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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

When you don't have kids it's way harder to force you to do things, and way easier to make time for serious protest.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree with the message but I don't know if arsenic + toxic algae in water necessarily deserve two separate slots in the Top 8 Prospective Millennial Parent Worries.

[–] SterlingVapor 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm more worried about the plastic, pesticides, degraded pharmaceuticals and heavy metals myself

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] neighbourbehaviour 1 points 1 year ago

JFC, I keep track on the PFAS situation but I've missed this. I have friends who fish and eat from Ontario.

[–] Dettweiler42 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PFAS chemicals should really be what we're worrying about. They never break down, they're highly carcinogenic, and they're used in a lot of plastics.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

I thought my future would be cooler.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got my vasectomy a few years ago, best $500 I ever spent.

[–] rolaulten 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Check with your insurance. A lot of them will pay for it.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago
[–] cumcum69 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah lol i'm never having kids

[–] Konman72 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The first part of your username had me thinking you were wrong, but the last part checks out.

[–] Willer 2 points 1 year ago

Had me dead 💀

[–] NorthWestWind 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought we were good without mass shooting until we ended up having mass knifing instead

[–] possiblylinux127 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly we need to seriously investigate what would cause someone to do something so destructive.

[–] jaackf 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ultimately I think it all falls on failure on the government's behalf. They're the only ones who can fund services in order to improve the lives of those more likely to commit violent crimes.

But of course they won't do because they're spending their money and energy looking after themselves and their rich mates.

[–] capt_wolf 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget the role the media plays. Turning the attacker into a celebrity. Turning their kill count into a high score. Dehumanizing the victims.

Research has shown for years that covering of mass attacks results in more. Something should have been done decades ago to control the coverage, buuuut "first ammendment" and "freedom of the press."

[–] jaackf 2 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, I'm sure that the press in the US are as bad, if not worse than those in the UK.

They need to be held accountable, but something tells me that those who run the press are also the same people in charge of our laws 😶

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The US is just a rough place.

Doesn't matter if you give them nukes, guns or knives.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter? Ok, let's legalize personal nuclear weapons. Background check optional.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And I'm obviously being 100% serious. I yearn for a world where everyone carries a tiny nuclear warhead in their pocket. It's the only way to achieve mutually assured self-defense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I doubt they were referring to the US, guns have only increased here lately.

[–] BeMoreCareful 1 points 1 year ago

We are a pretty violent people.

Oddly enough, I feel were pretty docile too. Especially after watching France riot for two years less retirement. I mean, we just rolled over and let ours die out.

Blocking traffic is a sin, shooting up a mall or school or whatever... bad day.

Maybe we're too violent to get together long enough to organize.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Totally, none of the more socialist countries have any of these issues whatsoever, completely climate neutral, zero emissions, zero toxic chemicals spills, no overfishing, no deforestation, no paving over everything with more roads and factories.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish I could live in your dream world. I‘m not even kidding, please give me a piece of the propaganda where I can for one second believe that socialism and some benevolent dictator or something is the magic pill to save the climate. It might soothe me. Link something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A whole lot better than letting oil company ceos run the world into the ground

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[–] D3F4U1T_ARS 9 points 1 year ago

Oh and don't forget the AI replacing all of our jobs and skynet causing the extinction of mankind.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a few millennial friends who are having kids. I'm still deciding whether or not to have them and possibly just adopt and provide for a kid in need rather than bring a new one onto this plane of existence (if others exist).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm never fucking having kids the government can go fuck themselves the same way I'm expected to go fuck myself in this barely sustainable hellscape that is the modern job and housing market.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Same, my partner and I will be saving all that extraoney we save not having children for ourselves.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] odama626 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I'll add the link to the post

[–] odama626 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I'll add the link to the post

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[–] toxicbubble 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] odama626 1 points 1 year ago

How does that solve anything mentioned?

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[–] blazeknave 5 points 1 year ago

Just don't look up

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Only the ones that will make things worse

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quality over quantity and only if you are willing to make sacrifices.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When you don't have kids it's way harder to force you to do things, and way easier to make time for serious protest.

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