chlodwig

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by chlodwig 9mo ago
Except the definition used in the article, a ban is when a parent group disagrees with the authorities (the librarians) and does not want the book in a tax-payer funded library: "PEN America defines a school book ban as any action take
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by chlodwig 9mo ago
Reminder: a "book ban" is simply when a there is book that is acclaimed by the establishment, available in book stores across America, on the shelves of thousands of school libraries, but somewhere, some school board, or parent gr
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by chlodwig 1y ago
Taking care of a baby can be very social ... as long as the other mother's aren't all at work. And what exactly are these jobs that are a rest compared to taking care of a baby? Are they actually economically productive or are the
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by chlodwig 1y ago
> there should be a team of professional adults Look up how much housing costs, and how much professional nannies cost, in a location where the software engineer and lawyer are making $500k combined. And you'll need at least two nan
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by chlodwig 1y ago
It all adds up. On average, daycare in USA costs $18k a year per child ( https://www.care.com/c/how-much-does-child-care-cost/ ), which is the best measure of the total resources that it takes up, all-in. Median i
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by chlodwig 1y ago
No, because you have to count all the employment going into running and supplying the daycare, which includes facilities, equipment, administration, extra staff, etc. You have to look at the all-in cost.
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by chlodwig 1y ago
I don't want to optimize for the economy... but if I did ... Instead of having the second parents work the non-greedy job painting a house or what-not, and then third-parties working in the child care industry ... just have the second
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by chlodwig 1y ago
The argument is that producing children has massive positive externalities; there is value created for society that is not captured by the parent. In economics terms, all gains-from-trade for the child's future labor is a positive for
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by chlodwig 1y ago
If that is what you mean then I seriously doubt your claim that there are few non-greedy jobs that contribute to the economy. What I said is "that contribute to the economy enough to be of more value than childcare " Picking up
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by chlodwig 1y ago
Yea, more dual-income families means: - Bidding up the price of housing - Fewer parents active in overseeing the schools, volunteering to fix up the community, etc. - Less general slack for parents to help each other out - Fewer mom friends
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by chlodwig 1y ago
The post I was replying to said that free parental leave would allow parents to "give their best to the economy" and reach their "full potential" at the career. To me that implied American work culture and "greedy j
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by chlodwig 1y ago
because it will show how much an economy can grow when women are allowed to work to their full potential. Disagree. Everyone needs to realize that having two parents who both have "greedy jobs" is a path to misery. Giving out c
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by chlodwig 1y ago
I dislike the perversity of taxing people than only giving the money back to them if they arrange their life in a way that policy-makers prefer (two income family). I especially dislike it when the subsidized choice of institutional childca
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by chlodwig 1y ago
- Extra-staffing of floaters to be able to give staff breaks or handle staff sick days or workers quitting - Taxes - Insurance - Administrative staff to handle billing and compliance - Facilities -- Rent, maintenance, HVAC. Adding to this,
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by chlodwig 1y ago
Yeah, I've wondered if there is some sort change in how people think about and label their activities. Would a 1950s parent even think of themselves as doing a defined activity called "childcare"? Or rather, the children are
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by chlodwig 1y ago
That is true! From what I have seen and heard from the schools around me, every year the assigned texts are getting shorter and with a lower reading level.
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by chlodwig 1y ago
I remember teachers in my school having a poor opinion, dissuading us from reading contemporary books. I'm still not convinced on their rationale. That's funny, what I am hearing from high school students is that overwhelmingly
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by chlodwig 1y ago
Who in 2025 is actually against putting Lord of the Rings in the curriculum because it is too "popular" or not old enough? It's the same age as a lot of other classic high school texts (1984, Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the
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by chlodwig 2y ago
You are conflating social trends among young people to identify as gender non-confirming for social clout, with adults who have intractable gender dysphoria. It's not just me who is conflating them, the official medical establishmen
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by chlodwig 2y ago
There is zero evidence that your "common sense approach" works at all, and there is zero evidence that reparative or conversion therapy works at all for those with legitimate gender dysphoria. Clinical psychologists Kenneth Zuck
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by chlodwig 2y ago
I do not advocate routine genital check for office workers. The crucial questions for me are the following: 1) should institutions that have female only spaces or events be allowed to exclude pre-op transwomen? Post-op? For example, the wom
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by chlodwig 2y ago
> I'm a bit confused as to why you are pretending that the word "gender" and the concept of gender either doesn't exist or is part of some very recent flimsy social construct. The concept of gender being used to categ
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by chlodwig 2y ago
We don't need a mind reading machine to understand what gender dysphoria is, because gender dysphoric people tell us what they are thinking and feeling It's not this simple. For one, lots of people are all kinds of confused. The
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by chlodwig 2y ago
What is "gender identity"? What is the evidence that "gender identity" exists, outside of my identity as a sexed being (ie the influence of hormones on my brain and psychological development, the knowledge of my own body
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by chlodwig 2y ago
I am having a much harder time finding that objectionable in the same way as I found what I understood the scenario to be. I'm not saying I'm for it, maybe there needs to be some third solution so people aren't uncomfortable
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by chlodwig 2y ago
The RCTs that validate your assertion (or mine) when comparing reparative therapy and affirmation do not exist. All that we have to rely on now is the overwhelming consensus among medical and mental health professionals, and that consensus
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by chlodwig 2y ago
I don't understand the focus on someone, in your view, lying to you - I suspect we agree that in the scenario you described, it seeming that the person has lied to you about what's in their pants is much less important than the f
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by chlodwig 2y ago
Psychotherapy is simply not effective at changing someone’s gender identity or ameliorating gender dysphoria. The established treatment for gender dysphoria is to align the person’s gender identity and gender expression. Can you find a ra
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by chlodwig 2y ago
It's more like someone telling you to call them John and you call them Tyler instead. It's literally just a word. That's an absurd comparison. Names are something that have always been personally chosen. "He" and
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by chlodwig 2y ago
Why did you change the words that I used? I said "strategy" for a reason. True intersex conditions (where the strategy is ambiguous) are vanishingly rare. With humans, there is only male, female, and for lack of a better term, ver

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