Young father to three, husband, God's design respector. I help family men navigate the new world.
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Peak Family Man Mag retweeted
Pit bulls are the most dangerous breed of dog and it’s not even close. This is partly due to temperament - which is why the breed should be universally sterilized and permitted to die out - but it’s also due to the fact that many pit bull owners are irresponsible pieces of shit who don’t bother to control or train their extremely dangerous animals. Owning a pit bull is like carrying around a loaded gun that can spontaneously fire off aimed rounds of its own volition, and should require a special permit.
Letting a pit bull off its leash in public should be a felony, just as if you’d fired a gun, and should get you about the same amount of time. If anyone is injured, then the sentence should be increased based on the severity of the injuries. If someone dies as a result, then the person who failed to leash the animal should be charged with second degree murder and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Pit bulls are more dangerous than loaded guns, not less. Guns don’t behave unpredictably. They work the same way every time. They don’t suddenly turn in your hand and shoot you in the face, or leap up and execute a child with no one’s finger on the trigger, or shoot someone you’re not aiming at. In spite of a million confessions to a million murders, guns don’t just go off randomly. You have to pull the trigger. With pit bulls, the trigger is invisible and you can’t predict the explosion.
69% of fatal dog maulings are committed by pit bull type dogs. They are responsible for 27% of ER dog bite admissions, 71% of dog bite cases that require multi-staged reconstructive surgery or orthopedic intervention, and 47% of facial bone fractures caused by dog bites. Of children who were bitten badly enough to require overnight hospitalization or major surgery, 42% were attacked by pit bull type dogs. 48% of pit bull injuries evaluated by ER physicians end up requiring surgical intervention, a rate three times higher than any other breed.
All of this is because of their style of attack: while most dogs bite and release, pit bulls bite, hold, and shake their heads, tearing flesh and crushing bone. They are also over two and a half times more likely to bite in multiple locations than any other breed.
This month alone, four different attacks involving 11 dogs have made headlines in the US. In two cases, the victims were attacked by their own dogs.
Peak Family Man Mag retweeted
3 interesting findings:
1. The assumption that birth rates are falling across society in general is not true. People who identify as conservative are having almost as many children as they were decades ago. The decline is overwhelmingly among those on the progressive left.
When you see and hear the stories of 9/11 victims, they are all normal people.
Men with families. Middle-aged married women.
If it happened today, it'd be a bunch of single people. Or childless married men. Plenty of gays and minorities and a handful of trans.
Different world.
I was on the bus on my way to elementary school. My buddy Nick was sitting in front of me. He said "did ya hear? A plane flew into the world Train center!"
I said huh, it must have gotten confused with the world Plane center.
I don't think we watched it on the news in school. I remember going out for recess, a clear blue sky day, and it being very quiet outside. No airplanes overhead, hardly anyone driving around.
Peak Family Man Mag retweeted
Folks, if you’ve been exposed to Eastern philosophies and felt confused, I want to reassure you: that’s normal and your spiritual instinct is healthy.
Contrary to what you’ve read or heard:
-reality is not an illusion
-your sense of self is critical
-thinking matters
-you are the source of your thoughts
-you can and should do something about your thoughts, not dismiss them
-desire is fundamental to your life
-attachment is essential
-you do not need years of practice, not even months, to improve your mind considerably
Peak Family Man Mag retweeted
The fact that you have to say "stay-at-home" mother like some special weird designation is already an indictment of our society
Peak Family Man Mag retweeted
I remember learning about this tech years ago. For those who don't know: drones with very-hi-res cameras fly high overhead with a wide angle view and record everything, all day. They don't follow any one person or car. They record *everything*.
Then, say there is a person of interest, and they want to learn where they live or who they meet. They just mark the person on the video and the software "rewinds time" to follow them backwards everywhere they went.
They can see who you met, mark that person in the software, and "fast forward time" to see where that person went. And so on.
It has been live for at least 9 years I believe. Nothing is ever deleted.
Peak Family Man Mag retweeted
Marriage was understood as something you entered and served, not something you continuously evaluated according to how well it served you.
