• Metalorg [he/him]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Yesterday I took one shit. Today I took two shits. Tomorrow I can only assume I'll take three shits. How can I survive if I'm going to be shitting 200 or more shits per day by the middle of next year? I'm doomed.

    • cresspacito [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      It's worse than it appears comrade! Your shits are doubling by the day. Either start suckin down every calorie you see or get your affairs in order

    • FloridaBoi [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      Math checks out. last year I was 32, this year I'm 33 so like next year I'm gonna be 34 and so on

  • cilantrofellow [any]
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    4 years ago

    This is melodramatic journalism bordering a white replacement narrative. There are two data points with correlations data, and no indication that the floor would ultimately be zero. Pthalates are a known issue but what isn’t discussed are acute and reversible issues of sperm count - restrictive clothing, heat (laptops), frequency of ejaculation which may all contribute or confound these sparse findings (limited to 1st world countries).

    Consider too they say birthrates are down in European countries, as if every man is desperately trying just as much for children as in the 1970s. No link to sperm count is substantiated, and financial instability, climate fears, and lower child mortality/freely accessible contraceptives are not mentioned.

    The pthalates are certainly something to keep an eye out and continue pushing for restrictions on, but this is mostly fearmongering schlock.

    • RalphGrenader [comrade/them]
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      4 years ago

      Diet also plays a roll in fat white men's low sperm count. Turns out if you're fit and eat healthy you produce more sperm!

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      all water from streams

      I have some bad news to share with you about environmental degradation in freshwater streams.

    • Ketamine_device_tech [none/use name]
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      4 years ago

      Return to monke, only raw foods wild caught, only diy pottery, all water from streams

      bourgeois white people literally think "primitives" are less human lol this is a reddit website

  • CoralMarks [he/him]
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    4 years ago

    Children of men gets more prophetic by the day, huh?

      • CoralMarks [he/him]
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        4 years ago

        Definitely one of the best post-apocalyptic movies, IMO only topped by the Road.

        • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
          ·
          4 years ago

          I wish I could remember where, but I read a piece about how it was the first movie to really get 21st century fascism

    • quartz242 [she/her]
      ·
      4 years ago

      Yeah good movie rewatched it the other day, with this and covid infecting the balls

  • AtomPunk [he/him]
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    4 years ago

    The problem is that these chemicals are everywhere. BPA can be found in water bottles and food containers and sales receipts. Phthalates are even more common: They are in the coatings of pills and nutritional supplements; they're used in gelling agents, lubricants, binders, emulsifying agents, and suspending agents. Not to mention medical devices, detergents and packaging, paint and modeling clay, pharmaceuticals and textiles and sex toys and nail polish and liquid soap and hair spray. They are used in tubing that processes food, so you'll find them in milk, yogurt, sauces, soups, and even, in small amounts, in eggs, fruits, vegetables, pasta, noodles, rice, and water. The CDC determined that just about everyone in the United States has measurable levels of phthalates in his or her body—they're unavoidable.

    Capitalism really laying the groundwork for its own destruction right here. No need to hang the capitalists selling us the rope.

    Who am I kidding, they’ll have ways to get around their own infertility. This is the real 4D chess-play eugenics method :agony-turbo:

    • joshuaism [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      If you can't afford IVF do you even deserve to reproduce?

      • cilantrofellow [any]
        ·
        4 years ago

        It will be considered charity and how capitalism is supposed to work. Giving “deserving” and photogenic poors the chance to reproduce.

        But no matter how many robots automate other jobs away, there will likely always be some underclass labor needed. They know that.

  • Madcat [any]
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    4 years ago

    alfonso was right :stalin-stressed:

      • Madcat [any]
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        4 years ago

        The problem is that these chemicals are everywhere. BPA can be found in water bottles and food containers and sales receipts. Phthalates are even more common: They are in the coatings of pills and nutritional supplements; they're used in gelling agents, lubricants, binders, emulsifying agents, and suspending agents. Not to mention medical devices, detergents and packaging, paint and modeling clay, pharmaceuticals and textiles and sex toys and nail polish and liquid soap and hair spray. They are used in tubing that processes food, so you'll find them in milk, yogurt, sauces, soups, and even, in small amounts, in eggs, fruits, vegetables, pasta, noodles, rice, and water. The CDC determined that just about everyone in the United States has measurable levels of phthalates in his or her body—they're unavoidable.

        What's more, there is evidence that the effect of these endocrine disruptors increases over generations, due to something called epigenetic inheritance. Normally, acquired traits—like, say, a sperm count lowered by obesity—aren't passed down from father to son. But some chemicals, including phthalates and BPA, can change the way genes are expressed without altering the underlying genetic code, and that change is inheritable. Your father passes along his low sperm count to you, and your sperm count goes even lower after you're exposed to endocrine disruptors. That's part of the reason there's been no leveling off even after 40 years of declining sperm counts—the baseline keeps dropping.

        Dude, we are fucked.

          • Madcat [any]
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            4 years ago

            Oh 100%. They're probably already quoting bits like this and parading it around

            Testosterone levels have also dropped precipitously, with effects beginning in utero and extending into adulthood. One of the most significant markers of an organism's sex is something called anogenital distance (AGD)—the measurement between the anus and the genitals. Male AGD is typically twice the length of female, a much more dramatic difference than height or weight or musculature. Lower testosterone leads to a shorter AGD, and a measurement lower than the median correlates to a man being seven times as likely to be subfertile and gives him a greater likelihood of having undescended testicles, testicular tumors, and a smaller penis. “What you are seeing in a number of systems, other developmental systems, is that the sex differences are shrinking,” Swan told me. Men are producing less sperm. They're also becoming less male.

            • happybadger [he/him]
              ·
              4 years ago

              One of the most significant markers of an organism’s sex is something called anogenital distance (AGD)—the measurement between the anus and the genitals. Male AGD is typically twice the length of female, a much more dramatic difference than height or weight or musculature. Lower testosterone leads to a shorter AGD

              Goddamn feminists reviewin' our video games, feedin' us vegetables, and shortenin' our anogenital distance. Well I still believe in western civilisation and in traditional masculinity so there is a 3 foot gap between my anus and genitals.

              • Madcat [any]
                ·
                4 years ago

                Forever mourning my long gooch :angry-hex:

                • happybadger [he/him]
                  ·
                  4 years ago

                  Every time I drink black rifle coffee it gets three inches longer, lib.

  • spez [any]
    ·
    4 years ago

    What the hell? Before my vasectomy, my wife got pregnant pretty much every time I didn't pull out. How come I don't get to have a low sperm count. No fair.

    • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
      ·
      edit-2
      4 years ago

      That's a reflection of your skill overcoming your physical shortcomings.

      I too spent long solitary hours practicing my cumming until I could get my wife knocked up every fucking time.