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This is the same Google who decided that their entire suite of apps should have slightly differently-shaped blue/green/red/yellow icons instead of anything recognizable

My first thought was about potentially protecting encryption, with all the privacy-invading laws that are popping up here in the US and abroad, but after skimming through the bill it seems like they could still use the “but criminals use encryption” line

Maybe I am, because no one’s given me a better explanation of it than “having kids bad”

Just pulling straight from Wikipedia, “Antinatalism or anti-natalism is the philosophical value judgment that procreation is unethical or unjustifiable” and I can’t see how that doesn’t lead to the conclusion that the planet is better off with humans being extinct.

Every argument I’ve heard boils down to “it’s easier just to die than to fix the problems that make life miserable, so we should all just die.” If you want to give up, go ahead. I personally don’t want to ever have kids, but I still want the world to be better for those who do.

Again, if it’s your personal choice to not reproduce, that’s totally fine, and I won’t try to convince you otherwise.

As soon as you start telling other people though that producing offspring is inherently unethical and they’re a bad, selfish person for making that decision, you’re no different than the so-called “pro-life” groups, telling people that they’re morally flawed and the cause of all the problems in the world because you don’t agree with the choice they made about their reproductive system.

The options with antinatalism are:

1. No one reproduces and humans go extinct.
2. Someone has to make a decision regarding who can “ethically” reproduce to maintain some stable population level.

Option 1 is unacceptable to me because it means giving up, and at that point we might as well nuke everything to speed up the process of ending the suffering that is life. And if that’s the outlook you have, I genuinely feel bad for you.

Option 2 is unacceptable because — surprise surprise — that’s just eugenics dressed up as caring about the environment or something. And when you and your loved ones are part of groups that have historically been forcibly sterilized at best and sent to death camps at worst, you tend to have a negative opinion about any philosophy that ultimately labels some groups as unworthy of existing.

If you choose not to reproduce, that’s fine, regardless of your reasons. It’s no one’s business.

But explain to me how you pick and choose who can or “should” reproduce without sounding like a eugenics enthusiast

Nestlé: I have done nothing wrong, ever, in my life.

Genuine question, do other countries refer to their current government as “this administration” or “the [leader] administration”?

In my exposure to non-US political discussions, there seems to be more reference to the majority parties or coalitions, where that’s more important to politics than it is in the US with our far-too-powerful executive branch

I finally started making plans for my little patio garden this week, so this is perfect! Thank you!

Putting the “scroll” in “scrolling desperately through a Discord server for a post that should be pinned”

Can’t believe you’ve got me supporting something hypothetical Trump did

Spoken like someone who’s never had a cheesy gordita crunch

Ah, yes, the Engelbert Humperdinck field

Any time I’m feeling down, watching Richard Spencer get punched in the face cheers me up

You know you’re a real forklift driver when you don’t even have to open the link to know what it is

My first real job out of high school, my “forklift certification” was the only other guy in the warehouse basically telling me not to crash into things. A few months in, I casually ripped around a corner, no clue why I ended up stopping. But when I did, one of the structural columns was between the forks, definitely would have destroyed it or the forklift if I hadn’t stopped

Ugh, you mean I have to take it out?

Bi gang right there with ya. People you’re attracted to are attractive

websites from the 1900s

how dare you

Damn, my grandpa’s got some explaining to do; he should have just pulled his 4-year-old self up by his Bootstrappen and got tf out of Berlin.

While I’m waiting for his explanation, can you get me a list of countries currently offering general asylum to US citizens?