You didn't remain married because you continually felt in love. You learned how to love because you'd promised to remain married.
Marriage can't endure if it's merely an agreement between two sovereign individuals to satisfy one another. It becomes durable when husband and wife understand themselves as custodians of a good greater than either of them.
Peak Family Man Mag retweeted
Everyone, myself included, blames the Boomers for everything
But I think we really need to start reassessing THEIR parents if we want to get to the root of the issue. Because that is where the civilizational chain really broke
Everything about the Greatest Generation SEEMS great at first blush. They endured extreme hardship during the formative years (depression & WW2) and had big families afterwords. Most millennials and older remember they had devoted marriages. Even when we had divorced parents, our grandparents were usually something to idealize
And yet... if you speak to boomers, you start to realize their parents were by and large VERY uninvested in relationships with their own offspring.
For the Greatest Generation, obedience was the point with children. "Children should be seen and not heard." They were not nurtured. They were not mentored. They were left to their own devices and made to do as they were told, by force if necessary.
Then when they were adults, they were given everything without any explaining how or why it worked. They were simultaneously neglected emotionally and coddled economically
In other words, the more stories I hear from boomers (and they are not attacking their parents, just describing them), the worse parents I think that generation really was
GG husbands ran the roost, and the wives totally and completely served them (who needed the love, as many were very emotionally closed off from all their burdens)
But the kids were an afterthought. The men and women of that generation were trauma bonded with each other, and while they saved and built for the future on paper, it's not clear how much they believed in legacy in their hearts. Most of the laws that have come to define boomer subversion of the west were actually passed by their GG parents (who ran western nations through the 90s)
So it's really unsurprising the boomers simply burned through their inheritance on autopilot, either worshipping their parents legacy without any leadership themselves (the right) or rebelling against it / subverting it (the left)
They were like the stereotypical rich kids: spoiled with opportunities because "daddy made it happen", yet never having a relationship with dad because he was too busy for them
That's why as we navigate this collapse of institutions, we have to remember that it's not enough to help your kids move forward economically
You need to give them the emotionally, intellectual, and spiritual tools to be able to hold the CULTURE you want built in their hearts
We need more than just builders, we need teachers. We need to make sure our kids UNDERSTAND what we didn't about how the world works, so they can skip our difficult and painful learning process and direct their energy constructively from the very beginning of their lives
There was never a WHY passed on from GG to Boomers. That WHY - the substrate of tradition - is what we need to recreate.
Abandoning this WHY was the original mistake, and it's our mission these next 20 years to rediscover it, so our children can have a world worth living in and for once again
Peak Family Man Mag retweeted
Flockophobia the ultimate retard right. Actually collaborating in anarchotyranny.
Yes let’s make everyone less safe so we can put on tri-cornered hats and play pretend we live in a Free Community of Citizens and not a GTA VI slave labor hellscape. Now where did I put my musket
🚨 JUST IN: Gov. Ron DeSantis' FDOT is hereby TAKING DOWN Flock cameras statewide over privacy concerns in state rights-of-way
All existing permits for automated license plate readers, even installed by local law enforcement, in state highway rights-of-way — are REVOKED
FDOT is also “ceasing the issuance of all future requests for LPR systems within its jurisdictional authority"
DESANTIS A FEW DAYS AGO: "What the HELL is going on with this?!”
“I don't want to have this become a surveillance state.”
“I see a police officer using this to track his ex-girlfriend?”
“I'm all about having law enforcement have tools to be able to hold criminals accountable.”
“I think that's important that we do that. And no one's been stronger on law enforcement than me.”
“I think this has happened very quickly. I think people are right to be concerned.”
“I wanted an AI bill of rights that could have addressed this and others, other issues.“
“It needs to be overhauled for SURE.”
“These cameras, the license plate readers, I think it's out of control.”
Peak Family Man Mag retweeted
Fun fact: the most commonly reported outcomes of trauma are personal strength, closer relationships, greater appreciation for life, belief in new possibilities, as well as deeper spiritual and/or religious development.
