Wednesday Night ONT - May 6, 2026 [TRex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans. The bar is open.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. This is a Tucker, Candace and Megyn free zone. Please.

Will you be smarter after reading this ONT? Will you be better looking? Will you be more fun at parties? Will you lose weight? Will you be wealthier? Will you be more fashionable? If you skip the content, you'll never know!

[Top photo: Pilgrimage Church of St. Bartholomew,Königssee, Bavaria, Germany]

Secret Service agent: "Sir, I KNOW it is time for the Wednesday ONT. I AM hitting refresh!"

Pete Hesgeth thinking "We have all this military technology, but we're never fast enough to post first! How do they do it?"

JD Vance thinking "I want to see why tankdemon is late again."

Marco Rubio thinking "I'm just glad that nobody asked me to write the ONT."

Photo Credit: Dan Scavino

The collapse of teen fertility in the digital era

Teen fertility collapsed globally starting around 2007. This affected countries across the income and policy spectrum. This paper argues that smartphones changed how teens spend time with each other, and that this change in turn drove the collapse in teen fertility. Once enough teens are on the phone, being on the phone is where the peer network is; in-person time falls sharply, and with it the unstructured contact in which most unintended teen conceptions occur.

The model predicts that the shift towards the phone-mediated equilibrium affects multiple aspects of teen behavior. The same instrument that produces a collapse in teen fertility produces a surge in teen suicides.

Yikes. Isn't there a happy medium somewhere?

Anything this weird and horrifying must qualify as "art."

Artist: Stephanie Temma Hier

Wanna buy a lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay?

4 bed, 1 bath. 1500 square feet. Asking $450,000 Listing

Nope.

I recently learned that toothpaste has an expiration date. Why? Is this a new thing? Did I miss a memo?

Difficult to see Phil Collins looking so frail, but nice to see his smile.

Message received from the Bears of Yellowstone: "We're hungry and tourists are too close to our cubs. But we stand innocent of the conduct and charge made by this comment. We're bears but we have standards. Thank you for your attention to this matter."

The Pittsburgh police scanner keeps giving. Thank you people of Pittsburgh!

For the big ONT finish:

Grieg or Savatage?

Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking ?? Does anyone read the disclaimer? Does anyone click on the lurking link? Is everyone whelmed?

posted by Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

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