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				Friday Fun Thread for January 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I know the general tendency but haven't seen specific examples (about specifically AI CSAM, at least).




@SteveAgain is likely referring to legal changes like this, which seem to be based on sentiments like these.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Setting up a snitch hotline for employees to inform on each other and warning that non-snitchers will be punished for failing to snitch on their colleagues




My employer's annual DEI training (required by government contracts...) for the last few years has included mandatory reporting of discrimination and harassment, with the explicit warning that witnessing such and not reporting it will result in punishment "up to and including termination".  It seems more likely to me that they adopted the same reporting policy as before just with different behavior to report than that they were intending "panicked overcompliance".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


You start dividing humanity into 'upstanding citizens worthy of life' and 'sub-humans whose life and well-being is not worth any efforts', sooner or later someone will put you into the second category.




Homosexuals already put me in the latter category in their scramble to not suffer such a fate themselves.  Why should I care if others want to toss them in the abyss with me?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Probably weird of me but I maintain an Excel spreadsheet of many motte regulars (their usernames , I mean) with my own notations, so I can have a clearer idea who I'm interacting with or reading.




Why a spreadsheet as opposed to just text?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


But I have to wonder- in practice, a 50%+1 majority usually means you need to work with the opposing party at least a little bit anyways. What do democrats think they’re avoiding?




There was an elaborate power-sharing agreement put in place after the election resulted in a tie, with leadership positions held jointly by members of both parties.  These leadership positions are set at the beginning of the session and remain in place for the entire session.  Importantly, these positions control the agenda of the house and its committees, so the power sharing agreement effectively ensured that neither party could push out the other's agenda.  That tie was disrupted by the disqualification of a DFL member, giving the GOP a temporary majority until a special election is held.  The GOP is trying to take advantage of that temporary majority to appoint its members to all the leadership positions before the special election (likely) restores the tie.  The DFL tried to fast-track that special election, but the courts denied it.  Now they are trying to stall until the election can be held and the tie restored so the power sharing agreement would also get restored.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'd be less critical of it if it merely ignored men.  Instead it often takes blatant evidence of discrimination against men and views it as discrimination against women.  Eg, consider the section on education, which says of higher education:




While women have made substantial progress in rates of enrollment in postsecondary education and represent a majority of college students, they hold two-thirds of the nation’s student debt




"Women represent a majority of college students" here is hiding a large and growing gender gap in college education going back over 40 years at this point. Worse, pointing out women hold two-third's of the nation's student debt and implying it is discriminatory against women completely hides both that women are very nearly two-thirds of college students (so it is nearly proportionate) and hides the structural issues that disproportionately prevent men from accessing student loans, most prominently being men having to sign up for selective service in order to be eligible for (note this changed very recently, with men being automatically enrolled since so many weren't doing so voluntarily...) the government subsidized loans which make up over 90% of student loan debt. This is like claiming whites were being discriminated against because they held a disproportionate amount of outstanding mortgage debt at the height of redlining.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yeah, one only needs to look at the National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality to see how this would play out.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for January 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Oh yeah, the asteroid resistances are particularly egregious.




But make for awesome music videos.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for January 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Dealing with enemies: Pre-expansion game, there were multiple viable approaches - a belt of ammo going to a bunch of turrets, a couple layers of laser turrets, a pipe to flamethrowers, or some mix thereof were all viable strategies with advantages and disadvantages. In the expansion on Gleba, though, the 80% laser / 50% physical resistance on the stompers makes the "laser turret / gun turret perimeter" approach a lot less viable. This is clearly intended to push players towards using rocket turrets in the places they're needed, but it feels like they encouraged rocket turrets by making the other options worse rather than making rocket turrets better




I think you being a bit too critical of Wube's design here.  The basic gun/laser turrets will handle the initial enemies easily enough.  Rockets, tesla turrets, flamethrowers, or some mix thereof (railguns too, but those are overkill...) are all viable to handle Gleba's enemies once evolution starts kicking in.  Rockets can be researched and sourced entirely locally.  Tesla turrets require the player to go to Fulgora, but trivialize Gleba's enemies.  Flamethrowers are held back by the lack of oil production on Gleba, but Vulcanus's coal liquefaction combined with Gleba's coal synthesis make it viable.  Or you can just ship the fuel in from another planet since flamethrowers are so frugal and enemy attacks so sporadic.  And if you really want to keep using the basic laser/gun turrets, the infinite damage research for both keeps it viable though expensive.  You can get sufficiently far into them to handle Gleba's enemies without ever leaving Nauvis since they don't require any other planet's science.


On top of that, Gleba's design encourages a different defensive strategy.  On Nauvis, nearly everything produces pollution that aggros the biters, which expand aggressively and attack in large waves.  This encourages players to build a defensive wall around the entire factory for the constant biter attacks to break against.  In contrast, only harvesting produces pollen on Gleba, so most of your factory doesn't need to worry about attacks if you ensure enemies don't need to path through it to get to your farms.  Your defenses can thus be focused around your farms with almost no defense needed for the rest of the factory beyond some artillery turrets to keep expansions from popping up too close.


Wube's design is thus pushing people to try something different, with multiple options unlocked or enhanced by visiting the other planets.  You can still use the same defensive strategies you used on Nauvis, but there are better ones and the design rewards you for trying something new.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 23, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think this is a rather localized phenomenon.  I never see dogs* in stores where I live and, as a dog owner, the idea of wanting to take my dog with me to the store makes no sense.  The only people I've met who do so seem to have picked the idea up living in the south western US (eg, CA, NV), either having grown up there or moved later in life, and people around here have no problem telling them to keep their dogs home.


