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Cake day: December 19th, 2023

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  • The replacement rate isn’t static. It depends on both how many people exist and how many people are having babies and how many babies they’re having. If the total number of babies per year stays constant, then whether it’s below or above the replacement rate depends on the size of the population. So for a hyper simplified example, if 100 babies are born per yer, that’s below replacement for a population of 110, but above replacement for a population of 90, but overall the population size will trend towards 100. Obviously real life is way more complicated, but even if the birth rate is low now, it’s far more likely we’re just moving towards a different population size, not a population of zero













  • If you try mushrooms (mdma too, but it’s not as risky afaik) please please please make sure to have trusted friend/trip sitter with you. It’s extremely rare, but truly bad trips that leave real psychological damage can happen, and having a friend or someone you trust to help you through it can be the difference between life and death, or serious harm vs not. It’s an extremely powerful compound that can bring tremendous healing, and the majority of the time it does, and even when it’s difficult there’s almost always a lesson or something to be learned if you embrace and explore the difficulty with love, but it does deserve respect and to say “they’re not dangerous in any significant way” is not entirely true. For most people most of the time it is true, but that .01% of the time it’s not it can be very bad, and like I said having a trusted, sober friend help you through can make all the difference.