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As for the on-cam streaming stuff, Gooncultist traces it to something called Rabbit, a platform designed to allow users to watch Netflix together, which proto-gooners found their own novel uses for. But as Gooncultist emphasized, any attempt at a comprehensive, linear history of gooning is doomed to failure. Like MAGA, it is a big-tent movement in which many eccentric tendencies have converged.
~ Daniel Kolitz via Harper’s Magazine

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Campus Trivia Night

Question: Which five prefectures in Japan had the highest Total fertility rate in 2024?

Via the Demographics of Japan by way of Wikipedia:

  1. Okinawa (1.56)
  2. Nagasaki (1.45)
  3. Miyazaki (1.45)
  4. Kagoshima (1.44)
  5. Kumamoto (1.43)

The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of a prefecture’s population is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime.

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