Those "rare genetic anomalies" can be up to 1.7% of the population who are born with intersex trait

You're saying that 1.7% of the population is hermaphrodite?

I seriously doubt that....

I've known women and men...most were straight, some were homosexual....

I've yet to meet someone that was not readily categorized as "dick" or "no dick".....that I've ever known.

poor people have more babies than wealthy people (Elon excluded)

Make that "Elon's fertility doctor". Or maybe "the guy carrying the sperm sample". There's no honor among eugenicists, why would there be?

Gender is a sociocultural construction. Usually it aligns with one's biological sex, but not always. It's certainly more than a feeling.

This is something being pushed in the past 5-maybe 10 years....and it's bullshit.

Anyone old enough to to remember back as far as the 2000's and before knows that this wasn't a thing in society....sure, we knew there were outliers as with everything. It used to be listed in the books as an official mental disorder....it still should be.

Aside from rare genetic anomalies you are a boy or a girl.....depending on where you have a dick or not.

Geez, life was SO much more simple a decade or so ago.....

...but their megaphones are drowning out reasoned discussion and making it all but impossible.

And recently...BULLETs have drowned out reasoned discussion.....

Hard to discuss when you assassinate people trying to openly discuss differences...

I think it really depends on the business model. It sucks when its a service you pay a recurring fee for for "buffet" content. MOST streaming works that way. Gaming has some options there but most of the content is still sold as individual purchases.

In that regard, I don't care as much. I don't want to feel like I have to subscribe to a half a dozen different services to play or watch a specific title, but if I'm paying a one time fee for it, I don't much care which one I bought it on. I mostly prefer Steam, but if I have to launch GOG to play one game it doesn't bother me.

I was actually wondering how many close friends people typically had before social media.

I have never done social media and was around LONG before prevalence of SM and even the internet itself.

I''ve pretty much always had the same group of about 10-11 ( 1 passed a couple years ago )....very close friends I stay in touch with on a very regular basis. I live around many of them and those outside of my state...I"m on group text chats, and we *GASP* actually call each other and talk too!!

I've never found lack of social media accounts or interactions to inhibit my love for and interactions with my long term close friends.

Do most people not have real life friends numbering more than say 5+?

What about before the internet?

Remember the old saying goes:

"Friends help you move.....

........REAL friends help you move bodies...."

"You wholeheartedly disagree" with the facts. If your theory was right, that it was that we suddenly decided to culturally devalue motherhood (never mind the question of why we would suddenly do that, I guess it's some sort of conspiracy), then why is it a global phenomenon, as OP points out? Why did Koreans, Finns and Chileans suddenly decide to devalue motherhood and stop letting little girls play with dolls at the same time?

"Represent our culture" eh? What is our culture then, in your opinion? I don't see many people with this attitude join Morris dancing groups, to put it like that. Or string quartets. If you do any culture at all it's usually some bizarre caricature version of the past with viking metal music etc.
And that's the best case. Worst case, it seems like you think "our Western culture" is about breeding and dominating, and complaining that you can't recruit enough women to your breeding and dominating project. In that case, why would you care if only some very distant cousins of you do the breeding and dominating after you're gone? Your culture will go on.

Unless the complaining is an essential part of it?

One word: rent.

I find paddle shifters to be much more fun than a clutch and stick setup for manual shifting (even if its just telling an auto gearbox what gear to use). But i've always had a disconnect between what my feet, and what my hands, are doing. Driving a two pedal car is already a lot of focus and strain in auto D.

I've tried paddle shifters....and just doesn't work for me...

I mean, how do you down or upshift while turning the wheel...? When turning the wheel hand over hand I can't keep up with which paddle is which...

I've always had manual transmission cars all my life so far...stick on the floor.

Sadly, that's getting harder to find these days....not sure what I"ll get when the current car goes out to pasture...

Your username is Pr0nbot. Dissing on "childish" pop culture, but maybe your "adult" culture is part of the problem too?

Frankly I dont want Google anywhere near my fucking car....period.

And, this means you're going to have to pay another internet/satellite connection for your car, even tho you have a perfectly good phone you pay for?

There is no driver facing camera. It doesn't do it in response to the driver looking away from the road - it just pops the message up at random intervals.

I guess my current 2022 corvette will be my last one. I will not buy a car without CarPlay. That they already talk about "monetizing" this, confirms to me the correctness of my choice.

Same with me....motorcycle or car,I have my Quad Lock holders with MAG recharging....couldn't be happier....

I guess my current 2022 corvette will be my last one. I will not buy a car without CarPlay. That they already talk about "monetizing" this, confirms to me the correctness of my choice.

When they came out with a Corvette without a manual transmission option...THAT ended all my considerations for future Vettes.

To me a sports car you can't shift...is a waste.

I dont care if it gets better performance....shifting a fast car is FUN to me and I buy cars to have fun.