Jacob Stegeman

US fertility reached 1.57 last year, the lowest ever recorded, and the WSJ explanation is "uncertainty about finances, relationship stability, and the political climate" my great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with no running water, on rations. poor people have always had kids. the poorest people on earth right now still have kids and the financial excuse is a story we tell ourselves because it makes us feel good and the real one is unbearable the real mechanism is that we got rich enough to redefine children as an expense instead of the point. somewhere in the last fifty years the cultural goal inverted and a child stopped being what life is for and became a line item competing with the lifestyle. once you frame it that way the math never works, because the math isnt supposed to work. that's the point we are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future. the most prosperous civilization that has ever existed is committing demographic suicide at the altar of personal optimization and comfort, and the official line is that we cant afford it the birthrate is a lagging indicator of a civilization that forgot why it was alive

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3 straight Elite 8’s 5 Sweet 16’s (4 in a row) SEC Championship Best Coach in Tennessee Basketball history and one of the best to ever do it. Don’t take Rick Barnes for Granted

@CaptainVol @tennalum @robadob92

@tennalum Danny hit her up for money at the baggage claim

Margaret Duffy is a 1953 alumna, former UT cheerleader and homecoming queen, and recently turned 95! She celebrated her birthday by joining the inaugural Southwest Airlines flight into Knoxville ✈️

The final speech of coach Lou Holtz’s life from this past November. Take the time to watch it and thanks to @A1Policy for sharing this with @outkick. RIP to Coach Holtz, a great man:

Modern films are obsessed with runtime. As if weight comes from length. The Lion King (1994) is lean, precise, and emotionally complete at 88 minutes. The 2019 remake nearly hits two hours and somehow says nothing more.

@SchubringTrent @robadob92 @BarstoolBigCat If you’re chasing Kentucky you obviously have issues that money won’t fix

@robadob92 @BarstoolBigCat Close the gap between OSU and Wisconsin? No. Between Wisconsin and Kentucky? Absolutely.

B1G

@vol_equalizer @robadob92

This video along with KSR last night fed generations . 😭😭😭

The coal mines are hard on those lungs

@ClayTravis The problem’s not the conference championship games. It’s the 12+ team playoff. It’s devalued both the regular season and the value of winning your conference. Both things made college football the best sport in the world, and now it’s just becoming the NFL.

I don’t see how conference title games can continue in a 12+ team playoff era. No one wants to really make them because it’s just a chance to get top players injured in extra game. And no fans really care if their teams win and then plays poorly in the playoff. Gotta end them.

How do you watch this and think it’s okay @gregsam

Yeah, look at this desolate wasteland

One of our largest booster sent this to me….take this as you will…..

@RobbyBerger Both great former Tennessee Volunteers

Real solid.

@robadob92 @Jon__Reed @SEC Rubbie tweeting about Kentucky every morning before most are awake

@Jon__Reed @SEC I am definitely in the minority but I hate them so much (my basketball fandom carrying over some).

It is very important to protect the historic Tennessee/Vanderbilt I-40 battle as well as the very prestigious Tennessee/Kentucky I-75 championship. Do the right thing @sec

Soon

@sullyvol I hear he’s coming to be the QB coach

I didn’t live through multiple rounds of Grumors to be gaslit like this