I tell my family I love them, I tell my best friends I love them, I hug people I care about, I tell them I miss them, they’ve seen me cry. It doesn’t make me feel any less of a man. If somebody says it does, they aren’t somebody I want to close with. Fuck em.
Yes, education is a big factor in reduced birth rate, but I doubt it’s the biggest factor. If educated people lived in societies with good conditions for raising and bearing children, I imagine they would make the informed decision to get children.
How is life in China actually? There must be a reason people don’t want children. I imagine work culture, bad pay, bad prospects, and inability to secure housing are top among the reasons.
I don’t hate work itself. I hate companies and the system that forces me to work a job I don’t give a fuck about.
I don’t have the resources nor opportunities to just work on something I love until it can maybe make some money. Unfortunately, that’s reserved to the wealthy or the lucky. I’ve been working in private on many things that don’t earn money. Maybe what I’m working on is shit. Maybe what I’m working on doesn’t matter. Maybe it never can be profitable. But I can’t throw everything away and just dedicate hundreds or thousands of hours to it like some lucky few can.
This is why UBI will always have my support. It’s my firm belief that anti-UBI people are actually afraid of the competition is would cause. Imagine if instead of 100 people having the time and resources to compete with you, there’d be thousands, maybe even millions. Imagine suddenly thousands of people actually digging into politics and deciding they want to give it a shot. Imagine thousands deciding they wanted to do their hobby fulltime and give it a shot at becoming something. Woodworking, climbing, athletics, journalism, gaming, content creation, mechanics…
There’d be a flurry of activity.
Yeah, no.
It is estimated that cattle farming accounts for approximately 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions through methane production [18].
Page 2 of A Green Misconception: The Real Impact and Role of Greenhouse Gases
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations—a fully developed cow can emit up to 500 liters of methane each day, which accounts for approximately 3.7 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions [36].
Global Warming And Diary Cattle: How to Control and Reduce Methane Emission
That can also be reduced, if the extrapolation is correct to nearly 0% if algae were included in cattle-feed at just 2%
However, inclusion =2% reduced gas and eliminated methane production in the fermentations indicating a minimum inhibitory dose level.
Again, we can quote studies at each other and claim the other person to be wrong or what can and should be done, but it won’t get us anywhere. You will stick to your opinion and I will to mine.
Good day.
Don’t forget: blame anybody who looks or act differently for your misery. Then keep doing the same.
We could obviously argue about this for a long time. We could link to studies supporting our own viewpoints and still end up disagreeing, so I’ll just short circuit that and disagree with you on most of what you said.
Only the last part I agree with: animals exhibit intelligence and social structures. That isn’t limited to mammals, hot or cold-blooded creatures but insects as well.
We humans think we are better, more evolved, more intelligent, and thus more deserving of the crown on this planet. How intelligent are we though if we lose our capability to reason in groups? How smart are we if refuse to tackle climate change? How deserving of the crown are we if we are willing to roll the dice and continue the mass extinction even we are provoking just so that a few of use can indulge for a few generations?
The Dems haven’t been left in a long time. To Europe they are at best center right.
*One letter removed by autocorrect in offhanded unserious comment*
You must write the titles for those rightwing youtube videos about “Shapiro owns transtard in unbelievable response”.
ERMAGERD UTTER DESTRUCTION!!!11!!!111!!1!!!11
I’m not trying to insult their intelligence. I’m insulting it.
Also, well done on finding an autocorrect mistake. Must be proud of yourself.
When a cheetah hunts a gazelle, the gazelle doesn’t consent to death. When parasites infest you, you don’t consent. When cows eat grass, the grass doesn’t consent.
There is nearly no form of food consumption that doesn’t extinguish a life or subjugate another lifeform. Until we can grow food in tubes to feed the human race, that will stay a fact of life for humans. Wild animals will continue though and that isn’t something we can nor should intervene in.
Unrealistic: he’d be abusing the child.
I recently learned about Québecois cursing using every item in a church. They must have some hilarious-sounding mock names for companies there.
Goofle. Takes the evil out of the name, but still makes fun of it, so I’m for it.
Could be name of a dang good pizza place actually.
That’s great. I’ll try and remember that.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Sometimes it has to be introduced slowly and with compassion, sometimes it has to be radical as it can be urgent. Even in African villages where men are committing suicide, they create safe spaces to talk about their feelings. (I think this is one of the videos on the topic - can’t watch it due to age gate).
It’s not easy and everybody’s path is different. If you can’t find somebody locally (friend(s) or therapist), you can start online. It helped me too. But always try and stay critical. Many self-help groups for me are taken over by right-wingers who say “you can be yourself here”, make men feel safe and then give them a scapegoat (immigrants, women, whatever) and spread hate towards other groups.
I was very lucky to grow up in the environment and places I did, and recognise that not everybody can be so lucky.
Best of luck and hope that you will be able to make those connections that allow you express your feelings ❤️ Emotions are human.