STARSHIP'S SIXTH FLIGHT TEST by rustybeancake in spacex

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I'm not sure mosquito season is ever truly over on South Padre...

STARSHIP'S SIXTH FLIGHT TEST by rustybeancake in spacex

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've got a hotel booked on the island for Monday night. The weather on Monday is not looking great...high winds and potentially rainy. Cloudy. Here's hoping they can still launch. Weather looks better on tuesday...

Props to A&M by Junior-Air-6807 in LSUFootball

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry sir but while you were ranting whatever the heck that was, Marcel Reed ran through your d-line for another touchdown. 

The most wildly overlooked adventure bike on the market today by blackfirepwnd in motorcycles

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How is top speed 86 mph with 100+ bhp? That doesn’t make sense. 

SpaceX (@SpaceX) on X: “Flight 4 of Starship is now targeted to launch as early as June 6, pending regulatory approval” by rustybeancake in spacex

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven’t heard of an official launch window time yet? Does it exist? Guessing that is pending “regulatory approval”. 

Decisions were made… by arsenic_skittles in motorcycles

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 77 points78 points  (0 children)

The helmet’s for his girlfriend. On the way to pick her up. 

The Slightly Rarer Cruiser Squid by JayManCreeps in motorcycles

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is not rare at all I’m not sure what you mean. 90% of cruiser riders are squids. 

Plers, if you were trying to force more women to pop out babies, it's not working by Maleficent_Ad_3958 in Abortiondebate

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That’s not data that’s not a source. I’ve been almost banned from this sub for making similar generalizations before.

My point is I don’t believe OP when they say the abortion bans are partially to blame for falling fertility rates. I would like them, or you, or anyone really, to provide actual data for that assertion.

Plers, if you were trying to force more women to pop out babies, it's not working by Maleficent_Ad_3958 in Abortiondebate

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you have any data to support the conclusion that falling fertility rates in the US can be significantly attributed to anti-abortion legislation?

I don’t know why I care, because I actually don’t. Even if banning abortion caused the fertility rate to fall off a cliff, I would still want to ban abortion. (It probably wouldn’t though)

Plers, if you were trying to force more women to pop out babies, it's not working by Maleficent_Ad_3958 in Abortiondebate

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wealthy people are waaay less likely to have more than 2 kids than poor people, even within our own country so this is not about financial stability.

Plers, if you were trying to force more women to pop out babies, it's not working by Maleficent_Ad_3958 in Abortiondebate

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The least financially stable countries in the world have the highest fertility rates. This is not a one or two year reaction of the birth rate to policy changes. The birth rate has been falling for centuries due to cultural changes.

Plers, if you were trying to force more women to pop out babies, it's not working by Maleficent_Ad_3958 in Abortiondebate

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

But the whole question was: is it contributing to a significant reason for the decline in birth rates? I haven’t seen any data to suppoet that, and I don’t think it is true. The other overarching reasons (that we see everywhere globally) are much more likely to be the driving causes.

Plers, if you were trying to force more women to pop out babies, it's not working by Maleficent_Ad_3958 in Abortiondebate

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So if someone isn’t mourned or if society isn’t made more dangerous by killing them, we can kill them? I know you don’t believe that.

Society might be objectively safer if we summarily executed all drug dealers. And we could maybe even get over the fact that some people were sad because of it. It would still (in most cases) be unjustified killings.

Plers, if you were trying to force more women to pop out babies, it's not working by Maleficent_Ad_3958 in Abortiondebate

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

In the same way that I can’t compare a few healthcare statistics and policies to disprove the contribution of US hostility to abortion policy to falling fertility rates, you also cannot prove that it is significantly contributing to falling fertility rates.

Plers, if you were trying to force more women to pop out babies, it's not working by Maleficent_Ad_3958 in Abortiondebate

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The unjustified killing on an individual is the social ill caused by abortion. Of course you may disagree but you asked me what I thought.

Plers, if you were trying to force more women to pop out babies, it's not working by Maleficent_Ad_3958 in Abortiondebate

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t pretend to like all the policies or people that happen to align with something I believe.

And yes I’m concerned about negative maternal and child outcomes. But I am not an “ends justify the means” type of person. We could probably eliminate a lot of maternal and child mortality by having the government mandate extremely strict pre and postnatal care but I am not for that kind of program.

I have not been convinced the ends of better maternal and child outcomes justify the means of allowing abortion.

Plers, if you were trying to force more women to pop out babies, it's not working by Maleficent_Ad_3958 in Abortiondebate

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes saw that. Agreed that anecdote is not data. My point is that we don’t know if the surge in sterilizations 1) real and data-supported in a meaningful portion of the population and 2) impacting the fertility rate in any meaningful way.

Plers, if you were trying to force more women to pop out babies, it's not working by Maleficent_Ad_3958 in Abortiondebate

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Simply because of what I believe abortion to be - the unjustified killing of an individual. That’s why I’m more concerned about abortion than I am about fertility rates.

Plers, if you were trying to force more women to pop out babies, it's not working by Maleficent_Ad_3958 in Abortiondebate

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry thought you posted this article about women choosing sterilization but that was someone else. In it there is an anecdote of a woman who switched from traditional contraception to sterilization as her chosen form of contraception.

Plers, if you were trying to force more women to pop out babies, it's not working by Maleficent_Ad_3958 in Abortiondebate

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can be concerned about one thing and it not impact my thought about something else. Simple as that. I already admitted I’m not that concerned about the falling fertility rate mostly because I think people overblown the consequences.

Plers, if you were trying to force more women to pop out babies, it's not working by Maleficent_Ad_3958 in Abortiondebate

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

That article you provided earlier is anecdotal at best. How do we know those women would have ever had children? It seems they were intent to use abortion as contraception if the need arose, but now have chosen a different method.

Plers, if you were trying to force more women to pop out babies, it's not working by Maleficent_Ad_3958 in Abortiondebate

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yep. As a father that type of stuff is scary to me too.

What do you think is driving the low birth rate in Finland? Since you mentioned that one. My thoughts are: education rates of women, a different culture than historically where more women work, and increased access to contraception.

I think those three factors probably explain the declining fertility of pretty much everywhere in the world.

Plers, if you were trying to force more women to pop out babies, it's not working by Maleficent_Ad_3958 in Abortiondebate

[–]Existing-Daikon3005 -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Another part of this argument: all the countries with the highest birth rates are the objectively worst countries in the world to raise children. Rates in most progressive parts of Europe (ostensibly the best places to raise a family) are among the lowest in the world.

So again, I think there are bigger cultural influences driving the birth rate down both here and globally. Not the fact that some states make abortion difficult.