Like how every zoo is a petting zoo if you aren’t a wimp about it.

Interesting BBC article about the shortage of men in Latvia: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-11493157

The article boils it down to a combination of poverty/unemployment and toxic macho culture, which leads men to depression, alcohol abuse, and risky behavior. Suicide rates are the highest in the EU, and over 80% of those suicides are men. Latvia has the highest proportion of single mothers in the EU.

Another relevant SMBC comic:

Those Gulf states also have a huge amount of immigrant labor, and it’s largely men.

Nah, it’s largely driven by poverty and war and traditional gender roles. Men move abroad looking for work, leaving their wives back home to maintain the rest of the family. Men seek a temporary escape from poverty by abusing alcohol and drugs, or engaging in other high-risk activities. Men die fighting in the military.

To add between 2. and 3.: I choose to spend my limited time and energy on managing self-hosted infrastructure rather than on other hobbies or life demands.

“The mark of success”

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11347488/

The butt of the stock goes against your shoulder, not in your armpit!

The sun never sets on the British French empire!