this story comes out every so often about japan, rarely if ever mentions (slightly) lower births per woman in italy, china, spain, or the same 1.3 as e.g. poland, finland, canada
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?most_recent_value_desc=false
those are 2022 figures but i doubt there’s been significant change
there’s basically no first world country above the 2.1 replacement rate
please credit the original artist
https://wefail.art/products/saturn-devouring-his-son-ltd-ed-a3
i feel like if i understood anything about this it would be less funny
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perpetual motion
burnt plenty of brides
exceptionally good typo
no idea, comes from ofcom but i gave up looking
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/constituency-data-broadband-coverage-and-speeds/
out of 650 uk constituancies, 167 have lower average speeds than 120 mbps. the lowest is 48.1
For legal reasons this is a joke
no other reasons apply
Do you have to pay for it or deposit it in the lock? In the UK it’s common in all supermarkets that they need a refundable pound coin to unlock, so many people have a ‘trolley token’ keyring with a detachable part to use just for that
obviously the word was meant to be acting, why act retardant about it
it isn’t that misused buzzword but i don’t see how it’s rent seeking either
there’s a comment from a few months ago with a torrent, the date inside is july 2022 so will be missing anything newer: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/5089994
SQL when pronounced as sequel. Squall or even squirrel would have been nicer imo
fair enough. i picked those out as sort of ‘mainstream’ countries that this kind of article doesn’t get published about, while i’ve seen them about japan a few times now. be interesting to contrast immigration rates to countries with similarly difficult language and cultural barriers but that’s a bigger job i haven’t the time for now
to this article’s credit it does end with a couple of paragraphs on the korean government attempts to support “work-family balance, childcare and housing”