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				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


One such developmental milestone many miss out on is the comprehension that multiple claims can be true at once. It can be true that Arday was a plagarist and compulsive liar who represents the worst failures of academia and DEI policies and that the number of articles and focus on him was pretty excessive.




It seems like what you are missing is that disagreement is not lack of comprehension. It certainly can be the case that the amount of articles written on him was excessive, that doesn't mean that it was.




As one tweet pointed out, it's quite blackpilling to consider the difference in both amount and style that The Spectator covered with Arday vs Epstein and his associates.




Why is it blackpilling? We had a teenager smiling the wrong way become an international scandal. An actual fraud in one of the world's top universities being exposed having such coverage seems like a nothingburger.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What you're asking for might exist, for example Emily Youcis has been hyping up the "Slop Canon" which is some sort of specialized tool for making music videos that I couldn't find a direct link to), and all the various coding tools are basically that, but for code, but I've never heard anyone mention anything like that.


Barring some sort of magical orchestration tool, I think this is the completely wrong way of going about this. Like mentioned in the previous Tinker thread, I've been working on the story board for my game's intro. Most of the AI usage was images, but I also decided to solicit feedback from AI (various models). I agree with @Skulldrinker, it sucks as an editor. It's ideas suck, it's criticisms are better, but very hit or miss, and in the event it's a hit, the proposed fix sucks. I still found it useful, but I'd rate it's effectiveness as slightly higher than the Rubber Duck method.


The workflow I'd recommend is:


    

  • write the thing yourself, no matter how cringe.
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  • if you're really insecure, ask AI for a rewrite, and pick and choose the parts you like
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  • ask it for criticism, and fix only only the things you think it has a point on
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  • if you're stuck, ask it for alternatives, but try to narrow the problem down  as much as possible. It's capable of coming up with decent lines, but I wouldn't trust it with anything bigger than that.
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Tragedy?




Yup. Why do you think we try to leave the North Sentinelese alone? We could educate them and bring them into modernity whether they like it or not. I thought the whole point is that doing so would result in exactly the kind of tragedy I talked about.




I have it on good authority that the disappearance of certain "particular expressions of traits" would be quite desirable indeed.




Why do you consider Mr. Sloot an authority?




C'mon, acceptance of HBD is basically consensus here.




Ok, and? If your point is "and therefore, doesn't that mean you should consider Hitler as worse than Stalin, as per your own argument", the short answer to that is "yes". You can see me hinting at that when I was talking about the tragedy that would result from an entire group of people going extinct. But that's not the end of the conversation, and before I go on with step 2, I want to make sure we agree on step 1. You yourself are kind of a good example for why this is necessary, as you seem to want to have it both ways "Hitler is worse than Stalin" AND "HBD bad", which is icoherent.




What isn't, and what I aim to inculcate, is acceptance of its full implications.




I think that's what kids call a "self report".




If you object to the contents of any of my above links, can you explain why?




Because I believe in the universal dignity of mankind, and because, unlike progressives, I don't believe lower intelligence makes one morally inferior?




If you do not, do you then object to @Chi_Wara's sentiment here? If so, what is he to do instead?




For a start he could stop throwing slurs at people, and borderline threatening to kill them.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I'm not sure what the 'two weeks' refers to.




Germany setting it's limit to 12 weeks. My point is that No matter the way you look at it, the US is the weird one because of the people who are permissive on abortion, not because of the people who are restrictive on it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Will not the new rulers find that it would be much cheaper than eternal welfare, and much cleaner than massacres




It's a "fun" rabbit hole to get into. Though your "cheaper than welfare theory" suffers a bit if you look into who euthanasia is targeted at in marketing materials.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Two weeks makes such a big difference to you, that if you don't get it, you will demand abortion until the moment of birth?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Thanks!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Any specific links / names / titles? I keep hearing this and find it mildly fascinating, but I never bothered looking for actual materials on it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Again, in the non-Canadian case you have to voice the wish repeatedly, a month apart.




First, I find the sudden switch to non-Canada to be a bit out of left field, wasn't the OP about Canada specifically? Why should we suddenly debate Belgium? Researching what's going on there is a fair bit more difficult given that they are non-English speaking countries.


Secondly, on paper this is also the case in Canada. In practice, they already took out someone who changed their mind and requested hospice care.




Stops a single doctor from sending of people on his own, which is better than the alternative.




