• Furbag@lemmy.world
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    2020’s aren’t over yet pal, but I hope we both make it.

    Also no kids for me. I got snipped precisely because it would be unconscionable and financially impossible for me to bring a child into the world as things are now.

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      I got fixed a couple months ago. Best decision ever.

      For nearly 40 years, I’ve been told the horrors of climate change. For nearly 40 years, I’ve watched climate change unravel. And now at nearly 40 years on this planet, I’ve reached a point where I am more concerned about immediate human activity affecting my life rather than the breakdown and collapse of our planet’s environment.

      At no point in my life has there ever been a desire to bring a new life into this horrifying existence.

      Now if only those weird and miserable old men would stop calling me selfish for not having children. Their obsession with my genitals makes me uncomfortable.

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        oh i’m not sure if it means anything to you if i say it, but:

        i think you’re doing good for the environment. I’m not saying there’s too many people already (because there aren’t), but still, if there are fewer children being born, that will take off a significant pressure from the environment and that will affect everything positively. :)

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        Now if only those weird and miserable old men would stop calling me selfish for not having children.

        I’ve found it works pretty well to just beat em to it. “Man, I’d love to have a kid, but bringing a child into this dumpster fire on purpose just so I can have a ‘little bundle of joy’ would be so selfish. It’s just not fair to the kid, ya know?!”

        Worked on my parents at least, lol.

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          i’d say that’s a coin flip on whether it works or not :)

          (that’s because unfortunately not all parents give a flying fuck about the mental health that that child would be going to have, or rather, not have)

          i’d go with something like “sure i’ll make children if you pay for them”

          the moment they realize how expensive having children can be, that typically shuts them up rather quickly.

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    None. A very long time before any of this started going down, both my sister and myself informed my parents that neither of us were having children and that this particular line stops here.

    Not because of any trauma (that I can remember). But we’ve both seen the state of the world and decided, with our respective partners, that forcing children into this shit-show is unconscionable.

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    Who says I’m gonna have any children in the first place, why would I bring a human being into this shit hole without their permission

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      Maybe you’re just a bad person and would do that to someone

      Who am I to judge? (Unless it’s a phat rack)

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      The assumption was that you might have grandchildren. Not that you want them 😉

      Some want their own kids, some not. Some don’t know them…

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    It’s impossible to say since no one has actually lived through the 2020s. It’s 2025 dude, we’re all right in the middle of the 2020s.

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        People in power are actively dreaming up new unspeakable horrors to release upon the American public as we speak.

        I’m sure there’s plenty more trauma to come

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        Every decade had it’s pile of shit, and for the moment, the 2020’s have been a walk in the Park compared to 2010’s.

        Sure covid was a wild-ride, where we had to mostly stay at home when no valid reason to go-out, and when out the city was quiet. and then proceeding to normal life with some accommodation is weird,

        Remember the 2010’s with the long-tail of the 2008 economic crisis, the terrorist attacks (and all the security measure impact on day to day life), The start of the Ukraine war, The Syrian civil-war, the politicians not listening to kids protesting climate change, the Brexit, and tons of other crazy problems ?

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    I’ll pass none :3… unless they invent mpreg, the chances of me having grandchildren are close to 0