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[–] [email protected] 153 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Except they don't want human population to decrease. They need more and more people at the bottom of the global ponzi scheme to prop it up.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah its actually the opposite, anime is supposed to make people horny. - Source: i made it up

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

They will invent a way for us to get anime girls pregnant. That's when you need to start getting scared.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I actually believe this why South Korea is pushing K-Pop so much. To make young girls horny and procreate more to fix low population fertility.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't think this strategy is working.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Conservatives say that's what they want, but they only really want to subjugate women. If they actually cared about population totals first, they would be working hard to make it so everyone who wanted a kid could get one.

One core problem developed countries are experiencing, in terms of demography, is the mismatch between skills development and biological fertility. It takes people into their 30s or even 40s before they're financially able to support children. For millions of couples, by the time they can financially support a child, the window has already closed. It takes so much education and experience to be competitive in advanced economies that it creates this mismatch.

Now, we could have mass government-sponsored surrogacy. But that has so many ethical problems, that there is a reason no government has tried it. Yet, there is a near-term technology that we are on the verge of, but very little research dollars are dedicated towards. That is artificial gestation.

When was the last time you heard Musk or any of the other demographics-obsessed tech bros throw a few billion at developing this tech? This technology, along with other advanced reproductive technologies, could really do a lot to raise the birth rate in developed countries. And there are other techniques that could also be leveraged with this, such as techniques to create egg and stem cells from skin samples. There's a lot of near-term reproductive technologies waiting in the wings that could have a substantial effect on the birth rate, but that we simply haven't fully developed yet.

In fact, governments could cover the entire cost of the artificial gestation process if they want more people that badly. Ideally, anyone who is in the position to raise a child should be able to fill out an application, have some gametes created via a skin biopsy, and have an infant grown in a womb tank. And have the whole thing paid for by the State Population Initiative, or whatever you want to call it.

There are millions of couples out there who have the financial means to raise a child, but simply are biologically incapable of having children. We typically flippantly tell these people, "just adopt!," as if there is some vast supply of infants in orphanages just waiting for adoption. In truth, adopting an infant involves years-long wait lists and costs a hundred grand or more. But there are millions of couples that would love to have biological children, but simply can't. They're couples with reproductive issues, LGBT couples, couples that have aged out, etc. If conservatives actually cared about demographics, they would be doing everything they can to make it cheap and easy for these millions of couples to get the children they want. And while mass surrogacy isn't really viable, a mature artificial gestation technology would be a game-changer.

And yet, you never see someone like Musk suggesting we develop these technologies, let alone pouring some of his billions to their advancement. The truth is that hand-wringing over population is just the latest dog whistle against women's rights. Their first goal is to subjugate women, the population issues are just an excuse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just want to point out, even with billions, an artificial womb would still not be seen for decades.

Even something like growing a kidney has been incredibly difficult. A whole human would require essentially first fully understanding the whole process of pregnancy and how a fetus affects the body, and then maybe artificial organoids as well. It would probably be easier to figure out how to grow a brain first.

Basically this is like the old saying of how you can't make 9 women make 1 baby in 1 month.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

IDK. Looking at that wikipedia article, the progress looks pretty good.

Also, just on a conceptual level, growing a whole embryo may be a lot easier than growing a single organ. Organs really aren't designed to grow by themselves. A fetus is designed to grow and develop. It needs a nutrient supply.

But I think of it as the difference between trying to figure out how to grow plants in aquaponics vs trying to somehow coax plant cells to grow a flower without the rest of the flower plant present.

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The only part of this that's true is that Australia has invasive rabbits.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

The sexy fakes is from mosquitos. And they're not sexy fakes, they're just like the other male mozzies but sterile

Australia has only used biological control. The stuffed rabbit host of a childrens' tv shows was named Mixie for one of the biological controls: mixomatosis - a rabbit virus used in the past.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I went down a rabbit hole (heh) trying to see if it was true.

