https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/sep/27/us-women-single-dating

 "willingness to commit to an equal, monogamous relationship as well as, in many cases, having a family."

 For lions, given the choice between retirement & continuing to work to feed kids, it's now going to be retirement.

 The trend with all of them is they're saying they're self sufficient & attracted to equals.  What they're showing on the internets though is attraction to higher status.  Higher status when they're self sufficient means doctors, lawyers, & CEOs. Instagram is awash in doctor husbands.

 They've really been socialized not to show any sexual desire.  The only attraction for lions nowadays is sexual desire. 

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 Pondered end games for 2 headed inflation.  The stuff on the top could correct down or the stuff on the bottom could correct upward.  So far, it's been 700 years of falling labor costs subsidizing the rise of everything else.  If the stuff on top ever corrected downward, they would print like mad until it didn't.  If the stuff on the bottom corrected upward, well, it's hard to make a case for that ever happening, given 700 years of progress.  A sudden tariff hike might do it, but they can always punt.  Only an embargo imposed by a foreign country could do it.


It's possible the horrible performance of the lion kingdom's conservative investments of the last 25 years made stonk market declines more bearable.  Anything better than cash feels great.

 It's long been believed that the public desires more inflation because most of the public is in debt, but what the fed has reported is over 50% of the population has more than $200k in positive net worth.  There is no such thing as the massively indebted, spendthrift country the media loves to report.

Over 50% of the country should be logically voting for deflation.  The segment underwater in debt, praying for inflation, should not be big enough to dictate monetary policy unless the behavior of the many is being manipulated outside their control.

What seems to happen though is media displacing one's own memory.  Even lions feel bleak watching reports that only the top 10% are getting rich while everyone else is broke.  It takes time to eventually remember they & most internet commenters are in the top 10%.  In fact, the top 50% is probably all taking off without realizing it.


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It's been a while since the technology industry did anything that made anyone feel good.  The wild west days of the internet were good for many but paid by the few.  Now it's good for the few & paid by the many.

 

Long ago, industry buzzwords abounded with open source, shareware, freeware, accessibility, convergence.  Now the buzzwords are AI garbage, DRM, subscription fees, paywalls, planned obsolescence, surveillance, data monetization, opt-out clauses. 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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