Oops, we forgot to have a society women would want to have children in. Maybe try making it not massively disadvantageous in every way to have children. People's kids used to be low cost workers. Now they are just expensive. Defray those costs if you want people to have children.

If you want women to have kids then make it an attractive option. If you don't care enough to do that then you don't care.

"Maybe Kristi can do an ad for that too."

At least the costume will be cheaper for the taxpayer

The REAL headline and buried lede for the original post should be:

Trump guts nuclear safety regulations

“The president signed a pair of orders on Friday aimed at streamlining the licensing and construction of nuclear power plants — while panning the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for its ‘myopic’ radiation safety standards.”

We now have industry capture of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Who here knows about Admiral Hyman RIckover? All of this is worth reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover#Safety_record

> That is autocratic BS. We live in western nations, and ideologically we value freedom. Fundamentally we want everyone to have as much freedom as possible, including what career to have, or whether or not to start a family.

Nice, but utterly irrelevant because there'll be no Western nations soon if women aren't having kids.

Again, unless we rapidly change things the future we're heading into is that the white men die out and the immigrants who replace them don't care what women think. Some people still believe we'll make artificial wombs to replace women, but thanks to the Competence Crisis that's no longer possible; maybe China will do it, but we're not capable any more.

> So all we need to do is figure out why women aren't having the kids they want, and that's not actually money, it's that they're pressured to wait, and the window of opportunity closes a lot faster than they think.

And you can't fix that because you want everyone to have as much freedom as possible.

If there's one thing we've learned from the 500 years since The Enlightenment, it's that if you give Normies freedom to make their own decisions they'll go crazy and destroy society. This is why the political avante-garde is pretty much exclusively authoritarian these days.

Are You Scared Yet?

I would be.

The Department of Energy is selling off more than 40,000 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium from the Cold War arsenal to nuclear reactor startups. All of which I’m sure will be thoroughly vetted and monitored, because this is done under the direction of a former board member. Yikes!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wright

Who IS Oklo, Inc. the "private nuclear reactor builder/operator"? Oklo is Sam Altman:

Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman

We're in territory where weapons-grade plutonium is being given at fire-sale prices to billionaires who's ethical boundaries include creating their own demand for otherwise unnecessary, high-risk energy projects. Guys like Altman, who get their ideas from Wikipedia articles about Ayn Rand — because they are one rung lower than people who actually READ that garbage.

But I'm sure no inventory of hot nuke metal will ever go missing.

According to some study I read a couple of years ago, women's brain chemistry changes after they have a kid, and they switch to 'mommy brain' where they want to have more kids. This is probably why the most ardent opposition to having kids typically comes from childless women.

I also suspect that one of the best ways to convince women to have kids is for their friends to have kids so the childless women are surrounded by children all the time. Then being a mother becomes fashionable and everyone wants it.

It's interesting because he ran some other experiments where the population seemed to become self-sustaining rather than going insane. But human society does very much appear to be following the Universe 25 path.

> Eventually the older generations will pass on their accrued wealth

Good luck with that.

Because of modern medicine, many of the older generations will spend years living as vegetables in care homes and all their wealth will be handed over to the people who run the care home. My aunt went into a care home with a paid-off house and came out a few years later in a coffin with pretty much nothing.

And that's assuming the Boomers don't just spend all their money on cruises.

Yes. The data from around the world seems to show fairly clearly that the way to have more kids is not to educate girls beyond that level they need to have and raise kids.

Religion helps, because religious people whose religion says they should have kids will have kids. But if you send those girls off to college their fertility rate still won't be much higher than the non-religious girls.

Obviously we're not allowed to talk about this. But so long as religious people who don't overeducate their girls continue to outbreed atheists who send their girls to college, the almost inevitable result is that future generations will create a society which is religious and doesn't overeducate their girls.

Looking back at what we know of my girlfriend's ancestors (she found a lot more info than I could about mine), they typically either got pregnant in their teens or got a girl pregnant in their teens, got married, and continued having kids into their thirties or forties.

I guess everyone must have been doing it wrong for hundreds of thousands of years before Youtube came along.

There is one thing women can do that men can't.

Have babies.

It's literally the reason women exist. And they're not doing it.

It will not end well, one way or another. In Finland I'd guess white men will die out and the New Finns won't care what women think.

I always like comments like these from men who blame women for not having babies. After all, the sole job of a man is inject and go. It's the woman who has to undergo nine months of an ever increasing blob taking nutrients from them, drastically altering their hormones, making them uncomfortable 24 hours of every day, and eventually causing pain and discomfort. Assuming they don't die in the process.

Who wouldn't want to go through all that?

If the day ever comes when men can become pregnant, birth control will be freely available and there will be a whole host of government programs implemented to make their lives as comfortable and safe as possible.

The National Nuclear Security Administration just furloughed 80% of its workforce due to Republicans shutting down the government.

Who is there doing the leg work to get this approved? Depending on how long Republicans keep the government shut down, who will do the installation and configuration? They can't pay contractors to do this since there is no approved money.

If I pay on one site, every single other site still has ads. So this locks me into the viewpoints preferred by the curator of one site and to the production values that one site's business model enables.