NEW: Sec. Rubio gives an update on the "three phase" process playing out in Venezuela:
"Over 10 million barrels of Venezuelan oil have been delivered to the United States since the 3rd of January. That industry is being professionalized for the first time ever. It's going to the benefit of the Venezuelan people."
"They are selling oil in the market at market rates. The money is going to an account in the United States, controlled and monitored by Treasury, audited by KPMG. And it's, for the first time ever, the money is not being stolen. It's going to the benefit of the Venezuelan people."
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Everyone sees the fame, but no one sees the story behind it.
Name : Hazel Moore
Date of birth : June 9, 2000
Birthplace : United States 🇺🇸
Nationality : American 🇺🇸
Profession : Actress, influencer
Net worth : $500k - $1M+
- before becoming Hazel Moore She was just another face in the crowd, living a normal life, unknown to the world.
- then suddenly everything changed
- In a world where attention moves fast, she figured out how to stay ahead.
- within a short time, her name was everywhere - searches, trends, discussions.
– but here's the question people don't ask :
- Was it just luck, or a calculated move.
- behind every viral name, there's mix of ambition, risk, and a decision that changes everything forever.
- Fame brings money, fame brings attention, but it also brings judgement.
- and once internet knows your name, there's no going back.
- so the real story isn't how she became famous.
- it's whether the fame was worth the price.
What do you think??
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Just one sentence → a full 16-page professional webtoon comic ✨
I told Wery: “Create a story about a struggling art student who gets magically pulled into her favorite idol’s world...”
The result? Sketching Sparks - When Art Comes to Life
From self-doubt to magic, creation, and romance.
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Let me lay out the unpleasant arithmetic of the replacement rate, and why a modern society finds it so hard to reach.
A population of 100 women in an advanced economy needs 210 children to replace itself. Why?
Absent sex-selective practices, roughly 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. Evolution overshoots male births because boys are more prone to early death from accidents and disease. Therefore, of 210 children, about 108 are boys and 102 are girls. Not all girls reach the midpoint of their fertile age: accidents, suicide, homicide, and illness take some. In an advanced economy, about 98% of them survive, leaving 100 women to replace the original 100.
Now consider the distribution of children per woman.
Imagine 15 women have no children. Five do so by choice, for various reasons (professional, affective, religious). Ten face unfixable fertility problems, theirs or their partner’s. The 10% figure is conservative: the medical literature points to around 13%, and that does not even count male fertility problems.
Of the remaining 85, 10 have one child, 60 have two, 10 have three, and 5 have four. I am stopping at four to keep the post concise; very few women in younger cohorts have five or more children, but I could adapt the example to account for them.
Hence, the 100 women in this population have 180 children, for a completed fertility rate of 1.8.
Interestingly, this is roughly the rate we saw in many advanced economies until the early 1990s, and in the U.S. until around 2008.
But we are still 30 children short of replacement! Voluntary childlessness is only 5%. Three-quarters of women have two or more children. Look around: most of your friends will have two, plenty will have three or four. And yet, we are well below replacement.
You would not look at this population and call it selfish (is having two kids hedonistic?) or accuse it of losing family values (only 5% of women are choosing voluntarily not to have children).
The point is simpler. To reach 210 births, you need a substantial share of women to have three or more children. Two as the “normal” pattern will not get you there. And modern society makes three or more a costly proposition for most families.
Of course, current fertility rates in most advanced economies are well below 1.8. But my point is that, under present social arrangements, we should not expect 2.1, even if (to humor last weekend’s debate) we banned smartphones and TikTok. We need many, many more families with three or four children.
More pointedly, there is no self-regulating mechanism that pushes a society back to 2.1. The market-clearing analogy many economists use is flawed; scarcity feedback does not work the same way. (Another post on this another day.) And, as I often read, the claim that “nature” somehow regulates current overpopulation is just childish mumbo jumbo.
So yes, the arithmetic of replacement rate is unpleasant.
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