"To be fair, little Matty always was a bit of a grammar nazi." - Mrs. Henderson, grade 3
LovableSidekick
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Prepare to execute Corbomite Maneuver on my command!
Exactly, and if the 1% happens you should be allowed to make a responsible decision about bringing a kid into the world or not.
LOL inter and intra probably look the same to a half-drunk Russian.
To a certain extent, but capitalism always adjusts to changes in birth rates. Reducing payroll has been a trend since the 80s, accelerating with computers, robotics, and now AI.
As a resident of a sanctuary city I'm amazed by how well the illegal Mexicans are managing to hide their rampant tsunami of murder, rape, drugs etc. Clever bastards - you'd almost think it isn't even happening.
I think automation in general has been in an awkward stage for a while, maybe analogous to adolescence or puberty. At some point our immediate world will become truly automated, able to sense what we need or want and provide it with very minimal setup and instruction, like a cocoon of personal convenience. Right now it's more like a 19th century vision of a house of the future with pulleys and wires everywhere - we haven't gotten rid of the pulleys and wires, we've just moved them into apps.
As a kid in a Catholic family I remember my dad saying God intended man to live "by the sweat of his brow". No idea if it's a bible quote or what, I can just hear him saying it. But I think there's a mentality that life wasn't meant to be fun or easy, and therefore thinking it should be is a wrong thought. Somehow this doesn't make inheriting wealth and living in abject luxury evil or wrong, as long as you still have a work ethic. Or something, I dunno.
They want having children to be a woman's punishment for unapproved sex, and they want the kid (who had zero responsibility for creating that situation) to suffer through it along with her, with zero help so it's all as unpleasant as possible, cuz apparently that makes Baby Jesus smile. Fucking lunatics.
Right, so if somebody gets pregnant and doesn't want to be, they can take responsibility and get an abortion, and you can stay they hell out of their business. Problem solved.
Using birth control = zero responsibility? Wow. Do you have a newsletter?
As a progressive my optimism has always been based on the fact that we outnumber regressives. They have to pull all kinds of shit to make it harder for us to vote and stop our votes from counting. What I failed to consider is that when it really mattered, really REALLY fucking matters... a lot of us would just decide not to show up.