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DrBob, in You're just a kid, how would you know what you want for the rest of your life?
@DrBob@lemmy.ca avatar

I’m in my mid-50s. The generation older than me - my aunts and uncles - generally were in school until grade 8 and were out of the house and working by 16. My mother had her older sister as her teacher.

24 is not a child. You can vote drive, drive, drink, marry sign legal documents etc. And at least for women fertility begins to decline at 32. If you mean you will continue to grow as a person and develop new interests that hopefully never goes away. I went to grad school and was in academia for over a decade after my PhD. I have made two major shifts in my career since then. Old people still feel like they are in their twenties or early thirties mentally, we joke about it all the time. So congratulations, this is it.

dmonzel, (edited )
@dmonzel@lemmy.ml avatar

at least for women fertility begins to decline at 32.

That’s a little bit of a yikes there, buddy.

Edit: and additional “yikes” for all of the people that don’t see the problem with assigning a value to women based on how fertile they may or may not be.

Edit 2: tHe QuAnTiTy Of EgGs! Because women only exist to get pregnant.

CommanderCloon,

You are the only one talking about tying women’s worth to anything

gibmiser,

Why is that a yikes? More birth defects, complications, start running low on eggs. All of that is just facts…

anonymous69,

So biological facts are now cringe?

anewbeginning,

How can a fact be yikes? It’s only relevant if women want children, but if they do then the earlier the safer it is.

omgitsaheadcrab,

In fairness, when we had our first at 34 she was a year off being medically labelled a “geriatric mother”

TheSanSabaSongbird,

I believe you are the one who is confused and making unwarranted assumptions here.

DrBob,
@DrBob@lemmy.ca avatar

The question was about marriage. There are two reasons that I see people get married. For young people it’s about starting a family. However you and I feel about it personally, legal structures that are in place just make it easier when you’re married. The other reason is for older people. Pensions and estate planning is easier for married couples. Again, I have opinions about it but it remains a plain fact.

naught, (edited )

I got married to share healthcare and other tax advantages and do not plan to have children. I’m under 30 ¯_(ツ)_/¯

DrBob,
@DrBob@lemmy.ca avatar

I envy you. My partner and I are DINKs. There has never been a tax break aimed at our demographic. lol.

JJROKCZ,

They said nothing about the value of a woman being tied to fertility, that came out of mind…

As for the decline in fertility statement, that has been scientifically proven for decades and assumed for centuries. Women are born with a set amount of eggs, they typically go through at least one per ovulation cycle, they start reaching the end in their 30s and risks of birth defects start increasing in their 30s

NocturnalMorning,

Yeah, whatever “Dr Bob”, do you think you’re some kind of doctor or something? Show off…

DrBob,
@DrBob@lemmy.ca avatar

Yeah. There was a point when I was thinking I’d keep this account professional and share it with my students. Unlike my other social media accounts. lol

NocturnalMorning,

Don’t do that. Lol. My partner is a professor herself. You don’t want to share this stuff with your students. Professional social media is overrated

DrBob,
@DrBob@lemmy.ca avatar

I didn’t in the end. It was mostly because I don’t want undocumented interactions. I have a hard enough time getting them to use office hours.

TenderfootGungi,

So, you agree with OP? There is not an argument against it here.

ReluctantMuskrat, in You're just a kid, how would you know what you want for the rest of your life?

I was just a kid… why would you think I’d know better?

ULS, (edited ) in You're just a kid, how would you know what you want for the rest of your life?

It goes up. Now I think people that get married before 40 are weird.

On serious note… It’s any age. You can tell when a couple is just trying to reproduce an image of “family” because they were told it’s the next thing to do in life. Working in retail id often see families you could tell just went through the motions and that everyone was disconnected from one another. It’s sad.

glibg10b, in All Cats Are Beautiful

Why’s he oinking (confusedly)?

Grayox,
@Grayox@lemmy.ml avatar

Cause they dont let smart folks become pigs.

Glifted,

It’s not common (and I would argue IQ tests have limited value) but I feel like I should remind everyone this actually happened

Sabre363,

If officers are too smart they might start to think minorities are also people and that kids should be protected. We obviously can’t be having that in America

FinalRemix, (edited )

Or maybe during their “Killology” training (yes really) one of them might say “Wait, this is insane bullshit. And has this trainer even seen a gun before?!”

the_post_of_tom_joad,

I saw at the end the plaintiff became a prison guard. It’s been over 20 years now, i would be interested to see how long he stuck with it seeing how their whole thing was about smart people quitting the force

hOrni, in Golf

In case anybody is wondering, this is a joke ad made by Clarkson in 2009.

Blaster_M,

That episode was hilarious.

Though it was about the Scirocco Diesel

Zeshade,

You could also read it differently nowadays 15 years later with all the emissions scandal. Probably wouldn’t want to trust Volkswagen with such statements huh.

blujan,

The thing is the range claims were really true, they just couldn’t do it cleanly.

aeronmelon, in Golf
HerrVorragend,
@HerrVorragend@lemmy.world avatar

“¡He visto eso!”

Siegfried,

*“Eso ya lo ví”

1984, in Feeling Sad and Depressed?
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

People are probably not feeling better under communism. But yes, the state of the world is just super depressing. We have zero good world leaders, and no future to look forward to.

funkless_eck,

I know two people who grew up in a kibbutz. One says it was the best time, one says it was the worst time. You can likely do the same for any form of government or economy.

yogthos,
@yogthos@lemmy.ml avatar

Nah, I’m pretty sure people in China are feeling pretty good about their country’s development:

The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015, while real incomes of the poorest half of the US population actually declined during the same time period. www.nber.org/system/files/…/w23119.pdf

From 1978 to 2000, the number of people in China living on under $1/day fell by 300 million, reversing a global trend of rising poverty that had lasted half a century (i.e. if China were excluded, the world’s total poverty population would have risen) semanticscholar.org/…/c883fc7496aa1b920b05dc2546b…

From 2010 to 2019 (the most recent period for which uninterrupted data is available), the income of the poorest 20% in China increased even as a share of total income. data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.DST.FRST.20?end=2…

By the end of 2020, extreme poverty, defined as living on under a threshold of around $2 per day, had been eliminated in China. According to the World Bank, the Chinese government had spent $700 billion on poverty alleviation since 2014. www.nytimes.com/…/china-poverty-xi-jinping.html

worldbank.org/…/lifting-800-million-people-out-of…

1984,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

Very interesting, thank you. Going well for China it seems…

lobelia581, in Feeling Sad and Depressed?

more accurate than webmd

ergifruit, in noob, bring that road roller

if you live in the US and are on Medicaid, you might be able to get a box of dental supplies for free. i have UniCare and they sent me an electric toothbrush, toothpaste, and floss. i’m sure other Medicaid/Medicare insurance companies offer similar, so make sure to check their websites.

ergifruit, in noob, bring that road roller

my shampoo bottle is at least 1:1 water and shampoo at this point 🥴

can, in Feeling Sad and Depressed?

suicial

Sanctus, in Why am I the way I am 😭
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

The Don’t Look Up I was looking for.

dylanmorgan, in Feeling Sad and Depressed?

Wow, I think that’s it!

Whatevster, in Oscar winner and sexiest man alive!
@Whatevster@lemmy.today avatar

I absolutely read this in Dunkey’s voice.

MacDangus, in Why am I the way I am 😭

The monster fuck

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