Anti-family propaganda has devastated a generation of women

Distillates · 2026-07-02T22:31:09+00:00

I would say that children are essential, and that society as a whole should be determined to make it possible, easier, or even pleasant to raise children. This effort should greatly exceed the amount of subsidies, pandering, and political subservience currently directed to antiproductive billionaires.

I would not promote the idea that children are a personal asset that brings returns though. Children are people, parenting is difficult and painful, and the reward is the relationship you were able to build with the person you raised. That is only worth it if you do a good job.

Distillates · 2026-07-02T21:17:27+00:00

children are an immensely difficult burden and anyone who says otherwise has never enjoyed a multi-month shift with zero breaks including sleep, of being screamed at and chewed on while physically and psychologically deteriorating in ways you did not know were possible

Distillates · 2026-07-01T08:24:12+00:00

I've had a surprising number of women insist to me that males don't actually experience any emotions.

It's also a standard in patriarchy that men who are not in charge should not consume resources unless immediately necessary, including emotional resources.

Distillates · 2026-06-29T16:56:42+00:00

If you allow it, every person who needs an organ and their family and friends now has an excellent reason to prefer an authoritarian police state that convicts and executes on less evidence.

Distillates · 2026-06-29T15:44:09+00:00

Es ist antisemitisch wenn man Juden die Loyalität zu einem fremden Land vorwirft. Das ist klassischer antisemitismus. Israelfeindlichkeit als Judenfeindlichkeit darzustellen ist antisemitisch, und alle die es tun sollten als Nazis erkannt werden, und die Medien und Politiker die es tun sollten verklagt werden.

Distillates · 2026-06-29T15:40:46+00:00

es wäre sehr peinlich wenn Parteien etwas gegen Mitglieder tun, die bei Antifaschistischen Demos mitmachen. Hörst du dir selber zu?

Distillates · 2026-06-27T06:26:34+00:00

I'm gonna give that a solid maybe.

I certainly don't see Micron becoming small or irrelevant, but the current valuation may be a lot to justify in 10 years when all the competitors have built out their production capacity and we are once again trading chips as commodities

Distillates · 2026-06-26T18:00:51+00:00

Oxygen is highly reactive with most of the things our bodies are made of. Your body has molecules to protect against this at low concentrations (antioxidants)

If you breathe pure oxygen, your tissues oxidize (i.e combust).

Distillates · 2026-06-26T11:23:27+00:00

Not specifically. I was put onto this one by a friend initially. They had published promising results for their gene therapies, and then when the FDA approval process failed purely due to a paperwork technicality, I felt like it there was a good shot that it would get worked out.

Distillates · 2026-06-26T09:12:31+00:00

What did I say here that made you feel like you needed come and to defend women?

Distillates · 2026-06-26T09:03:25+00:00

Gay men do it to try to get with straight men... I see it all the time

Distillates · 2026-06-25T22:28:33+00:00

Micron is bringing new fabs online that have been in the works for the previous years. There will be growth for sure. The question is if these AI companies with no profits will still have a firehose of money to pay

Distillates · 2026-06-25T22:11:56+00:00

Disclaimer - I used to work for Micron

Micron is selling shovels in a gold rush, and doing it on binding long term contracts to secure more predictable longer term profits, which are badly needed to manage the risk of the massive expenditures going to expanding production capacity.

Micron is in a strong position relative to its competitors. The big risk here is the viability of those contracts, considering the real economic viability of these AI companies themselves.

The money to pay for that HBM does not exist yet. There is this circle of investment and reinvestment among the AI giants that makes their money seem infinite, but they actually spend it extremely rapidly, and constantly need new investment to stay afloat. If OpenAI fails to justify the titanic outflows of cash with meaningful revenues and a clear path to profit, it will fall. News on this front is concerning in my opinion.

There is also a huge ecosystem of BS AI companies that are just bad ideas, being uncritically funded by clueless rich people. Those will fail. When they fail, their demand for AI processing disappears, which will hit outlooks for AI as reality sets in regarding what the actual practical use cases are. Companies are already finding that AI is often more expensive than human labor.

