wonder when fertility rates are gonna explicitly become mainstream politics in the US
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everyone wanna future but dont nobody wanna raise no time-intensive ass babies
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eigenrobot Retweeted Peter Hague PhD
it hadnt occurred to me that its taboo to discuss this as its own thing, rather than as an ancillary support for a position on another issue, but I think it probably ishttps://twitter.com/peterrhague/status/1390898298588962817?s=19 …
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the idea that a society would die out by choice is strange and terrible
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Story about a society which did just that: https://250bpm.com/blog:113/
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Diamond argues that the Greenland Norse basically chose to go extinct too because maintaining their cultural values was more important to them than the level of adaptation that would have been required to survive.
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Where is this?
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unfortunately i no longer trust anything diamond as written after i discovered hes a regular fabricator apparently the easter island stuff is wrong for some reason or another and he definitely fabricated a story underlying a longform piece on revenge in papua new guinea
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I read his books a decade or so ago, so I may have missed this controversy.
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im genuinely sad about it, i thought the revenge piece was fantastic
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