chances are high he also wouldn’t have been able to finish the talks in a meaningful way due to his health condition.

yeah … free from life

wow, that sounded so self-aware. you know what you exist for.

imagine the effort to switch accounts and find the exact thing to vote on over and over again…

kinda hits the spot, at least IMO. nothing exciting left.

I think the mistake you’re making here is that you’re comparing living conditions as they are today.

When you conceive a child today, however, that child is gonna be sentient over a timespan of maybe 80 years, with a significant part of that being decades in the future.

You can guess now that it doesn’t matter how the living conditions today are. It matters how the living conditions in the next decades are going to be.

what are your stakes in the game? what does it cost you if you’re wrong and having children does indeed turn out to be a mistake? are you gonna pay for the damages? if not, then you have no right to tell people what to do.

the question you could ask yourself might be “would you like to be born again, as your child, if you could?” that would give you a clear indication of whether it’s worth it.

honestly, same. the only thing that keeps me going is some weird and irrational hope that things will get better in the future. i can feel that, but i can’t explain it rationally. if i didn’t have that hope, i’d go crazy. Like, what even is this mess?

giving birth to “not let them have it” sounds a lot like “owning the libs”

self-harming behaviour because everything is made into a competition.

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i had them in stock.

also note that the Holocaust did not only target Jews, but also homosexuals and other minorities. Yet when talking about WW2 victims, you mostly learn about Jews. Why is that?

It’s because (some) Jews have perfected the art of victimizing themselves more than others, in the expectation to get more favorable treatment from the world this way.

I want to place bets on the debt becoming a problem eventually.

I understand saying “debt isn’t a problem” is easy, as talk is cheap. I am however so sure about my position that i’m willing to bet money on the fact that debt will indeed become a problem, even for states and governments. Where can i make such a bet?

i tried but it doesn’t feel well because of the texture.

i’m out of the loop.

what are law firms and why do they matter?

and what does trump have to do with them?

ok i guess it depends on location and cultural background, then

i’d say that’s a coin flip on whether it works or not :)

(that’s because unfortunately not all parents give a flying fuck about the mental health that that child would be going to have, or rather, not have)

i’d go with something like “sure i’ll make children if you pay for them”

the moment they realize how expensive having children can be, that typically shuts them up rather quickly.

oh i’m not sure if it means anything to you if i say it, but:

i think you’re doing good for the environment. I’m not saying there’s too many people already (because there aren’t), but still, if there are fewer children being born, that will take off a significant pressure from the environment and that will affect everything positively. :)

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So you think the downward spiral is caused by the people in the population and not the political situation?