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Comment minority report (Score 1) 112

While all of these issues are framed from a woman's perspective, I wonder if they have considered that there are some other people involved.

We haven't achieved parthogenesis, so a stem donor is needed, and these stories always seem to have a bit of narrative to them.

The people behind this seem to thing that birth control was just invented a few years ago, that people stop having children at any time they economy isn't booming, the only thing remotely touching on this is the one womannoting lower sexual activity for teens.

No where in this is noted that men are checking out. A couple years ago 63 percent of men under 30 have chosen to be single. I suspect it has grown since then. The femosphere has narratively framed this as a male loneliness epidemic, in a faux expression of sympathy.

Meanwhile, men have framed this are claiming that they no longer wish to be involved in a system that to many looks like any interaction with a woman is akin to handling a hand grenade with the pin pulled. One wrong word or move, and you can wreck your life. So they avoid the move. They see that the divorce rate is above 50 percent, which doesn't include the men in unhappy marriage.

What is a real issue is that as the modern narrative for women is like something out of "Sex and the City", where you don't even think about marriage until you are in your mid-30's, and experienced man men to make certain you can find Mr right. Problem with that is that when men hit that age, they think more with their brains than their genitals. In addition to the general disrespect, with fertility on the downswing at that age, many women will be looking at IVF.

And yes, Birth control has been around a long time, especially if you consider condoms. The first birth control pills were approved in the US in 1960. That's 65 years ago! It's a stretch to blame that.

Back to the male loneliness epidemic. I'm in a campus environment. When I was a student, we were all yencing our brains out, and having a lot of fun.

Today, a sort of sexual apartheid has developed. Here are young men and women at their peaks, and there is little interaction.

But here's the interesting observation. The people presumably suffering - the men? They don't look unhappy at all. They hang out, mess with each other as men do, Monkin about. The women on the other hand don't look all that impressed by their own situation.

When I was in college, you would see men and women interacting, holding hands hugging, kissing, enjoying each other's presence. Today, it is almost jarring if you see a man and woman holding hands or interacting. This is weirdly un-natural.

side note: I was married by the time I was in college, so didn't have the "college experience"

Point is, you can swing the pendulum too far, and lets face it, when normal interactions become sexual harassment, when even marriage is problematic, it is not illogical for the gender that is claimed to be always at fault to do a simple risk/reward assessment, decide there is virtually no reward, only risk, then lean out. It is also not surprising that the group who ended up causing this problem frame it as a loneliness epidemic. This is a problem men cannot fix, and with the narrative that it is not possible for a woman to do anything wrong, it is going to be a generational issue to repair.

Since the usual crowd will downmod me, all me incel, and drop to coward status to do so half the time, might as well let everyone know that despite being married for a long time, and not young, I'm still sexually active, and the wife initiates it half the time or more - I don't really keep count. So have at me as you usually do.

Comment Re: They Didn't Find "Something From Nothing (Score 1) 21

I don't know. If you smashed two protons you would only have 6 quarks among them, and they wouldn't be spin aligned, as there are three quarks in a proton and spin alignment only works between pairs.

Unfortunately I couldn't read the article without subscribing and my particle physics knowledge is pretty similar to what's in a vacuum: mostly virtual particles if I put enough energy into it.

Comment Re:Porn (Score 1) 112

If you think about it, you'd be grateful for the ethnic replacements when your decreasing native population gets old, stops working and no longer generates tax for your government to run - or maybe they'll work and tax you until you die.

I think they're more concerned about the gene pool, 1 Latina could potentially disrupt centuries of inbreeding.

Comment Re:Well... Wouldn't You? (Score 1) 10

I feel really awkward, seemingly defending Meta. But, wouldn't you refuse to run ads that targeted you for lawsuits, maligned your business, and threatened your existence?

My question is; who authorized those ads in the first place? How fired is the dipshit former Meta employee that ran ads that seek to destroy Meta?

Optics and legal exposure. This is going to be evidence in every trial they face. At a stretch, it might even be called witness tampering.

Comment Re:Navy SEAL drills work best for Navy SEALs (Score 1) 110

Question: why do they need any of that at all? Why have your employees do this stupid shit? What does it accomplish? Can the bros really not think of a better way to spend $500k? Does this really enhance your product? Does this really help people get their work done and gel as a team? Or... is it really so the CEO can say "hey guys, guess what we did, lol (not me, i was faking E.Coli so i could stay in my room)" to his cadre of other insufferable douchebags at the next conference?

Less of a need and more of what would be beneficial. They don't actually need any such training but one thing the armed forces teaches in basic is how to work together, even with people you don't like and that would be beneficial in an office environment (have you ever tried herding cats into a coherent meeting).

But it's a moot point as those with an abundance of ego and dearth of talent or self awareness would never accept that they'd learn anything from "basic" training.

Comment Seems fair (Score 2) 10

Meta's free to decide what ads it wants to run. They're a commercial platform so it's not a free speech issue, although I suspect some will try to frame it as one. Blocking the lawyers ironically can help them since now they are getting press about the lawsuits and can trumpet "10 reasons Meta doesn't want you to know your being harmed. Number 5 will amaze you."

Comment Re:Temporary Decrease or Permanent Decrease? (Score 2) 112

If women are delaying having children until they can better afford it, and affordability is decreasing, all that will happen is they get too old to have them before becoming financially stable enough to do so.

Whatever the issue is, the solution is the same and should be done for many other reasons: Get the cost of living down. Cheaper property, higher wages.

Comment Most people leaving don't care about Musk (Score 1) 168

They're leaving because the website is so stuffed full of literal Nazis that you can't avoid them. If you only consume what's in your immediate feed and then only consume posts directly from that feed then you're fine but the moment you venture into any sort of comment section or any of the kind of things where you would scroll around and look it's all Nazis.

Twitter was purchased to create a right wing propaganda tool for Musk because he depends heavily on government contracts and after interfering in the Ukraine war he was at risk of losing all those contracts unless he could get a favorable administration.

But it's the classic Nazi bar problem. You can't just have right-wing extremism and be all hunky-dory you're going to get nazis. You always get Nazis when you invite the right wing in.

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