It would require the largest tax increase in American history - and it wouldn't fix the situation, just stabilize it.

Everyone needs to read the section about demographic data.

Big claims:

- The United Nations is systematically over-estimating fertility. (Table A1)

- The United Nations is assuming inplausible fertility rebounds (B.2)

- The world is already below the replacement rate. (B.4)

- The world population will peak in 30 years.

He has been saying this in his lecture "Demographic Future of Humanity" which you can find on YouTube, but now we have finally have the paper.

We need to make this common knowledge.

Fernandez-Villaverde says he goes to each country's national statistical agency's website, and uses their numbers for births and deaths and population, and computes fertility and replacement rate, and the trajectory of population for each country from that.

He says he has no idea where the UN gets its numbers, despite asking several times. He is a professor of economics and demography, so he's not going to just make stuff up.

Even if the headline claim is true (other people have already critiqued it), this would dramatically increase the federal deficit without massive tax increases - and as far as I know, none of the advocates of a M4A-style program have ever explained how they would pay for it.

I import a lot of stuff from Europe and the shipping is rough. I save by bundling items.

If only I could get the artists I like to release at the same time

My guy holds stuff for me. My current order started last year.

How do I get a job like this? Should I just email the team leads or is it the kind of job that's done in-person in another country?

I'd say government is your best bet unless you live in a low-income country and can get into one of these teams

Every day I take a 2 hour walk and contribute as much data as I can to OSM using this app.

I've been thinking of diving into Kazeta. Its a linux distro for DIY physical media.

I'm going to skip the line on this one.

Series X controllers are easily worth that extra $20-$30 for the jump in quality.

Sorry Valve. I know its not really your fault but I refuse to give you my money this time. Instead I'm executing plan B: converting my Steam Deck into a workstation. It's the best hardware I have and while it can't play everything smoothly what it can run well is practically endless.