Baby Boomers would trample them in their uniformly malicious, gleeful desire to drag all of society backwards.

Why is Brexit even a thing? Uniformed, old people with grossly inflated sense of their importance and a pervasive need to punish “others.”

Remarkably cogent response

Boromir also happened to be CEO of GondorHealth

Entropy is a helluva drug

“Why do you want this job?”

Well, in this country, healthcare is tied to employment, so…

Yeah but then you have to change your lung oil more frequently. Shit adds up in this economy

I think my point stands.

“Just calm down” is better articulated as, “stop saying things that make me feel uncomfortable feelings.”

The rhetoric of manipulation and abusers.

So this is why the Devil went down to Georgia?

Stock buy-backs used to be illegal, which at least forced some reinvestment. Now it’s just shareholder masturbation all the way down.

Probably just garden variety corruption and ineptitude

Mitosis is the powerhouse of cancer

These anecdotal outliers are not the statistical mean. Of course, creative, thoughtful parents, who want their children to thrive, can find ways to provide meaningful childhood experiences. But that is not how it goes for most.

Society is built by averages. The median experience is more insightful than the particular experience you, or someone you know may have had in the margins of the bell curve. That doesn’t mean their personal experience are devalued. But it DOES mean that we cannot hold them up as the standard, nor pretend that there aren’t significant truths behind the realities of parents who struggle financially, emotionally, mentally, and otherwise. Moreover, the compounding factor in most destitute childhoods is that the parents never really wanted their children to love and rear, and develop into flourishing adults; instead, they simply followed the prescribed processes as they were instructed, or feared their own loss of status and position among their peers.

I hope you can expand your perspective to encompass more than just the winning stories; society is better measured by our treatment of the most vulnerable.

So that the eldest children get the privilege of raising their siblings? Of trading their own childhood for parentification by their selfish and ignorant parents?

Nah. Absolutely not. Having a bunch of kids all stuffed in some shitty apartment is not providing for them. Forcing existence on someone is not sharing some miracle of life; it’s rationalization from narcissistic parents who decided they were just going to do what they wanted, regardless of means, ability, or know how.

Then those shitty parents will forget how awful their children’s childhoods were and the children will grow up saddled with resentment and awareness that their peers never had to struggle as they did, because they had better parents, who were actually ready for the responsibility of being a parent.

The “I grew up fine,” crowd did NOT grow up fine.

Only fair to lock the teacher in a room with the parents for the same duration. See how much calmer they come out.

The Metropolitan Police (Met) in London accounts for about 25% of the total police budget for England and Wales, with a budget of £1.148bn. Which has doubled since Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, took office.

“There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy”

Humanity is the only species capable of the arrogance required to believe we deserve to endure. Our survival instincts are ultimately self-defeating because we refuse to evolve socially. Instead we make wars and loot resources, rinse and repeat.

Re: resource intensive protein sources

Insect proteins need to move into mainstream. There are enormous amounts of complete protein available for farming and food, but we Westerners are incredibly squeamish and finicky about food. Mostly because of decades of marketing and commercial conditioning.

For example, dried mealworms are 53% protein by weight.

Tbf, the average billionaire negatively impacts the environment on a level that is hard for people to comprehend. Most people are really, really bad at understanding volume and scale. Like the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire.

Example: In 2023, 50 of the world’s richest billionaires took an average of 184 private jet flights per year, emitting as much carbon as the average person would in 300 years. Elon Musk’s two private jets alone emit 5,497 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, which is equivalent to 11 average people’s emissions in their entire lifetimes.

Does Denmark know?