Babies be like "I have a mouth and I will scream" Amirite parents? +2 to the left.

@B2Roland

Ай бұрын

-4

@tou-send4349

Ай бұрын

it's uuuuhhh to the right actually

@opossumboyo

Ай бұрын

Reddit users when a child exists in a public location: “Hate. Let me tell you much I have come to hate you since I began to live.”

@lr-

Ай бұрын

Omg it does 😂

@jwgrimey

26 күн бұрын

I thought this was about amazing digital circus

You give the water drowning the hamster to the fish, easy as

@ezrafly837

Ай бұрын

I think I’m dyslexic

@Natakupl

Ай бұрын

King Solomon solution. They each have what the other one lacks.

@Random_Fanguy

Ай бұрын

Double it and give it to the next guy.

@saintsalieri

Ай бұрын

Your hamster your rules.

@thewolfPrince

Ай бұрын

@@saintsalieri NO RULES, JUST RIGHT

Tomo, my sweet prince, I’d burn the world down to warm your paw- oh hi Ryuka

@nonpondo_

Ай бұрын

He knows what he did

Speaking of guinea pigs, my wife's family had 2 when she was a child and one grew a huge cancer tumor. The other one ate it off which ended up killing the one who ate it. Then the one that had cancer lived for 2 more years

@colxn

Ай бұрын

this is actually the craziest hapster story I've seen, and I've seen a lot

@catbear6183

Ай бұрын

Hero

@CaioVictor20101

Ай бұрын

Dude was the tank

@sawyervance3758

Ай бұрын

oh boy if this isn't one of the worst things I've ever read

@lucaslabuda891

Ай бұрын

Would you eat the tumor off your hamster or off a stranger's child?

2:08 I know exactly what he’s getting at when he says “I wish I had an hour to play balatro” but it is extremely funny that he chose that as the example of a thing he doesn’t have time to do

“It’s like not that hard to be 28” 10:34 why’d he say fuck me for?

@jammywalter0713

Ай бұрын

Haha I'm 26, I was wondering if NL thinks I've got it easier or harder than you

@polishpipebomb

Ай бұрын

He had to give 22 year olds a break, Lmao.

@sscswimmer1

Ай бұрын

​@@jammywalter071326 year olds dodging the stray. Feels damn good

@Drekromancer

Ай бұрын

_dusts off shirt_ My time to shine.

@ApahtieParty

Ай бұрын

The hard part is getting there

"These hypotheticals never happen though" the mythical type AA chatter appears

@NotASummoner

Ай бұрын

I don't understand how that chatter watches NL. It's like being a regular at a brothel and having no interest in women. Maybe the alcohol or something is great but really? Is this really where you wanna hang out?

@dawsonescott8428

Ай бұрын

LMAO

@TheMarkoSeke

Ай бұрын

"Why are we talking about what to do in a fire, there is no fire right now" was a great retort haha

@spaghettivase4808

Ай бұрын

Nothing ever happens

@keenfrizzle

Ай бұрын

Type AA chatter who can only interpret things strictly literally: "He's not dipping a pepper into Mama Liz's Chili Oil, why is he saying this"

I was "Kids shouldn't be in pubs anyway" pilled but then I remembered i spent like the first 5 years of my life in a sports bar eating pizza and playing arcade games

@B2Roland

Ай бұрын

Normalize. Children. Being. In. Public. spaces. It's public. Fuck off thinking you can cater your experience to not be inconvenienced EVER by the EXISTENCE of small humans who's only disadvantage is their parents fucked more recently than yours. Note: not actually annoyed with you, lol. The sentiment from the child free section of the Internet is so annoying though and I'm on tilt.

@SapkaliAkif

23 күн бұрын

Anya Jaylor Joy!!

@Ovenman940

16 күн бұрын

You can't properly engage in this debate if you think a sports bar is a pub. Pubs are regularly full of children.

“We need to criminalize unauthorized use of the word yet” 2:23 It’s quips like this that elevate NLs content for me. It’s comedic, relatable, and a sassy comeback right off the dome. I’m only a bit into the vid, but his friend is right, he is doing a noble thing, setting the bar for witty banter.

@raon123

Ай бұрын

"Literally just a guy" what a fucking liar, he's definitely a funny guy.

@WuchtaArt

Ай бұрын

​@@raon123 It does fit his vibe tho, for me who just started watching him recently he strikes me as a very reasonable, smart, ordinary person.

