Specifically which of my comments in this thread or this topic did I bring religion into this discussion?

We're talking about the impact feminist control over reproductive policy has had on the falling birthrate that has occurred. It would seem you are not capable of having a rational discussion with me when you come up with a non sequitur like that. I could talk to you in hard numbers however it clear your not prepared to have a sincere conversation about them and what it means, which is a shame because I actually respect some of your views.

It seems you think I'm against abortion, I'm not. What's concerning is if you look at the abortion rate for the last year it makes up about 90% of the falling birth rate when excluding all other considerations. That tells me that there is a serious issue in western society regarding reproductive policy so it is only logical to look at where the control of that is.

Here are some things for you to consider. "The time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining" and "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable" both from JFK. The fundamental inequality in reproductive law against men and children is the driving factor here and it's not even possible to discuss it.

As for your unrelated comments about religion, I'm not particularly religious however you'd have to be a fool not to uncover the wisdom encoded there. It was the ancients that said "There will come a time where ignorance is celebrated as virtue and lies celebrated as truth", it looks like we are living those days.

Thank you for taking the time to read all that! You are right, of course. It is something of an unsolved problem with the design. The question of "exactly what work are these draftees contributing?" is something I'm still working on; it may not literally be core parenting or teaching work, but actually more like e.g. hanging out with your cool uncle on the weekend who helps you learn life lessons. Maybe said uncle isn't exactly teaching or parenting material, but he still has something to contribute to building a child's character, and is assisting the parents just by being around to lighten the load. The Big Brothers Big Sisters charity seems to indicate that this is a sound principle with incredible ROI.

There would also be mandatory training to teach people the skills needed to do this work (critical to figure out what goes in there.) Also I'd like to hope that the system would "even out" over a few generations; if we assume the root cause of dangerous personalities like BPD or NPD is being trapped (or in an echo chamber) with a toxic parent figure, the practice of this "socialized parenting" is essentially guaranteeing kids have alternative support networks that can soak some of those traumas. Efficiency would never reach 100%, of course (does it ever?) and there would always be some difficult people for whom alternative credit would need to be devised, but in any substantial system there's always other work to do—maybe a truly broken person contributes by grading homework or something.

You can just say openly that you're an edgy, racist teenager. It's fine; the first step to self-improvement is admitting that you need help.

It seems the pressing the key actually generates Win+Shift+F23... and also function as a Right Ctrl modifier at the same time? It may or may not function normally if you're outside of Windows.

Woman's Choices in society:
1. Work
2. Stay at home and have children

Man's choice in society:
1. Work
2. Work

It's quite obvious when you simply look at reality for what it is. Don't be such a White Knight.

Vietnam as I recall 60,000 men died. Are you saying another 60,000 men should die just to make it relevant? Or have the laws changed, did I miss some landmark new laws that ended this practice?

Alternatively your world view has a fragile basis in reality and you're too confronted by the idea that I may actually have a point.

Exactly and since I don't have to put up with your shit the real question here is are you capable of a rational discussion?

Yes, I am alive, I am male and I have suffered wounds, 42 physical and a confidential amount of emotional wounds that I have spent time processing and resolving. I grew up in a family of mostly women and got an up-close look at the dark and light side of female nature.

I saw how vicious mentally unstable women can be. I saw how nurturing mentally stable women were. I've saw callous bullying females going after the humble feminine females up close. I learned early that filtering crazy bitches out of my life led to peace and abundance.

That's why your rage bait seems so stupid and disappointing compared to some of the comments you make later. I regret to inform you that you too have been brainwashed.

No man, woman or child's life is disposable. A consciousnesses right to existence is indisputable, unalienable basis of all human rights.

In nature some females eat the males. If you are actually a human being capable of having/had children, you are displaying the very dark side of female nature I'm talking about by not engaging your rational mind to evolve your worldview simply because it is not convenient to acknowledge and overcome this part of female nature the way men are forced to overcome theirs.

That fact is used as conditioning that forms a belief that men *should* be disposable so feminists can excuse debasing men as subhuman and deny parenting rights. Men are conditioned to sacrificing themselves to the whole through things like sports, which I ironically love playing. It was this discipline that allowed men to build society, mainly so no one has to die unnecessarily and we could become civilized.

