• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    55
    ·
    15 days ago

    Yeah, I’m not taking ANY advice from this dumbass. What does he even do for a living anyways???

    checks job title

    SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES??? HOW THE FUCK DID THAT HAPPEN???

    looks at world

    Oh. Right.

    • chaosCruiser@futurology.today
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      15 days ago

      Put a picture of Trump under the pillow before you go to sleep. During the night, the supreme wisdom of Trump will be focused by the pillow and absorbed by your subconscious mind. In the morning, you’ll just know the correct answer.

      Also works with university exams. No need to read any books as long as you have the photo of the relevant professor under your pillow.

  • Pope-King Joe@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    21
    ·
    15 days ago

    sighs I want off of Mr. Bones’ wild ride.

    I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: we live in the dumbest timeline.

  • ByteOnBikes@discuss.online
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    edit-2
    15 days ago

    Today, the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone as a 65-year-old man. Our girls are hitting puberty six years early, and that’s bad, but also our parents aren’t having children. Parents who want to have children do not have access. I have seven children. I feel that God has blessed me with that and I can’t imagine how different my life would be if I did not have that blessing.

    RFK jr counting teenager sperm?

    • Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      edit-2
      15 days ago

      our parents aren’t having children

      If someone doesn’t have children, they’re… Not a parent.

      Unless you RFK means people with a child already, which makes no sense (and never did) except to religious nuts.

      People aren’t cats to have litters of up to 6 kittens, and kids don’t grow up in 6 months.

      They need to be fed, clothed, medicated and educated for 18+ years!

      P.S. If you dump your kids out on their 18th birthday, spoilers! You’re a bad parent.

  • Tramort@programming.dev
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    15 days ago

    this administration spends more time thinking about teenage sperm and circumcisions than is justifiable

  • shalafi@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    15 days ago

    Today, the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone as a 65-year-old man. Our girls are hitting puberty six years early, and that’s bad, but also our parents aren’t having children.

    Let’s practice some critical thinking. Join me!

    Teens have half the sperm count of a senior citizen? I’d maybe believe they’re equivalent? Maybe? He’s getting this from dropping teen pregnancy rates.

    Teens have half the testosterone of a senior citizen? Boolshit on it’s face. So senior men are more aggressive, more horny, stronger and hairier than teens? Stronger bones too! Also, seniors have more zits. Are you teen boys even trying any more?!

    Parents aren’t having children. OK. I’ll let the audience stew on that one a minute.

    We are below replacement right now. That is a national security threat to our country…

    True! Not so much a security threat as an economic threat, maybe the same difference? So what’s the solution? Kick out the foreigners? Hey yo, Japan! How that working out?

    Money says these idiots do what Russia did about their shrinking birth rates. National holiday to stay home and fuck for the Motherland! (Not even joking here.)

    • TheDoozer@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      15 days ago

      Our replacement rate has been low for a long time, but our population has stayed relatively steady… because of immigration.

      Low replacement rate is only bad if you’re racist/xenophobic. Otherwise there’s usually (in a supposedly first-world country) an easy solution.

      And if you think this is a dig on specifically the US, it isn’t. Japan and South Korea are about to have insane difficulties with a very obvious and simple solution, and the US had that solution and are destroying it in favor of racism and xenophobia.

      • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        15 days ago

        I don’t think immigration is bad, but if the “problem” of fertility below replacement is caused by the other problem of people who might otherwise want kids not being able to have them because of economic constraints, focusing on solving the first problem by importing competitive and ambitious skilled professionals seems at least kind of questionable.

        • TheDoozer@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          14 days ago

          That is not the problem. Population declines as countries move to first world status, and I think the people not having kids due to financial constraints are few and far between. Otherwise population would not start and continue diminishing as an area becomes more affluent. People have less (or no) kids because they don’t want kids, don’t want a bunch of kids, and can reasonably expect the kids they have to survive to adulthood. And access to birth control, education, and other opportunities (mostly for women) makes having less kids (by their own desire) possible.

          So bringing capable workers in means they pay into taxes that support the aging and school-age population, and never had to have their school-age years paid for. They’re a productive member with half the cost over their lifetime.

          It’s a no-brainer… as long as you’re not worried about changing the… shade or hue… of your population over time.

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      13 days ago

      So senior men are more aggressive, more horny, stronger and hairier than teens?

      I’m old. I’m definitely hairier. I’m also stronger than I was as a teen, though far weaker than I was as a young adult. I also weigh 50% more than I did as a teen, and some of that’s extra muscle. So those points aren’t really relevant.

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        13 days ago

        At 54 I got hair in weird places, but it doesn’t come back in like it did. Demonstrated great-grandpa’s WWI razor three weeks ago at a party. Forearm hair still bald. Shaved down lots into my 30s, hair rolled right back in. :)

        I’m stronger than I was as a teen, but as a teen I didn’t do much put pedal a bike. Was probably peak around late 20s to early 30s. I think strength is much up to the fact of our bodies automatic limiters. When we’re at peak, our brain still thinks we can handle the same loads, and we can, and sometimes hurt ourselves. Does that make sense?

  • scarabic@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    14 days ago

    Our girls are hitting puberty six years early

    Oh? What’s his supposed correct age for this?

    I was taught in college that girls reach puberty earlier now than in prior centuries in part because they are exposed to light for more hours per day thanks to electrification, and puberty is in part triggered by an internal clock keeping track of how much light you’ve been exposed to in your lifetime.

    Of course we leaned a lot of shit in college before the internet which turns out to be nonsense now. But I believe exposure to light is more important than we generally recognize. If you trace our evolution back to the beginning, you’ll find light sensitive cells far far earlier than anything involving actual vision.

    • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      14 days ago

      I learned something new today.

      I also did hear that girls go through puberty sooner because girls now are fatter than they used to be due to a number of factors.

      • beejboytyson@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        14 days ago

        Ya, my biology professor had a theory that it was because of estrogen being introduced to the water supply through birth control. After the pill was introduced breast size started increasing and girls started reaching puberty earlier. Makes sense.

        • EightBitBlood@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          14 days ago

          So! It’s actually kinda crazy how accurate your professor might be. Because progesterone, the chemical in birth control, does indeed break down into estrogen under the right circumstances. The components of broken down progesterone pass through the body via urine, enter the water system, and - this is the important part - is far too small and difficult to be collected or filtered out of the water.

          So people taking birth control have absolutley added an insane amount of estrogen to the water supply. And most tap water now does have low levels of estrogen in it because people have been taking birth control for 60+ years.

          In that same time, the average age of puberty has continued to fall.

          So, it sounds a bit wild, but that theory is far more feasible than most realize.

      • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        14 days ago

        I always heard it was partly due to all the hormones we put in cows to keep them pregnant, and then we drink the milk.

  • Jhex@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    14 days ago

    “Senile government official spews nonsense in press conference”

    … and the saddest part is that sentence is not specific enough, there are multiple options to choose from

  • olympicyes@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    14 days ago

    He’s probably mixing up sperm with testosterone level. Somehow the conversation of testosterone levels came up with a group of kids we work with. One of the young adults who is heavily into weight lifting knew his testosterone levels. The 65 year old man in our group had far higher levels. The reason? He nearly died from cancer and is now on hormone therapy. Apparently the levels are set quite high.