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[–] AlteE@programming.dev 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Declining social and economic conditions affect birthrates more than this.

[–] Dippy@beehaw.org 1 points 7 minutes ago

People driving themselves towards reclusivity will reduce social conditions with permanence. Its a good policy.

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Black market GFs that shit is going to be unhinged.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 1 points 51 minutes ago

Psst, you looking for some banned waifus?

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip -2 points 3 hours ago

Many moons ago I was too, since women became pikcy looking for the Brad Pitt. Not anymore, not.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's definitely not healthy, but this isn't going to fix the birth rate.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Correlation <> causation meme

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

This probably won’t fix anything, but hopefully stops it from contributing to the issue further down the line

…meme

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It’s clearly not a healthy thing to exist.

It is the worst of para social relationships, amped up by 100x. And is only going to get more exploitative.

But just on a level of building up the skills to have a relationship, it’s training kids to expect someone who always says yes, always affirms them, will never challenge them to grow…

Relationships are hard. You have to learn to love people and how to do that, and you have to learn to not be selfish, which is the opposite of what LLMs tend to encourage.

[–] newtraditionalists@beehaw.org 12 points 1 day ago

Most importantly, you have to love imperfect people. And confront that you are imperfect as well. And thats ok!

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 48 points 1 day ago (27 children)

Make babies! It's illegal to be lonely!

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[–] Elting@piefed.social 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

AI girl/boyfriends are fucking addictions latching onto people vulnerbilities.

This ban is nothing but good, but no one thing will fix child birth rates, nor the reason for the addiction in the first place, I'll agree with that.

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know what else fixes the birth rate? Making life less shitty and giving people enough money to be able to raise children.

In the meantime, negative birth rate is just self-correction of asshole dictatorships. Can't make money line go up if birth line go down.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 22 hours ago

Sperm counts are tanking worldwide while PFAS chems are being legalized and clean energy projects are shut down in favor of fossil fuels. Nature doesn't gaf, and will correct the unhealthy scenario. Humans are not the fittest if they destroy their own species by toxifying the environment. There's only so much we can do with a sperm count of zero. Even in a handmaid's tale scenario, a multiple of zero is zero.

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