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Apparently "BIPOC" is a racial slur now.

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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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Apparently "BIPOC" is a racial slur now.

				
				
				

				

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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 July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Really? I am a mid 20s decently fit male who knows nothing about boxing and has never been in a ring. I don't think I'd manage to hold a candle against the women competing in my weight class at the olympics.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Avoid pitbulls though. They are called the BIPOCs of dogs for multiple very good reasons.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
A spear on its own may not be optimal in such a situation but a Halberd with a sharp blade allows you to do swinging actions with reach just like a knife as well as the usual pointy stuff. You can cut down your enemy with a knife before he is within two meters of you.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Was Quilty even real? I think there's a reading of the book where Quilty is Humbert Humbert's own alternate ego.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 29, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
He should be punished and has served his punishment. We should move on and treat him like any other rehabilitated criminal at this point.


The girl's parents should also have been punished for gross neglect at letting things get to such a point where their daughter at age 12 was willingly going and having sex with a random from the internet. The big injustice of the story is not that he's been rehabilitated but rather that the piece of shit parents are treated as victims instead of accessories to the crime.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Jewish Motters: I am not actually an Ephraimite.




You may not be an Ephraimite but referencing that particular story is a pretty loud dogwhistle for Freemasonry.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Israelis killing Palestinians in Gaza is a "dog bites man" tier occurrence now. There's no way it can be a major news story every time it happens.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Topping this: https://rdrama.net/post/287384/turn-on-the-olympics-see-this from today will be quite hard.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yawn, the Olympics are old news by now and have been completely borgified. There are hundreds of renditions of the Sorcerer's apprentice on Youtube with better acoustics than whatever the olympics opening ceremony can muster. Plus none of them are going to get cut off (if your adblock is functioning properly that is) halfway in the middle. If that's what you want you can enjoy it there.


I'm waiting for the enhanced games personally, genetics has shown us by now that the advantages some people naturally have are little different to what happens if others take drugs, e.g. some people just naturally have lower myostatin (which restricts muscle growth) than others, meaning they bulk up faster and easier. They can compete in the Olympics just fine but it's a massive scandal if another person not with these mutations takes a myostatin inhibitor to make their body do the exact same things the first person's body is doing.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for July 24, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The latter two have significantly easier to understand answers.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for July 24, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You don't need a car unless you're getting it for other reasons. The UK is very friendly towards biking and your daily trip can probably be seen as a 30-40 minute bike each way which isn't too bad if you're only doing it for 6 months (a total of 120 working days). It substitutes in for your daily exercise too.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The cops literally told her to go get the water, and then proceeded to shout at her for holding the water.


I'm normally against credentialism but wouldnt mind a 4 year degree requirement to become a cop, if only to filter out idiots like these from ever having any power over their fellow man.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Choice comment on the video you posted:




Notice how the Devil didn't like being rebuked.




Even if she was going to throw the pot of water at them the correct decision for the officers was to move away from her, not towards her like they did.


Regardless she did do something wrong, namely letting cops into her house without a warrant.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Dems have plenty Black mana but not enough White mana. Unfortunately for them Trump has "indestructible" and all the exile effects available that can handle him require W instead of B.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This ain't it chief. That was a very bad decision to shoot based on the full video and I hope the cops are punished to the fullest extent of the law.


Stuff like this makes me give serious consideration to whether black people in the US have a point when they say the police is systematically biased against them.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


People are throwing every kind of insult at Kamala to see what sticks.




Cacklin' Kamala has a certain ring to it, don't you think? Isn't sexist or racist either which is another plus.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's amazing how unreasonably effective this tactic is, not that I condone it or anything.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Fair enough.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Various responses are saying that she's talking to blind people, as if that somehow makes it not weird.




That's a perfectly reasonable thing to say if you're talking to blind people, or at least the sitting at a table wearing a blue suit stuff is reasonable. If I were blind I'd appreciate it as that would give me a better mental model of the space I'm inhabiting.


