Bookings spiked by 1,200 percent post-election, and IUD signups more than octupled.

Bookings spiked by 1,200 percent post-election, and IUD signups more than octupled.

      • Demdaru@lemmy.world
        617·
        13 days ago

        My first reaction was that immigrants are not the solution.

        But then, that’s USA…you all are technically immigrants so whatevs, maybe it is the way.

        • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
          281·
          13 days ago

          Immigration is extremely important economically. New immigrants take jobs that average citizens wouldn’t, and can provide a large low-income population base, which keeps goods and services flowing, where they could otherwise stagnate with a more settled customer base. Anyone that claims the opposite is just trying to obfuscate their racsim.

          • Demdaru@lemmy.world
            49·
            13 days ago

            Maybe economically yeah, I rather thought culture wise where relying too much on immigrants brings it’s own set of problems.

            Also, I know that what you speak of is normal, but damn does it sound bad…“come to us to work for pennies in jobs we would rather not do”…

            • randombullet@programming.dev
              10·
              12 days ago

              So like Japan and Korea?

              Japan has a 2.29% immigrant population. Then look at their work life balance.

              Korea has a 2.3% immigrant population and you can see the terrible work life balance there as well.

              The US has a 14.4% immigrant population and work live balance isn’t great either. As if immigrants aren’t a truly massive problem that the media makes you believe.

              • Demdaru@lemmy.world
                18·
                12 days ago

                Poland, 1,1% according to google, your point?

                Both Japan and Korea have very specific cultures, and yeah, they screw their work life balance. IIRC Japan is currently working on changing that. But that’s their culture - part of their nation - and flooding it with immigrants erases not only bad parts but also good ones. Hell, look at Germany that struggles with immigrants as far as I know.

                • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  8·
                  12 days ago

                  Hell, look at Germany that struggles with immigrants as far as I know.

                  The only struggles Germany has with immigrants at large is racist government officials using them as scapegoats.

    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
      18·
      13 days ago

      Systemic issues can all be solved if we just band together and make a concerted effort to *checks notes* “own the woke”.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    674·
    13 days ago

    I can never get a vasectomy, I just can’t say what will happen in the future. Suppose there’s’ some sort of societal collapse, man becomes an endangered species, and I somehow end up captured by a tribe of busty amazonian women who want to use me as a breeder, just constant and frequent encounters with different women every night. However, they check to see if I’m still fertile and realize I had a vasectomy, then they kill me and eat me. I can’t take that chance.

    • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.world
      181·
      13 days ago

      The Amazon is being burned and cleared to make room for cattle ranches, soy feed for raising farm animals elsewhere, wood, palm oil, and minerals. There is no need to be concerned about Amazonian women.

      • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 days ago

        And upon confirmation of my fertility, Lula, their chieftess (34DDD) takes me to her personal sanctuary inside of a rusted out old Greyhound bus on the edge of the ruins of old Cincinnati, close to the Forbidden zone.

        Once inside, her personal servants cleanse my body of filth from the rigors of travel. As is tradition with their tribe, soap is applied directly to their nude bodies before being rubbed vigorously across my body.

        After an extended cleaning session, and a pat down, I’m deemed acceptably clean for my first mating with Chieftess Lula, who will personally collect my sacred life juice, impregnating herself to produce the tribe’s next chieftess. After that, I would be given the rest of tribe, a slave to their every whim, expected to impregnate their finest, bustiest shield-maidens. I thank past-Me for never having gotten a vasectomy.

        Stay tuned for the continued adventures of the Fallout Fuckboy, as he struggles to survive the She-Demons of Cincinnati!

  • Let's Go 2 the Mall!@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    13 days ago

    I for one am looking forward to the snip! Why bring a kid into this world just to be a wage slave for some rich POS? My bloodline ends with me!

      • DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world
        8·
        13 days ago

        Even before the collaps of our climate and society became apparent to me having kids didn’t sit well with me considering the tens of thousands of kids in our child care system at any given moment.

        Tens of thousands of lives that will be significantly worse, developing addictions and unhealthy coping mechanisms, unhealthy relationships, going straight from the group home to prison or the streets, all of it exists because people would rather selfishly continue their own genetic legacy instead of adopting a perfectly good kid that already exists and is suffering.

