These articles are supposed to create sympathy for Israel or sth?

the same goes for me for all makeup & decorations

other systemic problems like no access to child care facilities, a culture that doesn’t value women and people exhausted by long work days? I might have read that this is part of the root cause in korea.

I dare say that that’s probably not the cause why women today want to have no or fewer children.

I suspect it’s more about economic factors, such as the prospect of having a stable job for the next 40 years, and the prospect of stability that this brings. Society changes so rapidly that it would be absurd to think that people are still gonna have well-paying jobs in 40 years. We’re already seeing a Cost-of-Living crisis today, or rather, a crisis of jobs not paying a living wage. That’s only gonna get more severe over time.

Compare that to other cultures around the world (consider developing countries such as rural africa was 30+ years ago, and medieval europe). They had rough lifes and often didn’t value women. But they had Stability: They could be reasonably certain that their living conditions should be roughly the same in 40+ years from now, so they can have some children. If they can feed them today, the children will be able to feed themselves in 40 years. Because society was static like that.

It’s the same among “Conservatives” in the US, Russia, and now apparently China.

They all say that we’d need “high birth rates”, which is just not true.

Think about it: Automation and AI have the potential to put lots of people into unemployment in the next 20 years. For the sake of preventing that unemployment, it’d be good if people had fewer kids. Yet for some reason, governments struggle really hard to comprehend that simple connection.

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sorry i tried to find this meme, but after 15 minutes i gave up trying to find a higher-quality one, and settled for this one.

and my SO actually wears only the bottom of the bikini and goes bra less to the beach

There actually is a drawing challenge (called MensSwimsuitChallenge) that tries to depict this.

cognitive dissonance

Probably the closest space any guy could get is AA or NA meetings.

what do these abbreviations stand for?

Would you mind giving the community a name where it can easily be found? Such as /c/mental-health-men or sth.

I heard golden carrots are the best at that, which you can get from the farmer for the low price of 1-2 emeralds.

The best shit even. Some would call it great! All the experts agree with me, that i have the best shit!

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I used to like and look up to SpaceX for the interesting stuff that they build,

but nowadays i don’t care anymore. The company can fail for all i care. Musk spoiled it.

The tipping point, for me personally, was when Musk seriously threatened to slash public spending in February this year. It shows a clear disrespect to the people, and frankly, a sociopathic attitude.

Musk had everything, lots of money, lots of fame, lots of influence, but he threw it all away when he decided to threaten the wellbeing and lifelyhood of a lot of people just so that rich assholes can make an extra buck through tax cuts.

it also matters because the complexity of websites is a burden to end-user devices. especially on weak smartphones, as i’m using rn, the power usage of heavy websites sucks a lot, as it considerably slows down the device overall.

in my next life, i’m gonna be an insect critter hopping in the grassy meadows i guess

i guess Commonmark is the same thing as Markdown?

in that case, this is why i love the fediverse (especially lemmy) so much: comments and posts are simple markdown.

it comes quite close to the principle of distributing content in the way of markdown articles.

I was so surprised when California Protester Shootings happened and everybody acted surprised.

I had always just assumed that the US is a terrorist state and these things happen regularly. It surprised me a lot when people acted all shocked about it.

I like saying that society is a hot gas.

It is a mass of small particles that barely interact with one another, heated up by the heat of anger and hate, floating in a large space aimlessly.

My type of society would be a liquid, where particles are free to move but close to other particles.