This is the answer. The problem is the huge expense to adopt at least in the US. Money that could make a better life for the child being adopted is taken by the state.
We need to streamline adoption while still vetting the potential parents as unlikely to be abusive.
2024+: Climate change, water wars, resultant mass migration, worldwide rise of fascism.
It doesn’t matter where you live. Even if you’re in the perfect geography and latitude to make climate change no big deal locally; the mass migration, wars, and production disruption will certainly affect you and especially your children.
Don’t forget soldiers. As George Carlin said, “Live babies make dead soldiers.”
How many of those kids were intentional though? Birth control and abortion were restricted or just not available. I’m sure most of the people who had kids in the past did not regret it but I’m not going to pretend they meant to get pregnant.
And the toilet paper thing is obviously a joke. A bit of levity in the horror.
hopefully give them a tragic enough backstory
What the fuck? Like abuse the shit out of them to toughen them up?
I know you’re not being serious but damn what do you mean by this?
They could always get more involved with their community. They don’t have to be a parent or have some specialized education to be a coach or volunteer at a youth center.
My scoutmaster did more to instill honesty, leadership ability, and respect for community in me than my mom or absent father ever did.
Now in my career I take mentoring new hires more seriously than anything other than general safety. My company hires a lot of young men with no direction and shitty childhoods. It’s not as good as getting to them when they’re young, but when I’m their only friend 200 or 800 miles from home I get the privilege to impart some important ideas and philosophies.
Most kids though? I’m not going to go looking for stats but let’s just say 95% of children are outliving their parents right now. Awkward sentence there. I mean parents who are dying today, 95% of them didn’t outlive their children. I hope that makes sense. Yes that’s not how statistics work, I’m trying to make a point.
What’s an acceptable level to drop to before we say fuck this we’re done having kids? I knew I didn’t want kids when I was a kid, but I’m an outlier.
Let’s say 85% is the number for kids born today. I believe that’s already unacceptable. It’s so unnatural.
I think the number is worse than that. The mass climate migration/water wars are going to really get moving in the 2040s if not earlier. I don’t want to live through that. I definitely don’t want a child to live through that.
Maximum Overdrive. So much coke was flying around King had to finish the movie.
Hear hear. Great casting, but holy shit eight big novels condensed into an hour and a half. How could it be good?
Stephen King is reaching the end of his time. He was a fantastic example for pro-drugs, and I hope and assume he’s back riding that horse.
I just want to do coke and absurd amounts of mushrooms with the man. Hit me up Stevie, you’re a big dork so I bet you’re on here.
Oh yeah baby. Strap in. And get strapped if you don’t like it.
Love takes a while to mature. This is Love’s cousin. The frantic and morally bankrupt Desire.
I’ve been defending you in this thread and tried to offer help.
On reread of my comment it looks like I went to rehab for Internet problems which isn’t the case. I was having seizures from my alcohol addiction. I hope that’s less funny.
Your response: you forget history Hitler lol. Mattress girl isn’t history. Except in the fact that it’s some bullshit to get hung up on that an unhinged person did that’s still banging around in your head.
This response actually enraged me when I first read it.
It’s cool now though. If you want to talk I’ll listen.
I’d say 90s just because he looks like Butthead come to life.
Upvote comments you reply to or I’ll report you to DOGE!
See mattress girl… Hey friend I’ve been terminally online before too. I went to rehab, and a psychiatrist. I did some therapy with a psychologist but it didn’t do much for me.
I’m the same person I always was, same human body. But things have changed so much for the better it’s surprising.
Shit hit the fan in my family and I got fired from my job. That’s when I asked for help. There’s no shame in asking for help. Take it from a 41 year old badass in my new career.
It takes time… But if you’re still thinking about mattress girl let that shit go. It’s nothing. It shouldn’t have affected you in the first place. Let go of the shit that brought you to post about this in 2024.
Ask for help. I’ll talk to you if you want, judgement free. I have today off once I sleep for a bit.
That’s the thing, they may have the evidence of that, the drugs, and the campaign finance shit. But as soon as T nommed him up he quit his job. Which means all the investigations stop.
So now it’s unlikely if it ever will come out if he did it. Mike Johnson says drop it. Some Representatives are saying publish it.
My bet is we never see it.
Could be saying a 17 year old doesn’t qualify as pedophilia. The definition has shifted a lot over the years. When I was a legal adult at 18 I was having sex with a 17 year old. Am I a pedophile?
For the record fuck Gaetz and his 17 year old fucking, tiny faced, fleeing justice ass.
They just lost all value. Post your rarest pepe or I’ll report you to DOGE.
Agreed. It’s just now we have more options. At least we did before the Christian Nationalist Supreme Court made abortion illegal in half of the US. Even with this there are still more options and more education than in the distant past.