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				Wellness Wednesday for March 6, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Just a virulent bronchitis, I think. I and everyone I know got it, and the cough persists for weeks if not months.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 4, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Where do you think "not providing free Narcan" would fall on that scale?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 1, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Are you talking about the Spidertron?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 1, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Also on Wheel


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 26, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You say that like it's a good thing, but it isn't.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 26, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I agree, I think a lot of people are serious denial about the degree to which these opinions have broken social media containment and bled out into the real world.  I'd guess mostly because of TikTok, but that's just speculation.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 26, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I expect pedophilia and bestiality not to get normalized because kids and animals don't actually want to have sex with you, there's an actual victim there. I expect that the future will normalize a lot of things I find weird or upsetting but which don't actually harm anyone on net, which is how I see the trans movement.




Here's a mechanism: AI-generated (or hand-drawn) CP doesn't actually have any victims.  No actual person is harmed on net, except by very legally tenuous chain-of-causation.  By your logic, banning this is unreasonable.  However there are fairly obvious paths by which the legitimization of CP which doesn't harm anyone leads to increased tolerance of CP generally, and increasing exposure and tolerance (in the lack-of-disgust sense) to the idea of child sex as a concept.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 26, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Normies get their news and opinions from sources that are downstream of it, a lot of time. George Floyd and the response to it has to be a central example, I would think.  Tik-tok lefties may be a minority of the population, but if they start evangelizing to normies in real life, and get mass media backup for their evangelizing, that's more than enough to create false beliefs in an outright majority.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 19, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This sounds like a failure of academic research.  In a case like this where you know the results could be hugely valuable, i.e., profitable, there is no shortage of venture capitalists who would be interested in properly funding the research at least to the point where its value could be proven out.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 19, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


But a lot of similarly brainless beat-em-up action movies have been released with women leads over the years, often with better objective craft and quality overall, and male audiences have generally rejected all of them.




Like what?


There are a lot of misses, but I'd guess that most of them are due to a dynamic where the producers start out with the goal of making an action movie that women will be interested in watching. They then start my casting a lead woman and usually other supporting women, but also change it in other ways such as making these women hypercompetent, degrading the other male characters, or focusing on themes and topics that would be of particular interest to women specifically. It's not really a surprise when men turn out to be less interested in these movies that are after all not for them.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 19, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This already exists in the form of, e.g., Unitarian Universalism.  It has not been hugely popular.  I think there are a couple of reasons for this that similar proposals generally run into as well.


First, its teachings aren't different enough from intuitive "be nice" ethics to have any point.  People who even think about the idea of ethical living generally do not need such basic levels of guidance, which makes the enterprise little more than a social club.  But demanding more is too exclusionary or too "irrational", and therefore left to the other churches.  I think that being exclusionary in at least some ways is critical to fostering a bond and creating a sense of actual belonging.


Related to this, the entire idea of religiosity without contradicting material existence is oxymoronic and counterproductive.  The thing that people with a religious void feel they are missing is mystery, an insistence that there are some things that are beyond our comprehension, that are above and beyond us, forever.  The peace that religion offers is from knowing that you don't have to think about it or justify it, you know and believe it without thinking.  You cannot replicate the things that religion offers without offering undoubtable truth, but this is something that materialists cannot really bring themselves to do.


Another problem is that organizations without an unshakable grounding in text or canon will be highly vulnerable to entryism and taken over by activists.  We saw this precise thing play out already in the Atheism movement, which tore itself apart when activists started trying to add political planks to the Atheism belief framework.  Wishy-washy "be excellent to each other" churches will quickly succumb to the exact same issues simply because activists are more motivated than people who are there to sing hymns and pat each other on the back about how moral and ethical they are.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 14, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's a trust issue.  People are familiar with the conduct of lawyers with an axe to grind, and simply know better than to voluntarily place themselves in front of that buzzsaw.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 14, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Nor recounts?




GIGO applies




Investigations?




