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I thought maybe that was a flag joke.

Of course we face huge problems at present, but we’re also more capable at implementing solutions than we have ever been.

“we are fucked” is a bleak generalisation that can’t be rebutted. Regardless, my point remains that people have believed that throughout the ages, and have always pointed to current threats as being more existential than those faced in the past.

There’s actually a lot of research into the issue of pessimism about the future. Honestly, it’s really interesting and I would challenge you to take a look - you might actually feel a little better about the state of the world. It’s a well researched topic but this is a good start.

That’s not to diminish the threats we face. Of course we need to take action and avoid complacency, and of course there will be a significant and deleterious impact from climate change, probably even “catastrophic” by some metrics and in some areas. However, I’m confident that as a race we will adapt, survive, and overcome.

Are you talking about the Dunning Kruger effect?

Great idea! You’re not alone in this feeling. Early attempts to ensure that only appropriate parents could have children began in the early 1900s, and were called eugenics and became one of the foundational tenets of fascism.

There’s several reasons.

Firstly, everyone has a biological imperative to procreate. Every one of your ancestors has done so. Raising someone else’s progeny might be satisfying but for most people its just not going to scratch that itch.

Secondly, most kids in homes or on the street are not orphans, but children of substance abusers, often victims of abuse or neglect. Adopting and raising one of these kids is hard work, and a thankless undertaking.

Raising your own kids is tough. Lots of time and money and just plain hard work. Raising someone else’s kid that hates you on super hard mode is an entirely different proposition.

Here “foster” care is more common than adoption. Its when families get paid to be a kids guardian but do not become perpetual “parents”. Most families I’ve known to do this have kids of their own, plus one or more foster kids.

Hmm.

100 years ago the great war had just ended. 20 million deaths and about the same in severe injuries. You’d probably know the widows of several young men who died.

The great war spread the Spanish flu, one of the deadliest pandemics in history, where between 50 million and 100 million people perished.

The great depression began almost 100 years ago. Like a recession with more supply chain collapse. Even if you could afford clothes you couldnt buy them because the factory that made them couldnt afford to buy cloth.

During this time Nazism took root in Germany and set the scene for the second world war.

I can assure you that people living in this time thought the future looked very bleak.

Every one of your ancestors has faced the same dynamic. Everyone has thought the future looked grim since forever.

If you personally don’t want to be a parent thats fine, but judging every parent for being a parent is a weird take.

There are also no others that have a good web ui, Google Messages web ui is pretty great honestly.

That said, they recently rolled out a requirement to log in to to your google account to use that and I think that might be the line I refuse to cross.

I feel like both comments are misleading.

100 years ago guys were engaged in paid work and women kept house.

As technology (like gas stoves and water heating) and social conventions (like schooling and now day care) progressed “keeping house” has became less labor intensive and women had more time to find paid work.

As households earned more they could afford more so houses and groceries cost more, but in fairness they also became much more complex and costly to produce. Kids played with a hoop and a stick a hundred years ago.

Now of course both partners in a couple really need to work in order to have any chance of a comfortable retirement.

Women did have to fight for a lot of things. No doubt about that. They had to fight to not be sexualised in the workplace, they had to fight for equal access to jobs, and of course equal pay.

They did not have to “fight to work” nor “fight to get paid” per se.

I’d like to think he got some bad news at his monthly whatever treatment.

Hopefully they told him he’s only got a few months to run and that they can’t really hide it much longer.

“I’m sorry sir we’ve been monitoring your dementia and sadly I have to tell you it’s deteriorating”.

“But woman, camera, television, cat, dog”.

“Yes sir. In these later stages it’s likely you’ll have difficulty determining what’s appropriate to say in different contexts”

“Hamderder”

Imagine if they just stopped letting him do unmanaged pressers, how long could it run before it became really obvious.

Perhaps.

A few differences though…

Her role involved criminal acts. Probably treason. Her only hope is that the kompromat she collected will motivate the administration to protect her.

Also, odd time to fire her? Plenty more sin for her to eat.