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[–] unconsciousvoidling@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I fucking hope so. The last thing this world needs is more people.

Well, at least not the kind that want to breed with anime girls.

[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 36 points 9 hours ago

Anon invents a conspiracy to explain his crippling hentai addiction

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 30 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Your average 4channer didn't need anime girls to stop them having sex.

Their hygiene and misogyny did most of the heavy lifting there.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Lots of people pass through phases of maturity, from jerking it to weird cartoons when puberty hits to hanging out in the bar till last call after your second divorce.

You're going to be distressed to discover how many people on 4chan are fucking. Horniness isn't reserved for straight white weebs and there are plenty of women who are prone to making bad decisions, especially as they get older and the pool of eligible bachelors shrinks.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 hours ago

It's true, there are actually people who seek out those kinds of people. Story time!

My ex had this thing, maybe a fetish, about being desirable to...social outcasts? I'm having trouble finding an inoffensive term for them. Mix well 1 kg of gamer guys and 0.5 liters of unwashed weeaboo, add a dash of Axe body spray, and place in a fedora overnight. Sprinkle liberally with crinkly neck hair (or are they pubes?) before serving raw.

Anyhow, she enjoyed helping these guys lose their virginity. She was fairly attractive, an objective 6-7/10, but dressed well and was very charming. She told me about one guy she met through an anime club in college. When they tried to have sex the first time, he was flaccid and was too embarrassed to verbalize why. Apparently he turned on his computer and queued up some hentai, which he silently watched until he could achieve an erection. They had sex multiple times and each required a hot hentai injection.

I didn't find out about any of this until we'd been together for over two years. I initially had no issue with it beyond her having hidden it from me. Then she wanted to resume the behavior in an open relationship, immediately or she was leaving. I became promptly single.

[–] Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 28 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

I feel like an old man cause anime girls look weird to me. I see this stuff, the obviously hyper sexualized cartoon girls, and I'm always like "you guys know about pornhub, right? Pictures of real women, videos, millions of them are a click away!" So like, wtf is up with the cartoon fetish? I'm not shaming it, I just don't get it.

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 14 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I had that exact thought about the anime girls, read your comment, silently agreed with it, upvoted it and then immediately looked at my figurine of Jessica Rabbit and said "ah, fuck" out loud.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

So like, wtf is up with the cartoon fetish?

Sexual appetites are informed by the images of people you familiarize yourself with. Not usual for people to seek out partners who remind them of old friends or family members, because that's the image they've imprinted on as attractive.

If you surround yourself with images of japanese cartoons (particularly horny ones, particularly when you're young and impressionable and you'd fuck a fire hydrant on a hot day) its not going to be hard to fixate on cartoons fucking.

If you surround yourself with booze and people your own age who are equally horny, you likely won't have that temptation.

[–] PornPlane@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 13 hours ago

It's a few things (for some people). One is artstyle/impressionism, another is that some of the stuff depicted is either impossible or less paletable with IRL people. Some is storytelling.

Erotic artwork has been a real thing for a while. If you want, I'll elaborate later. I might edit this after a while when I can be bothered to expand on this.

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Same here (am old man) but in the context of this post one can make the argument that pornography in general is reducing the population. Not necessarily a bad thing.

[–] Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Better than the war, famine, pestilence, forced sterilization usual routes

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Anything to keep from having to provide sex education, birth control, socialism!

[–] red@lemmy.zip 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

anime girls are drawn keeping perfection in mind, by logic they will always belre attractive than real woman. idk what is so hard to get it

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 41 minutes ago

I find them cute but not sexually attractive. They're all very young women (high school or younger) with out of shape proportions.

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 138 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Except they don't want human population to decrease. They need more and more people at the bottom of the global ponzi scheme to prop it up.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Conservatives say that's what they want, but they only really want to subjugate women. If they actually cared about population totals first, they would be working hard to make it so everyone who wanted a kid could get one.

One core problem developed countries are experiencing, in terms of demography, is the mismatch between skills development and biological fertility. It takes people into their 30s or even 40s before they're financially able to support children. For millions of couples, by the time they can financially support a child, the window has already closed. It takes so much education and experience to be competitive in advanced economies that it creates this mismatch.

Now, we could have mass government-sponsored surrogacy. But that has so many ethical problems, that there is a reason no government has tried it. Yet, there is a near-term technology that we are on the verge of, but very little research dollars are dedicated towards. That is artificial gestation.

When was the last time you heard Musk or any of the other demographics-obsessed tech bros throw a few billion at developing this tech? This technology, along with other advanced reproductive technologies, could really do a lot to raise the birth rate in developed countries. And there are other techniques that could also be leveraged with this, such as techniques to create egg and stem cells from skin samples. There's a lot of near-term reproductive technologies waiting in the wings that could have a substantial effect on the birth rate, but that we simply haven't fully developed yet.

In fact, governments could cover the entire cost of the artificial gestation process if they want more people that badly. Ideally, anyone who is in the position to raise a child should be able to fill out an application, have some gametes created via a skin biopsy, and have an infant grown in a womb tank. And have the whole thing paid for by the State Population Initiative, or whatever you want to call it.

