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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 15, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Don’t Get Into the Experience Machine




Eh, I think 95%+ of humanity would benefit from getting into the experience machine. And the rest of us would also benefit from them getting into it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 15, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I gave the question 9.9-9.11 to both ChatGPT (3.5) and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. ChatGPT bungled it very badly even though I told it multiple times it was wrong. Claude 3.5 Sonnet was correct though on the first try.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 15, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You can just straight up buy almost all Rolex watches and almost all items at Hermes too (excepting stuff like Kelly bags but even then you can buy them post retail for a markup).


Plus Rolex is the poor man's idea of a high end watch brand. Their stuff is overpriced and honestly, somewhat declassé among those who are actually interested in horology.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 15, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What's the prophecy? Genuinely curious.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 15, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


My social media is full of leftists who are openly saying that they wish Trump was killed, and they're not going to pretend otherwise




Time for some reportmaxxing? Please post the receipts and trophies if you do go for it, I'm sure we can all do with a laugh here.


				

				

						

							

								
    
									
									
									
									
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 15, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Trump grew in my esteem a lot.




Same here. After the Vance VP pick which I'm highly supportive of I'm now at the point where I don't know who I'd vote for if I had a vote in the US election.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 15, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I used to frequently use 'do you prefer the first half or second half of the Harry Potter series' as a conversation piece, and I found it very interesting that men seem to be very inclined towards the first half and women very inclined towards the second half




Interesting, I agree that the first three books have a certain magic and innocence to them that's strongly diminished in the fourth and practically gone by the last three books. It almost felt like they were written by two different people. Personally I'd say book 3 was the best.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 14, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
How about whenever a new account is created they automatically make shadow posts which get upvoted by enough "new account upvoter" bots to overcome this threshold immediately?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 14, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I'd be able to discuss at length [...] Magic the Gathering meta




So, what's your opinion on Nadu?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 14, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Can't you change the threshold where this happens? Set it to like -1 and then it'll never bother anyone.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 15, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The great books list at St. John's college is probably useful: https://www.sjc.edu/application/files/4115/4810/0934/St_Johns_College_Great_Books_Reading_List.pdf


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 15, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


As noted in the 2018 EIR, this is not actually a shellmound or burial ground, but the Ohlone believe that it is, and everyone here is respecting their beliefs. (This is not noted in the article. I've requested a correction.) I remember, but cannot find, some initiative to use "indigenous ways of knowing" or the like in public policy. This is what this looks like in practice.




LMAO. These people are pathetic (not the native Indians, the whites who fold as easily as a deckchair). Separating them from their money would be a net positive for humanity were it not for the fact that they are playing with public money and will just tax everyone more if you took if from their hands.


				

				

						

							

								
    
									
									
									
									
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 8, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
We're not certain the shooter was from "the left". He was a registered republican for two years but had also given a small amount ($15) to a progressive Democratic group. There's still a lot of ambiguity in play and I wouldn't be too surprised if he turned out to be a right wing accelerationist.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 8, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Man the plot armour on Trump is insane. If the shooter had aimed just a few arcseconds away we'd have a dead Trump right now.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 8, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The flying bullet has been captured in a picture just before it hit trump.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 8, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You can get paracetamol off the shelf very cheaply at any pharmacy, don't need a prescription for it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 8, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yeah, but you're not getting GLP-1 agonists prescribed by the NHS unless your BMI is like 35+. You can very easily get a private prescription for them from any of the big online pharmacies and all you have to do is send them a picture where you look fat enough (can do this by wearing three extra shirts and sticking your belly out). This way your monthly pens cost £150-£250 depending on place and strength but the high strength pens can easily be used to dispense half a dose instead of a full doze so you can use them for two months instead of one.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 8, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The biggest takeaway I have from the discussion below is how bad American drug prices are. I'm paying around £100 a month ($130) for my tirzapetide by buying high dose pens and then taking half dozes every week. In the end the net cost to me of this medicine is minimal because it means I eat almost £100 less worth of food a month too. One the other hand you guys are having to pay $500+ per month for semaglutide which is worse.


