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Notes from authors[1] • Demographic Collapse: An Overlooked Cause Area Birth rates are falling much faster than many dominant societal narratives im…

the comments are a delight also

  • picklefactory@awful.systemsEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I feel like only a rationalist comment section can be wrong in this fractal way. It’s the LessWrong house style I suppose?

  • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Is this the family who has a lot of kids and who ‘do not believe in the research on corporal punishment’ (wonder what that means)? (Rhetorical)

    e: lol on them blaming tinder. (Lets make it dumber, the moment that tinder was introduced still falls in within the normal (eyeballed) variance. The moment it breaks is … gamergate. Gamergate ended the world people).

    • Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish
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      3 months ago

      a lot of kids

      They had 3 kids last time they came up, which despite their posturing is not really a notable amount, and they’re both nearing their 40s, so it’s unlikely they’ll hit quiverfull numbers.

      • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
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        3 months ago

        As per Nitish Pahwa’s article from yesterday (linked here) they were “trying for their fifth” last month, which is certainly more than the average nowadays but still rookie numbers for pronatalists.

        • blakestacey@awful.systemsMEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Yeah, four kids is “the biggest family on the suburban block where I grew up”, not “time to build another cabin in the compound”.

    • sc_griffith@awful.systemsEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I beat the shit out of my kids. I mean I just fucking thrash them every chance I get. I am going to destroy these little bastards and I am racist

      what did the collinses mean by this