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  • Something with waves and particles, and uncertainty, and they spin or whatever. Things can be linked so that changing one thing has an effect elsewhere… I think that nore or less covers it.

    Honestly, that seems like a good analogy. I know a little, enough to be confidently incorrect about cats and could probably bullshit my way through a conversation with someone whose knowledge ends at the term “quantum computer”.

    But unlike Musk, I know the limits of my competence and would assemble a board of experts and actually listen to them rather than arbitrarily rejecting their naysaying and substituting whatever “epiphany” I had when stoned out of my mind.

    Also, I’m not a kiddy diddler, which already makes me a much better pick for any position of power.







  • In the heyday of aristocratic dominance in Europe, median life expectancy at birth was ~10 years, so about half the children died before they turned 11 (though the ones that survived the fragile first decade tended to live a lot longer after). Between this grim statistic, stillbirth, other accidents that could kill them later on, women had a lot more children than today and spent a longer time pregnant or nursing.

    The result of this, of course, is that women could spend less time working the fields and were more dependent on their family and partners to do the bread-winning labour (they were by no means idle; spinning thread, fetching water, spinning thread, making food, spinning thread, weaving, making clothes, spinning thread, cleaning the house and so forth all took a lot of time and work (particularly spinning thread, if it wasn’t clear enough), it just didn’t suffice to make a living.

    Source: https://acoup.blog/2025/08/08/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-iiib-children-and-childrearing/

    Before that background, I suspect that there is a method to this, whether consciously planned or a byproduct of chasing a past where men were even more dominant than they still are: Chaining women to childcare and domestic work to render them dependent on their male family members.

    Maybe it’s a crackpot conspiracy theory. At this point, it’s getting hard to tell what’s intentional bigotry and what just suspiciously looks like it.