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SteveKirkland
7m ago
Surely thot daughter is the better option, unless you're super picky about the quality/hue of your grandkids' dads
Gaashk
12m ago
Yeah, educational assistant. Mostly women and a couple of men without college degrees. It's especially popular with moms who don't have a real career and want the same working hours as their kids.
Oh, I see -- yes, we do have those positions, and I think the high schools have even more.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
16m ago
Wouldn't it be funny if beatings, bloodletting, alcohol and prayer actually worked?
Imagine life in 1300s Europe. There's a 30-50% chance your child will die as an infant. You might have chevauchee Englishmen/Frenchmen/Germans running around looting and killing. Sudden illness could randomly kill you. You likely work long days in the fields, famine is an everpresent danger especially if the lord decides to take your food. You might be drafted to fight in some war where you'll wait between bursts of extremely gorey, personal violence and interminable waiting as disease picks your comrades off. If you sin you face a very real and universally accepted penalty of eternal hellfire. Esoteric doctrinal differences to the church? Welcome to a world of blood and fire, brought to you by your local crusaders. Alternately, if you're in range of the Mongols you can experience blood and fire without needing any heresy. The less said about Meso-America the better.
This is a pretty stressful lifestyle! WEIRD people don't have any of these problems, only social alienation and other such high-Maslow issues. I won't dismiss the psychic damage inflicted by Microsoft PowerPoint but it's on a totally different level to ubuiquitous deaths in childbirth. Yet there's loads of anxiety, depression and so on today.
curious_straight_ca
17m ago
Not the kind of comment we're looking for here tbh
boo
22m ago
People in some areas of the US have regular encounters with black bears, who are in fact pretty harmless.
To_Mandalay
25m ago
Counterpoint: Say something about someone's mom who is from a traditionalist culture and if you survive the reaction you should reevaluate women not being valued. Mothers and matriarchal figures are highly respected.
Of course women have value in traditional societies. More than livestock. But less than men.
To_Mandalay
25m ago
Is your argument that modern society values motherhood more?
No.
Complementarianism, may be expressed more now, I suspect for much of existence it went without saying, but was no less true.
I don't think so, I think for most of history it has been the standard belief of most men that women are an inferior order.
The_Nybbler
Does not have a yacht
28m ago
Maybe both.
boo
28m ago
it's not really acceptable but there's little that could be done.
Repeal the 19th
AvocadoPanic
48m ago
Would the US still arm a party to the conflict?
Bartender_Venator
49m ago
Yeah, true that a lot of people with polisci degrees don't end up in politics, just in generic white-collar world. You do actually have to be able to climb those status hierarchies to make it worthwhile entering them. But my experience of DC libs is that they're big on "successful liberals live like conservatives". The end goal is absolutely 2.3 kids on a leafy street in NoVA/Maryland (paid for by Joe Taxpayer, you're welcome).
I guess if I had to pick a particularly marriage-minded demographic it'd be non-engineers in tech. Normie values and ability to get a partner young, tech-adjacent salaries. Lawyers, too, the ones who don't give up their 20s to the biglaw grind. Stability, I think, is very important, and the modern economy doesn't provide it in that many places.
AvocadoPanic
58m ago
Alas, importing Japanese style intensive fat-shaming is unlikely.
Could we import active, fit, elderly Japanese men to make us feel like lazy fatties?
AvocadoPanic
1hr ago
Diet Dr Pepper tastes more like Regular Dr Pepper
SteveKirkland
1hr ago
Not terrible?! Those are entry level wages at Costco for guys who didn't finish high school! And customers there won't stab you as often as public school students!
Tenaz
1hr ago
That's fair. Everyone I knew wanted to be a government official though and ended up elsewhere.
I haven't thought about the major much in a while but it's still a bit embarrassing to have forgotten that path.
Tenaz
1hr ago
EA--educational assistant?
I just asked; learned I was wrong and her assistants are "technicians" and make $20-25 an hour. Pretty much what you're describing with the alternate licensure program. Not great for a male college grad, but not terrible.
SteveKirkland
1hr ago
Cows don't "produce" CO2, they're part of the biological carbon cycle, like rotting leaves and compost piles.
Intentionally conflating the release of geologically sequestered carbon through fossil fuels with the natural carbon cycle is unforgivably dishonest vegan propaganda that needs to be stomped out thoroughly.
Whoever told it to you is a malicious liar you should hunt down and punish for trying to fuck with your understanding of the world.
AvocadoPanic
1hr ago
Much of the land used for grazing would be unsuitable for other agricultural purposes. Without the ranching the land would be unproductive. How do cows produce carbon monoxide?
zeke5123a
1hr ago
But isn’t this the whole discussion about illness v disease. There are a lot of things we call “diseases” that are diagnosed via the DSM. But is there a blood test for say anxiety? Is there a scan for depression? What about being gay (which prior DSM’s treated as a mental illness).
I know this is veering into Szasz (and Caplan’s points).
zeke5123a
1hr ago
Psychiatrists do dole out meds. But the efficacy (and why) is questionable. I read that exercise seems like it results in a better outcome.
Are you a psychiatrist? If so, that obviously gives you special insight but also clearly a bias.
No, being a housewife is the only rational option.
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