Same. I hear so much fear in their voices.
Wish I was better at giving 'em some confidence and love.
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Same, I'll try to not judge them but it makes me sad that great people don't want to have kids. They'd be amazing parents.
Humans weren't designed to desire kids, they're designed to desire sex and the sex results in kids.
We're having to evolve to handle reliable contraception, and much of humanity is not going to make it.
Depends on your beliefs on what happened in the garden π
none of these no-kids people are going to be happy they did this when they get to my age
the propaganda against reproduction is obscene
be fruitful and multiply
not "temporarily chemically sterilize yourself so you can have all the sex and none of the family"
hard facts, agree 100%
I married young and had kids young, before I was sensible enough to know better, as I lack impulse control. Same reason I bought Bitcoin and quit college to help build Nostr.
The combination of low impulse control and a bizarrely-low time-preference feels like a superpower, sometimes, to be honest.
In hindsight, I always think, Wow, that was a good decision. At the moment, everyone is like, Are you some sort of an idiot, or something?
80 IQ π«‘
My self-confidence when Silberengel suggests she isnβt smart.
Well, I wanted to buy $3000 worth of Bitcoin, when I first heard about it, in 2010, but everyone around me had such a meltdown about it, that I decided to be sensible, for a change, and buy silver instead.
Everyone was extremely relieved. Finally taking some good advice, instead of just being my crazy, impulsive self.
For years, they were like,
...and then she wanted to spend all of her birthday money on Bitcoin! Just one crazy idea, after another! π
They've all shut up about that, now.
I was thinking about this, while potting plants, this week. I really wanted an apple tree, and I wanted one *now*, so I just went and cut open an organic apple and planted three seeds in a flower pot.
Totally stupid, right, as I could wait and go buy an apple tree on some other weekend and quickly see results. My MIL thought it was retarded. She's like, but you won't have a real tree for years!
But I don't mind waiting 10 years for a tree. I just really wanted to plant it, immediately, so that I can cross "plant apple tree" off my mental To Do list.
Just have to water and feed it, for a decade or so. No problem.
I think this is typical Crazy Inventor personality, where you'll suddenly need to _do something_ and you just go for it and totally sperg out. π I always do that with gardening, cooking, relationships, programming, etc. All in or wander off.
Our apple trees I've grown from seed will give their first fruit this year.
5 years in.
#plantbreeding
Yeah, it seems like a crazy idea, right, but we have a chestnut tree and an apple tree nearly two-stories high, in the backyard, because my BIL dug seeds in the ground 20 years ago, on a whim. ππ€·π»ββοΈ
Fruit trees can grow from seeds. Who knew?
they grow just fine, but you get better amounts and size of fruit if you graft them onto a stronger rootstock, you can do that later anyhow
teh other thing is a lot of commercial apples are hybrids and their seeds don't produce consistent variety features.
There seems to be a big parallel in the bible of this whole process btw.
Growing from seed.
Good and bad fruit.
Jesus coming in grafting the good on the bad.
Yeah, my MIL already explained it all to me. She grew up on a farm with an orchard.
I've sown "Giants from Kazachstan" that grow quite true to seed.
Curious for these guys' size.
They reach timber size in Kazachstan, lol.
Good Apples + Good Timber = Me curious :eyes:
Zig-zag drivers find the road faster.
Who will make it:
People who seek thrills and risk
People with extremely low time-preference
People who are religious
Women who have no friends
Well, me, basically. π
woman with few friends is the best kind, because by nature women are distractable and the more intelligent ones are more interested in crafts and science and children, because they aren't busy gossiping. women are distractable for good purpose - because keeping house and watching children and small livestock requires a lot of context shifting.
and posterity will miss none of these attention addled, hormone disrupted, mentally degraded apes
actually, if you took away all the hormone pills that women take they want children bad, it's the men who are less interested in it, because sex is less satisfying for them and cameraderie is more appealing
you give women the pills, and they all turn into gossiping whores and the men turn into monks, except for that 5% that fuck all the horny women whose hormones are imbalanced
I think it is innate in us, as in many animals, to want to have children. Sex is just the incentive, but we have an instinct to create them and protect them until they grow up.
I think so too
Bitcoiners want kids. Everybody wants and gets #Bitcoin. Therefore, eventually, everybody wants #kids. (Or no?)