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  • Also empires are always building super-weapons in fiction and not the railroads/bridges/tax offices and all other boring shit that empires tend to do.

    The last 'super weapon' to be used in anger was made by the glorious republic (USA) against the Evil empire (Japan). The genocides meanwhile tend to be perpetrated with boring old bombs, shells and blockades.

  • Most people born now do still want to have kids. Even in my famously childless country (UK) 50% of women will have a child by the age of 30 (and a great many more afterwards.). Antinatalism remains a fringe belief.

    What people do want is fewer children later. This actually makes the fertility crisis (which is very much more than a behavioural henominon, you can jizz onto a microscope slide to get hard empirical data) a more significant issue. Since fertility decreases with age, changes that might've gone unnoticed when people had kids at 25 become catastrophic when people instead chose 35.

    Perhaps you don't want kids, that's fine, I respect your choice. Most people actually still do! If this health effect is the result of (as some experts suspect) micro-plastic leached EDC's an environmental pollutant we have no suitable method of removing, which has a significant lag from production to release, and whose associated industry continues to expand, saying "it's no big issue we don't need to worry about it" is (in essence) endorsing the forced sterilisation of many hundreds of millions, without their consent.

  • However, both populations experience suboptimal access to energy, and consequently maintain minimal levels of body fat and low BMI

    You are citing a malnourished population.

    Previous studies of non-western populations have revealed inconsistent associations between men's testosterone levels and paternal or marital status. | Twenty-seven Hadza participants | Eighty Datoga participants

    This is a comparitively small study, and one which contradicts other bodies of research.

    As with male birds, it seems likely that testosterone facilitates reproductive effort in the form of male–male competition and mate-seeking behaviour, both of which interfere with effective paternal care.

    Given the increasing social atomisation of the west (see:average age of fatherhood, number of children had, divorce rates), the hypothesis proposed by this paper implies testosterone levels in the west should be increasing not decreasing.

    Look, I get the desire to debunk redpillers, but when we're talking about a worldwide trendline in basic biology you're going to need more research than this to do so. The Male infertility crisis is a genuine problem field experts are extremely worried about, hence the need for research and coverage by the mainstream (to stop snake oil salesmen being the main point of contact for this issue).

  • If you really absolutely will not vote for moderates, at least vote for *leninist-marxist peoples front of Arizona *or something. There's a politican somewhere who will see that 0.15% and think "that could make or brake my campaign, how can I win them over?"

  • Ok, but what would be the legal precendent there? We regulate tabacco precisely because of it's psychological and medical effects, not because it's bad for your wallet. This lawsuit depends upon a claim of addiction because you can't just regulate something for annoying you.

  • I mean, "at war" is the one time a small economy should be able to afford expensive equipment, since military spending becomes a priority. Look at isreal for an example of an economic midget nonetheless building the Merkava

  • I mean, if there were to be conscription it probably wouldn't be for technical roles like mechanics or artillery coordinators. It would be for logistical duties (drive this truck, mop this floor, cook this soup) and for dads-army-esque garrison duty. That then frees up the career soldiers to do what they are trained for. Mass mobilisation for an infantry-focused army I cannot see happening, mostly because Russia would be rubble by the time we get that desperate.

  • The thing is if you do that the other guy will just make a super-hero film in 4-9 years, collecting all the hard work you spent making the genre scarce again.

    People kept making westerns for as long as they just barely made any money, I’m sure the same will happen with ‘capeshit’