kottke.orgDec 2
An Astonishing Graph. For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.3%. (It’s 0.3% in countries like Japan & Norway.) https://kottke.org/25/12/an-astonishing-graph
An Astonishing Graph

For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.

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Show threadJered FloydDec 6
@kottke @cstross The especially horrible thing is that the leaders making decisions (in the US) think we _should_ be going back — a perverse, unscientific belief that this has “made us weak”.
Show threadCharlie StrossDec 6
@jered @kottke Well, low infant mortality *does* mean that women aren't so ground down from popping out babies and burying them all the time that they can compete with the testicular-endowed god-fearing breadwinners for jobs, thereby making civilization implode, or something? So yeah, gotta kill more babies for Jesus.
Show threadJaime RobertsonDec 6

@cstross @jered @kottke
Isn’t that the opposite of the Quiverfull thing? Have as many children as possible so We outnumber Them.

Anyhow, Those are ‘the good ol’ days’ conservatives are always yearning for.

Show threadCharlie Stross
@JamesPadraicR @jered @kottke Oh, these are social darwinists, white supremacists, and plain old male chauvanists. God-fearing white women should be taken care of by their owners and treated as valuable breeding stock: non-white babies are welcome to die in Gilead. /s
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Show threadJaime RobertsonDec 6

@cstross @jered @kottke Unfortunately there are too many people who actually think that, including some “God-fearing white women”.

An obscure Bowie lyric comes to mind “Gotta, gotta get me out of here.”