balfirevic

> nor for singing

It is if you're singing with a piano or fretted instruments. Which is most singing.

Well, what if it is? Hanging out with a whimsical premise? Oh the horror!

LOL, I often don't even bother to adjust my clocks for daylight savings time.

> even this list kind of leans toward improving other measures as a means of increasing happiness

Since we don't have direct access to happiness dial, every advice for increasing happiness is going to be like that.

> But be warned, it takes a long time

What's a "long time"? A month, a year, 10 years?

> They're not the cheapest option

Whats "not the cheapest"? 100 EUR, 1000 EUR, 10000 EUR, more?

Barring not-yet-invented advances in automation, shrinking population means fewer and fewer people providing goods and services compared to the number of people that need them, which means worse and worse poverty for larger and larger fraction of people.

Yes, but that is the common terminology.

> Our assumption was that we were in a stealth baby boom.

That somehow evaded fertility statistics?

> people just want their recreational drugs

Yes, people want to recreate, doing all kinds of activities with various levels of risk. They don't need to concern themselves with whether you can respect it.

"General aviation" does not include commercial air transport, so that's probably not what you meant.

In Croatia, which is (and has been) seeing a tremendous rise in real estate prices, everyone talks about the high prices, but rarely can you hear about about housing shortage. Indeed, building new housing is sometimes brought up as one of the reasons for rising prices.

The economic illiteracy is just that bad.

> I do not think the exact shape has any influence

Yes, that's what I said.

> that doesn't affect the sound

That would be the whole shape.

Tetris effect, but with the baby!

> whereas in this case the transformation is overwhelmingly negative.

> The finding that this technique is actually bad in most cases

Why do you think this?