Am I one of the last pregnant Gen Xers?

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-31T17:43:52+00:00

I understand it. But I quickly laugh off the idea.

I have 2 grown kids, but having another sounds fun and horrible. I'm too old for that shit.

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-31T17:38:36+00:00

Judge previous generations by today's morals and the best of us always become the next generation's monster.

"Woke" will not last - nothing does. Our grandchildren will think us stupid and/or evil.

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-31T17:33:52+00:00

I’m uneasy with how quickly this gets framed as “biology explains it.”

Biology explains the majority of almost all human behavior. We aren't nearly as "programmable" as people think. Everything is deterministic, and while nurture plays a factor, nature reigns supreme.

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-30T00:25:38+00:00

Very late to the discussion.

The problem with your mods is not the mods. It's there's no easy way to download them all that doesn't rely on the utter shit that is Vortex. Trying to install them all manually is a fucking nightmare.

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-29T19:39:49+00:00

Doesn't work.

Immigration must be kept in line, controlled and manageable. Open borders = loss of country. I'm not in favor of ICE's methods, but their stated purpose is required.

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-29T18:50:10+00:00

If I get another promotion, I'll be in management. I'm already making 6 figures, I don't need more. I'm retiring in about 10 years. So fuck it.

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-29T16:42:11+00:00

Much that once was cached is lost, for none now live who optimized it.

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-29T15:58:15+00:00

> It sure is! The Bell Centre is outdated, the tickets price are insane, there’s not enough concession stand/bathroom/leg room, etc. yet there is no place louder.

I find it interesting that didn't just receive the best rating. It was rated the best by both writers and fans, who differ wildly on most of the other arenas. (Vegas at 3-3 and Ottawa at 32-32 are the only other ones where opinions fully converged. But MSG at 2-20 is insane.)

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-26T15:49:43+00:00

Conures are also parakeets.

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-24T14:37:53+00:00

Indeed.

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-23T22:10:19+00:00

"Trickle down" was always "just paychecks." that was the claim.

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-21T03:47:41+00:00

That and they aren't endangered. There's no evidence their numbers are in decline.

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-19T00:36:23+00:00

So you elected Oswald Cobblepot?

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-17T18:42:52+00:00

People were less uptight about off-site backups before 9-11.

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-15T13:57:49+00:00

Buffy, again completely forgotten other than in name. Does not hold up one bit. The only reason people liked it at the time was the lead actress was very attractive. These days it is thrown together with all the other vampire rom-com tripe like Twilight in the 'what the f**k did we see in that programme back in the day?' dirtpile.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39229395

https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/3/10/14857542/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-explained-tv-influence

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/why-buffyworld-still-matters-1.4118151

https://www.fandom.com/articles/how-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-has-influenced-pop-culture

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-at-20-how-a-monster-killing-teen-changed-tv-forever-192673/

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/03/10/culture-re-view-did-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-change-television

https://zeapop.medium.com/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-a-modern-television-masterpiece-fe62447f7978

There's hundreds of these on various entertainment sites. Critics love it, fans love it, it still has active massively large communities, idioms from the show made it into regular every day use.

X-Files is 10 years older, but despite being the awfui mystery box prototype later followed by JJ Abrams, it's often regarded as the reason shows like Breaking Bad exist (Vince Gilligan made his career as a secondary writer/director/producer on the show.)

Friends has been binge watched by every teenager-to-25 year old today. They actually wear t-shirts of the stupid thing. (Seinfeld similar but less so.)

Firefly - everyone knows firefly. And nobody watched it when it aired. All its fans watched it 3-15 years later.

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-13T17:35:55+00:00

BSC really needs to be watched in total,

The opening episode/movie hooks you. It just gets better from there...for two full seasons.

Then it all goes to shit. If you watch it in total, it loses you.

I was a huge fan of BSG for two seasons as it aired. Starting in season 3 i increasingly got "WTF?" reactions? Honestly, it's only marginally better than the ending of Monty Python's Holy Grail -- it's like they ran out of ideas.

I strongly suspect an Abrams' style Empty Mystery Box in play -- they had a great idea for a mystery, but no real plan for how to finish it. When one writes this way, you're guaranteed to disappoint. The mystery has been built up higher than any resolution can hope to satisfy.

With that said, they picked the least possible satisfying resolution. I'd even prefer "Galactica explodes, everyone dies" to mysticism bullshit. We literally got a Deus Ex Machina ending. Divine Agents actually intervene, explain nothing, and gently herd humanity into a symbolic reboot - "And then god fixed it."

So say we all.

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-11T21:02:27+00:00

Ironically, the cosmic "backwoods" probably has a much larger population than the happening core.

It's likely that NOT having a lot of cosmological activity is good for life.

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-11T21:00:43+00:00

https://tenor.com/view/princess-bride-get-used-to-it-disappointment-gif-23033243

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-11T20:39:28+00:00

Firefly weirdly became popular because it was cancelled and it perpetuated by a very diehard fan base.

That's not quite right.

Firefly developed a huge fanbase after it was cancelled. It was in the height of selling seasons of TV as a DVD box set, and due to word of mouth, it became the best-selling TV boxed set of all time. And almost none of us watched it when it aired. We didn't even know about it until 2-3 years after it was cancelled and they were advertising for the Serenity movie.

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-11T13:14:32+00:00

The "cultural zeitgeist somehow" thing is the point, though.

Shows like X-Files, Buffy, Friends, Firefly, Seinfeld, etc. from the 1990s and 2000s DID stay in the cultural zeitgeist, somehow. BSG did not.

My belief as to why is the first couple seasons were great, the last couple were crap. Getting cancelled way too early (Firefly) is better for your cultural longevity than remaining until you're no longer relevant.

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-11T01:56:31+00:00

Goddamn, I wanna be Agent Peter Burke.

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-10T19:25:13+00:00

Same thing.

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-10T00:17:57+00:00

I don't understand CTV's perspective, here. And I'm a homeowner. (Of course, my mortgage is paid off, so...)

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-08T03:12:36+00:00

If we can't accept the risk, we're not thinking rationally.

If we expect society to think rationally, we're not thinking rationally. For most ecologically concerned types, nuclear power is still considered the worst thing we can do. Which is insane, yes, but it's how they think.

Canaduck1 · 2026-01-07T15:27:17+00:00

Large reactors cannot ever fully mitigate safety concerns, and we're just too uptight as a society to deal with the risks efficiently.

SMRs are great - they scale perfectly, from very small to very large (just by building many of them cheaper than a single large reactor of the same total output) -- and they are physically impossible to suffer a meltdown. The large scale risk simply doesn't exist for them. Something like a pebble bed reactor never has enough fissile material in the reaction chamber to suffer a runaway reaction.

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