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[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

How does he know? Tastes different.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 24 points 2 days ago

You know what?
He's less concerned probably about younger people's sperm counts and this is him bragging about his own.

Like seriously, he only cares cause he views himself and his generation as the pinacle of manliness and is upset that people arent being like him. This is a narcissist's brag pretending to he concern. You see it all the time.

If he actually cared he would put effort into actually helping. He wants it to fix itself because he pointed out he has an issue with it and expects the world to bend to his whim. This is so much of that generation and with our politicians. They have their view they want the world to be first and look at how it actually is after if at all.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Our girls are hitting puberty six years early

Oh? What’s his supposed correct age for this?

I was taught in college that girls reach puberty earlier now than in prior centuries in part because they are exposed to light for more hours per day thanks to electrification, and puberty is in part triggered by an internal clock keeping track of how much light you’ve been exposed to in your lifetime.

Of course we leaned a lot of shit in college before the internet which turns out to be nonsense now. But I believe exposure to light is more important than we generally recognize. If you trace our evolution back to the beginning, you’ll find light sensitive cells far far earlier than anything involving actual vision.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Girls are having puberty without the consent of their congressmen?!

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Growth hormones in meat and dairy may also have had an effect, but I have nothing to back this up currently.

Let me know if it's completely incorrect.

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I looked in to it briefly, and it seems the growth hormones are a boogie man, but dairy consumption is still a factor in early menache.

Turns out kids that have too much dairy in their diet are often overweight, leading to early menache.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 9 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I learned something new today.

I also did hear that girls go through puberty sooner because girls now are fatter than they used to be due to a number of factors.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ya, my biology professor had a theory that it was because of estrogen being introduced to the water supply through birth control. After the pill was introduced breast size started increasing and girls started reaching puberty earlier. Makes sense.

[–] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

So! It's actually kinda crazy how accurate your professor might be. Because progesterone, the chemical in birth control, does indeed break down into estrogen under the right circumstances. The components of broken down progesterone pass through the body via urine, enter the water system, and - this is the important part - is far too small and difficult to be collected or filtered out of the water.

So people taking birth control have absolutley added an insane amount of estrogen to the water supply. And most tap water now does have low levels of estrogen in it because people have been taking birth control for 60+ years.

In that same time, the average age of puberty has continued to fall.

So, it sounds a bit wild, but that theory is far more feasible than most realize.

[–] xep@discuss.online 3 points 1 day ago

There're also other endocrine disrupters in the water such as pfoa/pfos etc. We should absolutely be filtering our tap water or drinking RO water if we can.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago

also increased nutrition.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I swear he's just such a no-good dirty lying bastard. Like I don't even have any words for him anymore. Whole world would be better off if that worm had finished the job.

The fact that the Kennedys lobotomized a young woman for no good reason and yet allowed this putrid pestilence to permeate our world. Shit.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

"I don't know the science behind it." Applies to his every claim.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

He’s the way he is because of how they treated Rose. He’s almost guaranteed to be ADHD, maybe ASD too. The psychologists at the time didn’t really recognize it until the 1960s, and that wouldn’t mean widespread acceptance of the idea. Before that they called it something else entirely, and the common use of drugs like Ritalin and Adderall for ADHD didn’t happen until the ‘80s even though they existed far earlier.

So this dude was shipped off to boarding schools because he’s a “problem child” and a Kennedy. He was uncontrollable in schools, couldn’t stick to anything, got kicked out of boarding schools, and the only reason any of the schools put up with his shit at all was because he was a Kennedy. Got into drugs because that can happen to untreated ADHD people and people who have f’d up home lives. All this was swept under the rug by the Kennedys because they didn’t want the press to get wind of another Kennedy with “mental problems” and a drug problem. So he went untreated and unhelped. The worst thing that could happen to him was that he was born a Kennedy.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 1 points 1 day ago

The brain worms didn't help either.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 days ago

He has proof, he and Trump and the rest have been able to get a lot of teenage girls pregnant. Release the Epstein files.

[–] PolarPirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How anyone can look at this man and believe anything he says is insane.

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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He knows for a fact, since he checked it himself.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 15 points 2 days ago

They both taste very different, which he finds concerning

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 58 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Today, the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone as a 65-year-old man. Our girls are hitting puberty six years early, and that’s bad, but also our parents aren’t having children.

Let's practice some critical thinking. Join me!

Teens have half the sperm count of a senior citizen? I'd maybe believe they're equivalent? Maybe? He's getting this from dropping teen pregnancy rates.

Teens have half the testosterone of a senior citizen? Boolshit on it's face. So senior men are more aggressive, more horny, stronger and hairier than teens? Stronger bones too! Also, seniors have more zits. Are you teen boys even trying any more?!

Parents aren't having children. OK. I'll let the audience stew on that one a minute.

We are below replacement right now. That is a national security threat to our country...

True! Not so much a security threat as an economic threat, maybe the same difference? So what's the solution? Kick out the foreigners? Hey yo, Japan! How that working out?

Money says these idiots do what Russia did about their shrinking birth rates. National holiday to stay home and fuck for the Motherland! (Not even joking here.)

[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Our replacement rate has been low for a long time, but our population has stayed relatively steady.... because of immigration.

Low replacement rate is only bad if you're racist/xenophobic. Otherwise there's usually (in a supposedly first-world country) an easy solution.

And if you think this is a dig on specifically the US, it isn't. Japan and South Korea are about to have insane difficulties with a very obvious and simple solution, and the US had that solution and are destroying it in favor of racism and xenophobia.

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 61 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Since we know he doesn't mess with science/empirical data...how did he get that information?

[–] HolidayGreed@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh no, so what do you propose we do about it?

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

After his mum is done with them, maybe

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[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 43 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Today, the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone as a 65-year-old man. Our girls are hitting puberty six years early, and that’s bad, but also our parents aren’t having children. Parents who want to have children do not have access. I have seven children. I feel that God has blessed me with that and I can’t imagine how different my life would be if I did not have that blessing.

RFK jr counting teenager sperm?

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[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 8 points 2 days ago

Ok Bob, I'll need you to successfully wank five times a day for a month.

Then we'll talk

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (2 children)

sighs I want off of Mr. Bones' wild ride.

I've said this before and I'll say it again: we live in the dumbest timeline.

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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I wonder if Cheryl Hines doesn't get invited to as many hollywood parties these days bc her husband is fucking the country

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I bet Doc Oz will have an OTC product for this very soon!

[–] bier@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago

Sperm blaster, its all natural, full of micronutrients and makes you cum like a whale (the reason seawater is salty).

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 21 points 2 days ago

And how has he been studied it?

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