Botond173
7hr ago
Can you please explain in what sense is Southeast Asian culture more child-friendly than Australian culture?
Botond173
8hr ago
I always assumed it takes place in NYC. Then this thread reminded me for the first time that there's a desert in the story as well.
Botond173
9hr ago
If you don't want them, just be honest about why
I think the first and equally important step is admitting that you don't actually want them.
Botond173
1d ago
That’s also my suspicion. If we’re talking about the college-educated demographic, if one does not have a long-term partner at graduation, the chances of future marriage and parenthood are probably dropping drastically. I’m guessing there is research bearing this out.
Botond173
1d ago
The focus of this report is a lot narrower than the previous one which means there are fewer fun takeaways. Two facts stand out. There's been a lot of speculation about coupling not working, people delaying childrearing so they are unable to get that third child, et cetera, but the report doesn't bear any of these concerns out. Men and women are still moving in together, but the major driver of the decline is that there's a growing cohort in which the couple never decides to have kids. A lot of DINK-couple (Double Income, No Kids) are no longer as eager to become DICKs (Double Income, Couple o' Kids) as they used to be.
https://www.themotte.org/post/3555/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/410740?context=8#context
Botond173
1d ago
I thought there was broad social consensus in the US that such women are usually punished rather lightly.
Botond173
1d ago
It's not like attractive single female teachers need to resort to such measures in order to get pregnant though.
Botond173
1d ago
I ask you to reconsider this. Condoms used to be unreliable and uncomfortable. Natural family planning necessitates a level of human agency that most normies lack, plus it entails the woman having sex on days when her desire level is at the lowest, which is hardly practical. Coitus interruptus is also unreliable.
Botond173
1d ago
It used to be that members of congress lived in Washington full time, now they are expected to fly home every weekend. But not all members of congress live in cities like NYC or LA with their multiple airports.
"House leaders subsequently have built more hoe time into the congressional calendar."
That was pretty funny.
"But in late 1994, when Republicans took control of the House for the first time in 40 years, incoming Speaker Newt Gingrich encouraged his party's members to leave their families in their districts, to emphasize their independence from Washington and their roots among constituents."
I sort of wonder if this was a simple case of pure cynicism or an inability to picture the long-term adverse consequences of this decision, which should not characterize a self-proclaimed conservative. Chesterton's fence and all that.
Botond173
1d ago
I'm not sure where that 20x statistic comes from, I certainly didn't quote it.
I'm assuming it's this part:
In Ireland, they are 0.7% of the population yet 12-15% of prison inmates, an astonishing level of overrepresentation that even many much-maligned other minority groups on both sides of the Atlantic have failed to match.
Botond173
1d ago
I'd also rather live in Fiji than South Korea for that matter, but that's mostly due to the weather.
Botond173
1d ago
but it can’t translate that into running a country that’s a nice place to live in
As opposed to Mexico?
Botond173
1d ago
I think it's fair to say at this point that black beta males have practically gone extinct in the US.
Botond173
1d ago
I consider myself sympathetic to dissident rightist views and yet I find arguments such as this somewhat baffling. Endemic black gun violence wasn’t much of a social issue in the US until 1970 or 1980, was it? So American society was clearly finding entirely mundane ways of curbing it before that.
Botond173
1d ago
The backbone of the US military has always been white men.
Southern white men, actually, in fact, if I'm not mistaken.
Marriage proposals are all submitted and answered in writing by law. Unless you can produce such a document, the authorities will assume that you're unmarried by choice. Just an idea.
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