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For the record, I'm not saying pop controls or abortions are bad, just that any time they get instituted on a large scale, male children get favored over females, which says something about economics, politics, social dynamics, and whose life/traits humans tend to value more.

This reminds me, I was going to say before, when someone asked for "objective" rather than subjective measures of favoritism: In all countries where they've instituted population controls and two-children limits, "social disequilibrium" in the form of drastic female shortages have soon...

Polystyle and Sloane-- "blended families" are a growing segment now, I want to read more about the dynamics of these from a theoretical pov. My brother and I are "irish twins" and all but if I count my cousins, with whom I grew up as if they were siblings, I have 18 brothers and sisters. (And...

To be honest what I was thinking was that most of the really music/media obsessed people I know are only children. They also have a sense of being special/having a special destiny a lot of the time, ime. Which can be a good thing. But it looks like a lot of 3s here...

I've had plenty of discussions about this with my brother, he generally agrees that the rules and expectations were very different for us. It's not that my parents liked him better, but that's how a small child will tend to perceive those kinds of discrepancies--as favoritism...(and, as a matter...

4 out of 22 are only children, which is just about the same proportion as the general pop.

Right. I'm not really talking about that sort of thing, more about gender role assignment and role assignment more generally (x is the "smart one" y is the "social one" for example). Most parents try to show love to their children in equal measure as far as that goes. What I was thinking of is...

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Good god that's insane. It's not mass murder that a VIRUS is getting passed around unwittingly for Christ's sake. It's called "welcome to planet earth"...

Ask your sister about that... I wonder what she thinks.

In most developed countries, it's rare to see more than 2-3 children in one family, although it does happen. So guessing that there are a lot of one sibling families out there isn't magic, just pretty obvious. But birth order/personality is a fun subject. I have a younger brother. My parents...

@peter That chef guy Anthony Bourdain just went to the taco stand outside the Tortilleria on Starr St. (Jeff stop in Bushwick) on his show. If you haven't been you should go it's amazing. The one with the big mural of mary on the factory door. I used to eat there all the time it was right...

...also, be glad they're on their meds for the moment and probably living at a Y...most homeless in NYC are schizophrenics, etc., with no families--and hence nobody to force them to stay in mental hospitals. there are laws here that prevent the state from keeping people on involuntary holds for...

Probably not... scientists are unfeeling, uncreative, uncultured swine after all. To go back to the prognosticating for a moment, I would guess a high proportion of Dissensians are 'only children' (= people who don't have any siblings) compared to the proportion within the general population...

Always liked that song A Day in the Life.

NWA were brilliant in their day. Who would deny it. I think if you (the royal "you", not luka you) think people who make hip-hop all take themselves completely seriously there are certain performative nuances flying over your head.

Really, if it weren't for the racism strewn throughout the Timecube manifesto, I'd think it was just too perfect -- and that Victor Vitanza did it for laffs.

As far as science goes, psychoanalysis is way on the far end of the spectrum under "not as hardline reductive". It's more reductive than saying something wistful like "we shall never know everything that's in the heart of man", yeah. But it's nowhere near as reductive as molecular biology...

Can I use this as an opportunity to say most of the people who call themselves 'Lacanians' online are sorely misguided, entirely ignorant of the past hundred years of scientific discovery, and basically stuck in an impenetrable bubble of stupid that's outright dangerous from a medical...

Not in public. I just read somewhere that they make you look short. In Cosmo, at the dentist.