  • Brodysseus@lemmy.world
    36·
    13 days ago

    Got mine in June.

    Was pretty scared going in but now I’m glad I did it. 0 kids, haven’t ever wanted them. Lost a ltr because the woman I was seeing decided she did want kids after 5 years together (where we previously agreed we both did not want them).

    After we split I got a little foot loose with dating and realized I should just make my decision to be childless my own and permanent, why risk it for myself or others.

    • smort@lemmy.world
      7·
      12 days ago

      About the same story for me, about a decade ago

      It was also really nice for dating because it weeded out the women who were still on the fence, and let the other women know I wasn’t on the fence

    • Furbag@lemmy.world
      3·
      12 days ago

      I had pretty much the same thing happen. In a relationship for 5 years and suddenly she flips on not wanting kids and ends things. Decided from that point on that I would just voluntarily sterilize myself so that my own decision to not have kids is never a point of negotiation with anyone else.

      • Brodysseus@lemmy.world
        2·
        12 days ago

        Yeah that phenomenon is odd. She’s married with a kid now, maybe just 2 years later. Glad it’s not me pretty much daily we had a dog together and I was skeptical lol

  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    13 days ago

    Got my consultation the day after RBG died, and the actual procedure a few weeks after. I definitely got the timing right.

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
    9·
    12 days ago

    I got mine done almost two years ago. I think it will be two years in March. My partner and I are 100% sure we never want to do the pregnancy thing and are like 95-99% sure we don’t want kids at all. If we ever change our minds on that front, there are orphanages full of kids of all ages just waiting for a loving home and I don’t expect that will change any time soon in this cruel world so we’ve got plenty of time to have a family when we want one, and in the meantime, I don’t want any accidents.

    Plus, getting to rawdog my girl whenever I want is a huge bonus!

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
      531·
      13 days ago

      FYI to anyone coming across this guy for the first time, I have him tagged as “Right-wing Nutjob/Religious Fruitcake”

      For wonderful takes like:

      And ofc the classic religious dogma “Blood family is evErYThINg”:

      • naeap@sopuli.xyz
        101·
        13 days ago

        Thanks!

        I’m still naively optimistic somehow and think discussion is necessary.
        As long as the other part isn’t just a plain troll, I try to rip down illusional borders, because I think it’s important to understand the “other side”, because after all, we’re still in this shithole together.

        As said, this is a naive approach, which burns me up bit by bit, but I don’t see any other solution.
        Else we just gonna stay in our bubbles and then we wonder how so many people can be this idiotic.
        As long as we don’t understand the reasoning (if existing and not just some bullshit made up thing), we never gonna get back to consensus.

        But maybe you’re right in this case, and I just waste my time.
        In this case, thanks for your input!

    • Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
      38·
      13 days ago

      I never get these comments. It’s just such a fundamental and basic misunderstanding of why someone might not want kids.

      • AreaKode@lemmy.world
        38·
        13 days ago

        Or more kids. I already have two; no way do I want more; and up until this week, abortion has been illegal in Missouri. That includes pretty much any sort of reproductive care that would result from a pregnancy. No way would I want my wife to get pregnant again in this day and age.

    • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      13 days ago

      It must be hard to be so alone, and then go online and be alone there, too. I’m sorry your parents were so awful to you, and that you haven’t had people support you. I hope one day you find the strength to be the best person you can be, and then as your early 20’s ease into your 30’s, you look back on this time with mild embarrassment, but happiness that you grew out of it.

    • naeap@sopuli.xyz
      15·
      13 days ago

      May I ask what’s the reasoning?
      People who are afraid their wife could die, because a contraception didn’t work - as nothing is 100% - shouldn’t get childs?
      That doesn’t sound very reasonable, and I’m not sure if I understood you correctly

      • Ogmios@sh.itjust.works
        165·
        13 days ago

        Because a society can only survive through procreation. This incessant push on social media to demonize children is seen by many as, at least in part, a hostile effort by bad actors like Russia and China to undermine and destroy the future of western civilization.

