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Eliza
14hr ago
In vitro fertilization involves creating more embryos than you intend to implant and then destroying the rest.
I share some of your ethical concerns around IVF. But the wilful misrepresentation of how IVF works does not help pro-life arguments. IVF superstimulates the ovary in order to collect many eggs in one go. Of these, only a proportion fertilize, and only a proportion of those start developing, and only a portion of those become embryos, and only a proportion of those are genetically viable. The 'many embryos used up to make one child!' faux-statistic is because of natural attrition, because human reproduction is dicey and inefficient. Not because someone arbitrarily decided to discard them. If there are any surplus embryos at the end of this gauntlet they would normally be frozen for later use.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
14hr ago
I would assume that the pregnancy is, simply put, not real. It might be a lot harder to believe she's lying to you after spending all that time with her, but from the outside it looks like Scamming Rich Yankee 101. Doubly so if she's a stripper since strippers are well known for making guys feel they love them.
If she's actually pregnant I doubt she's actually going to be much worse off than usual seeing as she already has two and managed. If you want to be guilt free then send just enough for an abortion then delete her number and block her.
TowardsPanna
14hr ago
What are the most up to date, high quality documentaries that show developments in robots/androids/AI? Just wanna inform myself.
Mottemen... and women (if there are any???) I need your advice.
This is pretty serious, so I'd appreciate serious advice. No jokes or one-liners please.
Recently I made a trip to the Philippines. Amazing country. Amazing yet terrible. Terribly third world, but amazing people. It's like a crazy mirror-universe version of the US/Hawaii.
Met a girl there. As you do... meaning, I went to a strip club and she went home with me. She was hot, she told me she was taking birth control, and I was drunk and stupid, so we didn't use protection.
Over the next two weeks, she spent quite a bit of time with me. She introduced me to her (huge) family, and her two children (who she had as a teenager). This is the Philippines so that kind of thing is not uncommon. She never directly asked me for money, but always guilt-tripped me into it after spending time with me. To be fair, it was a trivial amount for me but a huge amount for her.
Towards the end, she was becoming extremely clingy. Crying, saying she loved me. Maybe she meant it. I really don't know. I do know that she was messaging other guys, but that's kind of her job. I was pretty honest the whole time that I could only stay a short time and wasn't looking for a long-term relationship. She seemed to accept it but she seemed genuinely sad.
After I left, I got a message from her. Saying she's pregnant. Uh oh... I mean, yeah I've taken sex ed I know these things happen... but I didn't think it would happen to me. She said she was taking precautions, and I believed her because she's experienced. I have no idea if (a) that's true and we just got unlucky (b) she's an idiot or (c) this was a deliberate trap. For what it's worth, she's catholic, but in that super-flexible 3rd world way where you just cross yourself and burn a candle to be forgiven all sins.
Anyway she wants money, naturally. She says it's for abortion pills. She's not asking for much, but I'm worried it will only increase from here if I pay it. I'm also worried that she might be telling the truth and actually have the child. This is a very impulsive, unstable woman. I can afford to give her a little money but don't want to get blackmailed forever. But I also don't want to be a scumbag and leave an unplanned child in a third world country.
...help?
(edit... should I just move to the Philippines and raise a family there? the living there is really cheap so i could afford it. But there's really not much to do there except drink, fuck, and pray)
whatihear
15hr ago
Yeah that makes sense in light of the broken bones and cartilage. Apparently those injuries can happen in older individuals from hanging, but I can’t imagine he had much space to get a good drop if he did hang himself, so it still seems pretty suspicious to me.
CrispyFriedBarnacles
15hr ago
I'm always on the fence about whether getting more than one or two of these in a month is something I should be proud of, or a sign that I need to take a step back (because I'm congenitally incapable of dashing off short, sensible responses instead of inadvertently pretending I'm blogging on here).
magicalkittycat
15hr ago
Slavery was universal in the ancient world, and in some form (state slavery, chattel slavery, serfdom/peonage) right up until shortly after the Industrial Revolution. If non-slaveowning societies really were so much better than slaveowning ones, you'd think some great emancipator would have come along and started wrecking all those slave societies, but they didn't.
