• LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    I had my son at 28, not by 24. Speedrun: FAILED.

    Oh, and wrote my first novel at 50. Also FAILED, apparently.

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    Looked up this fool on social and you guessed it! He’s super cringe with his wannabe lifestyle posts.

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        I think it’s good for people to have children. At least one and preferably no more than two.

        If we contain population growth, the riches already created are for the taking for generations to come and the planet finally gets a rest.

        It does require a reckoning with the capitalist elite that would like to produce anyway, but I feel that may be coming regardless of our feelings towards children.

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      And these same people who are MGTOW, or “men going their own way”, are obsessed talking shit about women.

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          Right? If you have to tell people you’re alpha, you ain’t. Much less if you make it the only aspect of your personality.

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      Even if we had it, imagine how small your life is if you actually believe we are born to do a biological job.

      • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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        Imagine if we flipped the tables. If it’s all on women to have and raise kids and nothing more, wouldn’t that mean a man’s job is to get laid/donate sperm, impregnate someone once, and that’s it? If that’s all there is and he’s fulfilled his role, there’s no need to stay alive after that. Like a male bee, exploding after mating. Why bother with society, hobbies, learning and growing? OP’s “job” as a man is nothing more than to literally fuck off and die, mission complete.

        Obviously I don’t believe that, just taking his argument to its logical conclusion. I’ve heard people say that women are just for making babies so many times in my life, but I’ve never heard men’s role put in the same terms.

        It sounds ridiculous because it is ridiculous. We’re all so much more than our biological equipment. I know I’m preaching to the choir here, I just had to rant for a moment.

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          Unfortunately they’ll probably just say they are meant to be the masters of a harem and kill any potential rival males. Literally troglodyte shit

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            Then they should be starting a fight to the death with every man they encounter.

            Best to make sure you’re armed and they are not when you reveal this to them.

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          I like that reasoning. If I had any toxic male friends saying shit like this I might use it, thanks!

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          Imagine if we flipped the tables. If it’s all on women to have and raise kids and nothing more, wouldn’t that mean a man’s job is to get laid/donate sperm, impregnate someone once, and that’s it? If that’s all there is and he’s fulfilled his role, there’s no need to stay alive after that. Like a male bee, exploding after mating.

          Humans are not bees, you don’t rip some lazy bum’s dick off as a teen, use it to birth a town of sterile slaves that provide for your every need, and keep using that same sperm for years while birthing over a million babies throughout your life.

          From an evolutionary perspective you’re successful if you have more children, that have reached breeding age, than the average. Humans today have a pretty good chance of survival no matter if they have both parents of not, so the only factor in that equation is how many children you can make.

          So if you actually flip the tables, the man’s job in the developed world is to make as many babies, and if he makes less than 3 he’s a failure. And they should feel lucky because the guys in Niger/Sudan need to make like 15 or 20 (8-12 is the average).

          If you want an animal metaphor instead, think of those jungle birds that spend 99% of their waking time working on breeding (bowyer fe).

          Why bother with society, hobbies, learning qand growing?

          And following that logic: to make more children to a wide variety of women. Men will literally learn something about every band just so they can hit up women with band merch.

          It sounds ridiculous because it is ridiculous. We’re all so much more than our biological equipment. I know I’m preaching to the choir here, I just had to rant for a moment.

          It sounds ridiculous, it is ridiculous for humans, but that exact process is why we’re able to choose not to breed.

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        I mean, it’s a job, you can quit any time you want.

        it’s not a good idea to quit…

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    Tired of these see what the moron said reposts. All they do is promoting the moron.

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      A good place to drop a reminder to people that MILLIONS of blue-check twitter users are completely fake, they make American-looking profiles and names and then retweet and post tons of propaganda and rage-bait for engagement, because the couple dollars they make on a successful post is enough to make a living in India, where a majority of these people live.

      No hate on India, every country has it’s share of people who are just trying to get by. But for the USA this is really bad because it means we are letting our entire society be influenced by people who have no stake in our future. Elon set this up on purpose because he’s a spiteful, mentally-deficient incel who hates humanity broadly because his tiny dick is broken.

      The best thing you can do is tell people to get off Twitter, no matter who they are. Tell conservatives too if you know any, the fact that most users are foreigners in disguise is a good enough real fact that should discourage them from using the site too.

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    People grow, contribute, and succeed on their own timelines. There’s no single deadline for a meaningful life.

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      Well no… There is a deadline, it’s called death.

      Basically anytime before that is preferable really.

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    Welp. Seems I’ve already failed at life. Can’t go any lower than that. Guess I’ll just go live how I want now.

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    Related: Gertrude Bell, mountain climber, archaeologist and overall badass british lady that helped shape the middle east post WW1. Despite being a woman, she managed to earn the respect of several nomad arab tribes, you know, those that see women as a man’s property? Those. To the point that, when she died, they all came to her burial and ensured she was treated like a queen.

    A very good, 3h17m doc on her life - https://youtu.be/anjha4JNAWg

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    The types of people who believe a woman’s only “biological job” is to shit out kids are the same fuckers who haven’t achieved shit in their lives.

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      Also, if you’re not married with kid at 24 as a dude, you failed.

      I’m going to go out on a limb and assume ‘Jaicilgin’ failed.

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      Marie Curie was, in fact, a married mother when she did the work that earned her two Nobel Prizes in separate fields.

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    Listen, power to women, and Vera Rubin’s work was amazing and she deserves every praise.

    But nobody has ever proven the existence of Dark Matter. What’s proven is that our current mathematical models do not accurately represent the universe due to the way things move and effects of gravity, under our current understanding, requiring a large amount of mass that we have not observed.

    Does that make sense? It could be that our models or understandings are just wrong, or it could be that there is some magical unobservable matter, but we don’t know. We haven’t proven anything.

    The reason I think this is important is because we keep throwing money at bigger and bigger dark matter detection chambers, and we keep operating on the possibly incorrect assumption of dark matter while we create new theories.

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      What’s proven is that our current mathematical models do not accurately represent the universe due to the way things move and effects of gravity

      This is actually the bit that Vera Rubin discovered. The summary of her discovery in the quote is the issue :)

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          Originally, banjos post read like the line about Vera Rubin was outright incorrect, rather than simply being a case of the OP in the image making a poor summary of her contributions.

          It sounded like Banjo was challenging Vera’s relevance in the list, rather than clarifying what she actually did

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            I would not make praising her the opening statement of my comment if I were challenging her contributions.

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              Broadly, what you said was “Power to her, but what’s proven is that our current mathematical models do not accurately represent the universe”. The “but” in that statement is that issue, as it sounds like you’re challenging her findings with a correction, but your correction was just to summarise her actual findings

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                Her achievment is proving the current mathematical models do not represent the universe and explaining why, where many men before her utterly failed.

                Her achievment is not proving the existence of dark matter.

                The “but” is very warranted and I honestly feel like the “dark matter is real” zealots are the ones besmirching her name by misrepresenting her accomplishments.

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      The reason I think this is important is because we keep throwing money at bigger and bigger dark matter detection chambers, and we keep operating on the possibly incorrect assumption of dark matter while we create new theories.

      Okay, Sabine, whatever you say. I’m sure bubble chambers and TPCs (I assume since you’re targeting “chambers” that other experiments like DEAP are fine) for direct detection are a catastrophic money sink that you’re totally not exaggerating even a little.


      Edit: Wait, are you specifically targeting the funding for the search for WIMPs? Since you’re just joining us from your 15-year coma, I’m afraid to inform you that problems have gotten much worse for science than bubble chamber and TPC costs.