America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’ - eviltoast

The highlight for me is coming up with some weird pseudoscience justification for why it’s okay to hit your kids.

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    6 months ago

    “Suburbs of Philadelphia” is pretty funny to me - it’s a 2:15+h car ride there from Philly. Americans might consider 100 miles a short commute, but dang. When does a part of PA stop being a Philly suburb and start being a Pittsburgh suburb?

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      6 months ago

      @antifuchs

      50 miles, not 100 miles.

      25 miles each way is not that big of a deal. In college I spent six months commuting 40 minutes each way (traffic gods willing it wouldn’t be longer) from 31st street to Springhouse, PA.

      Valley Forge is definitely at the limits of what I’d put up with though, unless there’s good train service.

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        I was wondering if we are looking at the same map, and then it turns out there are two Valley Forges: one is a neighborhood in (yep!) the Philly suburbs, the other is a township next to York, PA. The latter is what I was referring to!

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          @antifuchs

          Ah, that explains it. I wonder which one they live in.

          Actually it’s probably the York one because “Valley Forge" by Philadelphia apparently isn’t really a town in its own right.