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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 2 hours ago

Your average 4channer didn't need anime girls to stop them having sex.

Their hygiene and misogyny did most of the heavy lifting there.

[-] Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 14 points 5 hours ago

I feel like an old man cause anime girls look weird to me. I see this stuff, the obviously hyper sexualized cartoon girls, and I'm always like "you guys know about pornhub, right? Pictures of real women, videos, millions of them are a click away!" So like, wtf is up with the cartoon fetish? I'm not shaming it, I just don't get it.

[-] red@lemmy.zip -1 points 43 minutes ago

anime girls are drawn keeping perfection in mind, by logic they will always belre attractive than real woman. idk what is so hard to get it

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Same here (am old man) but in the context of this post one can make the argument that pornography in general is reducing the population. Not necessarily a bad thing.

[-] Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Better than the war, famine, pestilence, forced sterilization usual routes

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Anything to keep from having to provide sex education, birth control, socialism!

[-] PornPlane@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 4 hours ago

It's a few things (for some people). One is artstyle/impressionism, another is that some of the stuff depicted is either impossible or less paletable with IRL people. Some is storytelling.

Erotic artwork has been a real thing for a while. If you want, I'll elaborate later. I might edit this after a while when I can be bothered to expand on this.

[-] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 126 points 15 hours ago

Except they don't want human population to decrease. They need more and more people at the bottom of the global ponzi scheme to prop it up.

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

Conservatives say that's what they want, but they only really want to subjugate women. If they actually cared about population totals first, they would be working hard to make it so everyone who wanted a kid could get one.

One core problem developed countries are experiencing, in terms of demography, is the mismatch between skills development and biological fertility. It takes people into their 30s or even 40s before they're financially able to support children. For millions of couples, by the time they can financially support a child, the window has already closed. It takes so much education and experience to be competitive in advanced economies that it creates this mismatch.

Now, we could have mass government-sponsored surrogacy. But that has so many ethical problems, that there is a reason no government has tried it. Yet, there is a near-term technology that we are on the verge of, but very little research dollars are dedicated towards. That is artificial gestation.

When was the last time you heard Musk or any of the other demographics-obsessed tech bros throw a few billion at developing this tech? This technology, along with other advanced reproductive technologies, could really do a lot to raise the birth rate in developed countries. And there are other techniques that could also be leveraged with this, such as techniques to create egg and stem cells from skin samples. There's a lot of near-term reproductive technologies waiting in the wings that could have a substantial effect on the birth rate, but that we simply haven't fully developed yet.

In fact, governments could cover the entire cost of the artificial gestation process if they want more people that badly. Ideally, anyone who is in the position to raise a child should be able to fill out an application, have some gametes created via a skin biopsy, and have an infant grown in a womb tank. And have the whole thing paid for by the State Population Initiative, or whatever you want to call it.

There are millions of couples out there who have the financial means to raise a child, but simply are biologically incapable of having children. We typically flippantly tell these people, "just adopt!," as if there is some vast supply of infants in orphanages just waiting for adoption. In truth, adopting an infant involves years-long wait lists and costs a hundred grand or more. But there are millions of couples that would love to have biological children, but simply can't. They're couples with reproductive issues, LGBT couples, couples that have aged out, etc. If conservatives actually cared about demographics, they would be doing everything they can to make it cheap and easy for these millions of couples to get the children they want. And while mass surrogacy isn't really viable, a mature artificial gestation technology would be a game-changer.

And yet, you never see someone like Musk suggesting we develop these technologies, let alone pouring some of his billions to their advancement. The truth is that hand-wringing over population is just the latest dog whistle against women's rights. Their first goal is to subjugate women, the population issues are just an excuse.

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Just want to point out, even with billions, an artificial womb would still not be seen for decades.

Even something like growing a kidney has been incredibly difficult. A whole human would require essentially first fully understanding the whole process of pregnancy and how a fetus affects the body, and then maybe artificial organoids as well. It would probably be easier to figure out how to grow a brain first.

