No. Even if they dramatically changed on all fronts, became a democracy, promoted LGBT+ and racial civil rights, broke up their concentration camps, stopped surveiling citizens, gave people true elections, and stopped cracking down on political opponents, their nation is facing an extremely serious gender and population imbalance, one that will have drastic impacts on their society and stability in the next 30 years. A large portion of their workforce is going to retire and cannot be sustained by the smaller population that are kids and teens now. There’s also a severe gender imbalance from the One Child Policy favoring boys over girls. There’s no getting off that train, and shit like incel culture and a ton of retirees causes bad political instability. Or wars, to distract from problems at home, like what Russia is doing.

It’s going to be a massive problem since they don’t have much in the way of immigration, and even if they got a ton of people pregnant now, they are still facing down a 10+ year deficit of people.

Hell, the only reason why we aren’t in the same boat is that we didn’t implement boneheaded policies like that, and immigration helps offset our birthrate being below the replacement rate of people. We depend on immigrants as much as they depend on us.

As long as it’s properly cleaned, it should be fine. STDs can’t last very long outside the body. However, you don’t have to use it if you don’t want.

Aww, sorry to hear that. Hopefully you can find an egg donor. We are two men, so we aren’t quite as fortunate that way. Finding another couple or woman who was interested in having children together would be very lucky. We’re hopeful, but it seems fairly unlikely. Surrogacy might be our best option.

I’m not your husband, but I’m completely satisfied with both of our bodies and would be a bit unsettled if either of us wanted surgery to enhance sex further. There are many products and things you can do to enhance time spent with your SO that don’t require surgery.

Surgery is pretty permanent, so I’d be damn sure you (in particular) and your husband both are interested.

Fwiw, I think smaller boobs are wonderful, and natural is best. A family friend had really bad complications from a boob job and ended up having to get them removed while she was very sick in the hospital.

Meetup.com is actually fairly decent about finding events in your area, it’s fairly diverse. Game nights, snowshoeing, park walks, mountain training for climbs, etc.

They are good, but chronically underfunded, and we need to copy virtually everything the European version of the FDA has banned.

I had the same problem, and I really only fixed it by getting a different mouse. You can look up different mouse reviews, the only mouse reviewer I knew was RocketJumpNinja, but there are probably others these days. He had lots of comparison videos which were helpful in determining which would work best for me and my large hands. (I ended up with the Corsair Ironclaw wired. Not the best mouse shape, but it works well enough).

More often than one would think. Apparently someone fell on their .38 revolver and it went all the way up :(

Best $12 I spent in awhile. Great coffeetable book, lmao. It’s a real conversation-starter. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/713sBBhxtPL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

Is surrogacy an option? We’re a same-sex couple, so we are in a similar boat.

I would love to have kids someday, but we aren’t financially prepared yet. I’m envious of people playing with their kids, or even just mundane tasks like taking them to school or going shopping with them on the back of their parents’ bike.

Unfortunately, I expect the next administration(s) to make it much more difficult for same-sex couples like us to try for AI + surrogacy or adoption, so we might be forced to wait. Hoping for expanded surrogacy and child credits, but even just writing that feels foolish.

Therapy has helped me through coming out, friends through depression, and family through intense family arguments.

There are many different types of therapy for different people, and different therapists that only work well with certain types of people. I wouldn’t discount it.

Check out the “all filters” button to see all categories. There are lots, and at various price points.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/ny/new-york

I have no problem with it, but it sounds like an exhausting way of making money.

Check out https://lemmy.world/c/aquariums for more specific help :)

Hmm, I’d probably give it broad-spectrum nutrients and see if that helps. I’m actually having my own issues this winter as well, though I haven’t pinned down the source. I think I may have been too aggressive with algae removal after cleaning up some hair algae with hydrogen peroxide. :P

Aquariums and indoor gardening can be fun in winter! Both can grow plants. Get some white grow lights and a cabinet and they work quite well.

Larger aquariums appear to be easier to manage than small ones, if you pick that up. Things happen more slowly in larger aquariums since things are more diluted.

Skiing is really fun in winter, downhill mountain biking in summer is awesome. Getting your $35 GMRS license allows you to use the more powerful walkie talkies, which are nice for skiing and biking, but also have entire communities of their own, when I switched on my mountain radio in town and accidentally found a group doing radio-based trivia on an island 30 miles south of me. Kinda neat!

There was a book I read called “Domesticated” that permanently changed my view on pets. The book had chapters broken out by animal and also had before/after pictures of certain animals from a century ago vs what we have now, after the influencer puppymills and such got their hands on them/inbred them to shit.

We have hideously deformed some animals that used to look much, much different a century ago, and those animals now pay a steep price in pain and life expectancy.

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