@sakesaurus1706

Ай бұрын

his dome is quite smooth after all so the comebacks are witty as well

@emperortgp2424

Ай бұрын

​​@@raon123"literally just a guy who is also a funny guy" are actually pretty common out there in the real world, it only feels rare because very few twitch streamers are funny and you spend your whole day watching them

Straight son or flush daughter is funny af

@DeathClawz

Ай бұрын

"I hope both of my kids flush, the son and the daughter... AND the holy ghost" was a great follow-up

4:08 my cousins tell me they go to school and talk about the new MrBeast video when it drops so I have hope the echo effect lives on

@OSDisco

Ай бұрын

Quoting memes at each other for the first time, and the recognition that we've all seen it: the smiles after that are to be treasured forever.

The drowning children of this city look up and shout 'SAVE US' I'll look down and whisper 'But he's my little boy'

"everybody hates their coworkers now" not true, I work from home so i barely know them at all, checkmate chatter

@x3naurus

Ай бұрын

I feel like you still hate them

@user-zz3sn8ky7z

Ай бұрын

I barely know them and i work there directly, the trick is to be an asocial autistic part-timer

@mr.dirtydan3338

Ай бұрын

People hated them before. They just never showed it.

@dookiepost

12 күн бұрын

Same, I don't hate mine, I just don't want to interact with them outside of a work setting.

NL doesn't have conversations, he has discourses

The “child-free debate club” could be applied to quite a few groups, actually. I work in environmental lobbying and there is a big overlap between hardcore environmentalism and anti-natalism, and I feel that many of our conversations turn into circular debates where we talk about a problem, then give a solution that we all know is incredibly unlikely or unpopular, and then all say “So True!” To eachother. I consider it a coping mechanism; it’s hard to come up with solutions that work and are popular, so we talk about crazy shit and pretend we are enlightened for thinking it. I’m certain other groups go through the same problems.

@ActionScripter

Ай бұрын

I think you're onto something. I've witnessed this happening in both the religious isolationist right and the socialist left. Talk about a problem, ask what to do about it, defiantly toss out a solution that would guarantee every normal person writes you off. "So true, so true. It's hard being part of the few who Get It."

@mr.dirtydan3338

Ай бұрын

​​@@ActionScripterbut if you don't let them know it's a socialist idea, they fucking love it. This has actually been proven recently with polls. They suggest an idea that is undeniably from socialist thought, and everyone is for it. But the second you say it's socialist or communist people shit themselves. It's a little something Called 100 years of American propaganda

How is Enelle so insightful and yet can GayPorn Rap like Eminem (when he was good)

@selfgoon

Ай бұрын

gay sex ❤

“We used to all watch the same show and talk about it in the office the next day” - NL who only watches a movie/show every decade

@RobotnikPlngas

Ай бұрын

Plus he hasn't worked in an office for over 10 years.

@coledelong427

Ай бұрын

Yet he knows every actor/actress that was in every show or movie in the last 20 years as well as in what month each was in theaters

@greenoftreeblackofblue6625

Ай бұрын

​​@@coledelong427He's saying it's ridiculous for him to be saying that since he seen every show. It's like saying "gay Mormons be like"

@BIDP-

Ай бұрын

Pre baby he watched most big movies and TV shows when they aired, but he said he just doesn't have the time any more. I think he said this around the release of blade runner 2049

@RobotnikPlngas

Ай бұрын

@@greenoftreeblackofblue6625 bisexual mormons*

the weekly eps do help draw out the narrative beats into more digestible arcs, and you have time to fully reckon with the subtler aspects of the story

@grimmparagon427

Ай бұрын

As impatient as it makes me feel, I love weekly releases cause I get to see people all over social media talking about the latest episode and getting excited about the next. Doesn't happen at all with full releases

I'm sure I've missed stuff in the intervening years, but I feel like those first few seasons of GoT is the last time we had something actually stay in the conversation over an extended period. As a TV show, I mean. Like what he's talking about with the 90s sitcoms.

@HiIh76

13 күн бұрын

What about the mandalorian?