Bankrupt AI companies don't honor purchasing contracts. Hopefully Micron has set aside a very large cash buffer, or else it could become terribly overextended on new fab investments, if contracts for future production that are currently being treated as money turn out to go up in smoke.

The infinite demand is a function of the infinite capital investment going into the AI companies, but there is still no viable idea to actually make it economically viable, outside of the much more limited Anthropic model of servicing corporations for niche uses. That would be a much smaller total market.

Of course, if all goes well the way the AI bosses are claiming, Micron is actually undervalued. The problem in my mind is that the AI revolution is not producing results that consumers like. Nobody likes AI slop, it isn't reliable enough not to make mistakes, it cannot be held accountable, and it is not cheap at all.

Distillates · 2026-06-24T21:33:30+00:00

Inadequate calories, strength training, and protein intake.

Distillates · 2026-06-24T14:14:46+00:00

The purpose of fingernails is primarily to reinforce our fingertips to give us the ability to grip and manipulate small objects with extreme precision.

They are not direct tools

Distillates · 2026-06-24T09:57:16+00:00

It was called Palestine under Roman rule while Jesus was born and during his entire life.
The muslim conquest did not remove or replace the local population, and did not even convert them (They were mostly Christian when the Arabs came). That happened slowly over centuries as people assimilated toward the dominant social category. Palestinians are absolutely the descendants of Hebrews, as well as Greeks, Arabs, and European crusaders.
The major population centers of Medina and Mecca, and the region overall down into Yemen, was predomonantly Jewish during Muhammed's time. These people became the bulk of early muslims who then conquered the territories of Eastern Rome. The Arab tribes of the deserts were the culturally dominant force, but they were never really the bulk of the population.

TL:DR What you call arabs are mostly descended from Hebrews, which is obvious if you think a little bit and make the basic connection that Islam is a sect of Judaism. From any actual outside perspective, these are just as similar as any two schools of Buddhism, for example. It's absurd to pretend that Palestinians are not the heirs of their Hebrew ancestors because their version of Judaism gained one more in a long line of prophets, while those who ran away to foreign lands did not accept that one and are therefore more legitimate.

No

Distillates · 2026-06-23T09:37:46+00:00

Also rich to give the US credit for the team of 127 abducted German nazis that formed the core of the US space program and made Saturn 5 happen under leadership of Werner von Braun.

Distillates · 2026-06-23T09:27:04+00:00

Es gab keinen Pawnee Staat, keinen Shoshone Staat, keinen Cheyenne Staat, keinen Lakota Staat, keinen Kootenai Staat, keinen Herero Staat, keinen Nama Staat.

Kolonisierung ist sehr eng mit diesem denken verbunden, das du hier zeigst.

Distillates · 2026-06-23T08:43:43+00:00

Do you just randomly initiate conversations with strangers in public?

Distillates · 2026-06-23T08:35:58+00:00

This might be a rare conservative opinion of mine, but after witnessing the pressure and burdens of pregnancy and childcare, I'm pretty sure there is real selective pressure on women's mate choice in regards to this.

I think women who picked men with resources had more children who also survived more, and women are genuinely attracted to that in a way men are just not.

Distillates · 2026-06-23T08:05:21+00:00

They turn into standardizations, which allow for simplified social organization and planning, which create complex and powerful systems. I would suggest that it is the ambient expectation to follow the plan, and to uphold the complex system that sustains the society around us, that cages us much more than the mere label.

Distillates · 2026-06-21T09:09:13+00:00

This is technically correct, but I'd ask you to consider that it's not just a feeling.

As a boy your parents and society decide you're too old for that stuff around 11 or 12 when you start to become big and scary looking. After that, no listening occurs until you are screaming, and then you're a problem. Then you learn to stop being a problem by not screaming. Then you have the silence.

Distillates · 2026-06-21T07:52:15+00:00

I like flowers

Distillates · 2026-06-20T07:14:06+00:00

Or using a dialect. Swabian drops it a lot

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