The average household will move into a larger and more expensive home for raising children. That already adds a few hundred. Driving to school, various after school activities, camps and stuff adds an additional tank of gas. Once boys are teenagers, they’ll eat more than an adult, and adds a few hundred to the groceries. Driving education or in USA their first car isn’t free either. Not to mention medical costs.

Like they say here, small children, small worries. Big children, big worries.

Standard conservative interpretation: anything I don’t like.

In my country, it costs €250,000 per child. That €10k per child is like 4% of the total. That’s counting until 18 years. It gets worse when they go to higher education. Kids are damn expensive.

The Christianist wing of the GOP just don’t want bodily autonomy. The Handmaid’s Tale is just an extrapolation of their wishes.

Her motivation for writing the novel was her belief that in the 1980s, the religious right was discussing what they would do with/to women if they took power, including the Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition, and the Ronald Reagan administration. Atwood questions what would happen if these trends, and especially “casually held attitudes about women” were taken to their logical end.

Because Putin basically gave his blessing for this by not reacting at all except for some crotchety old man asking to please get of the lawn speech.

Chicken class is best class

Society at large says weath, career, possessions and vacations are the most important thing. Those are all easier without children.

Things would be a lot different if household and caring tasks would be seen as important and not just some unpaid chore to be dumped on women. If instead of business class it would be family class to give those traveling with chicken children the best seats.

But that is unthinkable in a capitalistic system.

And a whole lot of serfs that just love their master, while saying they do it for freedom.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/10-billion-snow-crabs-disappeared-alaska

https://www.livescience.com/53400-crop-failure-draining-food-supplies-as-planet-warms.html

Indeed

Seems that way. The whole point of nuclear threats is the “To preserve our way of life I’m willing to make this sacrifice.” attitude. That’s what being a Cold War kid taught me. Can’t do that if you’re afraid of the wind.

Putin’s bluff has been called many times by now and his cards have been found wanting.

The invaders would get the hint when citizens get an evacuation signal and bombers go airborne or silos are opened. The international community would be yelling at Ukraine to get the f out there as fast as they can. No actual nukes would be fired.

Instead there wasn’t even opposition to speak of and just vague threats speech #7 from Putin.

But Trump wants to put or already had his sympathizes in the top positions in the major administration, like the supreme court, CIA, FBI, … and make buddy buddy with the rich like Musk. Wouldn’t that make him the deep state?

It’s also measured in Australia. They also have an increasing amount of foods and fires there. And the water is clearly warming up too.

For nuclear attack on another country you would be right.

For an invading army inside borders is would be a scenario like this: there would be a very clear warning to leave or we will nukes at that hour the same day as the border was crossed. A warning goes out for citizens to evacuate. The missile silos are visibly readied to show you’re serious. Warning goes out to other countries that this is an internal matter and not aimed at anyone else. Then you fire If the invaders haven’t left. There would not be a second attempt at invading.

It’s what people assumed when Putin said last year that Russian nuclear doctrine allowed two possible thresholds for using nuclear weapons: retaliation against a first nuclear strike by an enemy, and if “the very existence of Russia as a state comes under threat even if conventional weapons are used”.

That’s how you strongman. Instead Russia is in denial for a week and then comes with “maybe we should do something?”

We’re on that line hovering above the rest of course

“Supposed red lines have turned pink over time,” a European official told Semafor in June. Some Russian experts suggested that because of diminishing Western fears, Moscow ought to consider more aggressive responses, such as setting off a nuclear weapon to “convince our opponents of Moscow’s readiness to escalate,” a member of a Kremlin-affiliated think tank argued. The objective would be to “to re-establish deterrence,” a Russian nuclear policy researxher wrote on X.

If setting of that nuke was done immediately that would’ve been clear. Setting that of after two weeks would only give the signal that week long raids are no problem and Russia just isn’t fast enough to handle that.

It wouldn’t be the first time the media reports about glorious victories but the keen listener notes that those victories are a mile closer to their capital every day.

1 and 2 are already a lie. They can’t deport migrants because their voters need cheap migrant labor to not go out of business, and it would go against point 3, keeping things affordable. And they need the bogeyman. If there is no migrant threat there are no votes.

But nobody said the people voting for them were rationally thinking about these points.

That’s “monetizing the user base” in corpo speak

The DRM is there so the managers at the software developer can say to their bosses they did everything possible to prevent someone stealing the software. And the same arguments goes on case of legal issues. Although some use it as a way to force substitutions these days.