@MachineLordZero@mastodon.social
Post #883944
2026-03-31 16:14 UTC
Replies (14)
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@statsguy@mas.to 2026-03-31 16:48
@MachineLordZero And don't tell me: are those articles written by the same people who are fond of telling us that we must not allow any immigration because the country is full?
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@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk 2026-03-31 16:48
@MachineLordZero True, but on the flip side it's also because women have access to birth control, education and jobs, which means that their lives are no longer entirely dominated by some man.
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@snowfox@tech.lgbt 2026-03-31 17:14
@MachineLordZero The frustrating thing is the UK has been a case study of an "ageing population" in schools for well over 20 years (maybe over 30?). It's not a new problem*, and the solution has of course been immigration. Which isn't to say that the solution shouldn't also be better labour laws/healthcare/standard of living/UBI and lower cost of living, but for some mysterious** reason, the people against immigration are also against those other things. Funny that. (* Specifically the problem of having enough people working and paying taxes so retired folks can get their state pension/etc, because taxing the rich is too hard or something.) (** I hope my sarcasm is showing.)
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@gabrielesvelto@mas.to 2026-03-31 17:18
@MachineLordZero isn't it funny how the one-child policy only partially curbed the birthrate in China, but it took neoliberal turbocapitalsim to really tank it
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@the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-03-31 17:31
@MachineLordZero Well that, and human babies suck shit. Nobody have any for maybe 25 years.
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@dark_stang@kind.social 2026-03-31 17:36
@MachineLordZero also like there are 8 billion of us. Easing off the pedal for a few generations is probably fine?
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@greenpepper22@mastodon.social 2026-03-31 17:38
@MachineLordZero I also remember seeing a study that teenage pregnancy is at an all time low and that contributes to it as well Wanna also be clear, major reductions in teen pregnancy is a good thing and not something to panic about or blame anyone about
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@crazyeddie@mastodon.social 2026-03-31 17:53
@MachineLordZero People need to be happy to really get down. Sad lays are just sad lays. Sometimes you don't even bother getting to the end. And what, have kids just to watch them suffer and die at the hands of the same predators that will eat us in the end? Is that just to have company or what? "I had you so that when it comes time to be pinch shredded by Cthulhu I'll have someone to share my pain with." "But you said I need to plan for my future..." "Yeah, sorry. That was shit of me."
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@disorderlyf@todon.eu 2026-03-31 18:16
@MachineLordZero Anyone I see decrying the population grown slowing who doesn't include rates of immigration in their population growth figures is someone who is safer for me to assume is a eugenicist. We have a solution already that doesn't even require the major reforms to make Zoomers actually want to have children and that we'll likely have to do to not die as a species anyway.
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@douginamug@mastodon.xyz 2026-03-31 18:30
@MachineLordZero but... electrolytes are what people crave?
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@Jorsh@beige.party 2026-03-31 19:09
@MachineLordZero I would never dream of inflicting my offspring upon this world; likewise, I would never dream of inflicting this world upon my offspring.
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@auser@mastodon.social 2026-03-31 19:40
@MachineLordZero Turns out productive libido is very sensible to economics 😂
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@mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social 2026-03-31 22:49
@MachineLordZero The first time I read this, I that it stated "pollution" and not population. I guess both could work in this scenario.
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@rayocentric@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 03:12
@MachineLordZero The Georgia Guidestones announced the plan to depopulate back in 1980. Many steps before and after that have contributed to population decline.