To be fair, these last 3 months have felt like 3 years so maybe they’re on to something.

Not sure what’s so confusing. When buying replacement tips, you just have to include the IEM model to make sure they’re compatible. Comply has many tip sizes, including Westone.

Glad to see I’m not the only one

Oh nice I’ll have to check it out!

Yeah I like Comply a lot too but considering how infrequently I use my IEMs and they still degrade pretty quickly I’m looking for another brand. Thanks for the spinfit suggestion. I’ll have to check it out

Partially true. Though female sloths will release a mating call, it looks like a female in estrus will be about 200% more active than normal.

But you’re missing the point that the population of Japan specifically is on the decline and has been for decades.

Even if we take out the cost of pensions for the elderly out of the equation, if people aren’t having kids to replace themselves, there won’t be enough working age people to fill every job needed.

For reference, the Japanese birth rate as of June 2024 was only 1.2. If that trend continues, in say 20-30 years, there will be about 1/2 of adults then as there are now.

The easiest and most immediate solution for Japan (and South Korea which is also having the same problem) would be to ease immigration so that more people can come in to work. But that doesn’t help in the long run nor does it address the cultural and societal factors that have lead to this point. And even then, since both countries are so homogenous, it would be hard for natives to accept a huge influx of immigrants.

On the one hand, yes having a child with a higher quality of life is better than having many children.

However, there’s a good Kurzgesagt video about how the severe decline in birthrate can doom a population. Basically, if a population is not at the very least replacing itself, it will run out of young workers to keep the country going and vastly skew the proportion of elderly people to young workers. Small, rural towns will not survive since young people will flock to cities for work.

Though the video is based on Korea, the same concepts apply for Japan as well.

I’m Just a Kid…in my ass. I don’t like what this is implying

Yeah I saw the comment that had the deleted lyrics. Your silly made up one is much better

Oh yikes. The real lyrics are way worse than the commented lyrics. It’s more like fanfiction than lyrics since the flow is so bad

Thanks for preserving what will surely go down as one of the rap lyrics of all time

I didn’t want to go into all factors that lead to this observation because that would take too long and require more research on my part. Fear of retaliation (and desire for power) is more an explanation of at least why members of his own party won’t criticize him.

This doesn’t answer your question but is more of an interesting observation that fits your question. It seems bar for political leaders’ mistakes has gotten so low over the pass few decades.

In the early 90s then VP Dan Quayle misspelled potato (though apparently not 100% his fault) and he was labeled an idiot by the entire country. Bush had a lot of funny Bushisms but most are either weird, poorly worded, malapropisms, or a mix of all three.

Then you have Trump. And while there are definitely people who think he’s an idiot, it doesn’t seem as widespread of a belief as it was for Quayle or Bush. I think part of it is because Trump is far more sensitive to criticism than any president we’ve seen so he’ll go after people who say anything negative about him. But I’m sure there are other reasons as well (ex: politicized news channels, social media, technology etc)

Unless you play competitive online team games. Then your stress and anxiety go up even higher.