"Reddit is larping" so, half of Twitter is larping, and the other half is people saying "I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE ACTUALLY THINK THIS" it's why any time someone says there's drama and the first example is from Twitter i tune out

@NoahRodriguezShow

Ай бұрын

"Reddit" is such a funny cope from Twitter-addicted weirds in too deep to admit their website is fully of shitty weridoes too

@ImortalZeus13

Ай бұрын

Basically all of social media is making up a dude in your head and then being mad at them

@B2Roland

Ай бұрын

It's the same 5000 people jerking each other off about how unbelievable one side or the other is being. They're all useless insufferable losers

@gnerus1972

Ай бұрын

Social media as a whole is LARPing and Ragebait.

@Phoenix0F8

Ай бұрын

the algorithm is specifically designed to show you the things it knows will push your buttons, in order to generate clicks for ad revenue. apply this en masse and a lot of the confrontational nature of the entire internet right now instantly makes so much more sense.

Everybody on the antinatalist subreddit wants to be Schopenhauer so bad

the librarian, more like crybrarian 😢

@xanderkhan7943

Ай бұрын

crybabyian

@101lwx

Ай бұрын

​@@xanderkhan7943 crybabyryan

I had a guinea pig as a kid, and when it died, I was legit devastated, and never had a pet since. I guess I get too attached to the little fellas

@chatnoir9038

Ай бұрын

You're probably just more compassionate than average. That's not a bad thing at all.

Omfg him talking about the Guinea pigs has me crying because it's so true lmfao

@Wyvernnnn

Ай бұрын

The anecdotes in chat are proving the point so hard

It’s not your fault

@daj4883

16 күн бұрын

What isnt my fault

From Ireland, I was in the pub when young, mainly for my parents to watch hurling, rugby or soccer while having a pint, however I am aware we have a different culture around drinking establishments. I also remember there being a curfew for kids, like past 9 u couldn’t have kids at the pub my family went to for matches. Nothing better than a cidona and a pack of bacon fries watching a match tho.

4:22 the chatters "here we go" when he starts talking about everybody loves raymond sent me

I feel like I would save most other kids over my dog, but some just have bad vibes.

@petormaculan5424

Ай бұрын

Maybe the kids recieving a karmic willy wonka esq punishment and my dog just followed its nose into the chocolate river

the caveman at the end did not realize the other tribe members he thought present were merely shadows cast on the wall and that he was grunting directly at only one caveman

Everybody used to love Raymond. Now everyone hates everyone…

I think NL has a really potent point on no longer getting to be apart of that culture as a show releases. Like you're not gonna get the same community with the binge model, there just isn't excitement outside of what happens next season where you get to binge it again. I may also be salty because if it wasn't released for binging, I wouldn't have been spoiled things towards the end of the fallout show.

@katlicks

Ай бұрын

My mom loves a book series called Silo so when the TV show came out, and she liked it, she loved it, and even better they paced out the episodes so every week my mom would tell me all about it and go online to talk about it. It really builds way more hype and buzz, and let's people do the fun parts of speculation and discussion, and give more time and focus per episode.

man, he's been KILLING it recently, this banter has been NUTS

Former Liquor Control Board of Ontario employee, teens are allowed inside the LCBO with their parents. They're allowed to push the cart, carry a basket, and unload the basket/cart at the point of sale and help package it up. However, As soon as they point out alcohol their parents buy or touch the product, then they get ID'd by law that we are legally bound (by oath of office and allegiance to the King, mind you) to do. Ho leeeeeee do the parents have no chill about it, way worse than the kids.

@ricflairsayswoo5894

Ай бұрын

Bruh, of course the parents would have no chill about it, that’s the most insane way to do it. Just saying “no teens” at the door would be less infuriating than going “no sale, your 17 year old son got that bottle off the shelf for you.”

@qwertymesa

Ай бұрын

@@ricflairsayswoo5894my brother got me banned from the liquor store down the road because of these stupid ass laws 😂😭 legit just because he came in with me and pointed at a bottle of vodka with no actual interest in it was just asking a question…

@NotASummoner

Ай бұрын

It's illegal for Systembolaget(Sweden) to sell to people that are under 20, visibly intoxicated or that you suspect will supply alcohol to minors. Having that exact rule about touching the product sounds really odd though, are you sure that's not just an "in practise rule"?

@RushandSNLfan

Ай бұрын

@@NotASummoner Yes, the guy who worked for the company, underwent training, did annual re-ups on our training, saw a colleague got suspended after a report from a secret shopper, and heard the messages on the PA every 15 minutes a shift for 7 years specifically saying it's a rule is sure that it's not an "in practice rule."

