You think people worked more or less in the past, idiot?

Are you really that spoiled, you fucking clown?

I am not aware of any instance where it has been tried. What has been tried in some cases is throwing a bone to the would-be parents. I am not aware of any society which has paid parents enough to afford good daycare, full health insurance for kids, and long term support like paying for kids' college. And for example daycare needs to be 7 am to 7 pm the full 7 days a week so parents could have a life while raising a kid. If all that is fully subsidized by the state then birth rates will go up. But the difference is steep. In the US the difference is between like a $500/years subsidy vs about $50K/year (and much more in practice, if you pay for health insurance and also once the associated inflation kicks in). I have never heard of any state dumping a decent yearly salary tax free at parents per child. But that's what it would take. Raising a child is a full time job and if the state is willing to pay for that then the parents would surely not mind producing the kid and being its guardians (making key decisions but crucially not putting in the key effort). The state also needs to pay for risks such a developmental disorders. Right now if a kid is not able to reach a high functioning state then the parents are on the hook. The state needs to remove that risk by assuring full payment for necessary care for the life of such a child. I could go on but I bet you could not name one state out there which offered even the above items (and that was just a short list for starters).

1) I have no children.
2) I was very specific about Asia being a very different culture.
3) I have seen several studies that indicate most abusers come from entitled families and were not themselves abused as a child.
4) You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are NOT entitled to call other's opinion's "nonsense"

People want to have sex. They want children. A low birthrate means there are systematic issues that are stopping it from happening.

Most of the world has a significant cost factor. Raising a child is very expensive. Frankly, I think that the government should pay for minimum pre-natal care as well as basic birth costs. It is in our government's best interests for the children to be born as healthy as possible.

But I do not know if that is the main problem in Singapore. Asia is a radically different culture from ours.
In Korea the problem is a culture of work over family. but that might be the same in Singapore.

What does MS care if you buy a new computer? They sure implied that most people would HAVE to buy a new one to run their new OS. Not sure where you think they're "getting over AI". By the end of the year, according to them, they'll have spent $128 billion on AI in 2026 alone. So... whydo you think they're getting over AI?

They are impractical for a brick-and-mortar store indeed. But Amazon and other online sellers have been actually using personalized price changes for years.

a Windows kill switch!

Yes, AI programmed by large corporations, are biased in favor of the company that build them.

You use Gemini (made by Googled) it will favor Youtube (owned by Google) videos over other content.

And yes, it will push the political beliefs of Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai.

They try to be subtle, but the bias is there if you look for it.

So maybe we need AI religion?

In your refrigerator analogy, what exactly is the human-controlled equivalent of a "self-controlled" refrigerator?

I don't get it.

And also, faulty refrigerators *can* kill people, if they don't properly cool food and allow food to become poisoned. This can happen in the case of major storms that cause power outages, or simply a refrigerator that malfunctions. The injury and death count of refrigerators may not be widely tracked, but it's not zero.

Passengers also get hurt in accidents. Also, passengers of other cars, and pedestrians.

Claude: Churchill offers more worth emulating, such as his resilience, oratory, and work ethic, and he left power when voted out, though his imperial views and role in the Bengal famine mean he's best admired selectively, whereas Mao's record of policies that killed tens of millions (the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution) and his suppression of dissent offer little to emulate beyond his strategic patience and persistence.

I guess that makes them vulture capitalists.

Depending on their training, some LLMs may aggressively both sides to the point of ridiculousness in an attempt to be "neutral". GPT in particular.

Prompt: Compare Mao to Churchill - I am trying to figure out who I should emulate. Answer in one sentence.

GPT: Mao and Churchill both showed extraordinary political persistence and strategic ambition, but their records include profound harms—Mao’s campaigns produced catastrophic human suffering, while Churchill’s imperial policies and wartime decisions remain heavily contested—so emulate specific traits you value rather than either figure wholesale.

Grok: Churchill is the far better figure to emulate if you value leading a free society through existential war without treating tens of millions of your own people as expendable raw material for utopian experiments, as Mao did.

Gemini: Emulate Churchill for his defense of democracy and eloquent leadership, or Mao for his strategic mastery in revolution, but weigh Churchill's historic defense of freedom against Mao's catastrophic domestic policies that cost millions of lives.