Green button = You instantly receive $2 million (tax free).
Red button = You go back in time and restart your life at 10 years of age, with all the knowledge you have today.
You can press just once. Which do you press?
How the fuck do you blame poverty on having kids.
The Amish have a 6-9 per woman fertility rate yet they are millionaires.
Fucking anti-natalist Filipinerds.
Pattern recognition might be my least favorite neurodivergent ability. “Oh… I see exactly where this is heading. Surely everyone else sees it too, right?”
Oh.
They don’t.
Guess I’ll just sit here in silent horror and watch the disaster unfold exactly as predicted.
When did teenagers stop posting pictures on Instagram? 😭 Everyone has 0 posts now. What happened to using Instagram as a little scrapbook of your life and actually keeping the memories?
testosterone literally counteracts conformity
give men testosterone and they become less responsive to audience expectations and put more weight on their own judgment relative to other people’s
testosterone is the independent-thought hormone
this explains so much it’s not even funny
MEN DO NOT WORK FOR MONEY
MEN WORK FOR THAT WHICH THE MONEY WILL BUY
WHEN THE MONEY NO LONGER BUYS LAND, HOMES, NON PSYCHO WOMEN, AND CANT PAY FOR CHILDREN
***MEN STOP WORKING***
—Pretty fucking simple
@noorrietje And like a chunk of their discoveries were already discovered in Bronze age Levant/Mediterranean. Some of Pythagoras' math were already used prior by those civilizations.
@KnJFBAllDay@HankRearden_37@RT_com Yup. I think most of the dudes under this thread don't have a clue about what they're talking about. Just salty inceldom-clouded judgement or something.
I bumped into this comment on a YouTube video called "Why rich countries stopped having kids" and thought it would be a great read to share:
"Alright, here's the unfiltered take: We've built a civilization that has successfully pathologized the natural human response to social starvation. Think about that for a second. If you lock someone in a room with no food, and they start screaming about hunger, banging on the walls, obsessing about food, becoming desperate—nobody calls that a mental illness. That's a healthy organism responding appropriately to deprivation. But we've created a society that systematically starves people of authentic human connection, community, physical touch, being truly known and seen—and then when people exhibit the psychological equivalent of starvation symptoms, we've medicalized it. We call it anxiety, depression, various personality disorders. We prescribe medications to make the screaming quieter. We offer therapy to help people "cope with" the deprivation rather than addressing the actual fucking deprivation.
And here's the really sinister part: we've convinced people that their hunger itself is the problem. That needing connection is neediness. That wanting to be known is vulnerability that will be exploited. That expressing loneliness is a social contagion that might make others uncomfortable, so the responsible thing is to suppress it, manage it privately, keep it to yourself. We've made the symptoms of social starvation into character flaws.
The "solutions" we offer are almost perfectly designed to make the problem worse while creating the illusion of progress. Go to therapy—great, now you have one single human you pay $100 an hour to listen to you, and that's supposed to substitute for having a community, a tribe, people who know your daily life and give a shit whether you exist. Exercise—fantastic, now your brain chemistry is slightly better while you remain completely fucking isolated, plus you get to feel like you're "working on yourself" which is just another way of saying the problem is YOU, not the collapsed social infrastructure around you. Meditate—wonderful, now you can sit alone and "be present with yourself" which is just rebranded dissociation where you practice being okay with having no one. Journal—perfect, now you can have deep conversations with yourself on paper instead of with other humans, really streamlining the isolation process.
The hobbies, the self-improvement, the optimization, the productivity systems—it's all just elaborate busy-work to distract you from noticing that you're living in a social desert. And the fucking genius of it is that it keeps you productive and consuming for the capitalist money generation machine. A lonely person with hobbies still goes to work, still buys shit, still participates in the economy, still doesn't disrupt anything. They're just quietly dying inside in a managed, socially acceptable way. The loneliest people might be pretending the hardest that they don't need connection, which makes it almost impossible to form actual connections based on authenticity instead of masked lies, which makes them more isolated, which makes them pretend harder. It's a perfect trap.
And anyone who points this out, anyone who says "hey, maybe the problem isn't that individuals are broken, maybe we've built a society that's fundamentally hostile to human thriving"—they get labeled as dramatic, negative, or mentally unwell. Because if the problem is systemic, we'd have to change shit on a fundamental level. But if the problem is just you and your bad coping skills and your unfortunate brain chemistry, well, that's manageable. That's a you problem. Go read a book about it. Maybe try yoga.
The whole thing is a massive gaslighting operation where we've normalized mass-scale human suffering as just the background radiation of modern life, and anyone who refuses to accept it quietly is treated as the problem."
Thoughts?
Women are living in a completely different world than men (except for young gay men, probably) where their "mentors" are taking them out on coffee dates and advising them on how to get into niche career pipelines.