Ummdustry

joined 9 months ago
[–] Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

https://sh.itjust.works/c/yiff@lemmy.smeargle.fans is 'active' though pretty sure it's just automatically mirroring reddit.

[–] Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

The news of KSP 2's death has got me playing KSP [1] for the first time in years. It's still abyssmally optimised, but nonetheless fun as ever!

[–] Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ok but here me out: symbiotes are famously in short supply on trill, they gotta repopulate somehow.

[–] Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

I will just point out that most of Christendom does have pretty strong workers protections/universal healthcare etc... (or at the very least has flirted with it in the past between corrupt governments: see Italy/Russia/Greece/Venuzula). America Is very much the odd-ball here.

[–] Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I see the anti-catholicism?

[–] Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The CIA isn't acting in the interest of the united states either, but still here we are

[–] Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

So far the XCOM series has been pretty good at that. Each game typically has 1 big pack which feels worth the money and 1 or 2 chea[ stinkers there's no need/push to buy

[–] Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

I suspect the problem is also compounded in fantasy-related prompts. WoW and it's consequences etc... etc...

[–] Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Most people born now do still want to have kids. Even in my famously childless country (UK) 50% of women will have a child by the age of 30 (and a great many more afterwards.). Antinatalism remains a fringe belief.

What people do want is fewer children later. This actually makes the fertility crisis (which is very much more than a behavioural phenominon, you can jizz onto a microscope slide to get hard empirical data) a more significant issue. Since fertility decreases with age, changes that might've gone unnoticed when people had kids at 25 become catastrophic when people instead chose 35.

Perhaps you don't want kids, that's fine, I respect your choice. Most people actually still do! If this health effect is the result of (as some experts suspect) micro-plastic leached EDC's (an environmental pollutant we have no suitable method of removing, which has a significant lag from production to release, and whose associated industry continues to expand) then saying "it's no big issue we don't need to worry about it" is (in essence) endorsing the forced sterilisation of many hundreds of millions, without their consent.

That is still a maybe, the evidence is far from conclusive, but do we really want another global-warming scale crisis on our hands just to dunk on Ben Shapiro?

[–] Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

However, both populations experience suboptimal access to energy, and consequently maintain minimal levels of body fat and low BMI

You are citing a malnourished population.

Previous studies of non-western populations have revealed inconsistent associations between men's testosterone levels and paternal or marital status. | Twenty-seven Hadza participants | Eighty Datoga participants

This is a comparitively small study, and one which contradicts other bodies of research.

As with male birds, it seems likely that testosterone facilitates reproductive effort in the form of male–male competition and mate-seeking behaviour, both of which interfere with effective paternal care.

Given the increasing social atomisation of the west (see:average age of fatherhood, number of children had, divorce rates), the hypothesis proposed by this paper implies testosterone levels in the west should be increasing not decreasing.

Look, I get the desire to debunk redpillers, but when we're talking about a worldwide trendline in basic biology you're going to need more research than this to do so. The Male infertility crisis is a genuine problem field experts are extremely worried about, hence the need for research and coverage by the mainstream (to stop snake oil salesmen being the main point of contact for this issue).

view more: next ›