Every time I see a politics news or comic or meme I block that community. It’s great my entire feed is fun stuff and cool art

Eh kind of but just don’t buy anything and you’ll be fine. And read the actual literature and studies out there

like a pretty hot take backed by the science, there are much better bioaccumulators than comfrey

scrubbing intensely … still not clean…

Firefox on Android is pretty good and you can still install an ad blocker.

Thanks!

My hypothesis is the decline is caused by a multifaceted change in environment:

• cost of living crisis caused by inflation, folks are making only about 1/3rd what their grandparents made for the same labor
• debt crisis caused by the above, crippling debt causes anxiety
• educational treadmill, folks are working harder for top jobs, so schooling takes longer and is much harder
• hormonal crisis, many young women are on hormonal birth control which is well known to significantly reduce libido in a large percentage of the population
• food supply crisis, cheap, poor quality highly-processed food make folks just slightly less healthy all the time, possibly can affect libido with lowered testosterone caused by preservatives
• social media crisis, evolution caused us to want to be nosy about 70 members of our tribe, not hundreds of millions. Social media is causing us to have the social equivalent of Daredevil’s acute hearing, but it’s addicting so folks can’t easily shut it off (as I write on social media…)
• fitness crisis, many folks just aren’t healthy enough to lift and run, so they have less testosterone which lowers libido for everyone regardless of sex/gender
• reproductive fear, folks realize they have it bad with little hope of improvement, so they don’t want the same for their offspring
• perfectionism causing a lack of confidence, being able to see the best in the world at any second on your phone causes acute perfectionism that prevents folks from even trying. Look up rates of musical instrument playing to see how few are even starting compared to 20 years ago. Skills in an area lead to increased confidence which makes a person more confident
• protective parenting combined with extremely restrictive schooling, leads to less “free time” where folks can hang out and build social skills
• hyper niche porn on demand, every person can access the porn of their choice on demand at all times. This causes unrealistic tastes and lack of confidence.
• infection fears, everyone is taught from a young age to be afraid of STDs and pregnancy, so it’s a looming fear in many
• entertainment quality, we’ve created the most addicting games, movies, shows, and apps. These make it more interesting to sit and zone out than socialize
• anxiety/depression crisis from the above leads to a population with lower libido, SSRIs are well known to reduce libido in a large subset of the population

All in all, we’ve got a society that is nearly perfectly designed to reduce libido in the population. Those that manage to avoid or ignore these challenges find a very small dating pool compared to decades past. Those that pair off are less likely to have offspring, such that we will likely have a population collapse in the next hundred years. Hopefully by then have figured enough of this out that we build a society that makes it easy to be a human who finds joy and love in other humans and not in a screen.

wordsmith, you’ve caused me to laugh, well done!

yeah, but like, fuck cars

I’m playing through Another Crabs Treasure and this post gives me flashbacks

A few favorites:

• Constantine
• The Last Jedi
• Jupiter Ascending
• Minority Report
• Prometheus
• Valerian
• Logan’s Run

Let’s be real, Witcher 3 is just a Gwent launcher.

Also I’ve definitely played more Pazaak than KOTOR.

Just watched this last night, and it remains so creepy. I don’t care for it one bit.

My roommate remarked: “ew, what do you call bestiality, but like for fruit”. I had no witty response

A Calvin and Hobbes AI meme, truly we live in times

Eugh watching him eat tomatoes was a terrible day to have eyes

I listened to it while lifting, and now every time I lift while listening to something else I’m like “ugh this book is fine but it’s no Silmarillion”

I’ve listened to dozens of great books at the gym, but there’s only two I’ve wanted to listen to a second time: Silmarillion and Norse Mythology by Neil Gaimon

There’s just such a vibe to those books. The stories are short, but they feel ancient. I feel rooted when I listen to them.

That and when I’m trying to fall asleep and it’s winter. I’m cozy and feeling the hygge. I’ve got my warm drink and blankets and I want a bedtime story of how Morgoth was cast down

Hey now there’s nothing weird about being completely unable to focus under fluorescent lights.

aspnet core is the library you want

Simple and just works

F# is so dope too

Oh man I work with one of the PhDs who invented several of the space weather formulas. He’s got books about it. I want to show him this so bad, but I don’t think he would find it funny 😭

Maybe he’d laugh at the evil wizards part.

Oh man this good me laughing way too hard, well done