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America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’ (www.theguardian.com)
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The highlight for me is coming up with some weird pseudoscience justification for why it’s okay to hit your kids.

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[–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Their next kid will be named Ultima Thule, and they will claim very loudly that this is just because they are so big fans of astrology and that they never heard of the controversy regarding the name.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    jfk

    Ultima Thule was a Swedish white nationalist band back in the day.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    @gerikson The name predates the white nationalist band by *several centuries*. Per wiki: "In classical and medieval literature, ultima Thule (Latin "farthest Thule") acquired a metaphorical meaning of any distant place located beyond the "borders of the known world"."

    I suspect they renamed the KBO Arrokoth precisely to avoid the unfortunate recent connotations of the name.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Oh I am aware of the term's history[1], but just like the humble swastika some stuff can become tainted (although I believe that Ultima Thule the band is only locally infamous here in Sweden). I do know that if someone presented themselves as Ultima Thule I'd do a spit-take, but so would I if I was presented by someone named Titan Invictus.

    Arrokoth is a fucking metal name tho.

    [1] pretty sure the first I heard of it was in one of Evan S Connell's great collection of essays.

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