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[romad1]

4 minutes ago, chasfh said:

 

There is a bit of scholarly debate about the real population of the PRC since COVID revealed some fissures in their population claims.  

A couple notes:  they had 1 child policy in place since the 1970s and they went below replacement in the early 1990s.  

China is hiding a population secret, analyst says | School of Social Sciences 

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Yi Fuxian, an obstetrician at University of Wisconsin-Madison who conducts demography research, said the censuses China carries out every 10 years are "seriously overestimated" in an effort to match official estimates. The annual data should be corrected with the census data, he said.

Fertility Decline in China and Its National Military, Structural, and Regime Security: China Population Research | RAND

China's Population Policy at the Crossroads: Social Impacts and Prospects - PMC

China on track for massive population decline

 

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[chasfh]

5 hours ago, romad1 said:

There is a bit of scholarly debate about the real population of the PRC since COVID revealed some fissures in their population claims.  

A couple notes:  they had 1 child policy in place since the 1970s and they went below replacement in the early 1990s.  

China is hiding a population secret, analyst says | School of Social Sciences 

Fertility Decline in China and Its National Military, Structural, and Regime Security: China Population Research | RAND

China's Population Policy at the Crossroads: Social Impacts and Prospects - PMC

China on track for massive population decline

 

Thanks for the insight.

[chasfh]

[chasfh]

Which city would be named most for the US?

[chasfh]

I did not realize that many northern Michigan counties are more than 50% Amish! 

[chasfh]

Ewwww.

[romad1]

6 hours ago, chasfh said:

Which city would be named most for the US?

Maryland is also ashamed of Dundalk.  

[chasfh]

11 hours ago, romad1 said:

Maryland is also ashamed of Dundalk.  

I think Taylor has a claim for Michigan, at least for the Detroit area.

[romad1]

30 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I think Taylor has a claim for Michigan, at least for the Detroit area.

It’s the place where the amorphous downriver meets the people who can’t otherwise name any downriver towns

[romad1]

Here is a question: which west side of Mich town is the closest to Taylor in terms of being the laughingstock?

Muskegeon?

[Netnerd]

52 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Here is a question: which west side of Mich town is the closest to Taylor in terms of being the laughingstock?

Muskegeon?

Benton Harbor?

[casimir]

20 hours ago, chasfh said:

Ewwww.

I remember my dad making duck blood soup when I was a kid.  Thankfully he didn’t expect us to eat it.

[smr-nj]

21 hours ago, chasfh said:

Which city would be named most for the US?

I’ll just opine that Trenton, NJ (the state’s capital) has no redeeming factors.

[chasfh]

4 hours ago, romad1 said:

It’s the place where the amorphous downriver meets the people who can’t otherwise name any downriver towns

Plus it's the only city in the area you can comfortably append "-tucky" to the end of. 😉

[romad1]

Just now, chasfh said:

Plus it's the only city in the area you can comfortably append "-tucky" to the end of. 😉

My very [political thing] brother once was a big Star Trek fan and had a flag of the Federation which is basically the same UN blue flag.  He sported this in his front window in Taylor.  Well, the Taylor locals saw this as an affront to [political thing] and shot his window out.   

 

OH wait this is the political forum.  He's a MAGA now so its ironic that the locals saw it as an affront to 'merica.   Guess he learned his lesson or something. 

[chasfh]

What the world would have looked like If the Vikings’ assumptions about world geography were accurate

[chasfh]

Wow, did not know this:

In a way, this could be advanced to support an argument that the Horoshima and Nagasaki bombings had an unusual upside for Japan in the aftermath of the war.

[chasfh]

This is how close we were to losing all of Europe.

[chasfh]

How The Population of North America Fits Into Europe

[chasfh]

Related to this, there is a site I saw where you click a button for you to "be born" and it gives you the country you end up in, selected randomly and weighted by mathematical distribution of births worldwide, based on current birth rates.

 

[chasfh]

Seven Mercator Mistakes That Fool Your Brain