• pilferjinx@piefed.social
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    18 hours ago

    Billionaires: “You need to start having children!”

    Working class: “Can you free up some of your hoarded resources so we can raise them?”

    Billionaires: “lol get fucked”

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    20 hours ago

    You want a fun experience? Try shopping for your newborn without using Amazon. It’s nearly impossible.

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      18 hours ago

      There’s a TON of second hand baby stuff. Most of it in great shape because the kid grows out of it long before it wears out. Consumable stuff is mostly at the super market, or occasionally big box stores.

      What’s missing is community support most of the time. You don’t have a lot of friends with kids, or don’t hang out with the ones that do.

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        18 hours ago

        Most of the secondhand stuff is out of date and no longer considered safe. Baby safety code changes constantly.

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    19 hours ago

    🤣

    Kim Jong-un cries as he begs North Korean women to help halt a decline in country’s birth rate

    https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/east-asia/kim-jong-un-cries-north-korea-b2459144.html

    He did get one thing right:

    Commentators are pinning low fertility rates on everything from feminism

    Educated women + contraceptives = less kids

    We also have innovated the most entertaining society ever

    All our previous problems, high child mortality, boredom, not enough food, no easy way to travel, etc have all been inverted, we have too much food, too much entertainment, too easy to travel, …to easy to self satisfy our own needs…

    Dr. Babak Ashrafi stated that he has seen a 46% increase in men under the age of 40 who have sought out his services related to erectile dysfunction in 2025 compared to the previous year. Dr Ashrafi contributed a large part of this issue to be related to excessive porn use, which can rewire men’s brains and make it difficult for them to become aroused without porn or other visual stimulation.

    https://bircheshealth.com/resources/porn-erectile-dysfunction

    I’m just watching Japan and seeing what they do, same with South Korea

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      18 hours ago

      Pretty sure Japan has decided on population decline at this point. It will be interesting to see if that changes as the population drops.