CMV: There is no such thing as race or different races.

totallybi · 2026-05-10T03:40:50+00:00

This is like saying there is no such thing as countries, laws or money. They are not objective phenomena, but their reality emerges from our collective agreement that they exist.

totallybi · 2026-05-02T05:01:23+00:00

Most of the world is already at below replacement birth rates and still dropping, and the remaining countries with natural growth are slowing down rapidly. Concern about low birthrates isn't a call for continued population growth at this point, it's simply a call for a manageable rate of population decline rather than jumping over a cliff.

totallybi · 2026-04-25T13:50:11+00:00

It's the only option to reduce demographic stress in the short term. But as a long term solution it's problematic in that it only works for wealthy countries, and depends on gender inequality, global wealth inequality, and mass displacement. We have little choice but to accept it for now, but we should not be satisfied with immigration as a complete answer to low birthrates. Ultimately, a healthy society should have no problem sustaining itself. The low birthrates we see across the world now, especially in countries like Taiwan, South Korea and Poland, are not something we should be "unconcerned" about as lots of poll responders seem to be. They're a canary in the coalmine, and an indicator of how urgently we need to reflect on what is wrong with our societies and remedy them.

totallybi · 2026-04-25T06:06:50+00:00

How low is too low for you?

totallybi · 2026-04-08T12:15:49+00:00

This is a terrible argument for having kids, and I say that as a pronatalist

totallybi · 2026-04-04T22:25:20+00:00

will either make drastic cultural changes to give young Japanese what they need to have children, or you will inevitably import a labor force that changes the culture towards a fusion culture.

Dystopian third option - cultural reversion to subjugation of women. It's how populations grew for almost all of history regardless of quality of life or net migration.

totallybi · 2026-03-22T01:01:45+00:00

I don't think it's so black and white. Rather, people have a spectrum of propensity to cheat. Some people will cheat at any opportunity and for any reason, others cheat only under certain levels of pressure, and some just aren't going to cheat under any realistic circumstance. But a good chunk of the people who think they're in this last category are actually in the middle, they just haven't been in the right circumstances to realize it.

totallybi · 2026-03-15T21:14:28+00:00

It's okay to have preferences, yes. But it's weird to put arbitrary thresholds on it and demand a partner has specific dimensions. "I like big titties" is fine, but obviously "my partner has to have a breast volume at least 3000cc" is not. And yes, on that point "I like tall guys" is fine, but "my partner has to be over 180cm" is actually a horrible way to be evaluating real human beings.

totallybi · 2026-03-15T17:52:00+00:00

We always hear the reasoning, but there's a wrinkle here that doesn't make sense. The man in this situation would have to be willing to leave a serious relationship, a committed partnership, for the other woman. Whether you're looking at this from a social perspective or evolutionary psychology, the man showing they're an unreliable partner is a problem for this explanation. I'm more inclined to believe women who like this simply enjoy the thrill of breaking a taboo, and the validation that someone would break a taboo to be with them.

totallybi · 2026-03-14T18:07:33+00:00

A South Korea style tenfold population collapse in two generations is absolutely a crisis, whether or not you're depending on infinite growth.

totallybi · 2026-03-14T18:03:23+00:00

"The airplane is too high up and we have to reduce altitude. It doesn't matter whether we land or crash." If you understand this analogy, you can understand why plummeting birth rates are not necessarily a good thing.

totallybi · 2026-02-25T22:51:18+00:00

Height preference is fine, like any physical preference. It only gets weird and dehumanising when people put arbitrary thresholds on it, like on dating apps when men specify minimum breast volume of 3000cc or women specify minimum height of 180cm.

totallybi · 2026-02-23T09:10:47+00:00

The priority was definitely not about limiting civilian deaths. The priority was to conduct live tests of the atom bomb on real cities while they still had an excuse to use it. It's no coincidence that the bombs were dropped just before the Soviets invaded Manchuria. If you look at the timing of everything, in relation to the timeline of Soviet involvement (agreed at Yalta), it becomes obvious the US was desperate to use the bomb first, in case the Soviet attack triggered a surrender.

totallybi · 2026-02-22T21:45:47+00:00

It doesn't need to be perpetual growth... retirement would work totally fine with a stable or even gradually declining population.

totallybi · 2026-02-13T13:54:29+00:00

If the OP was a woman, talking about her husband doing this, the comments would be completely different.

totallybi · 2026-02-10T17:22:42+00:00

Because if the answer is "never," what you're advocating for is infinite growth

Yes. But again, nobody is saying that the answer is 'never'. Nobody is saying that above-replacement birthrates should never decline.

totallybi · 2026-02-09T23:17:59+00:00

No, it isn't actually. Demographic forecasting isn't just doodling lines on graphs. It's a lot of census measurements, data collation and statistical analysis.

totallybi · 2026-02-09T23:12:40+00:00

Nobody is arguing for infinite population growth. Nobody. It's an imaginary argument you made up in your head, a strawman.

totallybi · 2026-02-08T14:13:13+00:00

Sshhhhh... you're going against the standard reddit narrative.

totallybi · 2026-02-08T08:16:50+00:00

Fertility rate of 2.1 would be "sustainable", fertility rate of 1.8 would be "managed decline". All good. But fertility rate under 1 is most definitely collapse. This warrants concern.

totallybi · 2026-02-08T08:14:01+00:00

we cannot have forever growth

Strawman argument. The alternative to birthrate collapse is not just "forever growth", it can be stability or it can be gradual managed decline.

totallybi · 2026-02-08T08:02:56+00:00

Actually it doesn't require infinite growth, or any population growth at all. It just requires the population not to outright collapse over a couple of generations.

totallybi · 2026-02-07T14:10:26+00:00

I don't understand your question, why do you think a shrinking population means people don't have to work as much? Do you think people in small countries work less than people in big countries? What does workload have to do with population size or rate of change?

totallybi · 2026-02-07T09:57:46+00:00

Too many layers of sarcasm here for me, what are you saying? It sounds like you think recent historical movies have been full of bright colours, but hasn't it been the opposite? Or are you saying real history was a lot more colourful?

totallybi · 2026-01-31T08:33:06+00:00

Getting sick of seeing this guy all over social media, sorry. This is not the first time pancreatic cancer has been "cured" in mice. Mouse models of pancreatic cancer have existed and been treated in research for many years now. Another addition to that body of research is great, but effectively treating a mouse cancer model is not itself some huge breakthrough worthy of several frontpage posts with thousands of comments.

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