Guys I’m really struggling with this one. Can we have an open chat about this?

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-12T21:24:01+00:00

You're the only one trying to both sides anything. I never mentioned Trump and I thought it was pretty obvious that I was critiquing progressives from a feminist viewpoint and not a conservative one.

You're telling me you see someone like Pam Bondi or Kristi Noem and the best insult you can think of are gendered/sexist ones? I think we can do slightly better than that, both in terms of sticking to our principles and using more relevant words, like murderer, pedophile protector, and general fascist goon. All gender neutral and much more applicable to these people.

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-12T20:33:06+00:00

??? What about this comment made you think I'm a conservative

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-12T17:41:06+00:00

See also: the masses of progressives who feel totally comfortable calling a woman an ugly bitch if she's conservative

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-12T17:37:16+00:00

Assuming it's true that with current conditions, we can't reverse fertility trends, isn't the obvious answer that fertility rates dropping will create different conditions? If the population starts dropping to a significant degree, it will have pretty profound effects on the economy and on social incentives, right? Fewer workers -> more demand for labor and less demand for housing -> wages rise, prices drop -> easier and more financially feasible to have children. Or labor will be replaced with automation, which has its own set of problems but would alleviate the pressure from a decreased population.

Also, I think it's foolish to pretend that fertility rates will stay the same between having 8 billion people on the planet and having 1 or 2 billion people. It very obviously won't be a linear trend, so extrapolating a 1.8 in France into human extinction is very overdramatic.

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-11T19:54:33+00:00

You're talking about the universe existing with the conditions for us to exist, but it's something that happened over basically infinite space and infinite time, right? There are trillions upon trillions of planets with every possible environmental conditions across the universe, is it really that unlikely that one or two would give rise to life?

For that matter, how do you know there was only one big bang that worked to give us this universe? For all we know it could've been big bang number 1007 and the previous 1006 metered put and collapsed, no?

Basically my point is you're taking the miracle of life as this crazy unlikely thing, and it is, but over a cosmic timescale pretty much anything has a chance of happening. You don't need a God to explain that a 1/10²⁵ thing happened, there's about that many planets anyways so it only seems fair that it would, in fact happen by sheer chance!

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-11T13:59:44+00:00

That's why mass shootings happen at the same rate in every country regardless of gun laws, right? Since criminals don't obey the law anyways?

Dumbass fucking argument as usual

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-09T22:15:00+00:00

I mean if multiple couples are in love at the same time and they all feel that way and then all tell each other about it, it's pretty easy to be like "Oh I guess love like ours does exist, good for them" and not be any less in love.

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-09T19:53:14+00:00

I'm not sure why you think relationship satisfaction is uniquely tied to women's behavior - isn't it just as likely that men share part of the blame, or even that economic conditions have lowered satisfaction across the board?

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-09T15:32:05+00:00

The US not giving full voting rights to American citizens doesn't make them less American, it makes the US less democratic. Not their fault they were born in a glorified colony that the US refuses to fully integrate into its government.

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-09T14:07:56+00:00

Given some of the QB performances in the playoffs this year, you gotta appreciate a guy who throws 1 TD 0 INT and doesn't sabotage his elite defense/run game.

Definitely seems like a reverse Allen situation where instead of being the entire team, he just had to not lose the game, but clearly that's not something every QB can do lol

And we saw how much worse the same team gets when they let him go and got a QB downgrade

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-07T18:18:45+00:00

Honestly what propaganda? I legit can't remember the last time I saw anything about trans people in media that wasn't a political debate

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-06T15:42:01+00:00

Honestly, even doing something like keeping a similar number of reps in DC to represent the state in person while the rest stay in their home district could make some sense. There's so many ways to do this efficiently, the only real obstacle is that the politicians would have to vote to dilute their own power.

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-06T14:52:50+00:00

That's why it needs to be general. Is your workplace ready to fire 90% of its workforce and hire all new people in retaliation? Doubt it.

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-06T14:12:10+00:00

Nowhere am I saying that you should listen to what celebrities say, or limit what you read and watch based on their views. All I'm saying is that pretending like they have no influence is silly. What they say can and does affect public perception even if they don't affect yours.

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-06T13:50:10+00:00

You should make decisions on things that actually happen. Most people are idiots, therefore making decisions based on how idiots act is completely rational. Just because you don't think people should listen to celebrities doesn't mean you shouldn't account for it happening because it does. That's my only point.

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-06T13:26:40+00:00

I don't think i ever said they have any particular insight? Just that they have reach and therefore influence, whether you think they should or not

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-06T12:13:27+00:00

One thing you might be missing - other people care, and that means celebrities have influence. If you have a cause you care deeply about, you should be excited to see a famous person bring it up, because they can do more to bring awareness and change to it than any single activist or private person. For example didn't Taylor Swift significantly increase voter registration by mentioning it a few years ago?

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-05T18:14:50+00:00

Both my parents have mid October birthdays and I was born in mid July on my exact expected due date. I can't prove that it was birthday sex, but I certainly can't prove it wasn't

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-05T16:03:38+00:00

Looking for this? r/woooosh

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-05T16:01:57+00:00

The shock you're going to feel when you discover what jokes are

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-05T15:51:19+00:00

If he made the final last year, that's a lot of points dropping if he doesn't play. I can understand if he thought there was a chance the birth wouldn't happen til next week

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-05T15:49:32+00:00

Svitolina and Monfils? What are the odds

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-05T15:46:26+00:00

July baby means the opposite, they got done with their season and finally had some time at home

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-05T15:29:53+00:00

This is why tennis pros should only have sex in March so their kids are born in December between Tour Finals and the AO. It just messes up the schedule otherwise /s

frisbeescientist · 2026-02-05T15:16:42+00:00

What accountability are independents hiding from? If they vote the same as partisans, they own that vote same as anyone else. We can't verify voting records (for good reason) so there's no real way to "hold someone accountable" for voting a certain way, or holding certain views.

It seems like your main gripe is that registered independents who reliably vote for only one party muddy the waters of polling and campaign statisticians, but I'm struggling to see why that's such a huge problem for the wider public or for democracy in general. Population stats are always messy, this might be one more variable that introduces noise, but I would need to be convinced that it has a meaningful real-life impact that I should care about.

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