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Specifically, American parents tried to return to sender a kid they didnt like. Ie they thought they deserved a kid.

"Adoption from abroad is tricky at best, and now it's no longer possible. [...] That's not to say that there aren't children being adopted, but the waiting list is 10+ years."

Being a parent is a about giving yourself away. If you cant do that you're not ready or suitable for a kid.

"Most children are placed in foster care, which is very different."

Who deserve loving families.

Look, I haven't adopted a foster kid: because Im scared Im not good enough; I admit it. But let's not pretend that there aren't a plethora of kids in need of families that we must have IVF for those who are not capable of conceiving their own.

I'm OK with being alone, that doesn't make me right or wrong.

It does mean I have courage of conviction though.

Men's sexual drive, for example, is tuned to fairly rapey if not for a "patriarchal" society that crushes this drive through the threat of a girls father beating a boy to a pulp. Stats are pretty clear here too wrt sex workers and their relationship to their fathers.

And IVF is a tragedy of rented wombs, unfulfilled motherhood dreams, expensive and painful surgeries almost exclusively brunt by women whilst profited by men.

But I'm not worried. A society that inverts the child-parent merit is one whose open loop gain is less than one. It's pretty obvious why: those who think children are deserved are unlikely to have the ability of self-sacrifice to want more than the one, maybe two kids.

But these things can be negotiated in the divorce

That leaves a small hurdle of getting a couple of purple states. Perhaps a great compromise is reached - NY ex-NYC merges with PA ex-Philly and Philly joins NYC.

So why don't y'all split the state up? NYC in one corner, the rest of NY on the other.

Then upstate folk will get real political representation in Albany, and NYC will send two interesting senators to DC. As much as I disagree with AOC I'd love for her to become a senator.

But everyone else does, so what's the point? My privacy is always compromised because tech junkies (as opposed to techies) insist on indulging in stupid things like 21 and me, Gmail, or Ring and I get swept along with it.

And there's plenty of foster kids, like Dave Thomas who was adopted as a foster kid.

So was my friend D. D's adopted parents asked the state of NJ for the kid that needed parents the most. And boy did the state of NJ deliver.

D had a foster home raided by the FBI. Another foster house beat him. He didn't know how to read until grade 5.

Now he has masters in microbiology from a top 20 program, a job as a data scientist and he's making the better part of $200k to take care of his wife and three kids.

As annoying as he is (he is from Jersey), I know he's a guy I can call who will show up to help.

All because a couple of God fearing parents asked NJ for the most messed up kid in the system. For me, D's parents are saints.

It's sick that our society thinks people deserve children instead of the other way around.

Rather kids deserve parents.

It's literally an inversion.

That doesn't mean the Church's teaching isn't final and binding.

Outside of youtube and... twitter? I really don't need fancy stuff. HN is literally the web ideal for me, and Id think most users if given an option.

What are you doing with the extra 500kB for me, the user?

> 90% of the time in interested in text. Most of the reminder vector graphics would suffice.

14 kB is a lot of text and graphics for a page. What is the other 500 for?

The other half, as a very conservative Catholic, conservative Catholics are neglecting our great teachers like Dorothy Day.

Did you call for Biden's impeachment when he coordinated with social media companies to violate American 1A rights?

Did you vociferously condemn what Biden enabled in Gaza?

Unless you too add these boiler plates on your messages you are full of it.

I say this as someone who clung onto his 1st gen SE until I got my current 13 mini

Screen power draw and battery capacity scale as the square of the linear dimension. They largely cancel out.

However, all the other hardware are a fixed size so proportionally large phones have longer battery lives.

I was an atrocious speller until I moved back to foreign-land and had to take English class with my schoolmates.

Learning how people mispronounce English phonetically fixed most of my spelling.

Human nature, I guess

"It’s almost taken as a tautology that the government is wasteful. After 50 years of cost cutting and wage freezes," These cuts are not reflected in government spending vs GDP is mostly flat for the last 40 years

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONGDA188S

Note that in the 1970s the US was paying for moonshots and Vietnam (both filthy expensive)

"I tend to find it fanciful that individuals paid 1/4 of their private sector compensation to work on core civil infrastructure, national research priorities, and policy are somehow a bad deal for the American taxpayer at large. "

Ya, that's not a thing. I worked in government, I still work on government projects and no one outside the NSA is getting paid a 1/4 of their private sector compensation. Maybe a 20% hit which they chose to accept since, in my experience, most start as contractors and move to become feds for the job sec + benefits.

Frankly, Id say half of the government employees I worked with are unemployable. And they most of them had at least a STEM masters.

"If anything, I’d imagine that the government could incentivize greater productivity by normalizing the pay scales. At a minimum, maintaining a public capability can often neutralize monopolistic pricing practices."

I don't necessarily disagree.

"Have you considered who the narrative of wasteful spending benefits? Even our narratives of tax increases never discuss tax increases on what is now the bulk of personal monetary gain."

Ive considered it a lot in fact. One of the main beneficiaries appears to be the DC area which was the only region of the country not to have a recession in 2008 and has been outpacing most of the country in growth for thirty years.

The main beneficiaries, thus, are the laptop-class (and their billionaire masters) which is a new way of saying mandarins.

The one who lacks nuance is not the one who thinks NASA could stand to shave a couple billions but the one who's making everything a partisan fight.

Since flash didnt work I didnt use Linix

Since I didnt use Linux I wasnt very good at it

Since I kept at noob level, I couldnt install Flash, which was pretty hard

Then Office 365 came around and I could do quick work w/out a windows machine.

Instead of looking at where the tax revenues can come from, which I don't necessarily disagree consider what proportion of the nations economic activity is government spending.

I consider govt spending/GDP a much better indicator of economic health. In fact, tertiary_sector/GDP is better still.

The US government has too much presence in the economy and can't even provide health care and free tuition.