67IsTheNew69
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67IsTheNew69
10d ago
Is it common to speak one-on-one with a priest about your personal problems? This is a genuine question; pop culture depictions, and the few times I've personally attended church, gave me the impression that priests mainly give sermons/speeches to large audiences (and do some very limited things like Confession), and it wouldn't have occured to me to approach one with the kind of issues I'd bring to a therapist.
67IsTheNew69
11d ago
@HighResolutionSleep's proposals (in particular the "demand-side" proposals and the "shotgun wedding" proposal) do seem basically aimed at getting men to view fatherhood as a way of locking in an existing relationship with a woman, like reverse babytrapping.
But there's an asymmetry that would make reverse babytrapping a lot less appealing than regular babytrapping: the state can force you to give up money, which is the thing that men traditionally contribute more of to a relationship, but it can't force you to provide emotional support or intimacy, which is the thing that women traditionally contribute more of.
The $151B number is listed as "Eliminations" on page 28; the same number is broken out by segment as "Total revenues - affiliated customers" on page 66. (The missing $7B is Optum Insights, an IT vendor that seems to sell software to both UnitedHealthcare and the other Optums.)
67IsTheNew69
12d ago
Put simply, social security and other forms of elder welfare need to be either phased out or replaced with something far less permissive to the old and intrusive to the young.
At least in my peer group, this seems to be priced in; we already believe that Social Security is a kind of Ponzi scheme that we won't receive any benefits from. For example, The Hill reported on a 2023 survey where 45% of Zoomers believed they "would not get a dime" from SS. We're already planning our own retirement savings. (Unless there's dementia in the family, in which case we're planning our DNR and MAID paperwork. No amount of support from his children has made my granddad's life less miserable.)
The name of the charge makes for a nice tweet, but the indictment makes clear that he was charged under 18 USC 924(c) for possessing guns while committing a different US federal crime (specifically, trafficking drugs into the United States, which he's also being charged for).
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