Why do these articles about social “trends” so often seem like poor attempts at social engineering to promote social atomization or hostility between the sexes?
I think it is very hard to get unbiased research on procreation related topics because people not only try to justify their own life or (conflicting?) desires for their life but what they want their children to do, etc, which is also not just about one topic like grandchildren, it is also about social standing through anticipated judgement of others.
Musk for example seems to be on the edge of having sabotaged everything he worked for over indirect ways to gerrymander society and try to control just one of his children's lifestyles and/or distance himself from approval of it. Warren Buffet's relationship with money/work philosophy and grandchildren is perhaps even more interesting though a less dramatic demonstration of the power of procreation related topics over people.
ya it does seem that way. But, there is a pretty big cohort of people that are like this and they click on stuff to. So i'd guess it's more marketing to sad grind-set loners than deliberate propaganda.
Google search (for those who are still using it) comes up with a funny little Easter egg when you search for "Chicxulub asteroid" or "Chicxulub crater".
I did something similar with a Telegram bot in order to remind myself to look away from the screen, get up and stretch for a bit. However I started to ignore it in favor of "more pressing" tasks and now the chime has become just a faint signal somewhere on the outer edge of my awareness, too easily forgotten about.
You need to condition yourself to not ignore it or it will lose its effectiveness.
This could simply be an alibi to obtain funding or appease an ethics committee (if there is one involved). It's become a meme to label research as a "search and rescue" application to justify working on armed cyberdogs with wall-penetrating radar.
