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				Friday Fun Thread for August 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Astral Codex Ten's latest Bay Area House Party comedy article may be of interest.




Something clicks. “Tran, are you talking like an AI?”


“You’re absolutely right,” says Tran. “I was tired of being socially anxious and tripping over my own tongue. I started out by reading Dale Carnegie, but taking his advice made me sound like a bad salesman—and that underscores how much norms have changed since the 1930s. The pivot was realizing that we already know what the best-liked speaking style is. AI companies ask human raters to judge their models’ outputs in RHLF, and the highest-rated style survives as the well-known ‘voice’ of the AIs. That’s not an an accident—it’s a testament to people genuinely preferring it. The average member of the population thinks it sounds polished, thoughtful, and sophisticated. And here’s the part most people find striking—in only one month, I’ve gone from being a friendless wallflower to having dates almost every night. That’s something that human-style supremacists genuinely need to sit with.”


“Oh, thank goodness. I thought Cluely was back in business or something.”


“You’ve put your finger on the natural misconception that people have when first encountering this area,” said Tran. “But talking like an AI isn’t the domain of one company. It’s a vibrant treasure trove of neologisms available to anybody. Would you like to hear more about how copying AI tics helps me keep conversations going?”


“Uh, sure—wait! No!” You break off and turn around as fast as you can.




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				Wellness Wednesday for August 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
According to Gallup, only 20 percent of USAians view lawyers as having above-average "honesty and ethical standards", vs. 7 percent for members of Congress, 37 percent for police officers, and 57 percent for doctors. And, according to Ipsos, only 31 percent of people globally view lawyers in their respective countries as "trustworthy", vs. 15 percent for politicians, 38 percent for police officers, and 58 percent for doctors. But are perceived "honesty and ethical standards" and "trustworthiness" the same thing as "cultural respect"? I feel doubtful. IMO, cultural respect is more like "are lawyers cool?" than "are lawyers trustworthy?".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I can't say I remember what exactly happened (did our stewards ever outright list what the Reddit overlords demanded of them in the end?), but I was under the impression that it was about much more than that, and there were specific demands from admins to ban particular opinions (content, not tone).




According to others (1 2 3), the specific straw that broke the camel's back was the admins' failure to understand the use–mention distinction: somebody was banned by the admins for explaining the difference between «guillemets» and ((("echo" triple parentheses))).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Just curious, where did you grow up?




I am a nigger of Caribbean descent (so technically not in the narrowest definition of "American descendants of slaves") who has lived in New J*rsey all his life (plus college in western Pennsylvania).




Not being able to tell the difference between South American mestizos and Europeans (even heavily tanned Europeans) is just wild to me. Like, bordering on willfully obtuse.




Look at prominent Bolivian Evo Morales as one example. Is he darker than a default European? Yes, obviously. But, other than that moderately darker skin, does he really look that different from, say, Jay Leno? IMO, no. In comparison, East Asians have wildly different eyes, South Asians have skin dark enough that no white could ever tan to match them, and blacks have both super-dark skin and wildly different hair.


Again, this is all my personal opinion. But to me indigenous Americans seem very similar to whites.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for August 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I was just making a half-joking reference to the US federal government's recent race/ethnicity reshuffling.


I personally can't see much difference between indigenous Americans and heavily tanned Europeans, so all Hispanics look basically white to me. But that obviously is my problem, not Primaprimaprima's.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I’m really only into whites and Asians




Insert obligatory argument over whether Hispanics can be counted as white.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Some opinions from Kiwi Farms




She had great potential, seeing how she devoted herself so much to worldbuilding before there was even a word for it, but tragically she tossed it all away in favour of misanthropic MLP fics. And let's not forget her lack of self-awareness and ignorance of internet culture, like the boomer she is. I find it befuddling that someone of her intelligence would be surprised by the abundance of man-children on a website dedicated to fanfictions of a TV show intended for little girls.


The sheer amount of cool stuff she left behind her over the decades, never to be seen, is staggering. As one who enjoys trawling through the buried dreams of internet 1.0, made by imaginative young people who've long since abandoned their email addresses and associated projects, I can only feel the deepest melancholy when scrolling through her lore, knowing that JDR, who actively lurks on Deviantart, will never return to what she's best at again. There are times when I wish I could meet her in person and come to a compromise; any compromise, that might lead to her setting books and sundry creations seeing the light of day, and maybe even get published, like some kind of late 20th-century Silmarillion. To think that almost twenty years ago she had a respectable number of fans - now I can find nowhere discussing her works, not even on 4chan or reddit. The fact that most of their forums are lost to the mists of time exacerbates this fact.






She's not just the prototype insane troon. She's the prototype furry, the prototype weeaboo, the prototype otherkin. The prototype shitlord, the prototype SJW and obsessive worldbuilder as codified by reddit.


The prototype lolcow - like Chris-Chan, if he had savant-level intelligence and an obsession with more sophisticated media.








The wordsmithery of this [2006 autobiographical comic depicting Chatoyance in 1981 as about to commit suicide while crossdressing, but then praying to the Moon and receiving a comforting vision] is actually very good. Too bad the actual content of the writing is fucking insane. JDR could have been a great writer if he wasn't so batshit.