Basically this is like the old saying of how you can't make 9 women make 1 baby in 1 month.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Yeah its actually the opposite, anime is supposed to make people horny. - Source: i made it up

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 hours ago

I actually believe this why South Korea is pushing K-Pop so much. To make young girls horny and procreate more to fix low population fertility.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 hours ago

There is definitely strategy behind some of these things yes

[-] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago

They will invent a way for us to get anime girls pregnant. That's when you need to start getting scared.

[-] NIB@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago

As automation/robotics/ai get better, humans transform from an asset to a liability. Fewer people means fewer protestors/rioters/revolutionaries/universal income recipients/whatever.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 35 points 12 hours ago

It's not like those were going to breed anyway tbh

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 91 points 14 hours ago

The only part of this that's true is that Australia has invasive rabbits.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca -3 points 8 hours ago

Given the existence of products like "real doll", there's some merit to it happening to humans.

I don't know enough about any of it since I'm in a relationship with someone who has a pulse, and I like it that way.

[-] ddplf@szmer.info 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

It's a product aimed at people that can't get laid otherwise, and from what I hear it's usually a one-time thing because people soon realize it's as good as thrusting a plank.

Suggesting that it's real purpose is to control birth rate is just fucking ridiculous, nobody will ever ditch their woman because they figured that an unmoving full-sized fake vagina is better at sex than her.

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

Damn that Bill Gates!

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 72 points 15 hours ago

So, uh, what does a fake rabbit that is more attractive than a real rabbit look like?

[-] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 41 points 15 hours ago

You wanna know or you asking for a friend?

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 40 points 15 hours ago

I have a rabbit that I would like to make a good impression on.

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 4 hours ago

Try role playing as a hunter with a speech impediment

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 23 points 15 hours ago

Lola Bunny.

[-] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 45 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

That’s a fair point until you realize that humans are a lot smarter than rabbits. (Supposedly)

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 48 points 16 hours ago

Rabbits can be trained to use a litterbox. When is the last time you saw a human using a litterbox?

[-] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 15 hours ago

Have you ever seen a toilet?

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I havent seen an episode of MTV Cribs since 2005.

[-] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 24 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I don’t follow furry fetish stuff, personally, so never

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 11 points 15 hours ago

I'm quite literally sitting on one as I read this. Been trained to do so since day one.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Day one?? It took me years

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 5 points 15 hours ago

We have them in all of the classrooms of our schools!

/s

[-] superduperpirate@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Wasn’t that on an episode of Jackass?

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 points 12 hours ago

The average human maybe.

But there is a significant overlap between the smartest rabbit and the dumbest humans.

Or was that with bears?

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 16 hours ago

a portion of humans is, yes

[-] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Considering that 100% is a portion, I’ll agree with you

[-] Speiser0@feddit.org 23 points 15 hours ago

Japan does have a too low birth rate now.

[-] Azzu@lemm.ee 7 points 13 hours ago

Why scary? Wouldn't it be good if the human population didn't increase more?

[-] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Yes and no, the way our society is built/structured can't handle negative growth. A lot of infrastructure and way of life/quality of life would suffer massively. That being said, pop growth also can't go up forever (while limited to earth). We actually have a ton of livable land left too, cities have learned how to be so super dense that it's eating all the rural area's populations in quickly developing places (It's where all the jobs and opportunities are -cities). Estimates suggest we will top off around 10 billion people

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

The west is already on it, how do we propagate it elsewhere?

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

Fertility rates are on the decrease everywhere.This doesn't mean that population is decreasing, population increases as long as the fertility rate is superior to 1, which is still the case in a large portion of the world, but I think humanity on a global scale is expected to go beneath that treshold around 2050-2060.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

It's actually around 2.1 to keep the status quo.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 10 points 15 hours ago

Is this why the population of Japan is decreasing that badly? 🤔

[-] kemsat@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Supernormal stimulus

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 11 hours ago

Yes, they want less mindless workers that they can control, not more. Makes total sense.

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