JoeBigelow

joined 2 years ago
[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Jerry was a racecar driver

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

Just saying a person's name isn't the threshold, this isn't reddit. But no, calling for violence on .world typically results in mod action.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 months ago

Oh boy, welcome to the Bastards club. Brought to you by Raytheon and Blue Apron.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's a point that we AGREE upon. I feel like me saying it feels icky and acknowledging the awful history of eugenics was just ignored. This isn't a global famine sized problem yet, but when it is, and this conversation is forced upon us, then what? If you agree that overpopulation is a looming problem, what solution do you propose?

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Can't say it on .world

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago

Bruh, Giovanni isn't getting his ass outta bed at 1am to whip me up the drunkenness abolishing disaster that is a late night Domino's order, including all the extras of course I don't just want a pizza I want lava cake and bread sticks and cheesy bread and maybe a pasta bread bowl. I'll take a few bites of everything and pass out on the couch to wake up in the morning pleasantly surprised that drunk me was thoughtful enough to order us pizza for breakfast.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It was good information until you decided to be a dick at the end. I was going to thank you for a decent response but actually fuck you for deciding that I need a 3rd grade monster truck ad to understand it. That sort of elitism is a big part of the reason the stupid half of the country fucking hates the educated half.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca -5 points 5 months ago (6 children)

But Idiocracy's point still stands, the most poorly educated in that scenario will be the ones to reproduce the most.

I don't think that there's a compelling argument against population control as the future looms, how it is implemented is what I think is up for debate.

I strongly believe in personal freedom, but in an overpopulated world, I'm not certain that freedom should extend to reproduction.

Here's where I get a little eugenic-y, and it feels icky, downvote if you must, but I'd prefer an intelligent reply. Why should a species, faced with the problem of overpopulation and gifted the power of sentience, not elevate it's best and suppresses it's worst? Maybe because I don't feel a personal drive to have kids, my partner isn't interested either, but it feels very selfish to think you personally have the right to add one more unregulated specimen to the petri dish.

Is it a huge turn away from what has made us human since forever? Yea, but wasn't the Internet? Internal combustion engines? I don't feel strongly enough about this to not be swayed in my ideas, but I just see it as a logical extension of a problem we face. What would Vulcans do?

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago

Maine lost something like a third of its nurses to a vaccine mandate. Which is cute because medical staff, all the way down to janitorial (hi) get updated vaccines every year.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

On the other hand there are logging trucks piling up at the border on the golden road right now!

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago

Drunkenness is sobriety

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Scientists can be absolutely the biggest idiots. I worked maintenance in a laboratory and sometimes I was impressed somebody who can genotype plankton could also tie their own shoes.

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