I think grief teaches you in its backwards way, to notice the magic while it’s still happening—to look up at a sky full of stars and realize you’ll miss this exact night someday. You really begin to see how rare it is to be exactly here, beneath this sky, with all these people, in all the histories of time, getting to live this little piece of your life…..the perfect “present”
Peak Family Man Mag retweeted
"A woman's place is in the home not because she isn’t good enough for the world but because she is too good for it. A woman’s precious gifts are squandered when she gives herself to the making of a dollar rather than a home. The world, its corporations, bureaucracies, and agencies are profane entities that are unworthy of a woman’s devotion and are unable to value the feminine charism. These profane entities coarsen, poison, and suck dry the maternal heart."Â
-G. C. Dilsaver
Peak Family Man Mag retweeted
In any relationship, there will be frightening spells in which your feelings of love dry up. And when that happens you must remember that the essence of marriage is that it is a covenant, a commitment, a promise of future love. So what do you do? You do the acts of love, despite your lack of feeling. You may not feel tender, sympathetic, and eager to please, but in your actions you must BE tender, understanding, forgiving and helpful. And, if you do that, as time goes on you will not only get through the dry spells, but they will become less frequent and deep, and you will become more constant in your feelings. This is what can happen if you decide to love.
Peak Family Man Mag retweeted
"Here, for your consideration, is a set of guidelines for being helpful to your children without being too helpful and for avoiding the tendency to give them advice that they don't want or need.
1. When your child asks for help or advice, give only what was asked for.
2. Before offering unsolicited help or advice count to ten.
3. Before trying to protect your child from danger, think of the potential benefits as well as the potential costs of the "dangerous" behavior.
4. Be on your child's side, not an opponent.
5. Remember that your child is not you and is not a reflection of you.
6. Your goal as a parent is to foster your child's development, not to impress other adults with your parenting skills.
7. The most significant and potentially valuable influence you can have on your child comes from macromanagement of the environment, not micromanagement of your child's behavior. "
- Peter Gray
Peak Family Man Mag retweeted
Last week I posted a new paper with Patrick Norrick: “Terra Incognita: The Economics of a Shrinking World.”
We chose the title deliberately. No society in history has experienced the fertility levels now seen in South Korea, China, Thailand, Colombia, Chile, and many other countries. Our knowledge of the causes (and of the economic consequences) remains far more limited than most public discussion acknowledges. Much of what we write is, at best, educated conjecture.
The paper also struggles against a space limit. We wrote 20,000 words, far from the 250,000 or so we would need to address some issues in more detail (if I had the time and resources to hide away for a year, I could do that, but not now). That means some ideas are only sketched.
Nonetheless, we emphasize several important points.
First, fertility has fallen very fast everywhere: rich and poor countries, east and west, north and south, conservative and liberal societies, religious and non-religious societies (with the exception of the Jewish population of Israel; fertility has also collapsed among the Muslim population within the pre-1967 borders), you name it. Even in sub-Saharan Africa we see fast and unprecedented drops in fertility (alas, from a high initial level).
Second, and this is really interesting, the fertility collapse has been concentrated in poor and lower-middle-income countries much more than in rich countries. By now, income per capita and fertility are positively correlated within OECD countries. We conjecture this will hold globally in a few decades.
Third, and related to the second point, the fertility collapse has been concentrated among poor and lower-middle-income women within countries. In countries such as the U.S., the rich and highly educated now have more children than the poor and less educated.
Fourth, we document why we do not understand the data from the U.N. World Population Prospects. See, for example, Tables A.1 and A.2.
Fifth, we explain why some proposed mechanisms struggle when confronted with the data.
A more subtle point is at work here. Many commentators do not seem to understand the difference between proximate causes and ultimate causes. Yes, births might have gone down because fewer women are in long-run relationships. That is the proximate cause. But you need to explain why fewer women are in long-run relationships (the ultimate cause), and saying that they spend more years in school, to take one example, does not get us very far. Why do they spend more years in school? Once you start down the whole chain of reasoning, things become much harder than they seem.
The paper can be found here:
sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Demog…
Comments always welcome!
