There is, it’s called pregnancy. It’s not as fun as the first one (Basically a completely different thing), but really I think they really covered everything they could with sex and it was time to explore other ideas.
The third one fills out the trilogy, it’s called kids. Actually better than pregnancy, but it’s Rated G and a lot more wholesome, you almost forget about the first of the trilogy.
Honestly, schemes like this tend to have big bad consequences.
Force credit cards to charge only 10% interest and immediately many people will lose access to credit cards altogether, or alternatively will have to pay high annual fees regardless of their responsible use of credit, or will have tiny credit limits, or will have to provide their credit card company with the full dollar amount of their credit card prior to being given one. A final effect could be the poor who are affected going to super high interest lenders like payday loans or in the event that even those loans are regulated, even organized crime.
The problem is that unsecured credit lines like credit cards are the most likely forms of debt to be defaulted on, and if banks can’t recoup those losses, then they won’t provide the product. People can blame capitalism for this, but ultimately a similar kind of government program would need to be similarly limited lest the program just become a free money pit as many poor people assume credit cards are.
Now maybe that’s the point, and we want fewer people in less debt, and to force them to live within their means. I’m not necessarily opposed to the idea, but you can’t just do it. You’d have to change the banking and monetary system (for the better). You literally can’t have the current monetary system without debt.
I guess the whole starvation thing won’t get any better.
They only get offended because they’re leftists and they heard you’re supposed to pretend to be offended when that happens so you can look all smart.
For the rest of us retards we’re like “lol ur right send me cat pictures”
Jesus Fucking Christ!
You know, sometimes you read a story and it’s like “There is no punishment too cruel or unusual for this monster”. Killing the kid? Yeah, that’s bad enough. But forcing their siblings to live in the room with their brother’s decaying corpse for months until it’s just a skeleton?
There’s an old English execution method where while the person to be executed is alive the executioner slowly runs their intestines inch by inch over a candle. Maybe we should bring that back.
Uh… What’s the exchange rate? Because if I need to use up all my points to get an IQ of 100, I’m gonna have a bad time…
Ackshually, lemmy users are really fun. Do you have a peer reviewed study to back up your assertion?
The whole “while upending the economy” thing is really obnoxious.
I’m so sorry that your illegal wage slaves are going away and you’ll have to offer legal residents living wages. My heart bleeds purple piss for you.
The other thing I find insufferable is the whining about billions of dollars in cost. The federal debt in the US is 32 Trillion dollars, or 32,000 billion dollars. Every presidential administration for 24 years has increased the federal debt every single year, and for the most part the media doesn’t care one lick. But suddenly it’s something they don’t want and they’re hyperfocused on the cost. It’s like “Hey Ace! A trillion dollars of the federal budget went to the banks to pay for interest on all that debt! Why do you only care about the cost of things once?”
Although it’s sad, it is correct that he be charged, and he probably shouldn’t be pardoned by either party. He didn’t release such documents for the good of the world, he did it to feel special in a discord community. Doing stuff like that needs to have severe consequences or all kinds of hell breaks loose.
A good way to set goals for yourself is the acronym SMART: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timely.
Specific because people set goals for themselves that are really airy fairy and don’t actually mean anything, like “I’d like to be healthier next year” what does that mean? What exactly do you plan to do?
Measurable because if you set a goal with a specific measurable metric involved, you can know exactly that you met it. For example, “I want to go for a walk every day in the summer”. Did you or didn’t you?
Achievable because people often set goals for themselves that they can’t possibly accomplish and waste effort and then feel bad because they failed at something they couldn’t do anything but fail at.
Relevant because what goals you set must be something that actually affects your own personal life. I hate to use this example, but people worry about their carbon footprint, when their personal carbon footprint doesn’t matter and they could be focusing on things that actually matter such as improving themselves or finding relevant ways to reduce waste or improve their lives. If they aren’t relevant it’s easy to rationalize not meeting your goals.
Timely because you need to have a timeframe in which to achieve your goals or they just stay out forever. When I wrote The Graysonian Ethic, I wanted it published before my son was born, so I knew exactly how many chapters I needed to write every week to do so in a year. In the end I successfully published on time and it’s a good thing I did because afterwards I didn’t have time for something like that!
Once you start this sort of thing, it becomes something you can constantly do, and can change course or create new goals once you succeed at one set.
