Just being in the city is goal for many people. It has replaced doing something interesting in the city or creating something. The city itself is the end goal now.
@BasedRedhead@dystopiangf Yes its very degrading when someone thinks you are the most beautiful thing in the world and wants to kiss and touch you softly. So violent and degrading
@basilYam all of this points to just accepting the societal shift towards late family formation and using technology to make it more survivable (subsidized egg freezing/IVF)
@HistoryBoomer seems like one way we could deal with this as AI compounds the divergence between labor income and capital income is to implement a sovereign wealth fund ASAP and tax labor + compute aggressively to fund it
@beyondwaiting it's worse than that because it is the circular policing of each other's parenting not being attentive enough. there is a compounding arms race of parents jockeying for status based on financial, social, health and time sacrifice
@pbprot and the 30+ year old men who seem to have their shit together in every visible way probably seem that way to the other dozen women they're talking to as well
@CartoonsHateHer lots of people with a 25-30 BMI would not be considered fat or chubby in the informal sense of the word. Even people who are mildly obese (bodybuilders, women with genetically fortunate fat distributions) would not be considered "fat" colloquially.
@xwanyex tbh even without kids, cooking a bespoke dinner every night with freshly bought ingredients is an indication that you have too much time on your hands
either prepare it in bulk or pay someone else to. your time is more valuable than stirring a pot of pasta for 10 hours a week