@NotASummoner

Ай бұрын

@@RushandSNLfan That's just weird then, I guess it weeds out the completely wack adults but I feel like they'd be weeded out anyways if it wasn't an ironclad no touching rule. Maybe it's just so that the employee can say it's completely out of their hands as it has nothing to do with their own judgement? I'm just trying to figure out what possible reason they'd make it the rule.

My guinea pig died out of nowhere when I was in 5th grade and I was deviated. He had some crystals in his ween and we took him to the emergency vet and they called the next day to say he was over the yellow brick wall or whatever

I've never found babies cute, but I also never developed a whole ass complex about it. Just keep that shit to yourself and be slightly annoyed about it on your own time, like a regular human being lol

If anyone cares, the Fallout show is very good. Even if I'd never heard of or played Fallout I still would have enjoyed it a great deal.

@B2Roland

Ай бұрын

I'm not surprised. Who has the time to watch all this shit?? Even when I was in my twenties I didn't give a fuck

@isaactfa

Ай бұрын

@@B2Roland Ok.

@phylocybe_

Ай бұрын

I simply don’t believe you. People also said that “everything everywhere all at once” was very good and that’s the worst movie ever made.

@isaactfa

Ай бұрын

@@phylocybe_ Ok.

@user6122

Ай бұрын

man people really on your ass for saying you liked something

Hey librarian, maybe you already have it in the archives but a compilation of NL going off about people unwilling to answer hypotheticals would go crazy for me personally. Keep up the good work

@mr.dirtydan3338

Ай бұрын

Mainly because hypotheticals never actually give you the answer you ask it for

My cousins had three hamsters, all three got lost in their vents and only one ever came out. I can only imagine what they had to do to survive in there…

I've had two guinea pigs that died in pretty normal circumstances, the first died overnight and the second died from old age, it was pretty sad I held him when he was slowly passing away

17:33 This is why he's the GOAT

I'm 28 and as soon as he read the "it's hard to be any age" comment I thought "honestly it's not that hard being 28" and actually laughed out loud when he said the exact same thing a second later. Good to know this is as good as it gets.

Remember the first time I went to the bar, my friends told me not to curse because there were kids nearby. I was so confused. Guess thats last born problems

Twitter recently forced their domain to show up as x and it caused my script blocker to reject it, happiest I've ever been.

I think you're right on track for today's expectations

Holy fuck the Guinea pig bit had me fucking dying, gasping for breath

NL's friend experiencing the worry of being a man emotionally consoling another man

Reminds me of the finale of a little book called Fabian - The story of a Moralist where the book literally ends because he tried to save a drowning child, couldn't swim, and just drowned himself

The story that starts this video is both heartwarming and a little bit painful, I wouldn’t know whether to clarify it or not.

That first anecdote is so good lmao

Bro librarian belss u for pulling up the twitter reciepts to prove his points, makes it so much easier to follow for someone whos out of touch like myself lol

My fucking god, it's the people.

A lady wanted to card me once when I was like 17 and my dad was buying beer with me present. My old mad was pretty pissed that she even asked.

Luna is genuinely so self aware holy fuck. I wish my kid was at that point where he KNEW he was being a pain in the ass lol

i never truly understood the allegory of the cave until nl explained it in 1 sentence while yapping about the antinatalism subreddit, crazy

3:35 I definitely agree with this sentiment, I mean yeah it save up my money for monthly subscriptions, but I don't like that they drowning you in one go, it's like rotting your brain with too much content.

took my toddler to the dispensary the employees hotboxed his Damn stroller....... baby was chill asf Though

That first story was so fucking funny omg

Hey NL, I've been through the (what age do they do something weird in the LCBO) They just don't allow the under age person to touch the booze, or even put it on the checkout counter even if just trying to help your parent.

he's so funny man how does he do it

the tweet that i saw quoting the og was someone saying "why are we banning mothers aka WOMEN from facilities now??" 💀

5:35 Real life Voight-Kampff test, good to know twitter failed it

He mentioned r/antinatalist but, given the theme of the rant, he has to talk about r/dogfree now

Hello to the gamers, welcome

Hello to the Librarians

it would be nice to have an hour to play balatro every so often outside of my 5 hours of balatro on stream everyday lol

I work in manufacturing, and things have been crazy ever since covid. The company is desperate to hire people so we end up with a bunch of lunatics. I still have a couple coworkers that I like, but most of them I try to stay far away from.

when he pinched his nose and said something, nl sounded so different i thought librarian had started overdubbing his own interjections and commentary

what about a binge model where they put the first 7 episodes out of a show at once then put the finale out in like a month?

