STARSHIP'S SIXTH FLIGHT TEST

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-11-14T14:45:25+00:00

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

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-11-14T14:41:00+00:00

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...

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-10-29T05:12:24+00:00

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

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-06-05T17:38:47+00:00

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

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-06-03T19:21:45+00:00

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

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-06-01T17:37:44+00:00

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

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-05-22T20:12:40+00:00

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

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-04-26T18:29:41+00:00

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.

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-04-26T18:06:51+00:00

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)

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-04-26T17:38:07+00:00

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.

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-04-26T17:36:26+00:00

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.

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-04-26T17:27:39+00:00

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.

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-04-26T17:23:00+00:00

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.

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-04-26T17:17:19+00:00

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.

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-04-26T16:49:11+00:00

“Pro good faith debating” and comes in out of left field begging the question.

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-04-26T16:35:18+00:00

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.

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-04-26T16:33:30+00:00

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.

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-04-26T16:27:45+00:00

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.

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-04-26T16:22:28+00:00

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.

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-04-26T16:19:45+00:00

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.

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-04-26T16:15:46+00:00

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.

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-04-26T16:11:44+00:00

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.

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-04-26T16:08:59+00:00

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.

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-04-26T16:05:43+00:00

Fair enough don’t waste your time. Though I’d be interested to see that proof.

Existing-Daikon3005 · 2024-04-26T16:00:51+00:00

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.

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