I appreciate your disagreement as I was being (perhaps a little too) sarcastic above.

However, I would counter your point sincerely by saying that affordability and a lack of resources are more likely causes for native people having less children.

There is also a lot of fear for the future from things like war, nationalism, and various other global catastrophies.

I know a lot of thoughtful married people that find it easier not to have children then to worry about these things. And this is not something unique to Japan.

Also I’d say the anti-immigration policies and culture speak for themselves.

In any case.,I’m sure that money could better fight a population decline if it weren’t being given to dating apps.

We have a population problem. But we don’t want to make it easier for people to have children or to increase immigration. We better give tax money to a company instead.

The problem here, is that the court procedure itself is an act of violence and is being used as a weaponized dox.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Frank hosting a beauty pageant.

I took your comment to mean that you were talking about journalism having political bias in general. I was adding context to that idea since the post features an article from Aljazeera.

For sure, but a regime is more than one person.

…and then realize half of them are stupider than that.

My understanding was that the Syrian Kurds received the arms.

The Resistance in Iran is supposed to like the Iranian Kurds, but idk how they feel about the Syrians.

This is stuff I don’t actually understand however, I’m just parroting what I heard my Iranian American friends say.

Think of your average American.

My Iranian American friends tell me they don’t trust aljazeera as a source because they are anti-Iranian. I’m not sure how true that is, but I do know the contents of the videos I saw. And only the Iranian regime had guns.

A tactic that can sometimes be used is to use a smoke screen. To muddy the waters and flood the zone with disinformation, making people unsure about the truth.

I’m no propaganda expert but I think they might just be trying to make it seem like the US isn’t as stupid as everyone can plainly see, while also trying to justify a stronger barage of attacks.

I’m not sure if you noticed, but the number of civilians Trump claimed on Easter that the Iranian regime has killed more than doubled without a source, from 30,000 to hundreds of thousands. And while any number of unarmed protesters being gunned down in the street is bad (see ICE), Increasing the number seems to be a useful justification for a preventive strike against a school.

Sure, but that’s not what the article seems to be claiming and that’s what I’m calling out here.

Oh yeah, is the US going mine the strait and funnel boats down a specific corridor where there is geography that would support a toll while also bombing ships that attempt to not pay the toll?

Because, that is what the US has enabled Iran to do.

In all the videos I saw of the Iranian regime killing protesters, the protesters were all unarmed.

This smells like progranda to me.

Agreed, people should do that.

As I stated in a different comment, this is what I did with a friend. We had 5 different cabels ranging from cheap to about $4000 and we kept listening to the same song. I could not hear the difference after the cheapest performance cable however (Purple flare) but I definitely could hear the difference between those and the cheaper cables.

Again, I don’t know how to describe it. I’m not an audio guy, but I did prefer it.

Again, I’m not an expert. But I’m willing to bet that there is some aspect of sound that is simply not being accounted for in tests like these. And for anything that has to deal with your senses, you should test it for yourself, not just take someone else’s word or experiment for it.

I don’t care if you believe me, it sounded different in a indescribable way.

If music is important to you I think doing tests like this is something you should do to see if there is a difference for you.

Basically I see a test like this and it seems like this food has the same nutrients as this more expensive food so its the same, while not being able to test for how food actually tastes.

Expensive things are not automatically better, don’t get me wrong.

Yeah, that happened. Only the cables were changed on the same audio equipment. Although it was was a night and day difference. Not that it sounded bad before. I’m sure it was objectively fine, the sound was just much more preferable. More like the band was physically in there room.

No, not those skus. But it was a similar test with compareable cables.

Edit: I tested with more cabels in between. I couldn’t hear the difference between the $1000 speaker wires and the $4000 ones however.

I tested this myself as a skeptic, just changed the cabels, but was able to hear a very clear difference with my ears. Although I couldn’t explain that difference as I lacked the vocabulary, still do.

Maybe the testing criteria can’t capture that difference either. Either way, you should do you own testing and figure out what you like since this is subjective.

Edit: the scientific method is to test for yourself.

Edit 2: I don’t care if you downvote me, but if you refuse to test things like this out for yourself I am disappointed.