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@shortstories

My father was out of the house for longer than 8 hours a day and yet taught me basic calculus way before it came up on the public school syllabus.

Anecdotal, sure, but the larger point stands. Invested fathers have and always will teach their children.

More importantly we were taught how to learn, meaning neither parent needs to know everything. They just need to monitor and encourage progress in those subjects. Again, this is extremely common.

@shortstories

Your objection presumes that

* the public K-through-12 school system is a net good. it's not.

* children learn useful things at public school. they don't.

* mothers require graduate quals to teach their children the 3R's. they don't.

* fathers don't have a hand in teaching their children. they do.

It's entirely possible to educate a nation's children to competitive international standards at home and/or in communities.

@dictatordave @shortstories

I was trying to limit my frame to OP's question of what disincentivizes birth rate with respect to college.

But actually you are 100% correct. I've met such women and their destructive impact on society is huge ,and often fuelled by their failings at motherhood or hate towards men.

I take back my 2nd exception. Good call.

@shortstories

There are 2 exceptions to college I can think of that don't also disincentivize women starting & maintaining families:

* female doctors. there will always be that need.
* women who are sterile or have no interest in motherhood

Arguably a 3rd are mothers with grown/deceased children, but that also takes money, time & energy away from her roles as wife/grandmother/aunt which again leads to more family dissolution, this time of mature family units. This causes generational chaos.

@shortstories

Motherhood, especially early motherhood, is a full time job and that starts when she becomes pregnant.

The same problem therefore still obtains - college displaces the time and energy that mothers need to commit to their family.

On a macro level your scenario puts unnecessary financial, time and energy strains on families leading to broken families and more single parents.

@mrhorsetwat @ButtWorldsMan @VooDooMedic

Haha! How the turntables.

@shortstories

> Which is the biggest reason college lowers women's birth rates?

The option that makes the most sense is the one that's missing: time and energy.

College commits their time and energy to things completely unrelated to starting a family.

Those 2 fundamental things are a finite resource during a woman's most fertile period. It's simple displacement.

@shortstories

At some level of wealth, money is boring and totally irrelevant. When any material possession can be yours, the only game worth playing is power.

The world is a chessboard to such types.

All the feminist bitching and moaning in that article on this morning's show about "men don't think women are human" ..

https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/ai-girlfriends-prove-modern-men-dont-think-women-are-human

.. the solution has never been so obvious, the bar never lower.

@Based_Accelerationist

That's one of the reasons why the Tucker-Benz interview was a landmark since it was an intentional uncloaking of previously hidden power.

The more concerning reason is that there's no reason to do so unless we're in the endgame.

@Based_Accelerationist

> Would Hillary have pushed for the Ukraine war back then?

Yes, no doubt. She's a unhinged psychopath and the world dodged a nuclear-sized bullet when she lost.

To suggest that administrative incompetence has any serious part to play in this shitshow is actually funny.

@VeganMGTOW @Stahesh

You too dude.

@Stahesh @VeganMGTOW

Serves that bitch right. Team octopus.

@Stahesh @VeganMGTOW

Yup, I'd eat the sushi in that picture no problem. Eel sushi is delicious.

Not so sure about octopus. Seen that scene from Old Boy where he eats the live octopus? Gross.

@Stahesh @VeganMGTOW

Some fat can be OK. Roasted lamb and bacon can have good eating fat if done in moderation.

Roasted smoked mackerel is great for that because it can be quite fatty.

@Stahesh @VeganMGTOW

Me too, mostly all sushi except raw tuna sashimi. I won't do that.

@Stahesh @VeganMGTOW

Awesome. People rag on mackerel for being too fishy, but smoked mackerel is fucking delicious.