If your population is declining and immigrants aren't even learning the language, it's not "multiculturalism", it's just handing the country over to another culture. Taking into account that progressive values are correlated with lower birthrates, and "regressive" ones are related to higher birthrates, are you comfortable with the consequences of this transition?
Are you sure that things like women's rights are going to stay the same in the long term by substituting the secular population with people raised with religious values associated with high birth rates, like indians, middle easterners, africans and so on? Are you sure material conditions will remain the same by substituting the working class with immigrants from countries with poor education systems, fresh off large scale political instability?
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Immigration as a solution to population decline is absolutely outsourcing and pretty much cultural suicide.
There are a lot of naive answers to this thread... Do people not realise that countries with higher birth rates are precisely the ones where people have the opposite worldview of secular, liberal low-birthrate countries? I don't know if I'm coming across xenophobic, it's just that I don't think people in the "first world" actually know how most "third worlders" actually are. You are not keeping, say, gay marriage rights unopposed for long if you're mass importing latin americans raised by devout evangelicals and muslim middle easterners. I see Germany and France already having some public demonstrations of muslim protest over progressive laws, for example.
Almost all of this goes for pretty much every other country, though...
I work in finance, so I know plenty of rich guys. Despite the stereotypes, many are pretty down to earth guys who just happened to luck out and be raised insanely interested in something very profitable. But the truly rich dudes, the CEOs and CIOs I worked with, are for the most part sociopaths
Undertale, but I want to go back to those times where I didn't know anything about it, not now that it's been memed to death. Playing it for the first time was such an experience back then.
Also, a boardgame: Settlers of Catan. Now I loathe the game, but back when I was being introduced to this hobby it was so good
Your opsec better be tight after saying something like that nowadays
Do my best to at least wash some clothes. My plans were cancelled
I guess movies would be a specific enough topic for me, but what I mean is people with a passion for, say, film noir shouldn't wait for film noir fans to show up on a thread, they should just create the content and hope the others find it.
I want to be clear that I'm not judging any "time waster" type of communities. It's fun to discuss random questions during downtime at work, it's just not where a strong community is formed. Reddit lives on through everything precisely because of the niche communities, not because of r/pics or something
I don't know, this kind of reasoning seems to create too much empty "content" and not enough real communities. Yeah, creating a bunch of generalist coms will get traffic and engagement, but the people there don't actually share anything in common, it's just a time waster.
I don't want Lemmy to be a time wasting app, I want it to have genuine communities with valuable content instead of endless AskReddit, AITA, AIO, etc etc etc. Therefore, I'm of the opinion that people should create communities about their hobbies and create high quality content there, which will drive demand. If the community ends up too specific, they can always just cross post to a more generic one as well.
Damn, are you a private banker or something? This is so many, especially CEOs
Yeah, seeing the kid die was awesome after he bragged about killing the dog hahahaha
Such a cool movie with great shots and coreography
I switched to Kagi and am beyond satisfied. If your goal is to strictly degoogle, it fits the bill, but it still does if you are looking for better privacy, as it now comes with an implementation of Privacy Pass. The algorithm is leagues above Google's and DDGs, IMO, and the "lens" feature allows you to seamlessly filter the results to specialized sources, including the Fediverse. "Small web" is a fun feature for when you're bored running unit tests at work, too