If you sort comments by upvotes in your app, you will see what happened as the top comment. But it was a temporary problem, no need to panic for that reason.

But I agree with others, users should spread out to more instances to help keep the fediverse healthy and other instances active. Otherwise we encourage Reddit 2.0.

I have never used lemmy.world myself, because it goes against the fediverse idea to flock together on the same instance.

One interesting idea that ive seen is that this is a ritual for Israel to be hated as much as possible, because these zionists believe its the end times and Israel will have the entire world against them and still win.

At the end of history, the nations of the world gather against Israel/Jerusalem, but God intervenes and Israel survives or wins.

This is connected to book of revelation in Christianity, the Armageddon prophecy.

Im not religious but im interested in these theories because to me its obvious we have good vs evil in the world.

Without it, everything stops.

Obsidian loads faster then notepad? Thats surprising, considering its a full blown markdown editor with plugins and tons of features.

But yeah, Microsoft stopped caring about windows speed and quality long time ago.

Yes I have no problems with that. Thanks for the info.

No.

Become the owner class? :p

Must be many feeling this way. I know i would if my leaders became sith lords.

America is going backwards in human evolution.

Fair.

Future is going to be awful for everyone except the owner class.

I just ask chat gpt to go through the statistics since there are a million documents about this. They do have more children but it has decreased in the last few years. Definently not 4-5 children. And its good for the state, since Sweden now has the lowest child births in decades.

According to Statistics Sweden, foreign-born women in Sweden have, on average, slightly more children than women born in Sweden, but the difference has clearly decreased.

Latest clear comparison from Statistics Sweden:

GroupTotal fertility rate, 2023Women born in Sweden1.4 children per womanWomen born abroad1.6 children per woman

Statistics Sweden says that foreign-born women follow the same downward trend as Swedish-born women, but “at a higher level.” In 1990, foreign-born women had 2.4 children per woman, while in 2023 the figure was 1.6. Swedish-born women had 1.4 in 2023.

Important nuances:

“Immigrants” are not one single group. Statistics Sweden says that women born in the EU or Nordic countries generally have lower fertility than women born in Sweden, while women born in Africa have the highest fertility. Women born in Asia are higher than Swedish-born women but lower than women born in Africa.

The measure is not perfectly comparable. Statistics Sweden notes that the total fertility rate for foreign-born women is not fully comparable with Swedish-born women, because not all foreign-born women have lived in Sweden throughout their entire fertile period.

Part of the difference is due to timing of immigration. Statistics Sweden says that childbearing is often high in the first years after immigration, which can raise the figure for foreign-born women.

Overall fertility in Sweden is low. For Sweden as a whole, the total fertility rate in 2025 was 1.42 children per woman, roughly the same low level as in 2024.

So the answer is: yes, on average slightly more, but not dramatically more, and the difference varies a lot depending on region of birth and time spent in Sweden.

Good info but sadly I dont trust the official numbers here. As i am sure you know, misleading with statistics is very easy. “Foreign-born” is what they use here, and they dont include people who came earlier, and are now considered Swedish citizens.

But still, good to get the official view! I had no doubt it would not show anything negative.

Just explaining the stats for sweden. Without those, birth rates would be going down a lot.

Its immigrants getting lots of kids. Its common with 4-5 kids. I think whats happening is that native swedes are having less children but because of immigration, birth rates go up a lot.

Perhaps its possible to show this using statistics but probably not since they dont separate immigrants in those stats.

When countries started talking about joining Nato because Russia was threatening the west, I knew it was only a matter of time before something would happen that would drag everybody into a war.

And if America leaves Nato, or doesnt support Nato, then that war will come much more easily.

Why do i get the feeling that Trump and Putin planned this?

No I took time off work and havent worked since october last year. Its been absolutely amazing. But I did work for 25 years before that so I have built up savings.

I live off savings and the stock market and it works pretty good. But now in starting to be more worried about a global crisis because of oil and fertilizer blockages, which will tank the stock markets if it happens.

So im currently being careful. The coming month will be very interesting. If industries are affected by oil shortages or if food prices are affected by no fertilizer, people will get worried.

Such rage bait and they know it.

Yes, freedom requires giving up some things.

Yes.