I aim to be more human. I aim to be less apathetic as a human. Apathy grows, like a tree, and I aim to prune my own.
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Yeah, so this post is POV North American per title, the problem of selfish boomers is one that afaik only developed countries even have, so while you are correct, its entirely irrelevant to the conversation at hand, which is why I didn’t say anything about it.
Women have multiple ways to avoid pregnancy. Men have multiple ways to avoid pregnancy. People who are educated about their options exercise those options like all the time, which is why so many of us don’t have kids at all. Myself very much included. Thats why birth rates are declining so drastically.
Unless you are saying women can’t use birth control or get abortions for some reason…? Or abstain entirely as young people seem to be doing in surprisingly large numbers?
“Kids have a way of happening” is basically saying other people don’t or shouldn’t have bodily autonomy… kinda fucked up.
Ungh I had some professor give me a bad grade on a paper for ripping to shreds the portrayal of specific characters (it was entirely appropriate for the class). They were like “maybe you just don’t understand, its supposed to be kinda offensive, but these are great representations of (thing)!”
BBT, turns out, was prof’s favorite show, like you said, their personality.
No. Absolutely no. In fact, quite the opposite of good portrayals. I lost all respect for their opinions or teaching credentials, as both are clearly worthless.
If we tried harder some other fluid might be included…
Either way it’s not money, or even valuable.
I feel that most jokes about technology inhabit this sort of transient space. Like jokes about skippy CDs from the early 00s, about polygon boobs, about being glued to your phone. None of these exist for but a fleeting moment of time.
How did you do that? Please let it not be super manually…
Asking for my MCU, DCU, stargate, doctor who universe, etc etc etc. collections.
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Have a great day!
Thanks! I very much appreciate this, I like word of mouth advertising because people work together rather than they get paid for it
I like the maker spaces similarly, so Allen Pan is a good creator if you like mythbusters-type “is it possible to do” sort of stuff. 😁 same shout outs and collabs. He literally worked with them.
Noted, go for the older content.
Thanks all the same :) my partner likes food like a lot, and we don’t like spending way too much money, so options are good :)
Thank you for this. Neeeeed more useful stuuufffffff
I wonder if second-sleeping would help you.
You go to bed pretty early, like within a couple hours of sunset early, let yourself wake up naturally around midnight, stay awake doing low-key activities (sex, have a snack, read a book by candle light, talk to your bedmate if they are up, etc. basically candle-light-or-darker activities, a low-wattage warm white bulb on a dimmer does nicely, as do flickering candelabra bulbs) then around like 2-3, fall back asleep until a bit after dawn.
Thats the sleep pattern humans had, as far as we can tell, for all of history before the invention of artificial lighting (its mentioned so casually, with zero explanation, in historical documents as to just be the de facto experience), and its a pattern a lot of people naturally fall back to, but with improper timing so they don’t make it to the second sleep phase, and just end up with a dysfunctional rhythm that has them waking at 4. Or they fully fall into the pattern and feel great, like my retired aunt, but are worried because it’s “not normal”.
That feels so claustrophobic for the poor belowdecks person. You think they do seating based on phobia for this shit? You know, make the experience of flying just a tiny bit more miserable with bodily dread and stuff?
I got sick of the price gouging so I got a bidet for $25 and a pack of 60 cotton washcloths for $30, and other than for guests and such, I just don’t use TP anymore. If I’m wiping after a bowel movement, it goes into the laundry and isn’t used again until washed (sanitary cycle with bleach). So each cloth is used for a day at most.
I know that probably sets off the squick for a lot of people, but it is basically the same soil level as worn underpants (and way less gross than cloth diapers!), since the bidet takes care of the actual mess, so it just doesn’t bother me, and in the long run saves a ton. Extra bonus, I never run out!
That’s what I’ve always done, wait until the shift is nearly over and be like “just saw this, hope it all worked out!”
They didn’t ask to be born and live up to the standards of some random people from their past bloodline and their antiquated view of how they should live their life.
What a dumb take. Let people live the lives they want to. Be jealous all you want, but don’t project that onto others because they chose a path you didn’t that doesn’t hurt anyone.
Besides, if you go back in history to before birth control, every single woman in that bloodline would be cheering like mad for their lack of constant pregnancy. Women used to look forward to miscarriages. So also a dumb historical take.
Everyone always has desired a lack of responsibility, like literally always. If some people can achieve that, good for them!
“Irreparable harm”? Holy fucking entitlement, batman.
I have a feeling future historians will use the start of this year as the beginning of WW3…
I hear if you hold the Cownch to your ear, you can hear the ocean!
On re-read I think I may have misread what you wrote but ima leave this up anyway.
People used to have like… hopes that they could support their kids… we haven’t had that for a while now so birth rates are falling faster than they would otherwise. That’s all thats missing from my story above.
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The post title is “point of view: you are a 4th generation North American” thus it’s specifically about North Americans to begin with.
Baby boomers are a thing that really only exist (at least to my knowledge) in developed/western nations, due to them being a post-war cohort. Basically countries involved in WW2, after the war killed off millions of young men, saw a surge in births to recover population. Baby boomers. Countries not involved in the war didn’t have the baby boom the way western countries did, because why would they? There was no pressure to restore their population numbers.
Since the meme is about baby boomers, specifically, being selfish, which is inherently a developed-country problem, as well as specifically about being a north American, people in developing countries having less access to family planning is entirely irrelevant, even if it is true.
Hope that helps :) if not I can try again.