Basic morality is what separates human beings from animals. Are you separated from basic morality?

By carrying, you mean nine months, the sum total obligation a pregnancy creates for either sex. Mandatory DNA testing and matching to eliminate paternity fraud. The right for a father to have the pregnancy go full term if he supports her during the pregnancy and during her recovery. Jail sentences for false accusations of rape or sexual harassment with accompanying civil penalties. 50/50 default custody laws. Mandatory mental health assessments to weight custody and protect the child's human rights. How about we start there and see the impact that has on the birth rate.

Feminists are all about equality after all, so let's see them support those initiatives and express the sincerity they have for their cause.

As additional evidence of my arguments, at the time of posting this I see the posts I created to explore this topic has been have been modded down as flamebaits and trolls clearly demonstrating the thought policing occurring. Feminism's continual denial of obvious and glaring truths is the first victim of a gender war and the birthrate represents its impact on western society because feminism has dictated reproductive policy for decades.

Oh my you are not very well informed about recent history. European history is filled with Queens waging war.

As I said, you do have some interesting ideas that I may explore when I am better rested. And before you launch into some diatribe about denying a woman's rights, the answer is no because there is no going backwards and it's a good thing because society evolved as a whole. It's now time to acknowledge men's rights in reproductive matters so that society can again evolve because the evidence so far shows that what we're doing now isn't working.

Feminism, like left and right politics. is obsolete.

I can't comment on your masculinity. I don't know you. But it seems like you're wounded, so let's cauterize it.

In a very strange sense, it is true that males are disposable, but this fact is built into sexual reproduction by evolution itself. In virtually all species, if one parent is responsible for carrying offspring and the other isn't, then by definition the former parent is anchored longer in the reproductive act, and is thus in need of protection during that period.

Mammals in particular have an "experimental male, stable female" genetic strategy where more pronounced variation in traits (height, academic performance, et cetera) is presented in males. With each generation these traits then get folded back into the matrilineal trunk, which is less affected by them. This specifically happens with traits on the X chromosome via Barr body inactivation.

So there's one answer that you can settle on, if you want to feel really shitty. You are disposable. Society isn't responsible for this, though. The game was rigged tens of millions of years ago when some fucking fish somewhere evolved live birth. Unless you're a salmon, you've drawn the short straw.

But there are a couple of other angles worth considering.

First of all—who is doing the disposal of all these men? Women aren't the ones declaring wars, or cheaping out on safety equipment, or blocking legislation that reduces gun violence. We didn't invent conscription and we didn't bomb the World Trade Center. I mean, fuck, Pete Hegseth is systematically firing female generals and wants to stop women from volunteering to serve in the military, even if they meet all the physical requirements for service. These bloodthirsty assholes are the ones actually killing you, and they should be your #1 enemy. All of these problems are reduced by a factor of ten just by moving to Canada, where the reproductive laws are basically the same as any blue state.

Now, as for reproductive politics... I used to be a fairly left-libertarian person on this issue and felt that the real problem was that people are immature assholes to each other. It seemed to me that custody and child disputes only happen at all because the people involved had shitty parents, and that the only solution was to get rid of societal expectations; live and let live, make it easier for single moms to get good jobs so they don't need alimony in the first place. (Another "-mony" word, but this time from -monia, "condition," + alo, "nourishment.") But these days it's pretty damn clear to just about everyone that the last thing civilization needs is yet more isolation and atomisation.

I think the actual solution is to turn parenting into a social obligation. It's a little different from how things are now, but I think the benefits would be worth it.

Consider the consequences of what would happen if made the following into a moral principle: your parents' generation raised you, so you have a duty to raise the next generation. In this system, every adult is expected to have and raise 2 kids, or contribute the equivalent amount of work to paideia by helping to raise the kids of strangers, teaching, tutoring, babysitting, et cetera. This would have the additional benefits of making childcare cheaper, reducing the work parents actually have to do alone, and reducing the power and scope of serial child abusers (can't hurt a lot of kids if positions of power over them aren't a viable career.) Experts would still exist for key jobs like high school teachers.