*With the rare exception of seeing eye dogs and police dogs.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for December 20, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I've only played 3, 4, and particle fleet, but I enjoyed them quite a bit.  I'd agree that 3 seems to be the best of the bunch, particularly with the community maps (the CSM variants are way too addictive).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


See her post stating that is not just true, but too obvious to say that you should cryonically freeze yourself when you die, on the off-chance that you may be revived in the future.




Hopefully all the crazy shit people will do to a frozen corpse won't cause too many issues after her revival...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 2, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Why not allow them to be discharged in bankruptcy, but require the schools to cosign the loans?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				U.S. Election (Day?) 2024 Megathread
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I recall seeing a couple articles about this leading up to the election (eg, from the BBC).  I expect to see a whole lot more if Trump wins.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Quality Contributions Report for October 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


It also helped me to calibrate on your sense of proportionality




How do you get anything about proportionality out of that comparison?  Isn't it common to use extreme examples in comparisons because extreme examples are usually more black and white and thus illustrate the point the comparison is trying to make more clearly rather than to imply they are proportionate?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I just tried to count how many times that happened and had to use both hands and take a shoe off, so it definitely wasn't one time.




How do you get that high?  I've been around since the days of the /r/ssc culture war thread and can count the times I remember seeing on one hand.




But iirc the most prolific of those guys is still unbanned and active on theschism (throwaway0# or something), unless I'm mixing him up with someone else.


For some reason it doesn't seem to spark the same reddit admin ire as all the other stuff.




Yes, I am still unbanned and active on theschism.  I would guess that I don't spark the ire of reddit admins primarily because I'm only really active on theschism and don't bring up pedophilia very often (and am very careful about what I say when I do) making it unlikely anyone bothers to report my comments.  I think reddit admins are in a position similar to the mods here in that they respond reactively to user complaints rather than proactively looking for "bad" content, only on a much larger scale, so it's easy to fly under the radar if you avoid high traffic/particularly contentious communities and don't have a comment history that is pretty much entirely about pedophilia.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 28, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Even the states which hate requiring ID use some form of proof.




This requirement is a joke:




The ID may be either a current and valid photo identification or a copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document that shows the name and address of the voter.




Given the prevalence of "paperless" billing, we've (or at least, my state has) decided that simply printing out a copy of your online bill suffices.  They don't actually keep the copy for future validation so it is completely trivial to forge.  To add insult to injury, this is considered a better form of ID than the temporary driver's license we are issued before the real one gets sent which isn't considered an acceptable form of ID for registration.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 21, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yes and no.  Not raising a stink about it when we encountered it was "maintaining coalition politics".  Classifying the investigation into the practice and the resulting report on it was for domestic politics.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 21, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


because the Taliban will give those men the power over women that the former society could or would not and every soldier or potential soldier knew it.




I think they probably cared less about power over women and more about power over their abusers.  Ending the practice of bacha bazi was a prominent selling point for the Taliban the last two times it took power in Afghanistan.  Maybe we should have considered not covering up such practices by our "allies", but ensuring first-world LGBT people aren't smeared as pedophiles is apparently more important than preventing child sexual abuse.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 23, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yeah, it's not the works themselves but the surrounding culture which the works are an escape from.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 23, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
They are quite pro-trans and also quite anti-anime.  Even if they acknowledge that anime is a major contributing factor to trans identification, they are still extremely hostile to it and regularly push governments to censor it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 23, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


How can you be pro-trans without also being pro-anime?




Be a feminist who is convinced that anime objectifies and sexualizes women.  Eg, see UN Women's regular attempts to crack down on anime and manga.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 16, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Partial severing of every muscle in the body is just another way of saying "we should kill them" due to the combination of the hazards of the necessary surgeries and the fragility of a number of extremely important muscles (eg, the heart, diaphragm, and intestines).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for September 20, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If you have a {SUBALTERN_QUALITY} and want a security clearance, you pretty much have one option: nonchalant openness when confronted about it without normally drawing attention to it otherwise.  Hiding it is evidence you can be blackmailed into revealing secrets.  "Out and proud" is an indication that you can't keep your mouth shut and can be tricked into revealing secrets to protect your pride.  The latter is just as big (if not bigger) a problem as the former.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for September 20, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The way he said it is guaranteed to upset both sides (which is why it's so hilarious), but the basic truth behind it is undeniable.




Huh?  Why is it guaranteed to upset both sides?  It seems obviously directionally correct to me (I'd nitpick that femininity is more prominent than masculinity rather than being hyper-feminine, which implies the near absence of masculinity to me) from the lolicon side and I have pointed to research supporting much the same conclusion in the past:




Recall Kinsella's suggestion that lolicon be understood as men performing the shōjo to come to terms with an unstable gender identity (Kinsella 2006: 81-83). If being a man ceases to promise power, potency and pleasure, it is no longer the privileged subject position. Akagi explains that lolicon is a form of self-expression for those oppressed by the principles of masculine competitive society (Akagi 1993: 232).32 Lolicon is a rejection of the need to establish oneself as masculine and an identification with the "kindness and love" of the shōjo (Akagi 1993: 233). This interpretation reverses the standard understanding of lolicon as an expression of masculinity to one of femininity. This is, of course, not the only way to approach the wide range of lolicon images, but it certainly highlights the complexity of "pornographic content" and its uses.




What's there to be upset over?