@mikumaven

Ай бұрын

edging

0:19 northernlion shoots smack? 🤨

Doing WHAT in the group chat??

If you leave your baby outside the building they should take your baby and the weed. Baby inside the dispensary is totally fine. Catch my ass walking into auto zone with a 5 year old and someone starts yelling Sir, SIR. You can't bring them into the car part store, they can't drive

I think the your pet vs someones kid question is actually kind of interesting because while a human life should mean more than a pets, the sense of responsibility that would drive someone to save their pet over a strangers child makes some sense

Other people don't want to hear someone else's children screaming all the time near them. Hell, I bet parents that happen to have a free evening don't want to be near other people's screaming children. As long as there are some places that allow children and others that don't, I think all is fine.

@ataraxia7439

15 күн бұрын

Idk. I understand completely that some ppl might not want to be around kids or babies but I also feel like that annoyance is pretty mild in comparison to being someone with a child/children who just can’t go places unless they specifically find and schedule for them to be looked after someone else. I’m worried about a culture that can becomes increasingly hostile/less accommodating to parents.

@nnm711

15 күн бұрын

@@ataraxia7439 It's not just the society's fault though it's beginning to be hostile, but also the parent's. Parents nowadays bet on the privilege that they have kids and will be allowed everything, but fail to uphold their side of the deal and be responsible for their children. When I was a kid, I had to shut up and behave in silent places like restaurants, doctor's office, etc.. And failure to do so was met with corrections. I learned I am supposed to NOT annoy my surroundings and control myself. From parents around me nowadays I see just endless entitlement to be accommodated, while the kids often do whatever they want, being loud, destroying property etc. and they get no reprimand. They learn there are no consequences for their actions. Sorry, but I want to keep such maladjusted families as far away from me as possible.

@ataraxia7439

14 күн бұрын

@@nnm711 I think maybe there's a halfway point people can reach. Obviously, people should try to get their kids to behave and be considerate of others as much as they reasonably can but also it's just kind of a reality that some kids and babies are going to sometimes not be silent or invisible and it should be okay fo r them to be like that sometimes in public spaces.

'The son and the daughter... And the holy ghost'

@Oshawotter48

Ай бұрын

The architect and the builder

@richard_nj

Ай бұрын

@@Oshawotter48 They arrive calmly from their escalator with a sense of purpose

fun fact, plato's allegory of the cave is actually how our brains work the part of your brain that makes up your conscious mind has no access to any of your sensory information. your senses get fed into a part of your brain that is (outside of really hard drug trips) completely separated from your mind, and it generates a simulation of what it thinks the world is like using a combination of past experiences, expectations and biases. and then that simulated external world, your consciousness fakes looking into with senses that it doesn't actually have, that are so far removed from what your actual sensory organs feed you that the raw input of your senses would be useless to you for example; if you hold out your pinky as far as you can from yourself, your actual eyes can only see color in an area smaller than your nail. and yet you see color everywhere all at once; because your fake simulated eyes that your mind is using to peer at the fake simulated world that it looks at doesn't work the same way as your real eyes. if the wall around your computer screen changed color every time you look at your screen and then change back when you look away you'd never notice because your real eyes don't see color outside of what they're focusing on and your mind is just guessing what color the wall is based on what color it was the last time you got good info on it the take-away being that you probably should take your own experiences with the grain of salt you'd put into anybody's experiences who you happen to know is constantly hallucinating, because that's what you are; hallucinating, constantly. if you thought that the light was green when you last looked at it, maybe give it another glance before you go. same goes for, like, giving other people the benefit of the doubt when they say they told you something, or not putting too much stock into unexplained noises or sensations

@heinzmonster

Ай бұрын

I've never been psychologically ruined by a yt comment before

gamers

I do t know about the Reddit but any actual academic debate on antinatalism is inherently rhetorical and and acknowledged by the authors as inherently unfulfillable. Like I don’t think I’ve read a single piece of writing on it that wasn’t just a work of philosophical extrapolation that the authors acknowledges will never be a reality, like most of the arguements derive from extrapolating on the concept of human suffering to the extreme. The crux being is human suffering in itself valuable, I.e is it better to live and suffer than to never live but never suffer. I don’t think any academics really view it as a real life issue, or even anything to do with children at all. Natalism just referring to the act of birth, the subreddit just sounds like people that hate children not actually anything to do with the philosophy of suffering.