This is only the case if the institution considers euthanasia as something to be avoided, if they think it's all fine, they'll be waving people through with bureaucratic indifference. Euthanasia is not an isolated case here, pro-trans people were insisting for years that there's rigorous diagnostic process, where there simply wasn't.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I just wish people were more open about it. What keeps happening instead is that people construct these elaborate arguments about how strict and rigorous a practice is, implying that their opinion would change if it turned out that it isn't, it turns out it isn't, and then they shrug citing a difference in values, while mocking you for being worried about slippery slopes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Damn, I knew the Internet is full bots, but I wasn't suspecting you of being one, let alone that you're Liberty Prime.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Both have stringent rules (terminal, suffering with no chance of improvement




False, Canada's track 2 euthanasia is applicable to non-terminal cases, and next year it will be extended to purely mental health cases, unless it's delayed again (it was originally planned for 2024, but was delayed to 2027).




voluntary and well considered




Words on paper, there's no evidence that it's either, and the medical profession in general doesn't have a lot of credibility in this topic.




review committee affirms)




What is supposed to be the relevance of this?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Both Finland and Poland invaded the Soviet Union




What are you referring to, specifically?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think "popping filter bubbles" is a misnorner. There is no filter, be it imposed or organic. No new information you reveal will make people go "oh my god, I had no idea, that's horrible!". People look at this and think it's fine, actually.


As for vocabulary, I have plenty, I'm just a bit burnt out seeing it all shrugged off by interlocutors having completely different values.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Tinker Tuesday for August 11th, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Whoa. I didn't see that one coming. What's your workflow there?




A combination of modest ambitions, and AI slop. I'm planning to tell the whole story with handful of stills, and some spoken dialogue. The workflow is:


    

  • generate a sketch
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  • throw it into PowerPoint (most of the dedicated storyboard software was either overkill, or expected me to be able to draw, rather than import a ready image)
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  • write dialogue
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The middle section of the story is 90% reusing the same sketch (there will be some animated details, but here I'm just describing them, rather than showing them explicitly). Most of the variation / actual work is in the beginning, to establish the scene, and will be at the tail end of it, with a little montage of the protagonist preparing for the alien invasion.


It's also possible that I'm overestimating my progress, let's see.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Tinker Tuesday for August 11th, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Didn't do much in terms of code, but for a change of pace I started working on a story board for the game's intro. I think I'm about 50% done.


How have you been doing @Southkraut?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


and in private by other transactivists.




How does that help when in public they enable them at every step?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Don't you kind of have to be racist for this to make sense? I can see the tragedy in an entire group of people going extinct, but only if there are inherent differences between groups, and losing one one of the groups means forever losing their particular expression of traits.


Otherwise "kill anyone who disagrees" doesn't feel all that different from "kill anyone who looks different than me", particularly when the demand to not disagree includes conversations about agricultural reform that have caused mass starvation.




Communist murders of Kulaks were an attempt to purify their society from within




They believed in a global revolution. To the point that I had commies tell me you can't say real communism has been tried until there's still capitalism in any part of the world.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


FreeTube is, IME, back to being completely useless now.




Please have the bare minimum of patience. Thrse things are usually sorted out after a few days / a week or so.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The parent poster fantasises about stoning




If that was his objection, maybe he should have quoted that part?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
One of these was not written by me.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for August 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The pain in my butt is still there.




This thread is going to start getting weirder as we grow older, won't it?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


While one can easily situate wokeness in a lineage with historic leftist/progressive movements, I think nineties political correctness (with its fixation on identity politics organised around race, sex and sexuality) has so much overlap with the wokeness of 2010s that it's fair to consider it a recurrence of the exact same ideology rather than an offshoot.




Yeah, but I'm saying the 90's were themselves a recurrence. For example, this:




Instead, the task for socialist feminists is to develop a cultural marxism that can adequately explain the intricate interactions of the oppressions of race, class, and sex; a cultural marxism that helps give a clearer articulation of our various voices: feminist, black, chicano, Native American, Asian, male, female, gay, lesbian, heterosexual; a cultural marxism which understands human needs-family, ritual, religion, sex, fun, insanity, pain, fear and so on.




Was written in the 80's, and the obsession with identity seems to already have been in place, and the author was not the one who came up with the idea either.


In the other comment you put forward a hypothetical of Nazism being defeated, but not condemned in the same way we do it now. I think one of the effects of that would be what we're seeing here - the ideas periodically resurfacing under a new coat of paint, and the old iterations being forgotten.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Exactly, people jump in with half-baked reason to condemn one side, even though another side was easily as murderous. "Oh no, our murders weren't as bad, because they're not race-based!". It makes absolutely no sense.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Some would go even further and describe Woke 1.0 as the "political correctness" movement in the 1990s.




...or the "New Left" of the 60's, or various far-left movements in early 20th century Europe from Spain to Russia, and and so on and so on, probably until the French Revolution, if not before...