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Josiah Luse
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@nguyenchinhcafe @elonmusk I have 3,and they’re only a few years away from moving out.It’s so expensive to raise them, cover mortgage and prepare ourselves for a meaningful retirement in 13-15 years.I can fully understand why younger people would pause at having one child, let alone 3-4.
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Exactly:
“And then it dawned on me that the declining birth rate is not just a simple math problem - it fundamentally de-incentivizes civilization to look forward.”
Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷@farzyness
The collapsing birth rate is actually way worse than you think. One of the biggest things I've realized since becoming a father 3 months ago is that I spend an obscene amount of time thinking about the future. This is because I want my child to have the best possible place to grow up in. And thus, I spend way too much time looking at how society is functioning today and where the weaknesses are. What's becoming painfully clear is that everything is broken. Our Government overspends like crazy and they never tell the truth. Our corporations are way too bloated, rarely innovate, and they are more than comfortable lowering quality over time while increasing profit margins. Our Mainstream Media is a national embarrassment and is nothing more than a propaganda machine for the government. I am now constantly filled with a sense of dread. It feels like a good future is almost impossible given the amount of stuff that is completely broken today. However - once I start thinking about the past, and compare it to today, I realize that things are so much better than they used to be, so it gives me hope that a better future is possible with enough effort and pain. But here's the MASSIVE problem - without a child, I would've never felt as motivated as I do now to make the future a better place. And then it dawned on me that the declining birth rate is not just a simple math problem - it fundamentally de-incentivizes civilization to look forward. This means that there are less people now - more than ever in recent recorded history - that don't have that child making it painfully obvious how broken everything is, and how desperately we need to make everything better for our children. Instead, we are distracted by ever-increasing technological wonders that will be maximally optimized to draw your attention away from reality using AI algorithms. We are distracted by amazing products and services, and incredible destinations to visit. We are distracted by social media platforms that make it extremely difficult to stop paying attention to them. We are truly in a very, very, very dangerous place. We need more people speaking up about things that need to be fixed. We need more entrepreneurs tackling difficult problems. We need more public servants that have the people's best interest in mind. We need so much. But more important than all - we need more children. Children are the future, and without them, the future will disappear. Literally. -- Thank you @HansCNelson for the inspiration.
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@unusual_whales I believe it. This economy is better than when I was 20. Mid west is affordable too.
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Gen Z leads in homeownership, especially in the Midwest, outpacing millennials and Gen X, per NYP.
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@lawyer4SMBs The kid probably doesn’t want to eat all that food at once. So the 3 meals a day thing is probably frustrating.
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Any parents of young (2-3 year old) kids out there?
Need some advice.
2 year old refuses to eat breakfast or lunch as served.
Then wants to snack all day.
Any smart hacks to get her back into eating proper breakfast and lunch (without starving her all day)?
Thanks 👶🍞🍪!
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@justalexoki Customers pay a commission to the sales person all the damn time. And you’re here bitching about 5$ you get to give to someone who gladly waits on you. SMH
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ok americans hating on this guy, please explain why customers should pay the servers salary instead of their employer?
Ishan Sharma@Ishansharma7390
Tipping is such a scam in New York!💀 Why do I pay extra just because restaurants pay minimum hourly wages? Ordered a crepe, club sandwich and Panini for $45(Rs. 3800). We paid $50 cash and the waiter just took the rest as tip. I asked for change and she said "you have to pay the tip" and went away. I asked "is it mandatory?" and she just ignored me. And my friend(a local) felt guilty for not paying atleast 20% tip! 20% for what? INSANE!🤯
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@Eli_B_Again @WereGnnaMkeIt Exactly this. A man should be able to stand alone in his hobbies and interests. I don’t need my girlfriend to applaud everything I do like I’m a kid.
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@WereGnnaMkeIt I will never understand why so many men on this app are obsessed with having their every action validated and fawned over by women.
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This is 💯 true. Men playing video games is peak unattractive. Beyond red flag. Like dealbreaker zone. It’s weird that so many dudes don’t get this.
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@DDS_MINN How is this crucial info? I tipped him $10 on top of the $40 because we had a great conversation
Not sure why my tip has anything to do with Uber ripping off their drivers?
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Just Ubered home from the airport
30 minute drive
My cost: $40
What the driver made: $9
Absolutely brutal
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@Bonecondor @StonedMadonna @cherishthejoy Gotta be a regional thing like how in tx all soda is coke.
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@StonedMadonna @cherishthejoy i invite you to read the comments
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british people calling sprite and 7-up “lemonade” and referring to what americans call lemonade as “cloudy lemonade” is underdiscussed as a reason to hate the english
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@michaeljknowles I’m rooting for her. Take that shit as far up as you can go. There’s no limit to how much dumb money there is, she might as well push it as far as she can for the rest of us.
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The irony of this gal is that, while she became improbably famous for making a bawdy joke on camera, every subsequent appearance she's made suggests that she's among the more wholesome figures to pop up in recent memory.
twitter.com/HalieyWelchX/s…
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@crumnut_ @hourly_shitpost Work nights for two months and you’ll think a 12 hour day shift is the easiest thing you’ve ever done.
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@frogNscorpion Modern Brits have way more grievances against their government than American colonists did in 1776.
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@anpaure @afterdayzzz Anywhere like the major cities most people make this kind of money in 500k is chump change, especially when taxed to the moon like nyc and sf. Companies demand a lot from people if they are making that much money.
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@DionysianAgent It's less about round & round you go, and more about where on the line you sit at any given time, and how you adjust your life.
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