@SnowMed34 Generations of women before them didn't have this same environment
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Colonizer, gentrifier, saucier /// Euro blood, 'murcan heart
The United States of America! Katılım Ağustos 2021
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@alwaysadblock They can get over it and not take it so seriously like the generations of women before them.
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You think we didn’t razz each other about that?
lu@hilosfemi2
i forgot to mention girls not been able to eat a banana in schol without a boy saying something sexual about it
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There IS a very simple way to induce married parents to have 3 or 4 kids instead of 1 or 2, which is all that is required to solve the demographic problem.
Large cash payment upon the birth of child #3 and all subsequent children.
Only question is how much. This scheme avoids most of the negative side effects of baby payments, and also renders the angst about childless adults irrelevant, let them live as they please and pay their taxes.
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@rabcyr_alt @fde_enthusiast7 @alwaysadblock @Empty_America i can also see a hilarious result where unnamed billionaires have a stupid number of children to reduce their tax rates and just farm them out.
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@ofreacharound I don't think it is. Maybe it is? But where I grew up you'd host in little apartments without embarrassment.
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The YIMBY people are often like horses sticking their mouth in the fire to try to get water. They think they know what they want but they don't. You don't actually need yimby politics to start hanging out at your local McDonald's or Waffle House with the regulars.
YIMBYLAND@YIMBYLAND
Unironically, adding a walkable coffee shop and a pub to a suburban neighborhood would make them 10x more enjoyable and dynamic. Imagine the run-ins you’d have every morning on your walk for coffee, or spontaneous games you watch with the dads at the pub. Sounds kinda awesome.
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@DownAndOut__ @HariSel57511397 This is untrue, there are several orgs that are very meritocratic. I'm fortunate that one of my main accounts at work is one of these. They equip smart, mostly young people, give them a goal, then get out of their way. They're a joy to work with.
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@alwaysadblock @HariSel57511397 Every large organisation these days functions by identifying the talented, excluding them, and then accusing them of being difficult if they complain. It's just a kafka trap
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Why do we make people acquire credentials? At this point, line them all up in front of HR and just hire on the ick test. It would be more honest than pretending we’re sorting for competence.
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@bielpmw @john_st_helen @cornu__copia I grew up in the EU in a drinking culture so it was different for me. The US varies by state and ethnicity. Midwestern whites aren't shy around alcohol, southern Baptist whites) and blacks) treat it differently
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I used to think that because the legal drinking age is 21 in the U.S. — unlike Brazil and most countries, where it’s 18, and because it’s illegal to sell alcohol to minors, people there would be more conservative about drinking and only start drinking when they’re older. But after your comment, I see that’s not really the case.
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Even though the consumption of alcohol has decreased in the Nordic countries significantly, it still plays an important role in the youth culture. This is a big contrast to America. The American Gen Z culture seems fundamentalist Christian/Muslim to us.
Zoso 🇺🇳(🇮🇶)@MesoAnglic
Young People are getting more Mormon AND Muslim and are replacing the vice of Alcohol with the vice of Sugar
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@shakoistsLog 100% correct. I mean it's fine to criticize something a public figure releases to the public. But it's so obviously an attempted 'exile'. If that's what people want they should just do it explicitly!
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@bielpmw @john_st_helen @cornu__copia Mid 40s, I have been a drinker since I was 16, it's definitely generational. Nobody I grew up with was a non drinker. Some of us drank way more than others. But male and female alike all drank at least a sip.
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@alwaysadblock @john_st_helen @cornu__copia How old are you?
Older generations still drink more frequently, though.
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I'd be Barack Obama on November 15th 1982 because I am an alpha male on the path to being a sensitive young man
taf 🝮@tafphorisms
Friendly ice breaker: “if you could be anyone in history for a day, who would you be?” I go first and say Neil Armstrong 1969 or Jesus on the day of his crucifixion. Next person says Taylor Swift. Everyone else says a pop star or celebrity. Yep. Killing myself
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@bielpmw @john_st_helen @cornu__copia That's a factor here in the US too, I am sure. Even among those who do drink - like me - if it's $5 for this specific glass of wine at home and $20 for it at a bar, if I don't have specific people to meet there, I can just drink it at home and poast on my phone.
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@alwaysadblock @john_st_helen @cornu__copia Violence like the fear of some thief or armed person showing up, depending on the place, and Gen Z’s lack of money is also a major factor. I myself don’t have money for anything. I think that after the pandemic, people prefer to stay at home.
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This is a very northern Euro thing. Like this isn't a thing in Spain, at all. You meet at the café or the bar. You don't go to someone's house. In NL or the UK you can do that. In Scandi you can go to pregame or for coffee. In France you may be invited. But among whites it's far from a given that you can just have a casual hangout at someone's house.
I'll do an effortpoast about this tomorrow
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@alwaysadblock In a neighborhood with good upstanding people you could go to each others homes
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@bielpmw @john_st_helen @cornu__copia What do you mean by afraid of violence? Like domestic violence, or in bars?
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@alwaysadblock @john_st_helen @cornu__copia I think people are replacing the habit of drinking with other things. Maybe with other drugs. In Brazil it's the same thing, people don't drink because they're afraid of violence.
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@St2station "Popular knapsack with many different locations" entered my lexicon and it's the full and official title of the kids' kindergarten bags
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It’s amusing and also revealing when centrists and libs reveal their ignorance of grim but important realities of American life, such as a big part of responsible parenting (or grand-parenting, often) for many African-Americans being to search your boy’s room for guns and drugs.
Joe@electionsjoe
Comedy
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Lol this takes me back. My club helped out at a Christmas event a few years back. In training they told us the most important job was those who took the family (after they picked out their stuff, one toy per kid) to the car and ensured it was all loaded up AND STILL SEALED when they drove off/got drove off because if not they'd either dump half of it or immediately the patriarch would try to trade the toys for a couple of bucks.
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Spent year of lockdown manning food bank out back of local school. Kept getting in trouble bc brown families would come, claim to be from different households so they could each get one household’s worth of goods, then dumping like half of what they got in school community garden
ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩@kunley_drukpa
“Our church food bank is getting misused”
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@Empty_America There are lots of really bad edge cases, like a medical tragedy resulting in no more kids after 2, fake births. But I agree, if we want to "brute force" fertility, it needs to be a huge six-figure bag of cash for Trey and the fourth.
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@alwaysadblock There can always be abuses of anything, but I think the rather novel idea of NOT paying for kids 1 and 2 but then paying a lot for 3+ would really reduce the issues.
It has some interesting psychological implications and filters.
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@fde_enthusiast7 @Empty_America And it's working so well right now!
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@alwaysadblock @Empty_America I mean the type of people who understand this are the exact people you want reproducing
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Americans profit hugely from the standard deduction and EITC but because it's not physically money that appears in their account they don't know it. Tax breaks matter for accounting but for individuals they don't drive incentive.
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@Empty_America What is the difference between a cash payment and a tax break? Having more kids has been huge for my wife and I in the tax department
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One time in middle school, we had this substitute teacher that we absolutely ragged on.
He was gentle, older, and wore tweed. We thought we were so funny being little jerks to him.
5 years later, I saw him pruning hedges outside a tidy little house near the town landing. My heart sunk, remembering how rotten we were to this elderly gentleman who clearly was just trying to keep busy in his retirement and give back.
I'm sure he's dead now, and the hedges are gone. But whenever I drive past that house, I think of him. I'm sorry, sir. May you rest in peace.
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