Rarely, and almost never by disinterested authorities.




Observers?




Useless.




Do our elections have any checks and barriers to fraud?




On paper, yes, but practically speaking, not really. Between the desire to have a secret ballot and initiatives to designed maximize the number of votes cast, it seems to me that only very obvious malfeasance is readily detectable.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 14, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 14, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm confident they'll find a way to criminalize it


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 14, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Do you have any reasons to believe that TTV would have felt similarly stymied?




Not directly, I'm simply reasoning by analogy.




If TTV is inadequately equipped to do something about the fraud they claim to have uncovered, is there anyone who is?




No, I've thought since the beginning it was a futile effort because much of what is alleged would require the cooperation of the accused to prove. If it's rigged, there's basically nothing that can be done from the outside. It's hopeless, as an outsider, to force accountability.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 14, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


He wrote a whole book so it doesn't seem like the silence intimidation worked very well. What property was seized, are you talking about the laptop?




So, no harm, no foul?  Government abuse is fine so long as the person persevered in any case?




What reasons would TTV have to believe that election authorities in Arizona and Georgia would not cooperate with them in good faith?




Are you asking, theoretically, or are you asking me if I know personally of specific reasons they believe this?  I don't have first-hand knowledge, no.  But I have personal first-hand experience with this sort of thing.  I personally witnessed election malfeasance as an independent observer.  Ultimately, I did nothing with that information for several reasons:
A) I had no physical evidence.  I knew what I observed but that's all that I had.  I had no ability to corroborate my observations.
B) The police and elections commission were involved.  The same people that I could complain to.  Did I expect they would seriously undertake efforts to investigate themselves of wrongdoing?  No, I did not.
C) Without physical evidence, I would actually be vulnerable to a defamation claim for taking my observations public.  I would at a minimum be subject to the smears of people far more powerful than I am and who would be motivated to deny any wrong doing.


So, I know something was done improperly.  I know nobody cares.  I know that most people can't fight city hall.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 14, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


If they're telling the truth, I've seen no explanation for why they've refused to cooperate with election authorities.




One possible explanation is that they don't believe the election authorities wish to cooperate with them in good faith.  For example, look at what cooperation with the FBI got John Paul Mac Isaac: they sandbagged the case, seized his property and refused to give it back, tried to deny claims that he was cooperating with them, and tried to intimidate him into silence.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
CO2 is not relevant in this case. Death is due to hypoxia, not CO2 poisoning.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Both are unnecessarily messy


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for January 26, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Agree with all of this - especially that hanging out in a not-very-goal-oriented environment is key.  I would recommend checking local gaming clubs or hobby shops, and find an IRL weekly tabletop, card game, board game, or D&D group looking for recruits.  Then you just have to show up, bring some snacks, and play some low-stakes games.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I've been watching a number of films from the 70's and it's remarkable how many end with the protagonist failing to accomplish their goals in a meaningful way.


    

  • Blowup: the protagonist fails to stop the assassination conspiracy and his girlfriend is killed.
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  • Marathon Man: the protagonist foils the criminal conspiracy, but at the cost of both his and his brother's lives.
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  • Network: the primary protagonist loses his girlfriend, his wife, his job, and all influence and the secondary protagonist is assassinated live on television by the antagonists
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  • Parallax View: the protagonist fails to stop the assassination conspiracy and is killed
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  • The Conversation: the protagonist fails to stop the assassination conspiracy he uncovers and is left paranoid and alone
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I think there is a lot to the theory that the JFK/RFK assassinations deeply traumatized the Boomer generation in a way we may only be slowly recovering from.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
FWIW, that wasn't the Beatles, that was a Lennon solo project Ono collaboration.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Gas is not like electricity.  There are buffers in the system as well as alternate supply options, but the prices will adjust accordingly.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 22, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
No, I intended this to mean "only to children where at least one biological parent ((is a citizen) or (resident having legally remained in the country continuously for a period of at least 3 years))".