There are millions of couples out there who have the financial means to raise a child, but simply are biologically incapable of having children. We typically flippantly tell these people, "just adopt!," as if there is some vast supply of infants in orphanages just waiting for adoption. In truth, adopting an infant involves years-long wait lists and costs a hundred grand or more. But there are millions of couples that would love to have biological children, but simply can't. They're couples with reproductive issues, LGBT couples, couples that have aged out, etc. If conservatives actually cared about demographics, they would be doing everything they can to make it cheap and easy for these millions of couples to get the children they want. And while mass surrogacy isn't really viable, a mature artificial gestation technology would be a game-changer.

And yet, you never see someone like Musk suggesting we develop these technologies, let alone pouring some of his billions to their advancement. The truth is that hand-wringing over population is just the latest dog whistle against women's rights. Their first goal is to subjugate women, the population issues are just an excuse.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Just want to point out, even with billions, an artificial womb would still not be seen for decades.

Even something like growing a kidney has been incredibly difficult. A whole human would require essentially first fully understanding the whole process of pregnancy and how a fetus affects the body, and then maybe artificial organoids as well. It would probably be easier to figure out how to grow a brain first.

Basically this is like the old saying of how you can't make 9 women make 1 baby in 1 month.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

IDK. Looking at that wikipedia article, the progress looks pretty good.

Also, just on a conceptual level, growing a whole embryo may be a lot easier than growing a single organ. Organs really aren't designed to grow by themselves. A fetus is designed to grow and develop. It needs a nutrient supply.

But I think of it as the difference between trying to figure out how to grow plants in aquaponics vs trying to somehow coax plant cells to grow a flower without the rest of the flower plant present.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

*A flower with seeds, unless you want a bunch of sterile future humans too.

Growing an embryo is easy. Growing an embryo into a fetus is hard. Growing a fetus into a baby is still very very unknown. There's a LOT of signal pathways to figure out with many hormone mixtures as well. It wasn't until recently that only one aspect of sex development was even somewhat figured out:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181215141333.htm

And that's not even getting into more complicated things. It's still not understood why some people are born heterosexual, others homosexual, bisexual, etc. But it is thought to have something to do with development in the womb (look up how the odds of being a gay man go up the more kids a woman has). If something like orientation is affected by womb development, what else is? Intelligence? Empathy? Facial Features?

And if you get it wrong, the result can be unethical. You could end up with many humans who have no empathy, or as I mentioned, sterile, or whoops everyone is hetero now, or all of them have severe learning disabilities.

And if you get it right, guess what the rich will do? Gattica btw.

A lot of progress has been done, yes, but there's still way, way more. People forget the human genome wasn't even mapped out until the early 2000s, and less than 50 years ago people could still smoke in a lot of hospitals.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Sure it would be difficult. It wouldn't be easy. Like anything, you don't just start with humans. You start with mice and work your way up from there. But you're right, it would I suppose not be a near term thing. But still, for people like Musk, who always insist how they are so concerned with the future 'survival of humanity?' If you're that worried about underpopulation, to the point you're willingly throwing away civil rights, wouldn't such a thing be worth funding, even if it takes a century to figure it out?

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Musk is full of hot air and bs tho

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Yeah its actually the opposite, anime is supposed to make people horny. - Source: i made it up

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I actually believe this why South Korea is pushing K-Pop so much. To make young girls horny and procreate more to fix low population fertility.

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

I don't think this strategy is working.

There is definitely strategy behind some of these things yes

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

They will invent a way for us to get anime girls pregnant. That's when you need to start getting scared.

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[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 102 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The only part of this that's true is that Australia has invasive rabbits.

[–] kyle@lemm.ee 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I went down a rabbit hole (heh) trying to see if it was true.

And no, turns out it's just a bunch of pesticides and more recently (since the mid 90s) they apparently infect them on purpose with something that destroys their liver.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I heard they control mosquitoes this way. They release a ton of sterile male mosquitoes, the males mate with females, and the female lays unfertilized eggs. This dramatically cuts down on the mosquito population.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 9 hours ago

The sexy fakes is from mosquitos. And they're not sexy fakes, they're just like the other male mozzies but sterile

Australia has only used biological control. The stuffed rabbit host of a childrens' tv shows was named Mixie for one of the biological controls: mixomatosis - a rabbit virus used in the past.

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[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 37 points 22 hours ago

It's not like those were going to breed anyway tbh

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 76 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So, uh, what does a fake rabbit that is more attractive than a real rabbit look like?

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You wanna know or you asking for a friend?

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have a rabbit that I would like to make a good impression on.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 points 13 hours ago

Try role playing as a hunter with a speech impediment

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 23 points 1 day ago

Lola Bunny.

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

That’s a fair point until you realize that humans are a lot smarter than rabbits. (Supposedly)

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 51 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Rabbits can be trained to use a litterbox. When is the last time you saw a human using a litterbox?

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have you ever seen a toilet?

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[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don’t follow furry fetish stuff, personally, so never

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

a portion of humans is, yes

One of these days I hope to join that group.

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[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago

Damn that Bill Gates!

[–] Speiser0@feddit.org 23 points 1 day ago

Japan does have a too low birth rate now.

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