Don't feel guilty. People had kids right before famines, literal world wars, local wars, etc. and funnily enough, the world has never been better (in certain aspects, like survivability of small children). You are literally what keeps humanity alive!

Not to mention that we can better the world before your children have become adults, so keep that as a goal to work towards.

WE are society. And I agree that something has gone terribly wrong since the 60s/70s regarding worker pay. Are your friends ready to get a fourth and fifth job when the boomers have all retired? Because someone needs to pay for them, as someone will one day pay for us... But who is going to pay, if we won't have enough kids?

I'll take spending time with my god-kids (god-children?) than go out with my team members. They're good people, but my relation with them is much less intimate and stable.

Why don't you like kids?

Because having society collapse due to a lack of people is going to hit everyone? And no, I don't believe immigration is a proper solution. And yes, overpopulation is still a bad thing, but the countries that are reducing aren't part of that problem...

I've seen the list on the party site. There were 3 .edu out of 219 emails total. 152 gmail, 17 hotmail/outlook, 18 protonmail, 2 4chan, and the rest were custom.

No .gov.

This describes Christianity (to an extent). When I turned atheist (because I couldn't believe in God/Jesus anymore, not because I didn't want to) there is this very Church-shaped hole in your proverbial soul that needs time to close. It's a very sobering, yet lonely, way to live life, but due to the internet you don't find yourself lonely for too long, but I imagine it used to be a pretty terrifying way to live life pre-internet.

I am lucky my Christian family still loves me, and I know they only proselytize to me (every now and then) because they care.

She ignored community feedback (I want customized channels back!) and turned YouTube into the dopamine riddled mess it is today.

Still, fuck cancer. My condoleances to her survivors.

I asked ChatGPT to convert the text to common words:

"Academic writing is often hard to understand because it uses complicated words specific to a particular field, making it easier for experts to communicate with each other but harder for outsiders to follow. This keeps certain knowledge limited to a small group of people and maintains a cycle where only the educated or 'in' crowd can fully engage, while others are left out."

I was able to do it for a restaurant once, where I was the first one to do so. I got 1.6+ million views on one image of the (then empty) restaurant. I'm pretty sure that's the peak of my online presence. It's all downhill from there.

I don't believe you - I believe he's looking at his phone. Show me the video.

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"Oh great, I'll have to create another fucking account" - me, already having some 300 accounts in my key-vault...

One of a few movies that could've used a "Fire!" was the intro of Robin Hood: Men in Tights (fire arrows, get it?), AND THEY DON'T EVEN DO IT!

Topologically speaking, the frog is a donut.

In case you want to see some (not all) faces:

http://12ft.io/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html

edit: direct link: https://12ft.io/api/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Finteractive%2F2025%2F02%2F27%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2Fdoge-staff-list.html

It was my replacement of Skype, which was leaning hard into its enshittification around that time.

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

Remember, kids, "less" is for uncountable things, like liquids, whereas "fewer" is for countable things (like apples).

It's one of many weird rules that English, as a language, has.

I've blocked any YouTube video recommendations (after a video is done, the sidebar, etc), and switched to RSS (RSS Guard is my go-to, after testing about 6 RSS readers). I used Enhancer for YouTube™ to block the bullshit.

Now, I only have 319 videos left to view, in order, from all the channels that I follow. It is now me that has a tight grip on what I watch, and not YT. No more doomscrolling on YT Shorts! No more watching the newest thing (old videos are still solid, but won't be likely recommended)! Use Youtube-shorts block to turn any short into a normal video, in case someone sends you a shorts link.

I can now have a sense of being done watching videos, instead of YT feeding me unending garbage.

RSS feed locations for YT are hidden:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id

The channel id you can find on a channel, under ...more near the top, then Share Channel -> Get Channel ID.

That's the point of government: the state has a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force.

That's from "Politics as a Vocation" by Max Weber. It's also why the population needs to beat back if that violence isn't legitimate (i.e. it's abusing the population in the first place).

If a duct that transfers water is an Aquaduct, then a duct that transfers nature is an Ecoduct