the thing about millennials who don’t want kids is I feel like a lot of them are deeply On Board for their friends’ kids
like I’m among the minority of my friends in definitely for sure wanting kids someday
but each of my parenthood-eschewing friends has claimed a different role in my future offspring’s life and they seem very excited to play it
so we as a generation may have fewer children
but I feel like they’ll be the most supported and loved children imaginable
As a millennial who doesn’t want children, I am seconding this, because it’s not like we don’t want children to exist in the world! We do! Children can be lovely and amazing and they are literally our future! It’s just So Very Difficult to raise children in our nuclear-family society, especially as a millennial, and you want to do the job RIGHT.
Well, if you can’t do the job right yourself, the least you can do is help a friend raise THEIR child right, help take the burden off their shoulders, and give that kid all the love and attention they can stand.
I’d be damned excited to do that, too.
this generation is so excited and ready to be weird uncle/aunt so-and-so
I hope this generation makes communal families a thing again and this time it won’t be treated like a “taboo hippie thing”
Seriously. What on earth could a 3 yr old do to “warrant” a gun to the chest???
Apparently they were in the process of arresting her mother (whom they beat while handcuffed, naturally), also pointed the gun at the head of the child’s grandmother, and pointed the gun at her when she did what any toddler would do and started wailing. The incident gave her one of the worst cases of child PTSD the expert they assigned has ever seen and she’ll need therapy well into her adult years.
Anyone with even a passing knowledge of gun safety knows that you do not point a gun at anyone you are not willing to kill. So best case scenario these officers were grossly incompetent and worst case they were willing to kill a child for crying. This settlement is the least they deserve.
Azir, emperor of the sands– because all he’s got left is dust and ash and memories of the people he once loved. But he’ll be fine cause he still has Sivir to annoy(and his bros renekton & nasus).
you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?
Many people in the comments are saying “trauma”, but this is actually a very normal occurrence. It’s called Childhood Amnesia, and it’s a process which, as the brain reorganizes itself for cognitive thought that is developed in late childhood, it changes the Accessibility of those memories during recall. Many childhood memories are available to the person, but they will not be remembered during regular recall activity, you have to “trick” your brain into remembering with different tactics.
This is because there are two parts to memories – their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.
This is an important distinction, because trauma memory is “stored in the body”, i.e. you get triggers that send your body into a cascade of uncontrollable feelings, sensations and reactions. Whereas childhood memories won’t generally do that, they are just recalled at odd times with odd associations.
reblogging this because I’ve legit seen people freaking out when they realised they can’t remember some of their childhood, thinking they might have some repressed trauma.
this is…..really interesting tbh. i’m tempted to be like ‘they just like that dank coffee man’ but i feel like there might be a better hypothesis here. here are my ideas:
option 1: the caffeine messes with their motility so they get a signal to speed up.
option 2: fern sperm know where to go to fertilize other gametophytes because the female organs secrete compounds that create a chemical gradient that the sperm senses and follows. idk how they sense it or how broad their receptors for those hormones are, but it might be possible that the sperm sensed the caffeine around them and thought they were close to a female gametophyte but were unsure of which way to go (this theory is debunked if fern sperm don’t speed up as they get farther up the chemical gradient. idk if they do or not). according to the wikipedia article on sperm chemotaxis, fern sperm- at least in some species- are attracted to dicarboxylic acids. its kind of a stretch, but i can kind of see it fitting depending on which parts of the molecule the sperm is binding to.
here’s caffeine:
and here’s a very basic dicarboxylic acid (oxalic acid):
i mean, doesn’t caffeine cause it’s effects in humans because it interacts with hormones and neuron pathways, etc? like, sperm- especially fern sperm- don’t have any of those complexities. so i’m inclined to think it’s just a happenstance thing and they aren’t like, being caffeinated they way we might.
if i was to replicate this experiment, i think i would test it out by putting a drop in a solution and seeing if they actively follow it, and if so, if they actively follow it faster than they would follow a natural gametophyte secretion. even better yet, if that works, test if they prefer caffeine by putting a drop of natural gametophyte hormone and a drop of caffeine in opposite sides of a controlled arena thing, then seeing in which direction they go, and how fast they go there.
so it turns out that u can buy the fern spores anon was talking about (which then grow into the organs that produce sperm) online for like $25. i have a solid three weeks of break coming up very soon with nothing to do. i could totally test this. its literally in my power to test this.
the thing is that im gonna need to find a way to isolate the sperm when they start producing them. and im gonna need like, agar and shit. and im gonna have to read up on some of the research and how to actually work with these because ive never done them before (we were supposed to in one of my bio entry labs, but they didn’t grow our semester and we had to do something else). and i guess i should have like, a plan for this experiment, and if i want to get serious i should think of a way to measure quantitatively my results. and this is a vial with literally thousands of spores, so i, a lone university student, could accidentally become a father to like 400 fern gametophytes set on having a wild sexy time. but i could do it. i could feasibly find out if fern sperm prefer coffee over pussy. this is literally within my reach (if anon is ok with me trying it out)
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