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26 days ago
ProstateSalad
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This is the single most terrifying subreddit on this site

I can't understand what is happening at the parent level. I don't know if it's just the parents being overwhelmed with work/finances, social media, the phones themselves, or all of the above, but we are witnessing the intellectual and behavioural destruction of a generation.

I struggle to come up with an answer, except that this is the fault of the parents. When children refuse to work without consequences, they become adults who are not worth hiring.

When children are not held to any standards, they'll be unable to meet any when they're adults.

I see high school teachers listing all the things their students can't do, and most of them are simple tasks any decent parent should be teaching their child.

WTF is wrong with the current crop of parents? Why are they so ineffective? Don't they understand how they're hurting their own children.

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26 days ago
Middleage_dad
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Yeah, these parents suck, but there's also a structural issue where the institutions are afraid to actually do anything, either. Maybe school is supposed to be a place where kids get some discipline, but if the school system doesn't think that way, then these kids are in for a surprise when they get into the real world... and I am scared to think of the world they will create in 30-40 years.

The new menstruation: Girls are getting their periods earlier and less regularly

By Annalisa Merelli
May 29, 2024

Menstruation is a critical indicator of health. Whether and when someone with a uterus gets their period — for the first time, and throughout their life — can reflect not only their reproductive health, but their risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, miscarriage, and premature death.

That also makes menstruation a useful measure of population health. And digital tools for clinical research are beginning to shed light on just how significantly periods are changing over time.

A study published Wednesday in JAMA Network Open, based on data from more than 71,000 women collected through the Apple Research App, shows that girls in the United States have been getting their first period earlier and earlier over the last 55 years — and it has taken longer for their periods to become regular, pointing to worsening overall reproductive and population health.

Imagine a $45 minimum wage, with full employment, and the same prices as today.

Inflation doesn't just happen, like the weather. We were robbed blind.

Imagine a $45 minimum wage, with full employment, and the same prices as today. Families living on one salary, in single-family homes, with housewives staying home to raise their kids. That was America, before we were robbed blind.

Higgenbotham wrote: Tue Oct 07, 2025 11:37 pm It does remind me a bit of the South Sea Bubble. Wal-Mart did sort of deliver on the promise of the South Sea Bubble some centuries later - after it collapsed by something like 98%.

During the South Sea Bubble did the various stock companies promise to import products from all over the world?

AI Overview

During the South Sea Bubble, various stock companies promised to import products from all over the world, even for ventures that were completely bogus. However, most of the schemes and imported goods were secondary to the main event: a massive campaign of public debt consolidation, share manipulation, and propaganda.

The South Sea Company

The South Sea Company, which gave the bubble its name, originally promised to profit from trading with South America. In exchange for taking on a portion of Britain's national debt, the company was granted a monopoly on the slave trade and the ability to send one limited-cargo ship a year to Spanish America. However, the company never generated significant profits from this trade. The real reason for the stock price's rapid inflation was the company's aggressive and misleading campaign to convert government debt into company shares.

Hundreds of "Bubble Companies"

Following the initial surge of the South Sea Company, hundreds of other joint-stock companies were formed to capitalize on the public's speculative fever. These companies offered a wide range of goods and services, and many promised to import various products from around the world. These included:

Importing Swedish iron
Importing walnut trees from Virginia
Importing pitch and tar from North Britain and America
Importing Flanders lace

Deceptive and fake businesses

Many of these new companies were outright frauds with little to no chance of success. Some were designed to be so ridiculous that it's clear the promoters were simply trying to take advantage of the public's mania for speculative investment. One of the most famous of these was "for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is".

Ultimately, the promises of imported goods from many of these "bubble companies" were never fulfilled and served as little more than a thin veil for fraudulent schemes designed to bilk investors.

Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Sep 07, 2025 11:17 pm Economics Professor Gary Smith Warns About AI Bubble
https://www.pomona.edu/news/2025/02/20- ... -ai-bubble

It does remind me a bit of the South Sea Bubble. Wal-Mart did sort of deliver on the promise of the South Sea Bubble some centuries later - after it collapsed by something like 98%. The coming collapse will likely be bigger than that one.

The trial has potentially global ramifications. One in six people of reproductive age experiences infertility, according to the World Health Organization. The number is consistent across developed and developing countries and is growing as women delay childbirth and environmental and other factors come into play. The vast majority of this group — aside from a relatively small percentage in wealthy countries — lacks access to fertility care. Even in the United States, where a single cycle of IVF can cost up to $30,000 — and most patients require multiple cycles — fertility clinics are concentrated in wealthier coastal cities. Wide swaths of the country are what researchers call “fertility deserts.”

“Despite the magnitude of the issue,” the WHO concluded in a report in 2023, solutions for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infertility “remain underfunded and inaccessible.”

The Aura system, which automates 205 manual steps in IVF from egg freezing to creating an embryo, is made by a start-up called Conceivable Life Sciences. Though headquartered in New York, Conceivable is largely the brainchild of a pioneering Mexican fertility doctor, Alejandro Chávez-Badiola, one of the first physicians to explore how artificial intelligence could be applied to the treatment of infertile patients.

Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Dec 11, 2022 3:23 pm This industrial civilization goes to great lengths to assess and identify individuals who have intelligence according to the criteria that generally lead to career success and put those people in positions of decision-making (within limits of intelligence), but has no processes in place to assess and identify individuals who have wisdom or to place them in any position of decision-making. Also, in our everyday conversations both public and private, there are constant references to those who are “smart” but somewhere between zero and a very small number of references to people who are “wise”. Therefore, it’s not possible to point to a group of wise people who have been identified by some tried and true process and know what that group thinks about the Federal Reserve, or anything else. The problem if the wise were to somehow get control of decision making at this time is that the position industrial civilization currently finds itself in is not a good one for the wise to grapple with. People with wisdom are good at keeping a civilization on the correct path but not so good at knowing what to do with it once it has deviated from that path for a long time. An example of that might be the question of whether the world should have gone down the path of R&D and manufacturing of synthetic chemicals. The wise probably would have determined not go down that path, but in this industrial civilization they weren’t in any position of authority to determine whether that was going to be done; the intelligent (at the approximate level of the 97th Percentile, but not the highest level) were. Now that we have gone down that path, the wise probably can’t help us.