U.S. birth rate drops to record low, ending pandemic uptick
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CDC's provisional figures show a 2% decline in births from 2022 to 2023.

The pace of babies born each year in the U.S. has slowed to a new record low, according to an analysis of 2023 birth certificate data published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Last year’s slowdown marks an official end to the uptick in new babies that began during the COVID-19 pandemic. At least 3,591,328 babies were born in the U.S. in 2023, down 2% from the 3,667,758 born in 2022.

  • the post of tom joad
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    8 months ago

    In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You’ll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You’ll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you’ll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.

    • SoylentBlake@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 months ago

      It’ll be nice to have meat again. And presumably living debt free.

      I already don’t have access to medicine - well not without sacrificing a decade of what pittance of my productivity is left to me after the kleptocracy is thru - so today I have the same as them, as many years as I was born with, luck providing.

      Media and horror flicks tell us that humanity is what we need to fear if it all goes away, but I’ve been in natural disaster, people come together in crisis. You’re, we all are, more afraid of being alone than meeting a stranger, and at least in the context of a survival scenario I think we can all admit that to ourselves. We would all use the last of our hunting ammo to defend a friend. More minds, more eyes = more opportunities, less risk. I’m not afraid of social collapse, I’m currently more afraid of the society dancing on the precipice as if it has plot armor.

      • the post of tom joad
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        8 months ago

        In case i wasnt clear enough i was quoting a book/movie character, Tyler Durden. I’m not that poetic.

        Unless you already knew that

        • SoylentBlake@lemm.eeEnglish
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          8 months ago

          Palahniuk is one of the few authors I like. I rarely make time for fiction anymore, sadly.

          The film of Fight Club Brad Pitt def earned my respect for what he brought to Durden, how MUCH he brought. The onscreen character was like 90% Brad Pitts creation, and he fuckin nailed it.

          I like the movie ending better for the movie and the book ending better for print, oddly enough. Capping it off with the Pixies got me to stand and clap in the theatre, (the matrix did the same with RaTM, my🥇) but i had been a huge Pixies fan since the early 90s, so it was cool for them to get some exposure…even tho it was the 90s, I never susbscribed to the GenX sellout/underground cool spiel, I had listened to Sublime and the Offspring for years before they both took over the radio, I was happy for em. Get paid for your art. thats my little millennial dream …

          • the post of tom joad
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            8 months ago

            I like the movie ending better for the movie and the book ending better for print, oddly enough

            I agree. The part on the bus in the end of the book just wouldn’t have the same punch in film