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Sure in agrarian times this still led to babies but in modern times it leads to loneliness, isolation and no babies. Hence S. Korea's rock-bottom TFR.

And that's not so much "aid", it's just keeping work from ruining the postpartum situation.

Haha, this reminds me of when Brent Musburger would wind up on an OSU broadcast and people would protest by muting the TV and turning their radios on. I'm sure that's not the only instance of that happening but it's enough of a thing that it's a feature now. Would Steve Jobs be pleased by this development?

Well that's good. I was just thinking back to the Constitutional Amendment Measure from August and how it's both historically and currently hard to get anything new over 60 percent in Ohio. And that's why they picked 60 percent -- both seemingly more plausible to voters and not being 100 percent which 60 percent basically is 100 percent.

Fist there was Undo Obama, now it's Undo Voters.

Don't forget that people tend to show up to them in medium-size to large gender-mixed groups so strangers have no idea who is with who so there is little hooking up with someone new or chance of the place turning into a meat market.

c'mon, everybody wants Double OSU-Michigan

A lot of things are trying to get away from beer since it doesn't do much and is way too filling.

Another MLS Cup would make the Crew the lone 3rd most-common winner of the MLS Cup -- breaking a 5-way tie and taking them to .750 in MLS Cup match appearances.

Huh, I didn't think Downtown Columbus was that strong. White-collar jobs being dragged up to Dublin-Worthingon-Westerville-Polaris has been so chronic that our economy became extremely lopsided. And why only a 3% loss with WFH still going like mad?

Columbus having an American Graffiti zoning code for so much longer than other cities kept prices of walkable areas too elevated as compared to unwalkable.

That's actually not so bad from an affordable housing perspective, but still not as good as getting a full smorgasbord of projects. I see a lot of 3-story walkups going up off of Gender Rd. for example. Bad transportation and walkability but that keeps the cost down. If anything in decent shape is remotely walkable around here it seems you're looking at minimum $2300 a month for a 2br.

Great, another thing from Airborne gone

"We don't have to do anything because we have pedicabs"

Hmmm, I'm surprised it was profitable. Yes it is "close" to Grandview but it is on the other side of 670 and 70 in a warehouse area. It's one thing to cross 670 then McKinley (still considered the road with all the junkyards and quarries on it) but then 70 as well. The East Market location is much better if you ask me. And I don't know why they call it the original, wasn't that the one on Short Street?

Here's a new article that incorporates many of the ideas that have appeared in the last year of this thread that maintains that much of the various things that governments all over the world have tried to raise birthrates has proven ineffective: You can’t even pay people to have more kids These countries tried everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to reverse drastically declining birth rates. It didn’t work. https://www.vox.com/23971366/declining-birth-rate-fertility-babies-children In the US, the birth rate has been falling since the Great Recession, dropping almost 23 percent between 2007 and 2022. Today, the average American woman has about 1.6 children, down from three in 1950, and significantly below the “replacement rate” of 2.1 children needed to sustain a stable population. In Italy, 12 people now die for every seven babies born. In South Korea, the birth rate is down to 0.81 children per woman. In China, after decades of a strictly enforced one-child policy, the population is shrinking for the first time since the 1960s. In Taiwan, the birth rate stands at 0.87.... ...“Even the richest, savviest, most committed governments have struggled to find policies that produce sustained bumps in fertility,” Trent MacNamara, a history professor at Texas A&M who has written about fertility rates, told Vox in an email. “If such policies were discoverable, I think someone would have discovered them.” So basically, the help cannot be under the category of "aid". About the only thing that works is making sure people have good jobs that aren't utterly life-dominating so that they can trust their situation and to keep costs down rather than lean on aid. Instead of trying to boost birth rates, experts say lawmakers should focus on policies that allow people to have the families they want, regardless of size. “We need to invest in people and their success,” Gemmill said. In the US, that means measures to improve access to high-quality jobs, paid leave, and affordable child care, as well as supporting families in the transition to parenthood. “We always hear that it takes a village, but that village is just not what it used to be,” Gemmill said. “It just seems like everything’s set up to be very hostile to parents.”

It's really awesome how when you click a Facebook or even Instagram link it opens a new tab then kills the tab you clicked from so you can't use the back button. Which is literally a browser hijack. Stop whining because I used the rest of the internet rather than just your products.

A buddy of mine that lives near Polaris says the Giant Eagle there just up and closed with no replacement. Is that the case here too?

They're a big part of the reason any time a new restaurant opens millions must be spent on remodeling. You can't just change the sign and maybe paint a little like restaurants in Europe do. Everything has to be a Hail Mary here.

I know that's true with highway projects which obviously share some resources with structural. Smaller projects aren't even getting construction bids.

Did you eat Bojangles'? Did you notice anything unusual about the menu as compared to a Bojangles' in the South?

Unfortunately retail as a whole is a zero-sum game but bars and restaurants are not as much.

What it really shows is that there is demand for lodging besides just next to convention centers and off of outerbelts. The traditional lodging industry basically only supplied those two markets for over 50 years. Now AirBnB has shown them that urban lodging is in demand but the traditional lodging industry can't move as fast as individual small business owners can by just letting their buildings' 1-year leases expire, adding electronic locks and hiring a few custodians. Perhaps the quickest way for traditional lodging to get in on the action is to sign a few floors of newly constructed mid-rise residential/mixed use buildings before construction since building a new high-rise hotel is a long process.

That IS a problem. As a retailer if I get a sense that somewhere is a place where all of people's money goes in their mouths I'm not going to open. If you lose any more permanent residents to STR then you even start losing things like hair salons and Snap Fitness to even more bars, taprooms and restaurants that are open 4 months then close and sit empty for 18 months while getting remodeled again.

He's going to canoe and horseback prison right?