Subtext need not be intentional.

The subtext speaks louder than the text in 300.

What’s it called when a man loves a 600-year-old dragon in the body of an 8-year-old?

I always interpreted it as a Spartan preference for grown men over boys.

Like more Freddie Mercury and less Judy Garland, please.

I remember all the anti-establishment, anti-sellout, anti-consumerist comics from the 1980’s.

Pancreatic cancer did Bill Hicks a huge fucking favor.

No doubt. Media is rich people propaganda 100%. If anyone has any economists speaking against perpetual population growth, let me know.

Oh, well, in that case, have at it. I just don’t know anyone that doesn’t personally.

I think the crisis is as real as any crisis we’re currently ignoring. The left can use it to argue for their policies, and the right can use it to argue for theirs. Neither side is willing to let it go as long as it has political utility.

And everyone that lives under capitalism?

Our system is simply not set up for declining populations.

I’d like to think the declining birth rates are a natural correction, and that with fewer people, real estate will come down, and tuitition will drop, etc., but I think the problem isn’t scare resources, it’s wealth inequality.

And if we decided to move back into liveable cities, we’d have plenty of resources.

Sure, but not enough. Would it be the worst thing in the world if people could continue the human race without working 120 hours a week? Nope! But it might not be enough to get 2.1.

Yup. That’s exactly the play.

I was hoping for a more liberal-minded solution, but it probably requires radically smaller communal living, more intergenerational. Even if everything’s paid for, having two kids is a real sacrifice, but triply so if you’re living alone and your grandparents are dead and your parents live an hour away.

Also check out Britt Hartley’s video on Christian men. Religion is traditionally the place for women to have babies and be communal and shit but Christianity is so besotted with female oppression that the light is turning on in the minds of Christian women: Christian men are NOT safe partners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTCMbGBnDh8

And you’re absolutely right. The terrifying thing is that toopush women into having babies again–at least by force–you have to strip away 100 years of rights and close every avenue and loophole out to an independent life and an independent mind. Just banning abortion is not enough. You have to close schools, forbid employment, ban loans, etc.

Women, especially you majority-Trump-voting white women: take note.

There’s kind of fixed game-play mechanics around driving. Once you’ve perfected the experience, where do you go from there?

Even in Nordic gay space communist countries where all the needs of mothers are provided by the state, there is a birth rate crisis (met with immigration).

I think many of us uncomfortable with the dawning reality that achieving the replacement rate of humanity requires oppression of women. Bearing children is an enormous pain in the ass and without pressuring and grooming women into it, we don’t get to the maintenance target of 2.1 babies per woman.

There are probably ways societies could THEORETICALLY adjust to make child-bearing more emotionally attractive without social coercion, but, fuck, man, society can’t even maintain platonic friendships these days, how are we going to figure out how to have every woman average 2.1 babies?

I’m chipping away at it… it’s a long process of gradual disentaglement.

Yeah, those cable e-mail addresses are crazzyyy… I used to work a public help desk a few years ago and they’re people still using them! But they’re being managed by Yahoo! usually and I don’t know if anyone’s verifying they’re still getting service through the company that bought the company that bought the company that bought the original cable company that issued the e-mail.

Aliases are nice. Maybe one day when I’m an adult, I’ll pay for proton.

Yeah, the link is there on the vendor’s side, but it doesn’t get back to google, right? I mean, I guess unless they have sharing agreements, which they probably do. Shit. My brain still hasn’t adjusted to modern corporate perfidy.

As for that hardware ID, I’m kicking it back to the retailer and letting them know they’re going to lose a sale if they don’t address it. If I just disappear, they’re not going to know its a problem. But they’re also a good company otherwise–non-Amazon specialty stores are a treasure–so I’ll just do the work around (probably on a web browser with the new account) if they don’t fix it.

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The way those old cartoons are constantly in motion reminds me of the perennial arcade fight game bob and weave, so mercilessly depicted by that Gravity Falls reverse-Tron episode.

I honestly haven’t thought about it too much. I think you can get a cheapie bluetooth watch to send you an alert if its nearby.

You can probably enable Google’s find my if you want, but then what’s the point of having a secure phone if Google always knows where you are?

Not too be to defeatist about things–there may be a solution out there for you–but a lot of the conveniences of modern life require trade-offs that we are encouraged to not think about.