Blake Ennis

Arthur Miller

@redlion570254 · Jan 12, 2026 9:11 am

CMV: People who raise children create a positive externality for society and should be compensated for it.

A positive externality is when someone’s actions create benefits that others receive without directly paying for them. I think raising children clearly fits this definition in modern societies.
Parents privately bear large costs: direct financial costs (housing, food, healthcare, education), opportunity costs (career slowdown, reduced mobility, lost income), time, stress, and risk (children may require lifelong care).
Meanwhile, society broadly benefits from the outcome:
\* Children become future workers and taxpayer
\* They fund pensions, healthcare, and public services. They reduce the fiscal burden per capita by maintaining worker-to-retiree ratios.
\* They contribute to economic growth, innovation, and institutional continuity
These benefits are socialized, while the costs of producing them are mostly privatized.
Importantly, child-free adults still benefit from:
\* Pensions funded by future workers
\* Healthcare systems sustained by the next generation
\* A functioning economy and stable institutions
To be clear, this is not a moral argument about whether people should have kids. Reproduction itself is a personal choice. But economically, it seems clear ot me that having child

Mihajlo Peković

@tinygoose911989 · Jan 12, 2026 2:11 am

HP Laptop had no thermal paste from the factory

**TLDR**: If you work Service Desk or Desktop support at your company and use HP computers, double check the factory actually applied thermal paste.
For some background, I work on the Service Desk at my company. I've been using an HP ZBook Firefly G11 14-inch laptop for almost a year, with the Intel Core Ultra 7 165H CPU, 32GB RAM, RTX A500 graphics. I started having some strange issues with it: it would sometimes feel really sluggish, the screen would have some strange artifacting and "glitching out", the fan would run extremely loud. Just stuff that didn't happen when I first got the laptop, but started progressively getting worse as time went on.
So last week, I decide to grab a new-in-box ZBook Firefly G11 from our shelf, image it, and copy my data over to it so I can move over to that machine, with the idea that I would wipe and reimage my old one, see if the issues I had previously were still occurring, and then escalate to HP warranty support if they were.
I again started having strange slowness issues with this new laptop, and the fan would ramp up really loud. Over the weekend, I decided to run Cinebench R23 just to verify I was getting the level of performance one would e