Real Biological Clock Is You're Going to Die (2018) • Hacker News Board

Re: Real Biological Clock Is You're Going to Die (2018)

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Post by munksbeer » Fri, Jan 02, 2026, 10:12 PM UTC

stevekemp wrote: post #57

duttish wrote: post #27

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For decades the discussion in schools have been around "this is how you avoid unwanted pregnancy", safe sex and all of that. With our(northern Europe) crashing fertility rate there's now also discussions about adding on "when the woman is 25 this happens and you're this likely to get pregnant, at 30 it's like this...", just so that people can plan and try for the family they want. If one wants 3 kids and don't want I…

> But who's financially secure at 25? This is where free daycare, and support from the government helps. (And yes of course it's not "free", it is paid for from taxes, people are so smart to point that out.) Different countries have different incentives, but I was really pleased with the setup in Finland when we had our child. A free box of first-clothes, daycare from 1-5 years old cheap enough that it was almost fre…

It doesn't seem to be helping with the birth rate though. Not much of a correlation on countries with great natal policies and higher birth rates.

Re: Real Biological Clock Is You're Going to Die (2018)

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Post by anal_reactor » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 3:33 AM UTC

popularonion wrote: post #69

4gotunameagain wrote: post #65

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Don't look at the world through the lenses of your problematic upbringing. Healthy communities exist. They are increasingly rare due to the massive shift in the way of living, but they do exist.

The thing is a healthy community, by definition, isn’t going to allow a struggling loner to join them

This isn't exactly true.

1. If the community has "healing power", it can accept new broken members as long as they don't overwhelm the support system. Many hippie and religious movements work with some version of this idea.

2. A struggling loner might be so because of traits unattractive to general society, but attractive to the community. Pretty much all subcultures fit here.

Re: Real Biological Clock Is You're Going to Die (2018)

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Post by gavmor » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

tazjin wrote: post #20

gavmor wrote: post #2

> That entire group of middle-aged people, who made up the adult world when my father was a child, is gone. That really got me. How can I bring these people, this "adult world" forward in time as a gift to my children?

You don't need to. This is the first generation where there's millions of hours of online podcasts with tech bros for them to enjoy. In general, we're a uniquely well-documented set of generations, even if we exclude all the stuff that will be lost when Google/Facebook/VK etc. collapse.

> podcasts with tech bros

That ain't me, and it certainly ain't the adult milieu of my childhood.