The difference between this situation and a phone call is that phone calls are symmetric and nobody has info about what the other is wearing etc. while in this case the sighted people will have a more accurate representation of the situation than the blind ones. Her words were just a way to try and equalise the situation a bit more.


A better comparison would be to a Google Meets session where Alice has audio+video of Bob while Bob can only hear her. There's definitely an inherent element of weirdness in this situation caused by the imbalance (as I'm sure everyone who has been involved in such a situation knows) and the way Kamala was talking attempts to at least cut down on how severe it is.


The rest of the quote is just standard left wing greeting rituals.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 15, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
"bios flags" now have two different meanings.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 15, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Unfortunately this system has a problem...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 15, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Damn the comments on the WaPo post linked to in the tweet are a different level of unhinged. If you sort by most liked you get stuff like:




His lawyers are trying desperately to spin what's crystal clear to anyone not a member of the death cult: Another murderous white supremacist took the cowardly way out.








The story leaves out how Mr. Gardner was a well known racist.






So ....thoughts and prayers.... ...








I saw a pic of him online in his Trump-Pence shirt.
I'm shocked.......
Like most Trump-Pence enthusiasts, he was actually eager to shoot a black person.
Be careful what you wish for, cowboy.




Amazing how this sort of stuff was seen as OK, nay supported by the zeitgeist, just 4 short years ago back in 2020. There's no way it would fly today (I'd expect all three of these to be swiftly deleted by the WaPo moderators if the story was being told today) and even reading them gives me a certain level of shock. I guess this was what the residents of Salem felt in the years after the witch trials. The past is a different country, as they say...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 15, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The best analogy I've seen about it is imagine you've been in a ringfight against an opponent for a long while. Since the last 10 years after he was handed a reinforced jockstrap by one of his supporters outside the ring he's taken to kicking you in the nuts every time he can, even though technically the "unstated rules" forbid it. The jockstrap means his own nuts are protected though. All this time you've been calling him out and saying that kicking people in the nuts is wrong, however he doesn't listen and does it at every opportunity he gets.


Through age after all these years the jockstrap has recently decayed to the point where it doesn't protect his nuts anymore. After a particularly nasty kicking session he inflicted on you you start kicking him back in the nuts. He suddenly starts howling and calling you a nasty for breaking the unstated rules of the fight and even worse, a hypocrite for saying nut kicking is wrong but then doing it anyway to him.


The issue is that your new behaviour is equally consistent with two different hypotheses: 1) You really are a hypocrite and only were saying nut kicking is wrong because he had a jockstrap and couldn't do it to him yourself before or 2) You truly believe nut kicking is wrong but also believe in "do unto others as they have done unto you" and the former belief for you overrides the second in importance.


Fortunately we have a way to test this. If we introduce a third fighter to the ring who's not related to either of the two we can see if you spontaneously start kicking the new person's nuts or stick to only kicking the nuts of the person who was kicking your nuts before. If the former then you're just a hypocrite while if it's the latter you probably genuinely believe in the wrongness of nut kicking.  Translating back into the real world this is equivalent to finding another group that's effectively orthogonal to the standard left-right split and seeing if the attack dogs of the modern right also try and get them cancelled whenever one of them on a different side of an issue says something cancellable.


An example of this might be something like homeopathy: if a committed homeopath says something like "the medical establishment is run by the emissaries of Satan and any right thinking person has a duty towards humanity to kill them" (I'm sure there are crazy homeopaths that do say shit like this) then we can feed these sorts of incidents to non-homeopath right wing attack dogs and see if they try and get the homeopaths cancelled. If so then we can be convinced we just have hypocrites on our hands, if not then maybe they are at least a little respectable.


Any other ideas people may have? This seems like a genuine experiment that can be run.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 15, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That man seriously deserves a Public Engagement in Science/Engineering award. Too bad that the people who usually get those kinds of  awards aim their content at the level of an average 8th grader and not an intelligent adult who knows a thing or two about STEM...


I thought I understood how bicycles work. Then I read his bicycle article...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 15, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This was bad when the left was doing it. It's bad when the right is doing it. The institutional left deserves it but the victims of policies like this are ordinary people, not the institution.