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New PR: a 16:34, One Mile, 20lb Kettlebell, Barefoot, Suitcase Carry.
What are your thoughts on the late Pope?
For a little over a decade, Jorge Mario Bergoglio served as a bad Pope, but during that time he was the Pope nonetheless. I couldn't say I thought much of Pope Francis at all beyond that though.
Given his age at the time he was elected, no one was hiding their thoughts that he wouldn't have long left for this world. Thing is, the agents had already made it very clear rather early on that Easter 2025 would be his last and he'd "succumb" to Pneumonia. I wasn't surprised when it happened, so make of that what you will.
It's as terrible as you might imagine.
My Daughter went through a string of shitty boyfriends, and there was really nothing we, as her Parents, could do about it.
We did keep the lines of communication open, and she eventually got her shit together. She did not escape unscathed, however, she is appreciative of what we did for her.
@Mate1212 I can answer this from a Stepdad perspective. If she chooses a decent guy, you don't think about the sex part, at least if you have your head screwed on correctly. If she were to grow into a THOT, and/or hook up with an obvious dirtbag, it feels like a wasted investment of time and better example offered, but still one does not dwell on the sex parts inherent in her having grown up.
Commodity price trends over the last few centuries say you're wrong.
Paul Ehrlich's predictions in The Population Bomb and elsewhere often get pointed to in this discussion. He wasn't wrong about resource depletion, but his prediction timelines were off because of ongoing advances in resource extraction. Sure, humankind has kept up with rising demand far beyond the limits seen by Ehrlich in his time, but at the cost of massively increasing entropy. For example, massive strip mining and leaching operations to capture minerals, and the Faustian bargain of fracking to keep wells producing that were declining with traditional methods but at a higher price per BTU and much more dire deferred environmental cost.
China is facing a catastrophic future due to its idiotic one child policy.
Probably the worst example. China has managed to industrialize and raise the individual standard of living far faster and better than almost EVERY nation in modern history, in large measure BECAUSE of the one child policy.
does not portend well for the future of these countries
Exactly WHAT is troubling about stabilizing population numbers at some fraction of where they are today, in the name of prosperity for all into the distant future? Many of the arguments I've heard against it are economic and boil down to top quintile no longer able to exploit the growing masses for profit and wealth concentration upward. The quiet part seldom said out loud is fear that "their" race will get "taken over" by other races. Proponents of either of these arguments never seem to bring a viable answer to the question of HOW to sustain an ever-growing population on a limited planet to the table.
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