#Populations

[nando161mando]

UK Butterfly Populations Drop by 50% in One Year

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/20/tony-juniper-uk-nature-chief-ecosystem-collapse-as-butterfly-numbers-halve

[kalicofox]

Okay, I’m not saying you’re wrong, BUT, hear me out- I’ve been to/lived in several small towns in Texas that have several local newspapers, malls, penitentiaries, and have a skyline, but are still very much small towns. Abilene or Huntsville are good examples! So while I do like your thoughts!!! I do have to say it’s plausible for Amity Park to still be a small town.

Okay Anon, I'll give you that Amity Park COULD still be a small town. However, if you're going to use Abilene, Texas as an example, you're defeating your own point.

With a population of over 100k people, and a footprint of over 112 square miles, Abilene is not a small town. In fact, going by the US Census definition of mid-sized city (which goes based on population, rather than footprint) it's actually a large city! (And, as an aside, was offered offered the state significant financial incentive to host a jail. 1)

Huntsville, Texas, on the other hand, has a population (as of the 2020 census) of almost 46k people and a footprint of about 43 square miles. Once again, going off of the definitions used by the US Census, at just under 50k people, Huntsville would be registered as a mid sized city or town. So, again, not something you want to use to prove that Amity Park should be considered a small town.

The US Census definition of a 'Small Town or City' (according to US Census.gov) is anything with a population of under 5k people.

So. Unless you can convince me that a single small town with less than five thousand people in it needs five newspapers, then I think I'm going to stick to my guns.

(edited because I misread the thing about the jail)

[wearhit]

WORLD PIPULATION DAY

If population levels continue to rise, life on Earth will surely be wiped out eventually. So maintaining a proper balance is the only key to sustain the survival of Earth.

[er-cryptid]

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[walkingstackofbooks]

That "world's most populous city poll" started me wondering how many countries* those cities have a bigger population than...

Tokyo's population (37,435,191) is bigger than that of 170 countries, including Saudi Arabia's (36,952,585) and Ukraine's (36,758,716). In comparison, Canada has a population of 38,784,727.

Delhi's population (29,399,141) is bigger than that of 159 countries, including Cote D'Ivoire's (28,880,603) and Venezuela's (28,844,390)

Shanghai's population (26,317,104) is bigger than that of 154 countries, including North Korea's (26,161,743) and Taiwan's (23,923,572). In comparison, Australia has a population of 26,441,853.

São Paulo's and Mexico City's populations (21,846,507 and 21,671,908) are bigger than those of 148 countries, including Malawi (20,937,323) and Zambia (20,575,606)

And the populations of Cairo (20,484,965), Mumbai (20,185,064), Beijing (20,035,455), and Dhaka (20,283,552) are bigger than those of 146 countries, including Romania (19,889,414) and Chile (19,629,887)

*A place listed as a country on worldpopulationreview.com/countries, of which there are 210.

[etakeh]

[ryan-sometimes]

TERF shocked to discover that the real world is not an online echo chamber, and that instead the average woman either supports or just doesn’t care about trans people the way they do

[starbuck]

i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’

[starstruckmoonstruck]

A chance to talk about something I’m interested in? Awesome.

From what I understand I think it’s a mixture of two different things. The first is that people really can’t afford to care for another life anymore, even with two incomes. The other is something that I remember learning about in environmental science in high school and it has to do with human population trends across the world.

So. The thing is. countries go through stages when they begin to transition from less developed (third-world) and into industrialization, and during those stages the total fertility rate (TFR) of the society goes down and the average lifespan goes up.

TFR is the amount of children a woman will have in their lifetime, and as of 2020, the TFR in the US is 1.64 births per woman

This happens for a number of reasons, but the one that applies right now is education of women. The more educated a woman is about the world and their own body, the less likely they are to have children

As the TFR goes down, the crude birth rate (CBR) also drops, until the crude death rate (CDR) is higher than the CBR. This happens in countries across the world post-industrialization, and it happens because of education of women, access to birth control, low infant mortality due to things like healthcare and clean water, and the society spending more time on educational and/or economic ventures, leaving little time to raise children.

There is also the fact that the US has a higher maternal mortality rate than other developed countries, possibly making women not want to have children in the first place (plus we have no paid maternal leave-another reason!)

Imagine purporting to be a journalist and saying there were no economic changes after 2007.

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[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[neurodiversitysci]

If you're still adding data, I'm all three.

Please reblog for sample size!!

[atukaworld]

Nangaa : Entre nous et un fils de l'Ituri.

Ci-dessous notre conversion avec un fils de l’Ituri sur le phénomène Nangaa. Certaines choses sont dites qui peuvent aider à comprendre l’âme des Ituriens, des populations de l’Est de la RDC, quand bien-même l’échantillon ne fait pas les statistiques. Lisons… Un fils de l’Ituri : La cours militaire de la Gombe : voici la liste des co-accusés de Corneille…

[herbalsjoy]

World Population Day

On the occasion of World Population Day, let us make a promise to ourselves

to be more responsible toward the increasing population.

[3liza]

incredible to me that in the age of spending minimum $100 for groceries for one person every three weeks where i live, people are still online like "dairy is bad for you because it has a lot of calories". at this point im calculating calories per dollar at the grocery store and youre still stuck in "fat bad" mindset from 1980. you are an absurd person to me. laughable