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ideology gap between young men and women across the world

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nothing to gain from hating yourself and everything to lose if you do

The stay-at-home boyfriend is now an economic trend as more women than men go to work

• This seems to be more of a long-term decline that’s led to more of a permanent shift going forward, or at least semi-permanent.
• It’s not women entering, it’s men leaving the labor force
• Part of the story: roughly 70% of the hours young men aren’t working are being spent on video games and recreational computer use. The economists calculated that improvements in gaming technology since 2004 alone can explain nearly half the increase in young men’s leisure hours.
• Female-dominated industries such as healthcare and social assistance has been growing, while male-skewing sectors like manufacturing, tech, finance, have been stagnant or contracting
• The pipeline is female, the growth sectors are female, and the jobs most protected from AI displacement — caregiving, healthcare, in-person services — are female. The jobs most exposed to AI are disproportionately held by men. More strikingly, Ullrich noted, is as women move into the workforce and up the corporate ladder, they create jobs for women, including daycare, pet care, and in-home services.
• The trend seems to be a one-way door with no cyclicality

The stay-at-home boyfriend is no longer just a TikTok trend. He’s a Federal Reserve data point. And the woman paying his rent is, increasingly, the American economy.

https://fortune.com/2026/03/28/men-home-women-workforce-economics-gender-change/

this is interesting and makes a lot of sense thinking about it

ageing population -> increase in healthcare and social assistance (predominantly women-skew)

women going to work -> need more babysitters/helper/daycare -> women-skewed jobs

ai taking jobs -> mainly male-skewed jobs aka men being displaced

given how civilisation is cyclical, maybe its a whole cycle between men and women in power

am unsure if the world lives to see another cycle before we kill each other or mother nature, but i definitely won't be alive by then!

the echo chamber phenomenon has been studied for years, and i believe i can extrapolate observations from political slants to most other topics

effectiveness in societal division increases exponentially when topics become more contentious

filter bubbles and echo chambers

https://www.fondationdescartes.org/en/2020/07/filter-bubbles-and-echo-chambers/

i remember debating this question with a few groups of friends years ago,

"Is TikTok +EV or -EV to society?"
ie. is TikTok a net positive or negative to society?

my stance is -EV in terms of long term effects

what are your thoughts?

the future of social marketing isn't a single brand handle, but a portfolio of audience-specific channels designed to meet distinct communities where they are

https://x.com/milkkarten/status/2044434181942575486?s=20

silence helps to stimulate neurogenesis effects

tldr; silence is good for you

Is silence golden? Effects of auditory stimuli and their absence on adult hippocampal neurogenesis

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4087081/#S10

why do i feel like society is about to hate influencers

it probably has been a thing for awhile, but it just feels more pronounced or voiced out recently

naturally especially against the obnoxious or ones that don’t deserve their fame

am thinking it is rooted is the class divide that is portrayed on social media whether it’s real or engineered

it is best to go radio silent whether influencer or not

operating from a model of loss

https://x.com/signulll/status/2044852192629366945?s=46&t=nluSw7cwYGx8zFxfoYi5Iw

this is interesting

clavicular being the epitome of a lost young man in the age of meaning crisis

https://x.com/minordissent/status/2044866727021011278?s=46&t=nluSw7cwYGx8zFxfoYi5Iw

racket sports increases lifespan

the highest-ROI activity for a longer life, pick up a racket

https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2044649799320998377?s=20

Related studies on racket sports and longevity

• Harvard Health Publishing: Racket sports serve up health benefits —
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/racket-sports-serve-up-health-benefits-2017060911780

• British Journal of Sports Medicine: Associations of specific types of sports and exercise with all-cause and cardiovascular-disease mortality: a cohort study of 80 306 British adults —
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/10/812

• PubMed: Sport and longevity: an observational study of international athletes —
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39129051/

Among male athletes, pole vaulting and gymnastics were linked to the highest extension in lifespan (8.4 years, 95% CI [6.8, 9.9] and 8.2 years, 95% CI [7.4, 9], respectively), while volleyball and sumo wrestling were the most negatively associated with lifespan (- 5.4 years, 95% CI [- 7, - 3.8]; - 9.8 years, 95% CI [- 11, - 8.6], respectively). The association between lifespan and popular team sports in males was positive for cricket, rowing, baseball, water polo, Australian rules, hurling, lacrosse, field hockey, minimal for rugby, canoeing and kayaking, basketball, gridiron football, and football (soccer), and negative for handball and volleyball. Racquet sports (i.e., tennis and badminton) exhibited a consistent and positive association in both male and female athletes, as shown by an extended lifespan of up to 5.7 years in males (95% CI [5, 6.5]) and 2.8 years in females (95% CI [1.8, 3.9]).

Frequent ejaculation (roughly 21+ times per month) is associated with health benefits, primarily a reduced risk of prostate cancer.