Willful Willing Contraceptively

And it’s never a good argument to say “I know a lot of women who disprove that stat,” but it really does seem like a false stat!!!

I’m so glad you shared this because it’s one of those times where “what we can all see with our own eyes [that many millions of babies are born without intervention to mothers over 35]” and the stats that it’s a fertility death cliff don’t line up. My grandmother had a baby at 40 in the 1950s!

It may well be FLIR in the security camera context. I refuse to look it up

I know FLEER as the security systems that use body heat to detect intruders so no expectations here

I’m willing to go on the record and say she has less than 10 really good songs and 1-2 of them bangers.

I’ve spent a long time staying out of anything Taylor Swift related as I don’t have a strong opinion on her either way, and I think it’s weird to hate her and to love her to the extent many people do. But my 6yo is a swiftie and I’ve watched ERAs 90x. And… she’s *mostly* boring.

Wasn’t your original objection about campaigning on it?

I don’t know. I thought I had the context. It just seems to me that the person who has a felony criminal record who is also going to be really turned off by celebrating Trump’s conviction to the point of not voting is imaginary, and if not imaginary, certainly not a constituency.

Lmao

You think that mentioning Trump’s felonies will make other felons feel bad? I’m trying to figure out what you mean here.

Who cares? Obviously a lot of people are celebrating and quite thrilled, which means it can animate people. I also personally don’t care at all, but I’m not the benchmark by which to measure electoral strategy.

Stop sharing my o face please

But why are we taking him at his word that was his concern?

Strawberries at Aldi are $1.99 a lb, which is about a 30% reduction from last week. Blueberries were much cheaper, so were grapes. At this point if the stores you’re shopping at have super high grocery prices it’s because they’re choosing to. Take your money elsewhere.

Someone in my neighborhood FB group shared that organic milk is $10 for half gallon from ctown and everyone chimed in to complain that “prices are so insane.” But I bought a gallon of milk for $2.92, less than I paid for three cucumbers, this weekend.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social

i think it’s fair to say that most people are overestimating inflation, but what’s unclear (to me, at least) is whether this is a some sort of media phenomenon or just because housing is historically very expensive

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This is very insightful and absolutely correct.

And I’m not even saying that no one should have 5+ kids. I know people with 5+ kids who are lovely people with happy families. I’m saying the average person can’t do that right.

Most adults genuinely don’t have the emotional regulation to properly, consistently, firmly and tenderly parent a lot of kids. I see this now as a parent of 3. I couldn’t care for more the right way, and I don’t mean materially.

I’m happy your family experience was positive. But the research supports that the larger the family, the higher the likelihood the kids will be abused and neglected (2x more likely with over 4 kids). A lot of “normal” two child families would be abusive five child families

Like my single family full of working class people who are varying levels of educated, wealthy, varying politics, etc. has had more children than all these freaks combined and they weren’t even trying.

Yes the whole point of my story is that these weird white supremacist freaks are never going to outbreed like poor girls who got pregnant their sophomore year of catholic school. They’re just not. They literally couldn’t if they tried.

If it were obvious you could prove it

Same as the media all swore Hamas beheaded babies on 10/7 based solely on some IDF guys saying so and people acted like you were a disgusting pig for questioning it and now you can actually see photos of a baby who lost its head in the Rafah bombing.

Every time I read another one of these articles about wealthy white people having a lot of kids to try to save the world or something I just remember my cousin who has birthed 9 children with her husband in between his state and federal prison stints.

Oh god

I know because I watched all of them for the first time this year.

Rev. Magdalen called me antisemitic because I said they were asking people to evacuate so they could more easily target civilians.

7OK.bsky.social @7ok.bsky.social

These charred corpses are of people who fled to this targeted area because it promised safety.. they were expelled from their homes jist to be burned to death in displacement camps.

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I learned how to make this “from scratch” so to speak because I get incredibly strong cravings for it sometimes and want to be able to make it without running out for the mix.

I’ve been saying this for ages. Obviously Bsky, LLC or whatever can’t call them that but we don’t need to be precious about it. They’re tweets.

Like wage theft: bad if it’s happening to someone I know. Shoplifting from target: a personal affront to all good people.

My parents are the types of conservatives who if I told them my wages were being stolen they’d be like “your boss should go to prison and get executed and also you should get his house” but when I tell them wage theft far outpaces all other forms of theft they don’t care.

My MIL waited like 11 months for this very specific over oven microwave (an unusual size that meant she wouldn’t need to adjust her cabinetry) because it was sitting in an unwrapped pallet in a warehouse that kept shutting down because people kept getting covid.

The Catholic Church just canonized a guy whose claim to fame was being an Italian who discourage his friends from sexually harassing women, an act so heroic in that nation you can get sainted for it.

Yep and if we could achieve a single long term plan as a global civilization, we could use long-term planning to mitigate the more immediate effects of population decline, starting with expansive immigration policies, and use the reduction in population to increase global QoL. But we won’t.

Yep it’s declining at a far greater rate.

These people again holy shit. Why are we repeatedly writing about these fucking people?

How many MyPillows does Alito own?

Too many hypotheticals about going back in time and killing horrible dictators and mass murderers and not enough time thinking about preventing whoever came up with “seggsy time” from being born.

My friend’s sister was an EA to a notoriously difficult and abusive executive and she told him “I’m not stupid. don’t fucking talk to me like that ever again” and he made her his head EA lmfao

Reminds me when I had to have a serious convo with my 4yo that we can’t let her eat hot dogs every single day because we have an obligation to not help her get asshole cancer.

Does he?

Like literally dozens and dozens of cops, vans, response units, and then decoys in the apartments of known victims, from someone watching so closely he knew when his victim’s boyfriends left for work and what their jobs were. Do you think this worked? Ofc it didn’t. Made for a fun story I guess

Do they put eyes on the complex staff to see where they might be headed after work, to see if maybe they are headed to their cars and watching? Do they try to discreetly patrol the perimeter? Nah. They waste a few hundred K setting up decoy operation so complex that anyone watching would know

Listened to one about a serial rapist attacking the same apt complex, and even the same victims. He was clearly closely surveilling the complex. Does the PD put a few cops undercover as utility workers or delivery drivers, asking them to canvas the complex for someone who is clearly watching?

Thinking about how that many families in NYC were waitlisted from 3k “for all” this year.

As a huge consumer of the problematic genre of true crime, it amazes me that even shows not focused on the “true innocence” aspect or even shows that are aggressively pro-cop time and again expose how comically incompetent cops are at investigating homicide.

Jesus was killed by armed agents of the state. Like, I understand the RCC is a bedfellow of fascism all over the “western world,” but this feels especially appalling? It was Pentecost! A HUGE liturgical feast. celebrated with tanks.

I want to say, as Pentecost wraps up, that today my local Catholic parish chose to celebrate Pentecost by holding a celebration of cops for “police week” which included giant tanks in the church yard kids could play in. And CCD students were encouraged to bring pro-cop signs.