        • Euphorazine@lemmy.world
          21·
          13 days ago

          Aren’t we in favor of deporting 7% of our population? (25 million illegal immigrants/ 335 million)?

          Is population size really that important to you?

        • naeap@sopuli.xyz
          19·
          13 days ago

          Who demonizes children?
          China also pulled back from their 1-child policy and as far as I remember Russia never had something like that in place.

          And I think we’re globally already over the brink of sustainable humans.
          How should we be able to support all the newborn humans, if human population grows even more. Isn’t that bad for said children, if they can’t have enough…anything anymore?

          This obviously needs global solutions, as many societies would feel, that others are just overwhelming them, when they are producing more offspring.

          But what does this even have to do with abortion rights?
          If you have a condom accident and can’t afford to have a child, is it better to have the child live through worse conditions, than when planned?
          What about rape or medical, where the mother could die?

          This perspective seems quite narrow, but maybe I didn’t quite get your point.

          Edit: autocorrect and some beers…

          • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
            19·
            13 days ago

            Who demonizes children?

            People on the right aren’t very nice about trans kids. But that’s probably not their point.

        • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
          161·
          13 days ago

          Procreation only makes children - society needs culture and order to continue through the generations. Having people who have no idea about their history or traditions is useless, they might as well be cattle.

          Outside influences like rival countries or self financed teams paid for by billionaires to influence society is the problem. Forcing others to be parents won’t solve the problem. We need people who want to raise children so abuse and broken people aren’t a constant output. To make people want children, they need a future in which they feel they can raise a person. The current anti-worker, anti-business geo-economic plan for the next 4 years doesn’t give the kind of future folks want to have children.

        • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
          131·
          13 days ago

          Because a society can only survive through procreation.

          Immigration also works.

        • BassTurd@lemmy.world
          101·
          13 days ago

          Nah, children fucking suck. All of them. I was born and raised in the middle of the US and since I was young I knew I never wanted children. I wouldn’t be a good parent so it would be unfair to bring a human into this shitty world and then have them rely on me to raise them. It’s irresponsible and quite frankly unethical to have kids just because procreation is necessary for the human species to to grow. There are plenty of people that want them that the rest of us aren’t required for sustainability.

          The world could use a couple of billion less people anyway.

    • czech@lemm.ee
      38·
      13 days ago

      This is how Idiocracy happened. When only the dumbest people procreate we speedrun to collapse.

      • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
        151·
        13 days ago

        I hate to break it to you like this, but dumb people are going to reproduce no matter what. Seeing as how the literal world we all inhabit is getting hotter and hotter, for longer stretches of time, with water wars going on right now that will only get worse as it keeps staying hotter, governments around the world turning their backs on the people they are supposed to help, and the increase in plastic pollution (let alone pollution IN GENERAL), and the growing wage gap across the world, humans being literal slaves to other countries for cheap labor, and so so so many more issues, I believe that bringing in another human is indeed a shitty thing to do.

        Look at humans, look at their history, look how things are going. There is no reason to continue the suffering in my eyes.

        • czech@lemm.ee
          211·
          13 days ago

          Yes but we used to have smart people reproducing to balance things out. Now smart people are taking extra measures to avoid parenthood and ignorance is being celebrated.

          • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
            16·
            13 days ago

            The time for smart people to lead has long gone, my friend. I understand your concerns, but you do really need to be more realistic about your observations. Smart people don’t want their future children to grow up in a hellscape, to be abused by those who have the power to make everything good in the world but refuse to do so, and to suffer droughts, pollution, discrimination, and all the other problems that are going on.

            Smart people see the world as it is right now, can imagine what it will be like in the future, and decided that keeping the human race going is actually kind of a bad idea.

            Do I want kids? Yeah, I think I’d be a decent parent. Do I want my children to grow up in a bleak as fuck future? Hell no. 90% of my time here so far has been nothing but bad. Terrible even. Why the fuck would I willingly choose to keep that torture going?

            No thanks. I’ll leave it to the dumb people to procreate and further exasperate the issues on hand, so that my conscience isn’t full of regrets of making another human being have to go through this painful existence.