Parents still get to choose who they hire to help raise their kids, so you don't have to worry about some weirdo brainwashing them. Since virtually every adult is going through the labor pool, there's a ton of choice. Both parents and helpers would be anonymized during this selection process to reduce biases around gender, appearance, etc.

The enforcement is as follows: anyone refusing to do this work would be slapped with heavy taxes and might even have trouble getting good jobs later on in life, the same way having no high school diploma, or bad credit, or a criminal record can haunt you currently. (There would be waivers and exemptions, deferrals if you can show you're making progress, etc.)

For parents going through divorce proceedings, most of the gendered BS goes away. In situations of joint custody, there's less concern about which parent gets priority because it isn't just 2 people raising the kids. If a parent doesn't want custody during a divorce at all, then they're basically downgrading to the "default" option of paying their debt to society, and there's no real shame in it. The one who gets full custody won't have as much of a burden than a single parent would today because the broader safety net of socially subsidized childcare exists.

Only men can be forced into dangerous combat roles. Combat for a woman is an option.

So what? Your inane rebuttal clearly reinforces that, the US at least, is a Matriarchy. Otherwise men would be able to opt out of war duty the same way a woman can opt out of children duty. The sexism against men in this society and the negation of children's rights for women's preferences is at the core of why western birthrates are plummeting. Third wave Feminism is a human rights disaster unfolding right before our eyes.

So you're telling me that a man has an option of committing a woman to a full term pregnancy if he wants the child and she does not? Conversely you're telling me a man can opt out of financial responsibilities for a child if he does not want the child? I don't see any equality there or are you telling me that men have those rights?

Instead of an actual argument all I see is an ad hom of my intellect telling me I'm naive whilst dismissing the concerns of millions of men, how sexist of you. Let's see your predictable attack on my masculinity next.

The proximate reason is that there are no editors on Slashdot.

The broader reason is that the fortunes of tech companies are often caught up in financial headlines, so publications that cover economics are invariably syndicated here. The intended audience of these publications—the capitalist class—is deeply anxious about any changes in their host organism that may result in the contraction of their debt-based casino, so they eat up stories with pearl-clutching themes. Naturally, slave shortages are a major concern.

Patrimony is a word already. It refers to a son inheriting possessions from his father. The -monium suffix is productive in Latin and means "obligation:" testimony is the obligation to testify; patrimony is the obligation to act as a father; matrimony is the obligation to act as a mother, i.e., fulfil "womanly duties."

Whoever sold you this bullshit was lying to you, and not even doing a particularly good job.

You are being scammed.

The down mod was expected and proves it's not even possible to have this conversation because feminist views are so easily dismantled when confronted with facts.

Genetic Men cannot have children and are basically slaves in this society whilst simultaneously portrayed as the oppressors in a system where they are forced to participate in being disposable. Both Feminism and Male chauvinism are dedicated to the protection of women and imposing the disposability of men at war and work.

When a man is sent to war, he never gets to say "My Body, My Choice" HE is forced to do HIS duty and jailed or permanently unemployable if he objects. If the world was actually a Patriarchy (which is also designed to protect women) then Marriage would be called Patrimony and the deaths of hundreds of thousands babies through abortion would not occur.

Feminists appear committed to the downfall of the very culture that nurtured them at the expense of Children's rights and men are gradually waking up to that.

Ads: The homescreen has a couple of small store links at the bottom that are relatively unobtrusive. There are no recommendations forced on you unless you go to the store. There is a store button at the bottom of the homescreen, which I imagine is pretty handy if you actually want to get your eBooks from them.

Organization: You have to set up book categories after putting files on the device (like how the Kindle 3 was back in the day) but there are no forced labels or anything. There are at least 2 homebrew launchers that replace the homescreen, one of which lets you use a directory structure for files.

There is no screensaver advertising at all, unlike the Kindle—you can set it to display the cover of the last book you read, a generic "sleeping" message, or upload your own pictures for random display. I was really surprised by this; it's like they asked Kindle modders what they wanted and just made it the default.

There is a trick for skipping user registration during the onboarding experience by plugging the device into a PC and editing a YAML file, allowing you to use the device without giving them any info at all—unthinkable on Kindle!

Rakuten is a small Canadian company, so their niche is being less shitty than Amazon. If they ever stopped doing that they wouldn't have any customers.

There, I said it.