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Lack of partner support is the most important reason for delaying having children in the UK

For population control?

Dear neighbours, the world is greedy for money. Worldwide, especially in wealthy nations, the birth rates are decreasing. The greedy bastards owning the economy want you to have kids in order to continue filling their pockets, because more people mean more needs, a bigger market and ultimately more money.

Trust in the greed of our capitalistic society for once, since it has been the one constant driver for human behaviour worldwide.

Rendered in EEVEE? Really? Wow! Considering you get so much more optical fidelity with Cycles it's really astonishing they've used EEVEE.

We believe delivering Nokia’s 4G/LTE system to the lunar surface is a transformative moment in the commercialization of space and the maturity of the lunar economy.

.... I fucking hate capitalism.

Countries all across the world

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate

Meet us Germans: We like bread and we're depressed. End of story.

Yes please. Give us more reasons to make EU economically less dependend on the US.

Well at least they communicate such findings openly and don't try to hide them. Other than ExxonMobil who saw global warming coming due to internal studies since the 1970s and tried to hide or dispute it, because it was bad for business.

A lot of people own a gram of sugar and make up a lot of sugar cubes. Informing them and motivating boycotts can have an accumulating effect.

But I'd say vote with both anyway. Your democratic vote and your money.

If the "win for everyone" includes shipping a game as microtransaction-based instead of ad-based, I doubt it's really a win. Microtransactions usually come with dark patterns and rely on techniques from the gambling industry.

Some options you could consider include [...] making your game free to play with optional upgrades sold via Microtransactions or Downloadable Content (DLC).

I am not sure this is better. I hate microtransactions usually more than ads.

Ads don't cost you money, just time, and sometimes some screen space. They are annyoing and that sucks. But leveraging dark patterns as stuff like FOMO and other psychological tricks to nudge people towards microtransactions can cost you a lot. A business model, which relies on techniques from the gambling industry – also by catching some whales – is imo way worse than ads.
Such games aren't made for all players, just for some who don't have control over their expenses (or can really afford it).

I can live with DLCs as long as there aren't so many that it becomes increasingly indistinguishable to microtransactions. But in the end I don't want to buy a fucking lego set, where I have to constantly buy new stuff.

That's why I prefer single purchase games. I am also ok with paying more for them if that means the devs get the proftis to keep the development of games I like going. Buy once – have it all. Keeping games at a comparably equal price over decades is imo not meaningful anyways due to factors like inflation. But the gaming community can be really unforgiving in this regard. That's why ad-based or microtransaction-based games are taking off. A majority of gamers are uncritical enough that this works. And then they are surprised when it bites them in the ass...

I am using Linux for work anyway and used Windoof just for gaming. I have hear good things about gaming on Linux recently, so that's a good incentive to make the full switch.

as CEO Elon Musk's political activities may be damaging the brand

May be damaging the brand?
I suppose this is one of the rare occasions where we can say without further investigation or study, that it certainly is a result of Nazi President Musk's political activities.