I’m surprised – it seems to me like the opposite of traditional Chinese society to take a personal tragedy such as a divorce and make it so many people’s personal tragedy. Societal harmony is a key piece of their ideology and Communism hasn’t really beaten that out of them as far as I know.
I suppose that if you were at the end of your career and you thought you’d have enough to retire and suddenly you were facing social and financial peril like that, every society has people who might react badly and do things that normally wouldn’t be tolerated by society, especially in a society that’s so focused on family bonds.
It’s sort of interesting the little picture into a different society at the time. Of course this turned out tragically, but I can’t imagine a woman hitchhiking like that today in our lower trust society.
I mean… He wont be my president.
But for any Americans going “I’m moving to Canada!”, remember that Poilievre is on track to win a massive majority, and Colbert had our reichsfuhrer Trudeau on a while back and called Poilievre “Canada’s Trump”.
I mean, it seems like almost everyone who isn’t running for the liberals or NDP are “Canada’s Trump”. It seems like we have a shocking number of Trumps in our country. Seems like every week someone else is “Canada’s Trump”. Which is all the more reason not to come.
Alex Jones said Poilievre is good people. So that should tell you what’s coming, so go move to England, they just elected a left-wing government and they’re going to tax you good and proper.
It doesn’t feel like it, but you can have that life you think is unattainable. You can find a wife, you can get a home, you can have a child, and there’s a good chance you’ll like it. You have to pick your hard, maybe you don’t get to live in the capitol city and go to the club every night, but try to be consistently virtuous and you can succeed even in a world that feels stacked against you. Remember that you only exist because thousands of generations of your ancestors made it through harder times than this.
FEMA isn’t horrified. It’s a faceless bureaucracy. It’s like a Large Language Model. The organization released a statement saying it was horrified because the model stated it should release those particular words in this situation.
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I feel like a talking cheeseburger would have my vote. I mean, holy shit it’s a talking cheeseburger!
You really need to study fascism more if you think communists and socialists finding success is a step away from that.
When I was young, I didn’t want to get pidgeon-holed into any given role just because of my gender, but as I got older, I found that I sort of naturally gravitated towards that role anyway.
I’m stronger, I’m less neurotic, I’m more emotionally stable, I don’t end up incapable of leaving the couch once a month, and frankly I’m less necessary on an hour to hour basis raising an infant or even a toddler. I’m more interested in things which works well for my line of work. Meanwhile, my wife is weaker, more neurotic, has a much more chaotic emotional world, gets periods, is a great mother and caregiver, and she’s more interested in people so she helps build the local community in a way I simply wouldn’t.
We are a society that has fought like hell to unlearn millions of years of evolution because we’re arrogant and stupid. What we keep on learning is that just because they existed before us doesn’t make them wrong about things, and it doesn’t make us right.
I see people going “Oh, evolution doesn’t really apply to humans” who apparently don’t realize we’re facing a mass depopulation event where a good chunk of the human race will not procreate. For many people, it’s already too late, they will never have a chance to raise a family. In South Korea, they’re on track to have less than 10 great grandchildren for every 100 Koreans alive today, but they’re just one example.
Instead of fighting who we naturally are to prove how smart we are, we should embrace authenticity and that does mean accepting that we’ve been evolving for about 250,000 years to exist in a certain way that includes a man supporting the mother of his children and his children as a major investment into the future. Prior to 250,000 years ago homonids had small enough brains that the men could just knock up as many woman as they could and those kids would likely survive helping his genetics to be passed on. After that, the overwhelming cost of childbirth meant that a high value male (in an evolutionary sense) would stick around and help the mother and child in the ways he could such as getting food or protecting against predators. Even later, work was often dangerous, so it made more sense for the men to be doing that sort of dangerous out of the home work, and women would engage more in maintaining the home and helping the family (though that’s oversimplifying somewhat), but most importantly helping to maintain a community. With so many women in the workforce, people everywhere are feeling a lack of community and they don’t understand why. Part of it may be the atomization of postmodern civilization, but I bet if we were more like our ancestors of 250,000 years ago we’d quickly discover we find ways to make communities just like they began to do 250,000 years ago.
That doesn’t mean you become inauthentic chasing someone else’s dream of masculinity – one of the easiest ways to get manipulated is to chase a definition of masculinity that isn’t innate to you – rather, it means you just are what you are, and it ought to mostly come naturally.