And no, turns out it's just a bunch of pesticides and more recently (since the mid 90s) they apparently infect them on purpose with something that destroys their liver.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Given the existence of products like "real doll", there's some merit to it happening to humans.

I don't know enough about any of it since I'm in a relationship with someone who has a pulse, and I like it that way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

It's a product aimed at people that can't get laid otherwise, and from what I hear it's usually a one-time thing because people soon realize it's as good as thrusting a plank.

Suggesting that it's real purpose is to control birth rate is just fucking ridiculous, nobody will ever ditch their woman because they figured that an unmoving full-sized fake vagina is better at sex than her.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 months ago (3 children)

So, uh, what does a fake rabbit that is more attractive than a real rabbit look like?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You wanna know or you asking for a friend?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have a rabbit that I would like to make a good impression on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Try role playing as a hunter with a speech impediment

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

Lola Bunny.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Anon invents a conspiracy to explain his crippling hentai addiction

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

That’s a fair point until you realize that humans are a lot smarter than rabbits. (Supposedly)

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Rabbits can be trained to use a litterbox. When is the last time you saw a human using a litterbox?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don’t follow furry fetish stuff, personally, so never

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Have you ever seen a toilet?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I havent seen an episode of MTV Cribs since 2005.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm quite literally sitting on one as I read this. Been trained to do so since day one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Day one?? It took me years

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

We have them in all of the classrooms of our schools!

/s

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

a portion of humans is, yes

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

The average human maybe.

But there is a significant overlap between the smartest rabbit and the dumbest humans.

Or was that with bears?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago

It's not like those were going to breed anyway tbh

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I feel like an old man cause anime girls look weird to me. I see this stuff, the obviously hyper sexualized cartoon girls, and I'm always like "you guys know about pornhub, right? Pictures of real women, videos, millions of them are a click away!" So like, wtf is up with the cartoon fetish? I'm not shaming it, I just don't get it.

[–] PornPlane 13 points 3 months ago

It's a few things (for some people). One is artstyle/impressionism, another is that some of the stuff depicted is either impossible or less paletable with IRL people. Some is storytelling.

Erotic artwork has been a real thing for a while. If you want, I'll elaborate later. I might edit this after a while when I can be bothered to expand on this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

So like, wtf is up with the cartoon fetish?

Sexual appetites are informed by the images of people you familiarize yourself with. Not usual for people to seek out partners who remind them of old friends or family members, because that's the image they've imprinted on as attractive.

If you surround yourself with images of japanese cartoons (particularly horny ones, particularly when you're young and impressionable and you'd fuck a fire hydrant on a hot day) its not going to be hard to fixate on cartoons fucking.

If you surround yourself with booze and people your own age who are equally horny, you likely won't have that temptation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Same here (am old man) but in the context of this post one can make the argument that pornography in general is reducing the population. Not necessarily a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Better than the war, famine, pestilence, forced sterilization usual routes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Anything to keep from having to provide sex education, birth control, socialism!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

anime girls are drawn keeping perfection in mind, by logic they will always belre attractive than real woman. idk what is so hard to get it

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

Japan does have a too low birth rate now.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I fucking hope so. The last thing this world needs is more people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, at least not the kind that want to breed with anime girls.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why scary? Wouldn't it be good if the human population didn't increase more?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The west is already on it, how do we propagate it elsewhere?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes and no, the way our society is built/structured can't handle negative growth. A lot of infrastructure and way of life/quality of life would suffer massively. That being said, pop growth also can't go up forever (while limited to earth). We actually have a ton of livable land left too, cities have learned how to be so super dense that it's eating all the rural area's populations in quickly developing places (It's where all the jobs and opportunities are -cities). Estimates suggest we will top off around 10 billion people

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Is this why the population of Japan is decreasing that badly? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Damn that Bill Gates!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Supernormal stimulus

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

To be fair, with less people there wouldn't be a housing crisis. And our carbon emissions would be lower.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Anon is a pedo

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