Lemmy is only for complaining. /s

There’s things that are slightly futuristic, like lightbulbs that don’t really burn out and barely need power to run, or antidepressants that don’t completely fuck you up. But yeah, in the 1970s they’d kind of maxxed out what’s physically possible with a lot of technologies, while they were still projecting linear growth like they’d seen over previous decades.

Now I’m curious how high gas prices got in the 70’s oil crises, in 2026 dollars. Uhhh… looks like it was comparable to now, actually.

OP did, then edited it out.

And now edited the rest out, too.

Neat, a first-hand source! What else should we know about Niger, beyond the statistics?

Besides having nothing to do with Niger, which is a totally different situation, the first bit is understandable. A kid needs a house and stability much more than an adult does. Here, there’s not really council houses for kids, either.

And no, it’s not migrant’s fault. Stop reading the Sun or the Daily Mail or whatever.

Going more by Occam’s razor, and a bit of Hanlon’s: They copy-pasted every queer term they could find, and dumped it into the gay-bad bill. The junta may or may not have known what asexual even is.

It’s an islamic country, which also has evangelical missionary influence, and positions itself as anti-Western (when tolerance is highly associated with the West), so that’s a great way to win political points. Now, poorly written laws like that would be a problem… if they had rule of law and working courts in the first place, which they don’t.

Niger being a different, fully islamic country, mostly in the Sahara instead of on the lush coast. Since a lot of people don’t know the difference

What does that even mean, in practice? Mandatory government sex?

This is Niger, where the mean women has like 7, meaning many have more. IIRC it’s the highest rate in the world. Niger is also one of the poorest countries, so there’s no real reason they’d want more.

You just can’t enjoy it, at least if you’re at the deeper ends of the spectrum.

In the sense people mean when they ask that, no. It’s gods and spirits for people afraid to just believe in gods and spirits.

In the literal sense of if life exists anywhere except Earth, the consenses is yes, it should. Although even there you have to wonder. The stars are awfully quiet and uncolonised-looking.

Yeah, it’s picking weird if you go to the store and buy a known brand of alchohol, and then it’s poisonous, too. Like, even in Africa, most alcohol is fine, which is why this is news.

Oh, and there’s also the FHSA, on that note.

G4S, Dollar Tree or a payday lender like Curo Holdings should go up in any major downturn. Specifically if/when AI craps out, some of the big losers in white-collar services would rebound, although I don’t know enough to really give details on that. Lots, like Nestle or Goodyear, aren’t countercyclical but will be fairly unaffected, because they aren’t in tech and sell something people can’t really do without.

Yes, everything in the market is exposed to volatility. In which direction can vary, though. If you have a crystal ball and know the bubble is imploding this quarter, you could also buy bearish options on things like Nvidia. (There’s no off-the-shelf options that go out many years, I checked)

Diversified stock without AI is an option. Bonds give less return and also are looking a bit funny these days, while metals give literally zero.

Yeah, but timing the market is always iffy. For all you know the bubble will burst so far out that it’s still better to buy today.

Plus, you can invest in other countries. I myself hold some of an everything-except-the-US ETF.

… You know, this is kinda true. I can’t think of a single young person who looks at the future (writ large) with hope rather than dread, or at least YOLO-ish apathy. The difference between people is in degree, and if they think it will eventually get better again.

Even most old people know the outlook is kinda fucked.

Although, if you have to gamble, fuck with day trading before slots or sports or whatever. Way better odds.

Yup.

The Canadian equivalent is a TFSA, unless you max it out (congrats), then RRSP. Apparently there’s niche cases where RRSP is better, so look into it a bit.

There we go, another brilliant reply. /s