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@UncleIroh Good stuff!

@Chimi_Chuang_Tzu @Tfmonkey I'd argue that it's likely more of a logarithmic graph because there are diminishing returns after a certain point of control. There will always be rebels and dissenters, but the principle holds.

@ButtWorldsMan @Tfmonkey @fal1026 Indeed.

@marlathetourist @Tfmonkey
If you want to live on a boat to survive the collapse, I'm sure you could do it, but you should have years of experience piloting.

Additionally, the donations on Saturday read like an ad. The language was too stilted. If someone truly wants to know drouges, research pro/con lists. If all you find on a product is 100% support, you are right to be suspicious. Trust your BS detector!

@marlathetourist @Tfmonkey Drouges are not new technology. Ancient ships used to use large rocks tied to long ropes to do the same thing. They stabilize ships in stormy weather, but there is no such thing as "storm proof" or "sink proof" just like there is no shore thing in investing. (pun intended)...

@ButtWorldsMan It's smart than getting drunk on the weekends, but I suppose we value our time differently.

@ButtWorldsMan That sounds like a waste of time just to emotionally hurt a female.

@Pain66 Translation: males should deny their sexual nature and seek only one female.

Response: No. Why are you on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) and not taking care of your children?

This meme lord created a version of the Tucker/Putin interview, but it's Dagoth Ur instead of Putin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taTXqTdYYUY

He kept it going for the full hour.
Good Dagorth Ur memes are great.

@Shlomo It's a perfectly reasonable question. It has to do with progressive, western sensitivities; so, I'm glad to see that they don't care.

It's a many adjective day, isn't it @RoninGrey?

@ButtWorldsMan Society used to know these things, and children saw these cartoons.

Now, this must not be known. All must know the way, the truth, and the love of égalité in their hearts.
Believe in it, and it shall be so!

@shortstories If your objective in life is to have lower T levels and you are male, I do not recommend this course of action. A male can be a good parent to his children by being involved in their upbringing after they have reached the age that they are in primary school. Children only really need their mothers until then. The father's influence, in my opinion, should dominate their growth thereafter.

Investigate how it was done in Rome during the republic and the early empire.

@Shlomo That's a tame rooster all things considered. He didn't get to use his spurs. That's what really hurts, especially without leg protection.

Feedback and discussion is encouraged.

TLDR TLDR:

Want to maintain higher T-levels? Do manly things, and leave the baby stuff to your female.

TLDR:
The authors of the study are trying to form causal link where one doesn't exist to conclude that males who have children have lower T.

This gives the headline for journalists to write headlines like the original article: "Men's Testosterone Drops Steeply When Baby Arrives" and tradcon-adjacent sites to say things like "Raising human offspring is such an effort that it is cooperative by necessity, and our study shows that human fathers are biologically wired to help with the job."

... but they push that this "could indicate an anticipatory psychological component to men's T decline around the time of birth of their children"

Then they state that their results are consistent with another study of multiple bird species that show drops in T-levels for fathers that help raise their young.

I checked that study about birds, and they state, "polygynous males appear less responsive to social environmental cues than are monogamous males"

This steep drop was 26-34%, but this was also among new fathers who reported >=3 hours of child care per day compared to fathers who weren't involved in child care. Additionally, there are other studies cited in the paper that indicate that fathers who do not participate in child care have higher T-levels. There appears to be a correlation with the amount of childcare a man provides and his T-levels...

It took a bit more digging, but I found the original study:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3182719/