Tenets breaking rules and being shitty mean that landlords lose on their investments (which inherently carry risk).
Landlords breaking rules and being shitty means that people go homeless, live in awful conditions, or cannot afford basic necessities.
Sure, both sides have the capacity to be bad, but trying to "both sides" basic shelter is fucking wild.
You sound really sure about your understanding of statistics and probability, and I don't think anything I can say can impact that. I'm going to defer to the experts, but you do you I guess.
The thing about long-term predictions (at least ones that get publicity) is that usually the goal is to change them, so few have been "proven". No one is printing stories about how an isolated set of rocks is going to be decayed by X% due to weather, because no one cares.
Except birth rates aren't physics that will progress if left alone, they're dominated by cultural choices that are impacted by economics and governmental policy.
Exactly. Those are the factors that are being considered when making these predictions. If economic factors and policies are making it harder to have kids, then birth rates drop, which is what we're seeing now. What else is going to have as much of an effect?
These predictions don't exist to take bets on. They're not scrying into the future. They're just binoculars that point to where we're going.
Mental illness is illness. If someone had a physical disability that made even going to physical therapy difficult, we'd expect more resources to be directed to help them get there to improve their lives. Or at the very least, we'd have enough empathy to say "damn, that sucks, and it isn't your fault alone."
I genuinely hope you never have to experience a mental health that gives you a real perspective on how that deep depression feels. But I also hope you show basic empathy to people struggling. It's a boomer mindset that's trickled down to us.
No, they just need to be kept in that context. We trusted science on chlorofluorocarbons impacting the ozone layer, and chose to fix it rather than let it keep going. Was the projection "wrong" because CFCs were regulated, or did we just interact with it in a practical way?
The same applies here. There's a population issue that (as you mentioned in another comment) without other factors, will come into effect. China can fix it, or let things play out and see if the "unknowns" can fix it for them.
"AI isn't good enough to replace workers yet, but it's good enough to convince CEOs it can."
Okay, I think the practical reasons you gave are sound. Pre-dividing a userbase into more chunks than necessary makes the site seem smaller than it is. And trying to "force" the same subs that were on Reddit into Lemmy prevents uniquely-Lemmy stuff from forming.
And the "need" for white people twitter is basically "if we give everyone but white people a twitter space they'll get mad and say it's racist" lmao. I 100% agree that it doesn't talk about "white issues" anywhere near the same degree as other communities talk about what they face.
With that said, I'm still not seeing a reason why the sub shouldn't exist. I might eventually agree that it's not necessary, it's redundant, or it's not funny... But that just means micro blog memes needs to get better posts and drive interest. Both are silly little communities with silly little posts, and each can right for more users.
Sorry about the long post, it's mostly quotes!
...we're on Lemmy where none of those communities are big enough to necessitate separating them.
For now. Unless you're assuming Lemmy will be small forever, in which case why are we here to begin with?
I also completely disagree that posts from other races don't do well. People of all races LOVED blackpeopletwitter because it was funny as hell.
Yes, because there was an explicitly-carved-out community that was able to express themselves within the context of the black experience. Trying to introduce race-centric memes to a general audience is a recipe for disaster, as it's really hard to judge intent.
The main dividing line on Twitter posts is political vs non-political.
Yup. And race has an effect on how one is affected by politics. This feels like the conservative mindset of "there are two sexualities: straight, and political". (Mostly kidding, but there's truth in there).
Plus, we're talking about screenshots of tweets...not actual discourse.
Comments. Comments are where discourse happens. A screenshot is posted with a hot take, shared experience, meme, whatever, and people talk about it. It's an echo of what goes on in actual Twitter comments, but here.
I'd respectfully disagree. The X people Twitter communities are for people who grew up within the context of their race to talk about things that are relevant to that race.
A lot of blackpeopletwitter posts wouldn't "do well" (receive upvotes) if they are presented to a general (mixed race) audience, simply because the majority of people may not relate to it. Therefore, there is a demand for black voices to speak to black voices. This extends to all races--my wife is Mexican, so I'll hop into latinopeopletwitter on occasion.
So why stop whitepeopletwitter? Unless there's something exclusionary/ problematic/ Nazi-adjacent happening, it seems like a good way for stereotypical white peeps to make dumb jokes about meatloaf. Micro blog memes has a similar-ish vibe, but that's mostly because the site is mostly white lol.
"But there's no such thing as "white culture" in the same way that black culture in America developed from having their cultural identity taken away, and being forced to create new traditions to navigate slavery, civil rights, and modern America! They already have cultural traditions tied to their country of origin, like Germans or Irish celebrations!"
Yup! But the concept of "whiteness" is becoming a thing, and it's fun to make memes about. That's all.
You're correct, and I agree. It does shift dems to the right slightly. But again, it's hyperbole to say dems are now "radical" on the border, which is what I was responding to.
This is the exact reasoning that Israel is using to justify their genocide in Gaza.
It's like people get 90% of the way towards "genocide is bad" and then add the asterisk "unless we do it."