Child birth doesn't make women lose their shape. The reason some women become fat after having a child is eating too much and laziness. Stop spoiling her and get her back in the kitchen.
I can spoil my wife if I want and I can afford. Kitchen, lab, office my wife is a shark everywhere she goes. Her competence out-did all of the men in her graduating PhD class so you fellas go to the kitchen and make her a sandwich while she works on her career. And don't talk about shit you don't understand:
That's very nice and commendable. However, there are a couple of points to be made about this: 1) The inventors of IVF didn't invent their technology so it could be used for cosmetic purposes. And that doesn't matter at all, because technology can and is used in ways far beyond what its creators intended or even imagined.
2) The problem with the idealistic home where children are raised by affluent, morally upright, well-adjusted, loving parents can be summed up in one word: scalability. The typical environment falls far short of the ideal. You strike me as belonging to an atypical income bracket, especially in the Chinese context. You also have strident and well-developed societal views that are atypical in any population. Bear this in mind when you consider the scalability of a proposal like "men just need to be men again, do it like I did it."
Man up and do it like I did for getting married. I know not everyone can do IVF 4 times to build a family LOL. The conversation was not about how to have kids; it was about how to combat extreme feminism so what I said had completely sufficiently covered the topic.
Scalability is a very important criterion in the face of a national emergency. To analogize this situation, let's imagine this national emergency is a boxer in a ring. I have the choice of sending one of two opponents into the ring against him: The first looks like he ate Mike Tyson - arms the size of tree trunks, traps up to his ears, titanium armour plates grafted onto his skull. Let's call boxer one "science, technology, and engineering."
Boxer two cuts a far more pathetic figure. He looks like a terminal cancer patient on a prolonged hunger strike. Why is he even under consideration? Well, it's said he used to be big back in the day. Not that I've seen it myself, but so the legends say. Let's call this boxer "traditional family values."
Of the two, which would you bet on? Which would you bet China's future on?
That analogy was completely nonsense and uneeded. It literally added a strange complication to an otherwise straight-forward situation. The answer is that you tackle a national emergency with everything you have, science, technology, traditional values, government policy implementation, EVERYTHING.
Remember that all imports of Russian oil derivatives in the EU have a limit (price cap). Of course that applies to any country that sells it in the EU serving as a springboard to Russia.
This means that Russia must sell oil, gas and derivatives at an unsustainable discount for its economy, which is highly dependent on oil and derivatives... In the medium or long term, the Russian economy will continue to worsen, and its blackmail of war (gas prices for the EU) ended up becoming a double-edged sword, and in the long run Europe will continue to buy gas, at normal prices, while Russia will have to sell it cheap, which will benefit third countries more than Russia itself ... Europe was not going to freeze over from Putin's outbursts and infamous invasion, and time has only shown how weak Russia is economically.
Russia and China don't need the West. The West needs us.
“In April last year, the IMF forecast that the Russian economy would contract by 8.5% in 2022 and by a further 2.3% this year. As it turned out, GDP fell by just 2.1% last year, and this year the IMF is forecasting a small rise of 0.7%"
“The sanctions are a joke. Russian-Chinese trade rose 41.3% in the first four months of the year to $73 billion, financing Putin’s war. China’s exports to Russia were up 153% in April 2023 alone; their rise more than cancels out the decline in German and French trade, as Robin Brooks, of the Institute for International Finance, points out.
“China’s trade has also shot up with Belarus, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Turkey, all with easy, porous access to Russia.
“No wonder Russian society hasn’t imploded. There may no longer be any McDonald’s in Moscow, but sales of Chinese cars are buoyant. We were told Russia couldn’t survive without Western technology, but it is switching instead to China’s rival systems.”