Those economies were a pittance compared to the world of today and the free nations are far more wealthier than the less free ones in modern times so it seems like this exact thing happened. Slavery and other similar rent seeking behavior is less of a detriment in a weak economy with weak competition than a global one with more competition.
So slavery's economic inferiority is not inherent in the human condition but a product of modernity. Probably before you have machines, treating people as machines pays off.
And vice versa, the economies that became more free and more capitalist and more willing to use positive incentives to encourage work instead of allowing as many rent seekers to profit off of things they didn't do brought us into the modern world.
It's not the only factor, there's a ton of different important details. But personally unproductive leeches are a drain on society whether they be a slave owner or a union worker demanding busy work.
AvocadoPanic
15hr ago
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FistfullOfCrows
15hr ago
In even backwater shithole countries like Romania/Serbia/Bulgaria the use of ACs is overwhelming. You'd be hard pressed to find a building without them, even wearhouses and factories are chock full of ACs. New developments are even required to either have central heating/air or ACs, complete with solar panels on the roof.
FistfullOfCrows
15hr ago
Who is spreading this insane nonsense, most of the EU has ACs and Thermal pumps and what have you
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
15hr ago
This is like the dude on top of the podium congratulating third place haha. I wonder what your record was, five?
a lot of dogs are useless (e.g. toy breeds) or damaged (e.g. overly-large German Shepherds with hip dysplasia).
Come on, that's obviously only a side effect of our bored decadence. We made those long after we got good guard dogs, shepherds, rat terriers, badger chasers and a dozens of more useful specializations.
And sure, we might well fear a repeat of that tendency when we start selecting traits in our children, but in the end parents still want their kids to be successful, not ornamental. But yes, I hope for the sake of our grand daughters that chest size is not determined by a small number of genes.
ControlsFreak
15hr ago
I would say that the reason that people don't choose that path probably only has a little to do with alienation.
I don't think I caught any reasoning for this sentence, and yeah, I don't follow. I'm pretty sure I do feel alienation from the work of a subsistence farmer.
hanikrummihundursvin
16hr ago
No, not what sounds good vs what is effective. Most of these problems have no proven actionable solutions. From race to homelessness. And often times the problems are linked. The problems are also woven into the moral fabric of progressive ontology that came out of the older 'classical liberal' world.
That goes double for when we are operating within the parameters of what progressive voters will allow to fly or what can actually pass a human inspection. It's all well and good for us here talking about graphs and whatnot, but these debates have been had in the spheres where they matter. Turns out you can't be taken seriously as a classical liberal in civilized society if your answer to the moral impetus that drives progressives forward is bold faced racism or a confident 'welp'.
thejdizzler
16hr ago
I agree totally on both fronts. We are suffering from Dutch disease as a society.
2rafa
16hr ago
Pam Bondi ordered an investigation of this crime
Is it usual for the Attorney General to personally get involved in requesting an investigation into a late night downtown brawl? Widely retweeted case involving perceived opponents of the current government, AG says she’s on it.
thejdizzler
16hr ago
Yes, I think this began with the Industrial Revolution and the decline of Artisans as a social class.
thejdizzler
16hr ago
Oh I see I misunderstood what you were saying there originally. That is a good point. I would say that the reason that people don't choose that path probably only has a little to do with alienation. Despite the discomfort with alienation, I think the modern people do enjoy distinct material advantages (that they would not have as a subsistence farmer) that make them not want to give up that lifestyle, at least voluntarily. There are however a lot of examples in the 19th century, mainly in Chile and Argentina, of kidnappings of white settlers by native Americans where the kidnapee preferred to stay with the subsistence tribe rather than return to industrial abundance.
