to form babby, or not to form babby

how is babby formed

Literally a 13 year old meme

We’ve told ilxors younger than this meme

*got not told

We probably don’t but if of you would get your kids to start posting we’d have a little more life in here

i thought having more life in here wasn't the goal

How is memey formed

Aja is 13 iirc

They want the purdie shuffleexistence

the Curly shuffle

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After yet another horrible night’s sleep I take it all back. Somebody have my children. They’re horrible. I regret it. I only want to wake at 5am on July Saturdays so I can bike ride.

i have starting bit at 500, 500, do i have 500

tempted, but i'm holding out for steady mike's punk cohort

warming up the eStork

i'm not hearing a bid

also, how, exactly are you warming it up?

You want a punk cohort? Here are mine vibing to that Fugazi cover on YouTube:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Dr6LaJXZt/?igshid=8fbnl9f8w1b0

ahem CHANGE TO THE STARTING BID, we've done a reappraisal based on the latest video

do I hear $1,000, $1,000 anybody....how about you in the tweed hat and the checkered jacket?

I disassembled my shitty bed which I hate last night and I feel a lot better now

To form bedd or not to form bedd

If you hate your baby and you disassemble it you get in big trouble!

now he tells me

i put mine back together but i had lost some of the parts during moves so the kid has two left arms now, it's ok tho he wasn't gonna be a baller anyway

any post containing "babby" i'm mentally reading in the voice of Noddy Holder, ay it?

So ya think ive gotta babby formed

Any kid you have at this point is going to have a briefer, worse life than you, most likely. Don’t have kids.

People's reactions to this question come from such an internal place, largely subconscious, that there's almost no room for discussion on either side.

Obtain informed consent from babby first.

I think the science & philosophy of it on both a personal and a general bumanity-wide level are an interesting debate which we probably need to have ASAP.

I also think it's a kind of shitty and inconsiderate thing to suddenly announce to a load of people, some of whom have young children, on a Sunday afternoon.

It’s 9 am in Seattle and we are going to break the June high temperature record set yesterday, which will be broken again tomorrow. Because I am well off I could drop $700 to get a hotel room and avoid spending this interim in our uninhabitable house. I will probably kill myself circa 2050.

silby considers this to be a public service announcement

One of the things I tried to understand after my parents died was how they had the faith in life that their sons would thrive even without them there. I don't share that optimism, I couldn't set something in motion that I won't see to completion.

I’m with silby

lol at this:

I also think it's a kind of shitty and inconsiderate thing to suddenly announce to a load of people, some of whom have young children, on a Sunday afternoon.

did you read even read the thread title?

tbf the stated point of the thread is “state ur reasons” not “tell ppl what to do”

I won’t have kids personally, but I’m hoping my nieces can carry my torso (no limbs after being tortured by Great Lakes Water Guardians) on the back of their motorcycles as they cross the parched desert of what once was northern Minnesota.

Well yes I did read the thread title and tbh it did not prepare me for suddenly thinking about my kids dying.

Among the many reasons I won’t have kids is I assume I would constantly be thinking about them dying

mind your own business

I am all for abolition of the family and of the tyranny parents and other adults hold over children but this seems like a different issue than whether reproduction is good or bad in any particular instance or in general. I am much happier making sweeping statements in the first case than the second since the enduring popularity of malthusianism in the parts of the world most responsible for fucking everything up (not, in general, the parts with higher birthrates) is way more worrying to me than someone having a child. my own lack of interest in doing so just seems kind of arbitrary

I would have preferred not to have been born so there is an emotional appeal but I trust that people who seem glad to be here aren't just pretending

Any kid you have at this point is going to have a briefer, worse life than you, most likely.

I have never had any significant interest in having kids, but once, in a school discussion in 1992, classmates and a teacher found this insufficient reasoning for expecting not to. Under beration, I reached for an argument that I thought would be definitive, and proposed that it could be morally unjustifiable to bring children into this world when climate collapse was likely to occur within their potential children’s lifetime.

I learnt, in the ensuing seconds, that stating this as an individual reasoning prompts people to take it as a personal condemnation. It had not previously been my reasoning: I merely thought it so incontrovertible that it would counter the near-personal-condemnation I was receiving, and allow the conversation to move off me.

I didn’t think much about the exchange for a couple of decades, but have recalled it several times a week in more recent years, and wonder if any other classmates remember it at all.

I'm sure they talk about it all the time

i’ve heard variations of that reasoning over the years and even entertained it myself from time to time. i’m convinced that it’s pretty much always a deflection away from other, real-er reasons. the number of people willing to deliberately plan their own lives so drastically purely for morality’s sake isn’t zero but i think it’s pretty small. like folks who live in huts off the grid. there’s lots of terrible shit in the world. i dunno.

There is always evidence for hopelessness and despair, but the human mind is such that it will always try to avoid these conclusions. People hope against reason. Having children is an expression of this tendency, for good or ill.

- Bob Marley

Children of the current upper middle class will probably be fine. Grandkids, OTOH…

Maybe he would say that idk.

I think the implication of a lot of the posts on this thread is that having hope in the future is not just delusional but ignorant and selfish. I think I disagree. Even if the melancholic apocalypticism on display here is more reasonable, it’s not realistic to expect the majority to embrace a perspective like that. People want to get up in the morning and have something to work toward and feel like existence is a good thing not a bad thing.