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The neighborhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised with a series of events which seem to run on lines parallel to those of what was known to the writers of headlines and "The Kensington Horror," or "The Stabbing Woman," or "The Woman in Black." During the past two or three days several cases have occurred of young children straying from home or neglecting to return from their playing on the Heath. In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a "bloofer lady." It has always been late in the evening when they have been missed, and on two occasions the children have not been found until early in the following morning. It is generally supposed in the neighborhood that, as the first child missed gave as his reason for being away that a "bloofer lady" had asked him to come for a walk, the others had picked up the phrase and used it as occasion served. This is the more natural as the favorite game of the little ones at present is luring each other away by wiles. A correspondent writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to be the"bloofer lady" is supremely funny. Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture. It is only in accordance with general principles of human nature that the "bloofer lady" should be the popular role at these al fresco performances.


				
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The neighborhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised with a series of events which seem to run on lines parallel to those of what was known to the writers of headlines and "The Kensington Horror," or "The Stabbing Woman," or "The Woman in Black." During the past two or three days several cases have occurred of young children straying from home or neglecting to return from their playing on the Heath. In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a "bloofer lady." It has always been late in the evening when they have been missed, and on two occasions the children have not been found until early in the following morning. It is generally supposed in the neighborhood that, as the first child missed gave as his reason for being away that a "bloofer lady" had asked him to come for a walk, the others had picked up the phrase and used it as occasion served. This is the more natural as the favorite game of the little ones at present is luring each other away by wiles. A correspondent writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to be the"bloofer lady" is supremely funny. Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture. It is only in accordance with general principles of human nature that the "bloofer lady" should be the popular role at these al fresco performances.



				

				

				

				

				

					

					

					
					
					

					
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
A lottery would be far better than the BS system the US has at the moment. It would also completely destroy the value of the Ivy League as now the people in Harvard aren't on average much (or at all) better than the people going to UPenn, they're just luckier and so the cultural cachet of a Harvard degree goes away almost entirely.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There fundamentally aren't enough "Won a medal at an international olympiad" people each year worldwide to fill the whole Ivy League even if you are exceptionally broad with how you construe "international olympiad". These sorts of people don't want to be full of "The best" fundamentally but rather there are other reasons.


Similarly there are also too many excellent law students each year to overwhelm the spots at the Top 3 (or is it 5 or 10 or whatever?) law schools everyone wants to go to in the US, and yet they are able to come up with an admissions system that is still widely seen as being a meritocracy (modulo affirmative action), at least to a greater degree than their undergrad complements.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Very well put, if you go to Wikipedia and scroll down to their grouping of London clubs on any page you won't even see Annabel's listed as one of the major clubs of note. The parvenus who frequent the place (I've never been) would be well advised to join a real club, that is, if they can find one which will admit them.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This shit is why if you're not from the US you should completely disregard Ivy league etc. universities and just go to Oxbridge instead, at least for your undergrad degree. While now there are some "boosts" given to disadvantaged British citizens if you're not one of them the only thing you'll be measured on and against your fellow applicants will be your aptitude for your chosen subject.


To use a London member's club analogy: going to the Ivy League is like being a member of Annabel's and all the new money connotations that gives while going to Oxbridge is like being a member of The Athenaeum (even being a member of White's is more respectable than being a member of Annabel's); for those of us who know, we know...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If you can't skip a promotional ad the problem is with your DVD player, not the DVD itself. Get a new superior player.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Prototyping things which I really should be pushing off to a cluster for computation but I can't be bothered with doing the SSHing. When it comes to prototyping not needing to do the extra steps of moving my latest version of the code over to the cluster saves me around 10-15 seconds for each iteration, which is enough of an annoyance I'm happy to pay to avoid it. My machine is the HP laptop that comes with AI MAX 395 so it's my main personal device. Not needing to worry at all about RAM management for my own code has been surprisingly freeing.


That and of course playing DOTA with all settings set to maximum, it's amazing how I can get Desktop quality DOTA performance on my laptop today.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I have a Ryzen Max 395+ with 128GB RAM and it runs pretty well; granted I don't use it for LLMs but the humongous amount of RAM is useful more often than one might think.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
More content like this please.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Brilyn Hollyhand




Literally who?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for September 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I prefer Western Hestia over Japanese Hestia, at least the western version refers to her myth (the embers on her head referring to the hearth) and isn't just "generic large chested girl of ambiguous age".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for September 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's decent, not amazing and none of those would pass muster for me as a Chopin fan unfortunately, not least the second to last one which somehow has English vocals (Chopin did actually write a small amount of songs with words but they were all in Polish and not published during his lifetime)...