@sandrasim46

Ай бұрын

in colloqiual terms anti-natalism almost always refers to people who just hate kids and not any philosophical meaning. the term "anti-natal" is kinda implying the hatred of birth and therefore children, so honestly its just a bad descriptive name lmao

@YTDeletes90PercentOfMyComments

Ай бұрын

It's all probably incels coping that they can't get kids

@gnerus1972

Ай бұрын

I don't know I just don't want kids cuz then I wouldn't be able to snort coke all the time.

@katlicks

Ай бұрын

It's often massive projection "I hate my own life and don't want others to have a chance for good"

@katlicks

Ай бұрын

@@JD-wu5pf I mean, that's been the root of almost every argument I've had with anti natalists, predicated entirely on "I'm miserable and see no value in life and want total life extinction as a result" There's a massive difference between someone who doesn't want a child for personal reasons, and someone who believes in total extinction of sapience in the universe.

Northernlion loves monoculture

I asked a guy to not bring his daughter into the vape shop I worked at, and he freaked out at me

@invaderZX

Ай бұрын

Every vape shop I've ever seen looks like they've got a fog machine running in there 24/7, so I'm with you on that one, brother.

as a child of alcoholics I'm grateful my parents didn't take me out to a pub lol. It's embarrassing enough seeing them drunk at home

NL after giving birth to the holy ghost (he meant to have a son first)

BRING BACK 1 EPISODE A WEEK

I'm with NL, I enjoy the weekly release schedule, like Shogun. It lets you simmer in the boiling pot of British sailor oil.

9:50 Egg's 3 year old is literally better at expressing her thoughts and emotions than most grown men.

@kingcrimson4133

Ай бұрын

that's what happens when you're not raised to think natural childhood emotional expression such as crying and throwing tantrums is "bad behavior" deserving of punishment. so many parents alienate their children as objects rather than trying to understand them as human beings.

hey northern L did you watch the fallout series yet?

I'm a parent and why not, makes serving alcohol easier too

Are canadian bars not child free by default? I remember when my mom used to work as a musician at a bar when I was like 12 and had the police called on her just because I walked through the front into the back room.

My gerbils died when I was little and we held a burial and funeral in the back garden, buried together in a small cardboard box. By the end we were all laughing.

I thought the dog-friendly child-free place was just trying to not get a lawsuit for a dog mauling a child. So they picked one thing to be okay and not the other.

The antinatalism discourse is so crazy when you actually look at birthrates... Nearly every Western country (and increasingly Asian countries as well) has negative birthrates and the difference is propped up by immigration. But what happens when the countries those people are emigrating from, modernize more and begin to have negative birthrates as well? The global fertility rate has been trending down since 1965 and is expected to drop below replacement levels in the next 10 years or so. The declining world population is going to become a huge issue overnight, and all these Redditor opinions about not having children will seem very insignificant compared to the global labor shortage, where countries are fighting over dwindling human capital.

@landonscott7943

Ай бұрын

For sure birth rates are an economic problem for countries that need to grow indefinitely. This isn’t because millions of people are suddenly like “I hate kids” it’s just less and less economically feasible to have kids. Focusing on antinatalism when looking at birth rates is ignoring the real problem of economic pressures not really giving people the option to have kids anymore

@MetroAndroid

Ай бұрын

​@@landonscott7943 The economy is a smaller part of the problem. People have had much higher birthrates in much worse economies for millennia. Even during the great Soviet famines where millions starved and money was worthless, they still had much higher birthrates than modern America. It's cultural, a disdain for children and pessimism about life generally, and the proliferation of birth control especially since the 60s (when the fertility rate started dropping). It's not just "a problem for countries that need to grow indefinitely," it's a problem for the entire world having enough people to create food and transport it; increasingly harsh penalties for anyone wishing to leave their country ("you're too valuable to leave"); and over centuries, human extinction (since apparently nothing has been able to reverse the declining fertility rate for 60 years, what will be the solution?).