My view on why specialization causes alienation is because specialization tends to disconnect you from the product of your labor. A craftsman is going to feel much less alienated than an assembly line worker, even though the later is far more productive, because he gets to see the finished product and feel responsible for it. The same I think is true in knowledge work. A research scientist 50 years ago could do experiments and publish largely independently. But now, at least in my field, papers routinely have over twenty authors: the work no longer really feels like it's yours.
There's gotta be some spiritual way around this phenomena though. One counter example I can bring to mind from the Middle Ages are the stonemasons who worked on cathedrals. They didn't get to see the finished product of their labor, as cathedrals routinely took hundreds of years to build. Nor did they really get to feel responsible for the work that they were doing: there were hundreds if not thousands of people working on these buildings. Yet from what I've read, most of them did not feel very alienated from the work that they were doing. For the glory of God was a very powerful motivator.
aqouta
17hr ago
Do you imagine there is some kind of "diplomacy" slider in the Knesset that the Israelis just refuse to toggle? Who are they doing diplomacy with? Iran? Hamas? If you think this is their best plan surely you have developed it past one word.
Your 'solution' is the fastest and surest route to disaster for Israel by torpedoing the source of Israeli strength, American support.
Israel won wars before America became involved in the region buying arms from places like Czechslovakia although they have a sophisticated home grown arms industry now. Maybe they could keep the Iron dome going without US support, maybe they couldn't and then they'd suffer more casualties. Despite what you seem to think those casualties would incentivize them to be more aggressive not less due to the asymmetries involved.
TowardsPanna
17hr ago
I suspect that "being alone, and still getting shit done" is a skill that the kids are no longer 'taught' or expected to master or, as it is difficult and scary, forced into.
Nowadays the average person has non-stop access to superficial but pervasive socialization and distraction. They don't have to remain bored anymore. Part of the brain will respond to the stimuli as a welcome gift rather than delay gratification; other parts will rot from non-use.
There may also be a lack of societal purpose that plays a part. What are we working towards? There is no over-arching meaning.
TowardsPanna
17hr ago
Wasn't severe alienation and mental issues a common theme during the industrial revolution; when everyone started working in dangerous factories, in smog filled urban areas? I don't have specific sources to pull up right now, but I vaguely remember this being taught in school.
SecureSignals
Training the Aryan LLM
17hr ago
It's not just grandstanding, the administration has done remarkable things like detaining and attempting to deport students who committed no crimes for simply criticizing Israel. They have crushed the anti-Israel college protests, the eternally divided US Congress somehow always comes together to give more handouts to Jews and money/weapons to Israel. The contrast between government treatment of Jews and everyone also is so stark it's undeniable at this point.
Columbia's settlement with the government includes tens of millions of dollars of payments to undisclosed Jews at Columbia for having to bear the burden of people protesting a foreign government they are loyal to.
They just did so a few days ago for that case with the viral footage of some black people attacking that white couple in Cincinnati.
Pam Bondi ordered an investigation of this crime- note that it's an actual crime and not Jews just being offended for being criticized for wearing the T-shirt of a criminal organization. She also handed the investigation to appropriate authorities, compare that all the civil rights departments in the DOJ that are getting involved in the case of this girl who has been suspended/trespassed from campus and will almost certainly get expelled.
ControlsFreak
17hr ago
alienation seems to be a distinctly modern phenomena that comes with specialization
How so? Does it still satisfy the following:
If someone has the subjective experience of feeling alienated from any work other than being a subsistence farmer, living off the land and only their own toil and sweat, they can choose to do so. Most people don't. They feel some stronger alienation that is repelling them from that choice. I don't see why we should force them to experience that greater alienation.
For what it's worth, she showed me a pregnancy test. Also the way she talks seems noticably different now.
Of course she could be faking the pregnancy test and the talking. I have no way of knowing for sure. At first I thought it was fake, but right now i'm like 80% sure it's real.
What would you do if you sent a woman money for an abortion and she didn't do it?
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