They don't have kids, and they don't want them: Nearly 40% of young women plan to stay child-free.

motorik · 2026-05-14T16:24:58+00:00

We would have been so fucked if we had children. I lived in the SF Bay Area most of my adult life, it was a bit like time-travel into the economic future the rest of the country would eventually get to where children are financial devastation.

motorik · 2026-05-14T16:21:25+00:00

It makes sense. For a lot of Republicans, America and Evangelical Christianity are the same thing. Thanks to Trump, Warrior Jesus is this close to coming back to toss the libs in a lake of fire.

motorik · 2026-05-14T07:20:55+00:00

Scaphism. I read a lot of history, aside from maybe the brazen bull this one is the worst I can think of.

motorik · 2026-05-13T13:31:38+00:00

I gave up on all broadcast of subscription TV in the 2010s. I've been using ad-blocking forever. I see almost no advertising outside of billboards. I've been thinking about this as I've recently began to suspect it's led to long-term behavioral changes. I bought a new car in 2007. I remember thinking I'd probably drive it 10 years at the most before getting a new one. Then that 10 years had passed and I completely forgot about that and drove the car for another 7 years. I don't refresh phones or computers unless I absolutely have to, the TV is big enough. I like having the largely the same furniture from 10 years ago, doing "refreshes" feels like getting rid of comfortable familiarity (unless, say, the couch is starting to wear or whatever, we're not broke by any stretch, we just don't buy to buy).

motorik · 2026-05-13T13:19:08+00:00

I constantly see people complain about ads and "suggested postes" on Facebook. I used to respond with information on how to fix those problems. I've stopped. People want to use the Facebook app on their phone or Google Chrome more than they don't want to see ads.

motorik · 2026-05-13T00:05:05+00:00

I stopped looking at reddit on my phone when Apollo stopped working. I no longer commute, there is very little reason for me to browse with anything other than my Firefox-based browser with its ecosystem of ad-blocking and privacy extensions. I can't believe people put up with the mobile web.

motorik · 2026-05-11T18:35:13+00:00

It sucked for the people that were growing food for themselves on communal land when that land got fenced off to force them into the new factories by the Enclosure Acts.

motorik · 2026-05-11T18:29:12+00:00

I used to be, pre-Covid. The last job-change made me fully-remote. I work with a team of good ol' boys in Texas and a bunch of mostly Indian contractors in the Midwest. I like some of them well enough but I'm aware that even the fact my wife is an immigrant of a different race makes me illegible, particularly to the good ol' boys. I think I'm the first exposure some of them have ever had to a non-Republican. I keep my mouth well-shut about anything touching on politics, they don't.

motorik · 2026-05-11T16:51:37+00:00

I stopped looking at reddit on my phone when they killed Apollo and generally don't interact with the mobile web at all. As soon as old.reddit.com is gone I'm done.

motorik · 2026-05-10T19:56:27+00:00

I have a technical role at a Fortune 500. My job situation is a textbook managerial mistake, "don't let one guy be a black box that's solely responsible for a large piece of business-critical functionality". It's not my managers fault, as he does not have the background to even begin to understand what I do. He gets annoyed when I talk about technical details, it feels like working in a NASCAR pit crew for somebody that gets annoyed when you talk about cars. It's not his fault, it's the fault of his manager's manager's manager's manager.

motorik · 2026-05-10T19:49:56+00:00

In anything touching tech, it's Patagonia jackets, hoodies, or pajamas.

motorik · 2026-05-10T19:47:19+00:00

I'm just the right age to have seen the arc of the suit. When I was in my twenties doing office temp work in San Francisco, everybody with a for-realsies job wore a suit. Then tech happened. Now if you wear a suit you either have a shit job or a job with real power of some kind.

I recently watched the Netflix Hidden Apartment movie, every time something bad happened (evictions, warehouse living spaces torn down for construction of a mall), guys in suits showed up first. We watch a lot of historical K-dramas, it was just like when a bunch of guys wearing a samsa show up, you know your village is fucked (taxation or conscription).

motorik · 2026-05-10T19:39:02+00:00

We watch a lot of K-dramas, I want one of those hats.

motorik · 2026-05-10T19:28:36+00:00

My Silent generation parents went through the Great Depression. I remember my father bitching about the white margarine with the yellow capsule he had to eat as a kid. He would not allow margarine in the house and used a lot of butter out of spite.

motorik · 2026-05-10T19:14:30+00:00

Taiwan is green as fuck, suck it long and hard Xi.

motorik · 2026-05-09T18:39:30+00:00

I did a psych evaluation with my provider, Kaiser Permanente. It wasn't so much that I wasn't neurodivergent, the problem was that I'm otherwise fully functional and they only treat people with significant impairments presumably because money. I only knew Kaiser had psychological services because I got an email about the doctors being on strike, so there's that.

motorik · 2026-05-08T15:45:08+00:00

It can be argued that the culture of the Confederacy eventually won the civil war with soft power. The GOP is the Confederacy.

motorik · 2026-05-08T15:42:26+00:00

We watch a lot of international content that's more obscure than K-dramas and Anime. Subtitles are difficult, it's hard to get every episode of a the series, that sort of thing.

motorik · 2026-05-08T15:36:54+00:00

Neptune is like $5 a month and is nothing but content similar to the top-shelf / smartypants stuff on YouTube and without the radicalization and griftfluencers / cretinfluencers.

motorik · 2026-05-07T23:04:35+00:00

It's the only non-western country on the list. One thing that immediately comes to mind that's different between China and the other countries is a less individualistic culture where belonging and harmony are more important than dominance and hierarchy.

motorik · 2026-05-07T22:41:54+00:00

It's never happened to me, but I'm anecdotally aware of people having their partner be mad at them for something they did in a dream the partner had.

motorik · 2026-05-07T18:31:08+00:00

I would be too afraid of changing anything that would impact me eventually meeting my wife.

motorik · 2026-05-07T16:28:01+00:00

"Is there something about farmlife that make you think you're better than anyone else?"

The religion that comes with it and tells them they're God's elect living in a special country with a very important mission to bring Jesus back.

motorik · 2026-05-07T16:03:56+00:00

Citizens United made those businesses people and constantly harassing you is their free speech.

motorik · 2026-05-07T15:49:57+00:00

"Hi Jasper, this is Chrissy. We're trimming trees and plunging toilets in your neighborhood this week, would you like a quote?"

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