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by nineplay 2y ago
They probably haven't stopped working when they have kids because it's a terrible social and financial decision. Which is why they don't want kids. Which is why fertility is declining.
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by nineplay 2y ago
> not working > (not) stressing about work > instead spending it with family and raising your kid ... while someone else goes to work Right. 'Spending time' with your family and kid is not work and is completely stress f
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by nineplay 2y ago
Nowhere in the west of course, but in the mid-east they found their own way to 'correct' liberated women. Saying something is 'self-correcting' is not the same as saying that the correction is something that you are goin
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by nineplay 2y ago
> Fine with me. Their ideals and cultural preferences won't be present in the next generation. A self-fixing problem. The governments of Japan and South Korea disagree.
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by nineplay 2y ago
> alimony awards have always been very rare, going from about 25 percent of cases in the 1960s to about 10 percent today From 2015, but I don't think there's any reason to think they've gotten higher https://www
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by nineplay 2y ago
> What should men dream? Anyone can dream anything but they shouldn't respond with outrage and fury if their dreams don't come true. > I honestly think the truth of the matter is that women's dreams change the moment th
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by nineplay 2y ago
I'll stand by my comparison. Absent every other consideration, do you think more people would want a job with retirement benefits and severance pay, or a job where you have a 10% chance of getting part of your employer's income -
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by nineplay 2y ago
> As opposed to young women, who expect men to earn more than them, adore them, and to do all that while caring for kids Not anymore, that's my point. Women's dreams are changing now that they can make real money. Men's d
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by nineplay 2y ago
> Elizabeth Warren shows in her book 'The Dual Income Trap' that you can be pretty much assured the government will get all that is possible from the husband. Is there any evidence of this outside Elizabeth Warren's book?
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by nineplay 2y ago
You don't see declining fertility rates?
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by nineplay 2y ago
> Untrue. Alimony, child support Not guaranteed in any way. Depends very much on courts, lawyers, and the ability of judgements to be enforced. Who would take that over a job with a 401k that moves with you? > I see just as much anec
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by nineplay 2y ago
I think that there's a greater societal problem that's causing ripples everywhere, including issues that came up in the recent election. Women are realizing that stay-at-home wife/motherhood is a really bad job. 24/7,
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by nineplay 2y ago
I probably used vim exclusively for about a decade. I've worked with a handful of developers who've only used vim and I've only known one who was anywhere near as effective with it as most IDE users. A few examples -- debuggi
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by nineplay 2y ago
I think they really overestimated how many people were single issue pro-choice voters. Looking back it was the biggest part of their platform but it probably didn't move the needle much. I could tell you much more about Trump's
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by nineplay 2y ago
I think Shapiro would have good _except_ for what's currently going on in Palestine. Palestine was always divisive among the left and now more than ever.
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by nineplay 2y ago
> And towards a DEI set up where Kamala is hired because she ticks the colored and woman boxes rather than because of competence. Biden said as much ~4 years ago and this election was probably doomed from that point on. I don't kn
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by nineplay 2y ago
I hate to say it as a progressive woman, but the DNC has a non-minority problem. They need a good white/Hispanic Christian heterosexual male and they just don't seem to have one at this point. Gavin Newsom is the face of everythi
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by nineplay 2y ago
I hardly know what to make of this. If I was a wealthy woman in a blue state than it is wrong of me to give a damn about what happens to poor women in red states? That is a unique POV. I can't imagine how a hypothetical Polish person
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by nineplay 2y ago
"source for your claims" sounds pretty hand-wavey. So far as I can tell, neither side disputes this. Will a supreme court opinion do? https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-726_6jgm.pdf
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by nineplay 2y ago
Pregnant women are dying because they are not getting appropriate medical care. Doctors are unwilling to give pregnant women appropriate care because they may face criminal charges. This is happening directly because of legislation that has
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by nineplay 2y ago
Maybe they'd have less political violence if they didn't associate with people who disagree with them. I'm not sure I'm convinced that dying for your political views is a fair price to pay for conversations with your ne
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by nineplay 2y ago
That's the problem though right? I think that there are people who are so completely and utterly wrong that I don't know what to do with them. They also think that I am so completely and utterly wrong that they don't know w
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by nineplay 2y ago
I'm still puzzled over the article frankly. In India there's political violence and people are getting killed - but they still are happy to discuss politics with their friends and neighbors? There's a disconnect there that
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by nineplay 2y ago
For a lot of people in the US, politics has become very personal. I believe that some policy decisions have become a direct threat to my health and I can try to discuss those policies calmly but I'm not good at covering my aggravation
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by nineplay 2y ago
Right, and the point of banned book weed is to highlight books that have been 'curated' from school libraries so that members of the community can review the works and give feedback. If a middle school decided to curate away the H
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by nineplay 2y ago
I very much hope my 14 year old is accessing things I'm not aware of. I consider it a rite of passage. I'm not solving for my 14 year old. I'm solving for the other 11 million middle school students in the US who don't
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by nineplay 2y ago
What is the difference between the state curating media for my child and me curating media for my child -is that a serious question? I trust myself, I don't trust the state. I'm not sure I've ever seen any poster anywhere
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by nineplay 2y ago
I won't make any presumptions about your background. I can tell you that for me, there was a definite point where I realized that all my favorite characters were male, and I though it sucked. Were women really incapable of having gre
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by nineplay 2y ago
My 14 year old can read any book at any time and our shelves are full of books that would upset many pearl clutchers. That is not the point. My point is that if even my kid from a supportive, educated, middle class family can't get u
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by nineplay 2y ago
Crime and Punishment and The Odyssey are two of my favorite works and I struggled to read Moby Dick in my 40s. I finished only out of a grim determination and with ( frankly ) a lot of skimming. Happy am I that I was never forced to read

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