Still I guess if you showed these to somebody back in 2015 they'd still be rightfully amazed. Still significant work to be done, at least in replicating Chopin properly.


I'm starting to get Gell-Mann Amnesia with Suno, it does really badly according to my ears for the genres where I sort of know what "good music" is supposed to sound like and it does really well according to my ears for the genres where I don't know much about them beyond vaguely knowing what they should sound like.


Also WTF is that last generation?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for September 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
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				Friday Fun Thread for September 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Funnily enough I like the Gospel of Luke the most out of all of them (and have read them as a non-Christian so am not biased here) and I'm an NT type so chalk that as 1 piece of anecdata supporting your hypothesis.


I don't like John, that one reads like it was written by a cult fanatic.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for September 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The Song of Roland example is not very good and sticks out instantly for anyone who actually understands that era of music. It sounds like the modern 21st century musician's idea of Medieval music and has very little to do with actual Medieval music.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for September 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't have an account that can generate stuff but if you do can you make Suno generate some Romantic period Chopin-esque classical music.


All I could find with a cursory search was: https://suno.com/song/8a864816-4b39-4913-acd4-debb9beab873 which is Baroque but I must say pretty damn good.


EDIT: We now have the modern day "Vatican Rag": https://suno.com/song/ebe85375-dc99-4368-8bc1-f9fe24ad21f3


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 22, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
When the president is saying shit like this all you can do is weep: I hear Cuba doesn't have it because it's very expensive… they don't have tylenol and I hear they have essentially no autism. You'll have to check it out.


https://x.com/Acyn/status/1970244475328016848


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 21, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think we're now a mature community and the people still here having experienced the journey all the way from the CW threads on /r/SSC are now doomed to be long term regulars for however long this place lasts. It's almost like a regimental association, peut être...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 15, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Nothing prevents the employer from offering higher pay to the worker to keep them there. People, especially migrants who are new to the country will place a premium on stability so unless they're being paid significantly under what they could get on the free market and the employer refuses to budge the large majority of them will choose to stay put.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 15, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Because turning off the tap doesn't prevent shitty employers from being shitty directly, while introducing proper employment protections and letting migrant workers switch jobs by right does this. Why go for the roundabout way where your stated preferred policy aims may be reified as a second order consequence when you can just legislate for it directly?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 15, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I don't give a damn about your reverence for rules or processes. The human intestine is a process, but you don't praise its product: you flush it away.




Upvoted for this alone.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 15, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The solution to that problem is to allow H-1B workers to shift employers after say 1-2 years which is how Canada and Australia do it with their permanent residence process, plus put a penalty on the employer if a worker they sponsor leaves a job with them to go elsewhere (like for example restricting them from sponsoring further workers in the short term) to ensure they provide good enough conditions that migrant workers don't want to leave them.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 15, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well this article just also came out: https://www.ft.com/content/db286a0a-ca2d-4791-809e-c9a1ac73b8ad


Archive link: https://archive.is/jSRNH




Chinese tech stocks surge past Nasdaq on the back of AI advance 

Beijing’s push for chip self-sufficiency accelerates triumphant comeback for sector




The whole feeling that China has come out on top here isn't on the basis of a single article or anything but rather a more latent sentiment shared by many that the US through their actions delved too greedily and too deep and now have awoken something best left sleeping.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 15, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


As for me, personally, I just want to face less economic competition from people in general, it doesn't matter to me whether they're US citizens or foreigners.




Fair enough, that's actually defensible. I wouldn't agree with it but at least it is a logical reason.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 15, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I really don't want to have to have to compete against a billion Indians




Sure, that's a valid way to feel, but do you equally accept the arguments of liberal elites who want to exclude US citizen conservatives from being able to compete for elite jobs for the same reason, especially when elite overproduction means their children now have to work harder than they themselves had to for these sorts of positions?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 15, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm not specifying a particular group any more than you're specifying H-1B workers in your example. Would you be just as OK with someone who is a liberal elite and wanted to prevent conservatives (amongst others, like the poor) from being able to compete for elite jobs because that way there's less competition for them and their kids to overcome to get these elite jobs?