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Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky speaking as the lead researcher at the Pronatalism Initiative and a big fan of mike duncan's podcasts, nope, getting teenagers to have more babies is not the plan. Quote Mike Duncan . @mikeduncan · 14h Replying to @mikeduncan Instead we see the real game. A combination of outlawing abortion and vastly restricting access to contraception will lead "women" ages 15-19 to start having more babies. That's the plan to make up the falling birthrate. Literally teen pregnancy. Think about that. 11:18 PM · Jun 12, 2024 · 21.5K Views

Change in births per 1,000 female population since 1995. Birth rates for 30 and over have risen, while birth rates for under 30s have fallen. The biggest drops have been in 15-19 (-42.9) and 20-24 (-48.3).

Charts showing birth rate per 1,000 female population from 1995 to current and total fertility rate (births per female) since 1995. In both instances, a counterfactual scenario assuming the same birth rate for those aged 19 and younger eliminates more than half of the decline in total birth rate.

A counterfactual scenario showing how much non-teen birth rates would have to rise in order to make up for the decline in teen birth rates since 1995. Births per 1,000 20+ female population would have to go from 50.8 to 57.0. In reality, this number has declined.

Everyone's least favorite psychopath took a shot at my pal @mikeduncan.bsky.social last night so here are some charts. Make sure to read the alt text for details. Lyman is full of it and there is no realistic scenario to get to a 2.0+ TFR w/o a massive reversal in the huge teen pregnancy rate drop.

Wow!

oh FUCK

THIS IS IT. if you're a faygo enthusiast, you now have the opportunity to cast your vote in the FINAL ROUND of the tournament. will it be ROCK & RYE or REDPOP? it's all up to you. click through and vote, right now, or forever live with your shame

best review we’ve gotten yet

just wanted to say that @junlper.beer sure is making a point on @illconceivedpodcast.com but i’m only half listening because i’m too busy posting. i also want to assure you that this is a sign of respect which will make more sense in context when you listen to this week’s bonus

who wants to have me on their podcast to talk about deus ex, thief, and/or system shock 2

the 2022 tucker carlson documentary we discuss was a surprising ground zero of normalizing some of the most insane pseudo health science figures like RFK jr and even maniacs like raw egg nationalist with insane fascist imagery

Tucker Carlson: The End of Men Podcast Episode · Ill Conceived · March 8 · 1h 43m

new episode of ill conceived where we talk about the myths around the lowering testosterone rates spread by people like tucker carlson in his “the end of men” documentary

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Tucker Carlson: The End of Men

sorry the episode is late this week. josh was too busy partying in amsterdam. the edit is finished and will be out either this morning if he can finish putting the finishing touches on it from the airplane home, or later this afternoon/evening if he can’t. ill conceived loves you!

something that an @illconceivedpodcast.com listener pointed out to me is that part of the reason reactionaries are so precious about the phrase “pregnant women,” beyond how it erases trans people, is that it conveniently obfuscates the reality that children can, and do, get pregnant too

many listeners let us know the new xbox ceo is a weird birthrate tech weirdo, so don’t worry we talked about it on this

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Jeffrey Epstein: The B-Side

7. YES! MICHIGAN! WITH MITCH AND GREGGY is a podcast about what’s happening in the great state of michigan. i went on to handicap the 33-flavor faygo pop tournament that they are officiating. this one is extra exciting because the listeners (that’s you) will vote on which drink wins!

In case Xbox wasn't ALL THE WAY fucked, Asha Sharma did a show about how blasting one out to a desktop AI companion will save the world (maybe, I'm not listening to it)

You should go listen to the @illconceivedpodcast.com though

And not buy Xbox stuff

we are aware that the xbox ai lady is also a natalist; thank you to everyone who tipped us and we will be talking about her on the b-side this week

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fans of both @illconceivedpodcast.com hosts I’ve finally started midstream with this epstein ep. Interested in their perspectives but not expecting much in the way of info new to me #wellIwasWrong #HarvardShouldFireNowakAndThenItself

I probably ruined the rest of my day by listening to what @illconceivedpodcast.com had to say about a bunch of things I didn't know yet around #epstein but holy shit did they get some good work.

So in case you're strong enough to take some new deep punches in your mind... listen to this.

we are on it

hey @illconceivedpodcast.com

lmao

Jeffrey Epstein Podcast Episode · Ill Conceived · February 20 · 1h 48m

Jeffrey Epstein

i’m very proud of the work we’ve been doing on this show and i think this episode is as good of a starting point as any

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Jeffery Epstein

i've been working through the @illconceivedpodcast.com backlog for the last couple of days and learning that there's a whole political-industrial complex of super weird people who view wombs as meat cannons in a permanent state of total natal warfare against their imagined enemies

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Surrogacy