That's part of why I still can't quit JDR after all these years, despite multiple generations of more colorful troons having come after. Lolcows with real talents and abilities who put those skills to retarded ends are fascinating. I've posted before from this page talking about how a Muse Goddess dictated the story of Unicorn Jelly to JDR, but it also goes into the extremely effortful process of mouse-drawing a comic in an ancient DOS paint program. It's tempting to imagine a JDR who isn't a nasty self-absorbed lunatic who could have made comics or written stories that found wider appeal, but one has to wonder if that talent and drive would exist at all without the spite and ego driving JDR through the tedium of creation.




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


^(1)




This website's implementation of Markdown does not include superscript. You have to manually type the HTML, < sup>1< /sup>.




PDF of the 10 proof batch, page 78




You can link to a specific page of a PDF by adding "#page=78".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Your link is broken because you forgot to include the "https://" part.


Also, here's some custom CSS (usable in a browser extension like Stylus) that makes reading the infuriating "glowfic" format tolerable.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
He says as much in the quote, yes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If LLMs cost 20 $/mo for "low-grade entertainment", they're in the same league as Netflix (without advertisements, 20 $/mo) and YouTube (without advertisements, 16 $/mo paid monthly or 13 $/mo paid annually). It's my understanding that lots of people buy temporary subscriptions to streaming services, in order to test them out or to watch a specific platform-exclusive show.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think this obviously refers to intentional stretching. And, even if it includes inadvertent stretching (other articles that I read mentioned bicycle riding as an activity in which large labia interfere), I think that sex does not stretch labia in that way. (But I'm a virgin, so what do I know? Maybe pulling labia is a common method of foreplay.)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


North Carolina allows for civil fraud. I tried to find the exact statute




The free table of contents for this book from the North Carolina Bar Association lists "constructive fraud" as a civil "cause of action" (basis for lawsuit). This lawyer webpage indicates that constructive fraud is different from actual fraud. The idea of a civil action is laid out in NC General Statutes ch. 1 § 1-2—but I can't actually find the list of civil causes of action anywhere, though I would expect it to be in chapter 1 or in chapter 1A.


This page has the standard jury instruction for constructive fraud (§ 800.06) under torts (part IV), so I guess it's nonstatutory common law.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I would like to suggest that you add a few section headings and/or horizontal rules. (You did use one ersatz horizontal rule, but your autocorrect turned your series of hyphens into a series of em dashes, which Markdown does not interpret as forming an actual horizontal rule.)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Okay, I'll admit that I haven't previously researched this topic. A search for "labia hypertrophy site:.edu" on my phone returns (via this faculty page) this meta-analysis of labiaplasty procedures. In passing it mentions (with several citations omitted):




Labial hypertrophy is most commonly congenital in origin. However, there are a number of potential acquired causes, such as exogenous androgenic hormones in infancy, sensitivity to topical estrogen, stretching or weight attachment of the labia, dermatitis secondary to urinary incontinence, vulvar lymphedema, and myelodysplastic diseases.




(Whoops, now that I'm back on my computer I can't access the article's full text. Maybe I was getting a free preview somehow on my phone. But that was the only relevant quote in it, IIRC.)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Britain's housing market is hugely dysfunctional because houses are assets first and shelter second




I thought it was because (1) by-right zoning doesn't exist, so instead literally every single attempt to build housing has to run the gauntlet of getting permission from the govt., and (2) urban growth boundaries stymie building near large cities.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Much of southern Italy was ruled by Arabs for an extended period of time, so southern Italians sometimes are not considered white. (See also Spain and Greece.) Savoy is in northern Italy, but the sentiment sometimes is extended to cover all of Italy, especially in jokes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There has been much debate regarding the acceptability of "signal boosting" information that is technically public but practically obscure. 1 2 3


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Most 2D pornography is drawn with small labia. It is a common sentiment that large labia are considered ugly. I think it is also a commonly-believed urban myth that promiscuity causes large labia (along with a loose vagina).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					




roastie




…isn't that a small potato?




Large labia → [roast] beef curtains → roastie (all derogatory)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The real losers in this story are the kids: assuming Becky has full custody I’d award her the full settlement for that alone, laws be damned, because (excluding something the defense should’ve mentioned) they deserve the money more than Chad




Wouldn't she be able to get that money anyway in a separate child-support proceeding? If so, there's no need to take that into account here.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


We recently had a OP on jury trials in the American justice system.




I assume you're referring to this comment.


See also Ozy's article from a year ago, discussed to a small extent here.






I was also impressed by the professionalism of the jury. My fellow jury members were thoughtful, intelligent, morally serious people who were conscious of their responsibility as jurors.⁎ Even given how frustrating the experience was, I was impressed by their rationality, how closely they stuck to the evidence, and their determination to follow the norms of good discourse. Sometimes I see people say online “you elites in your epistemic bubbles have no idea how stupid normal people are”. But, judging from my jury-trial experience, normal people are actually pretty smart! At least in Alameda County.


⁎With one exception, whom I haven’t talked about because I don’t like saying mean things about private figures on a blog this big.




Yet the jurors in this case seem to have delivered unanimous convictions on evidence that fell far short of "beyond a reasonable doubt", even with the prior-bad-acts evidence.




But of course that was a criminal trial for murder, not a civil trial for breach of contract.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Despite what the game is showing me on the screen, the "board" is not reality.




Then why is so much computing power wasted on showing a fancy but worthless simulation of reality on the screen? Compare the original X-Com (as well as Phoenix Point), where the probability of hitting actually is based on the 3D models.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for August 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I did want a bright color. Unfortunately, however, the only color available within 50 miles was black. (Or maybe the only brightly-colored one was both 50 miles away and significantly more expensive. I don't remember with certainty—it was three years ago.)