@cyanthrope

Ай бұрын

then I imagine we start downscaling rather than this infinite-line-goes-up thing we have going on currently. We start only producing as much as we need. Man, wouldn't that be something

@kaffe5163

Ай бұрын

​careful you're gonna give some CEO's a heart attack talking like that

@cccfudge

Ай бұрын

@@MetroAndroid I feel like I'm gonna be "that guy" but I genuinely don't think this is a problem to anyone but capitalists (as in, the capitalist class). A society which produces exactly what it needs to sustain itself with a slight surplus for trade and as a safety net is the ideal society, not the ever growing, infinite-growth-in-a-finite-universe mentality of capitalism. If you start viewing people as people and not "human capital" that exists only to further increase a meaningless number then the wellbeing of those people becomes a far clearer goal. That is achievable with our current level of technology and manpower, even without any AI. By the time this is a realistic problem globally we'll likely already have general AI that can work a significant % of the jobs discounting the need for manpower in the first place. Under capitalism, that's a dystopian reality with a 40% unemployment rate, under any reasonable system, it's a utopia. Not to completely discredit your point, the birth rate IS decreasing instead of stabilizing, and while I do think that the economic aspect is a far bigger slice of the cake than you think, there are some cultural factors such as birth control, women entering the workplace/getting an education, dating apps/dating culture but I really doubt that birth control and feminism are the main factors for what we're seeing today. In a society where having children didn't significantly impact your wealth and therefore your wellbeing, in a society where those children are guaranteed to be taken care of and get a decent quality of life, people would be having far more children than they are today in the west. I do think there is a very real issue with modern dating culture for a variety of reasons, but I frankly don't really have any solutions for that, especially when it's just a fraction of the greater problem which is how tech companies are trying to squeeze every last drop of time and attention out of us at the cost of our mental and physical health, our socialization and our ability to function "normally". I sound like a boomer but I think the main cultural problems stem from social media companies killing our society to try to make a profit.

wait.... he's based?

@eggymens

Ай бұрын

always was.

Do American supermarkets not sell liquor, or do Americans just not take their kids to the supermarket either, just in case they see some booze on the shelf?

@TheLibraryofLetourneau

Ай бұрын

its a canada thing except quebec

14:00 most of them do smoke in there, and some of them leave pot OPEN . Depends, really.

@kaffe5163

Ай бұрын

brother what kinda dispensaries are you going to everyone I've been to in Canada has been clean as hell and real professional about it like they had an inspector in

dont assuming stuff bout me with yet

I need me some more pet-free restauarants. Seen way too many "fur parents" (owners) with their lil rats on their lap at the nice dinner places over the last couple years. It's kinda gross

@JusufBideovic

Ай бұрын

this

@saintsalieri

Ай бұрын

actually this makes you the weirdo

@adamthedog1

Ай бұрын

OTOH, I've never seen a single pet in all my patronage of Detroit and metro detroit restaurants. maybe we're based?

@NotASummoner

Ай бұрын

@@saintsalieri Idk, I don't feel very comfortable around dogs. I don't wanna be licked or have to think about whether I should be guarded in any way. Some of them are very cute but I just don't want to deal with what they bring to an interaction.

@saintsalieri

Ай бұрын

@@NotASummoner Yes, that makes you the weirdo. Dogs are such a part of human sociality that it's impossible to imagine us without them, really. They are a permanent and ubiquitous feature of our lives and that is not going to change so you should work on yourself instead of trying to force your anxieties upon others.

There's 3 pubs within a 12 min walking distance of me in my small town and I've been to some cities where there's 3 on the same street. I don't see how anyone in their right mind could possibly care that one is childfree

You don't understand, I still wouldn't save the stranger's child if my pet was safe and sound

who invited redditors into the comment section? WHERE ARE THEY?

Why am I saving someone else's child, where is the parent? You get in here too bro my conscience is not carrying the weight of two lives alone

@jblen

Ай бұрын

True. Why is it my fault for not risking my life for a kid when even the parent isn't risking their life for them

@NotASummoner

Ай бұрын

@@jblen It's your choice I guess. I personally don't think a kid's life is less valuable because they have bad parents but that's just me.

I love my dog but she's old as fuck ok and I'm only saying this bc I'm at work rn and she'll never know but I would save the child and then force the child and the parents to be friends with me bc if I don't at least get a new friend out of that shit then what's the point.....