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I’m not having kids. I’ve resigned myself to living out my days doing the best I can to minimize my impact on the world and being as happy as I can be. I have no hope for the future, but I think I’m old enough that I’ll escape before the absolute hell of it all occurs. But even that is me banking on things happening slower than we think they might.