ermac

pro devop, avg bassist, hardware/maths noob.

[ermac @ermaculate]

the replies here are painful, people so spiteful towards success

[rachael 💫 @witty_genstein]

I do not believe the fertility crisis is, at its core, about economic factors.

Out of my 20 or so closest friends from Harvard, only two of us have kids at 30. These are all people in top 1-5% of income for their age bracket, extremely privileged wrt job security.

They aren’t having kids, and it’s not because they are worried they can’t afford them. They are simply doing other things. They are traveling Europe, or flying to Vegas to see concerts, or focusing on their careers/personal interests/hobbies. They have too much they want to do “before kids”, so they are waiting.

A lot of people in my peer group stuck in a kind of statis, trying to extend their 20s infinitely. “Millennials think they are still teenagers,” as Logo puts it.

So I see the fertility crisis as more of a spiritual issue. People lack the desire to start families. And why would they when way, way more cultural weight is placed on things like personal growth and career achievement and “having fun”. It’s not high status to be a parent, in the way becoming a founder or a doctor or earning a PhD is.

Economic uncertainty has always and will always exist. That’s not going to be what raises fertility rates.

Fertility rates will go up when raising children becomes the default first priority, not a second or third priority that you “get to” after a bunch of personal achievements. This requires a fundamentally different cultural narrative that reorients people around a project that is bigger than themselves.

[ermac @ermaculate]

i hate this world

[Chris Samra @crsamra]

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[ermac @ermaculate]

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[NRM84 @Mappy6984]

Got intense quick

[ermac @ermaculate]

@ComputerGoBrr @NiohBerg Ah yeah I'm not actually an absolutist, I was speaking in relative terms

I.e Citizens united is net negative in US and that's FOS based

[ermac @ermaculate]

Eh, hard disagree on the death to the IDF chant. It's a foreign military, one widely accused of war crimes, so I wouldn't class that. It has a stroke of absurdity about it for me: I can love and idolise a foreign military but I can't call for their defeat? The only army you shouldn't be allowed to call to defeat is ours.

I think this falls into that encroachment territory where rights get stripped even though it's not clear, and we are firmly on the wrong trajectory in the UK. The POA needs to be stripped back imo

I hadn't seen or heard about the riot incitement, but if that's true then yeah that's retarded, defo shouldn't be allowed

Hating on glasto for this is also dumb, but I'm pretty sure glasto is leftward politically; the organisers have political opinions and do stand by them iirc, but it's nothing new and arguably even *appropriate* for a music festival of it's class

[ermac @ermaculate]

@startupmillyair This was such a brilliant moment until I saw the community note ffs

[ermac @ermaculate]

Would you want to imprison an act that called for the death of Russian aggressors in Ukraine, or the leaders of Hamas for their butchery?

The IDF is a foreign military, it's not a person, nor is it anywhere near the UK

It's absurd to arrest British civilians for hating a foreign army

[ermac @ermaculate]

@ComputerGoBrr @NiohBerg Which bit was inciting violence? Death to the IDF?

[ermac @ermaculate]

lol. lmao even

[Nyx @NyxXeres]

@LukasHozda There was some controversy with that because some people interpreted that as support for the Russian army when the war with Ukraine started, several repos on GitHub had requests to remove z from all exported variables and internal usage.

[ermac @ermaculate]

@teortaxesTex @sato942_ "God save me from my friends"

Competence is severely lacking in this movement. Few leaders are able to properly understand and articulate the cause. And they're usually drowned out by this dumbness

It's esp embarrassing given how effective Zionists are

[ermac @ermaculate]

@StudioMilitary Lol how is this a controversial take

[ermac @ermaculate]

@Laz4rz i was excited to get back to modern warfare but they killed the squad gameplay by changing classes the way they did. i didn't hate specialists but it's the wrong direction for dice imo

it's still a fun game overall tbh, just too many bugs and low player count

[ermac @ermaculate]

root cause of low TFR (one of em anyway)

things like this need to be govt subsidized up to a point https://t.co/UGjSZNfw6i

[ermac @ermaculate]

zohran is the first dem in a long time that understands imagery

[ermac @ermaculate]

What world do these people live in lmao

[Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 @Bubblebathgirl]

@SteveYMonas This is the right take. If Mamdani wins then that’s it for NYC. Sharia Law will takeover and Western culture will disappear.

And of course, the Christian and Jewish communities will be persecuted like they are now in London and many parts of Europe.

Vote wisely!