal tools. At that point, a lot of mods got frustrated and left.

I've always wondered why the consensus seems to be that it's 100% necessary for an economy to continue growing for society to function

You start running into issues with the economy when people are incentivized to not participate in it. People hoard money instead of investing it, industries that rely on growth stop which increases unemployment, and the economy becomes inefficient in general over time.

People generally think that no growth means the economy stays as is, but it would be more akin to a depression that never ends.

In terms of overall resources, it is probably better that we don't expand the population.

In terms of economics, we are finding more that, while people are living longer, they aren't living at the same quality of life, which means their economic utility drops significantly while still requiring an income. The current funding of retirement won't work going forward. Taxes from the wealthy could pay for it, especially as productivity keeps increasing and the rich seem to gain the most. But, there is going to be a push and shove against it as retirement of that many people effectively becomes an age based universal basic income.

In-N-Out arrived.

She's got talent, but if it weren't for Jay-Z, she would have had a career similar to Kelly Rowland.

The same thing happened in the mid 2000's with ringtone rap. This phenomenon is older than people think.

People listening to classical music when it was originally played commonly talked over it.

To her, probably.

I didn't know the USA was a dominant nation two centuries ago.

Yeah, but it seems like it was the straw that broke the camel's back.

I mentioned the bloody imperialism in the first half of the sentence.

And I find it hilarious that this was the thing that closed the portal down.

You need a reason for a large group to choose to maintain a single language over over smaller groups creating their own.

Look at Latin, it stayed mainly cohesive due to the Roman Empire and splintered off as the empire collapsed and the necessity for commoners to maintain communication across thousands of miles dwindled.

English is the current lingua francia because the dominant nation has been speaking English for the past two hundred years and created a pop culture market that is both large and rich, creating a positive feedback loop making the market larger and richer.