I'm not the biggest fan of the NHS but you can't deny it gets us cheap drugs, their development paid for on the American dime. Long may that continue!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 8, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Pacific islanders also have the additional issue that they are genetically predisposed to higher BMI. In a lot of the rest of the world since the agricultural revolution there has been selection against high BMI over the last 10,000 or so years (we know this by comparing modern vs ancient DNA), however pacific islanders haven't seen the same thing happen. As such today they have more high BMI alleles so it's no surprise they just balloon when exposed to modern highly processed western food.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				The state of open-source LLMs as of summer 2024, or: Core Values of Socialism with AGI characteristics, V2
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The tech / hustle -bro response to this is presumably “how do I make money with this?”.




Some prop trading firms have put in huge orders for NVIDIA chips in the last 6 months and rumors are swirling around about them making huge amounts of money: Turns out that you can use transformer models not just to write text or make images/video but also to forecast future values of time series (e.g. is this stock going to go up or down in the next 5 minutes) which if your model is better than the competition lets you make ungodly amounts of money very quickly.


Hearing about these was the first time I ever felt that my job may be at risk to AI. Still, even in the worst case I'm smart enough to pivot towards developing the time series forecasting AI if vanilla quant jobs start to be replaced, so it's not all that bad for me personally.


What I know I won't do, unlike the median human being who's threatened by AI taking their job, is start wailing about some cosmic injustice and demanding the government hand me gibs or force employers to keep me in the job past its use by date.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 8, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It reduces hedonia yes, but doesn't affect eudaimonia in any way. The fact that I'm not chasing hedonia any more leaves me better prepared to achieve eudaimonia. It all depends on how much you value the two things relatively.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 8, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Oh I definitely recommend them. I do a fair bit of dancing though so shaving those extra few KGs of fat off has higher returns for me than for most people. Also my ethnicity means that the BMI cutoff for "overweight" for me is 22.9 and not 25 so technically I was overweight when I started them and not just "middle of the pack healthy weight".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 8, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


This may not be an entirely rational decision, but most people can skip desert and snacking and drink water instead of sugar drinks. They just don’t want to.




I can apply this to myself (I have a sweet tooth). I am completely capable of skipping desserts and used to do it regularly. However every time I did this when I wanted to eat the dessert I faced a loss of short term utilons from wanting something but not getting it. Now I was perfectly capable of telling myself I'd get more long term utilons from not eating the kheer and so in the end I didn't mind too much, but the loss of short term utilons still stung.


After wrangling a prescription for tirzapetide I no longer even want to eat the dessert in the first place. I still get the benefit of the long term utilons but I don't have to pay the short term penalty either as there is no intrinsic desire to eat anymore. Even though the previous status quo of me deciding to skip dessert when I wanted to eat it was net positive for me the current situation is still an improvement.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 8, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Even if you're not fat GLP-1 agonists are useful. I decided to start taking low doze tirzapetide after my BMI went above 23. I'm back down to 21 and feel lighter and nimbler, not to mention generally healthier these days. It feels almost like how I used to feel back when I was 18.


It's also helped me control how much time I was spending gaming (it didn't feel anywhere near as fun anymore) and I'm now using it much more productively reading instead.


I've personally found the drugs to be very powerful "Id control" medicine rather than mere appetite suppressants. They get a +1 from me.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 8, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


TracingWoodgrains may be of a different quantity than David Gerard, but he's proven he isn't of a different type.




That's your takeaway from the whole saga? It's far more reasonable to conclude that LibsofTikTok is the equivalent of David Gerard. She's a culture warrior to whom truthfulness matters not one whit through and through but unlike Hanania doesn't have the intelligence and social grace to present as respectable. I support her name being dragged through the mud for the same reason I support Gerard's name being dragged through it.