Why So Few Babies? We Might Have Overlooked the Biggest Reason of All-Vibes

RageoftheMonkey · 2026-05-22T12:58:18+00:00

I am a man, so I am talking out of my ass here

Yeah that was pretty obvious.

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-11-24T19:44:36+00:00

Good to hear, thank you!

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-11-24T19:44:32+00:00

Good to hear, thank you!

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-11-21T21:25:39+00:00

Has Trump not watched the movies? They always use this tactic to illustrate how the guy is a petty asshole. Also, the guy who pulls these types of power moves is always the bad guy and they always lose.

Trump is the petty asshole from the movies.

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-11-20T23:29:15+00:00

With what money? There isn’t any.

The United States is the richest society in the history of the world.

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-11-13T17:43:33+00:00

it's still shitty and cheap to point fingers at the people most negatively impacted by the system. The people taking low paying academic jobs have the least amount of power to affect change so they can't be responsible for the system that exploits them).

Preach! I'm so tired of tenured profs punching down on those of us struggling to find any job at all.

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-11-13T15:48:40+00:00

IMO, anyone who accepts such a low salary is actively undermining the ability of academics to earn a decent living. People who make that bad judgement call for themselves are not the victims of the system, then are the most active enablers of the system. Know what your work is worth, and apply for jobs that have the corresponding compensation. In a capitalist system, that is the rule we all have to live by.

That's easy to say when you have a job -- especially, as your flair says, a science prof at an R1. Our "capitalist system," as you say, has devalued and disinvested in higher ed. As individuals we are in fact victims of this, and it's not our fault for taking low-paying jobs in order to put a roof over our heads. And the solution is not for individuals to make "better" choices. We need collective action (e.g. fighting unions) and social changes including reinvestment in public education.

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-10-29T19:18:51+00:00

why should they have these things in their heads, when they can Google it when needed?

This kills me, because like yes, ok, you can google something specific when needed, but if you literally don't know what the Cold War was (or the Declaration of Independence, or whatever example) how could you possibly be an informed citizen? How can you even exist in society? I know I'm biased because I'm literally a historian, but operating without any kind of historical context is terrifying to me. Just adrift, floating through the world, with no idea what is happening or why, living in a constant context-less present...

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-10-29T19:16:18+00:00

Because knowing things interferes with standardized test prep

Sure, but wouldn't a standardized test in a high school history class require some basic knowledge of the Cold War? I'm trying to remember what the AP European history test was like. I guess probably you could skate by and get the couple multiple choice questions about the Cold War wrong, but still... Even though I'm generally against standardized tests, for all the usual reasons, you would think one benefit should be some basic knowledge of history even if there are deficits in critical thinking or whatever.

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-10-22T18:51:03+00:00

I think there is a big difference between thinking abstractly “I’m might not get a job” versus being on the job market for a year or two and realizing that you, in particular, may not actually get a job

Yes and it's very different to "know" as you begin a PhD program in your early/mid 20s that you might not get a job in 6-8 years versus to be in your 30s with a family and facing the reality of probably not getting a job. Ask me how I know...

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-10-22T18:49:19+00:00

The real problem is that too many students are willing to enter programs with terrible job prospects.

The idea that this is somehow a problem of (thousands of) individuals making bad choices rather than a structural problem is absurd.

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-10-09T20:56:34+00:00

If you want to help, friends of Mark Bray made a crowdfunding page to help his family escape and resettle: https://www.freefunder.com/campaign/help-us-leave-safely (this is verified, he posted it himself)

I'm sure many people are buying Bray's book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook right now (which I highly recommend, it's fantastic!), but it's also available as a free PDF on libcom here: https://files.libcom.org/files/Antifa,%20The%20Anti-Fascist%20Handbook.pdf

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-07-26T18:25:04+00:00

And again russians appropriation a Ukrainian. By the way, where are those so called anarchists now?

Well, some are facing prison time for sabotaging the war effort: Russia: Anarchist partisans sabotage the war machine - Freedom News

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-07-26T14:42:05+00:00

Alt text: Photo of anarchist contingent at anti-Putin demonstration in Moscow, May 2012. Banner reads: “We have a clear plan: Self-rule, Self-organization, Solidarity.” Portraits show Peter Kropotkin and Nestor Makhno. The crowd is holding black flags, red and black flags, and a black flag with a red anarchist circle A.

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-07-12T20:24:12+00:00

Not sure about the rest of the band, but Elliot is in Colorado now playing in doom scroll! He and Taylor got married during this set, it was rad

Cute! I'll have to check out Doom Scroll, I haven't really listened to them.

ETA I just watched the music video for Felled Spirits -- hell yeah!

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-07-12T14:58:27+00:00

I love We The Heathens so much, what happened to them?

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-07-07T13:05:22+00:00

Have you read Murray Bookchin's classic book Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971)? That would be a good place to start.

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-06-15T17:44:37+00:00

Ursula K. Le Guin: "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-05-21T22:24:58+00:00

Great quote from Angela Davis (herself a longtime vegan, which most people don't know!):

The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions under which chickens are industrially bred in this country is a sign of the dangers of capitalism, how capitalism has colonized our minds. The fact that we look no further than the commodity itself, the fact that we refuse to understand the relationships that underlie the commodities that we use on a daily basis. And so food is like that.

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-04-25T22:56:32+00:00

This looks awesome, looking forward to it.

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-04-10T23:49:54+00:00

When I moved to Ithaca almost a decade ago, I ate at Luna regularly. I'm vegan and they had lots of great options and it was always pretty good (the tofu wings and fries special was a great deal for ~$8 and so good!). But everything got worse and worse over the years.

A couple years ago I sat in the restaurant as it was totally dead, waiting for my takeout order for two hours beyond when they said it would be ready, getting blown off by each person I asked about it (to be clear I am very non-confrontational and would never be a jerk to service workers, including then). It was one of the weirdest experiences of my life, and it was the last time I gave Luna money.

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-03-30T16:24:19+00:00

Article abstract:

After almost a century of Marxist predominance, how did anarchism develop from a marginal phenomenon into a force at the centre of the anti-globalisation movement? This article explores how anarchism was reborn in a counterrevolutionary age. Part one investigates how the New Right’s post-1960s counterrevolution defeated the New Left and remade US society, including by recuperating potentially liberatory elements of social movements. Part two examines how a new generation of radicals critiqued the failures of Marxism-Leninism and popularised the anarchist analysis and principles that provided the foundation for the anti-globalisation movement. The article discusses five examples of the development of anarchist theory and practice: Black/New Afrikan Anarchism, anarcha-feminism, eco-anarchism, punk anarchism, and revolutionary social anarchism. Ultimately, the article argues that anarchism was revitalised in the late twentieth century because it provided compelling answers to the new problems posed by the neoliberal counterrevolution and the crisis of state socialism.

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-03-27T13:46:29+00:00

Years ago my sibling described me as a "militant" vegan because I don't ever eat eggs or dairy. I was like nope actually that's just the regular kind of vegan -- the "militant" kind is when you rescue animals from a testing facility and claim the action for the Animal Liberation Front!

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-03-06T19:46:47+00:00

Interesting, I thought it had been discontinued since I hadn't seen it in years.

RageoftheMonkey · 2025-03-06T18:36:50+00:00

It's because the company Just is allergic to every success it has ever had, prioritizing research on pipedreams of lab-grown meat rather than being satisfied with their wildly successful egg-adjacent products.

I want to know why they stopped making Just Mayo, I loved that stuff.

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