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And every gimmick hungry yob

Digging gold from rock n roll

Grabs the mic to tell us

he'll die before he's sold

But I believe in this

And it's been tested by research

He who fucks nuns

Will later join the church


				
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And every gimmick hungry yob


Digging gold from rock n roll


Grabs the mic to tell us


he'll die before he's sold


But I believe in this


And it's been tested by research


He who fucks nuns


Will later join the church



				

				

				

				

				

					

					

					
					
					

					
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				Small-Scale Question Sunday for April 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


When stimulants (coffee, energy drinks, etc) kick in, I can do x3-4 times speed if the speaker is clear enough in their pronounciation and I'm already somewhat familiar with the topic.




See, I can listen to something at increased speed and get the gist of what is being discussed, I just don't believe that one can listen to something at an increased playback speed and not lose some ability to reflect on and construct the meaning of the content in the process. I don't think this process is compromise free. Could I listen to the Iliad at 5x speed and comprehend the words? Sure. But I wouldn't want to because when I listen to the Iliad being read to me I want to reflect on the meaning, to experience it, to enjoy it. I guess my question for people is if you find the content so light on meaning that you have to listen to it at 5x not to get bored, why not find better content to listen to?


But anyway I was thinking about your point about video games when i was playing WoW, the only real video gaming I've ever done, and it's the same game revived 20 years later. And for some reason, there's an overabundance of Healers in all the dungeons. Used to be, tanks were easy to find, but Healers were hard to find. Tank is the masculine active dominant role in the group, the protector, the leader. Healer is the feminine, submissive, supportive role, the passenger princess. Tank means making all the decisions for the group, leading from the front, pulling, telling everyone what to do, telling the mage to slow down so they don't pull aggro. Healer means hanging around in the back, if the group goes well you barely have much to do, at most you tap out and tell everyone to slow down you can't handle that much.


20 years ago everyone wanted to tank and no one wanted to heal, so guys would get their GFs to start playing so they could find a healer. Now the queue is full of healers, and no tanks. I made a Paladin to try healing, and instead I tank all the time.


That seems like a change.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 11, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


For a counter example; the accusation of the IDF blowing up that school in Iran. Not a blood libel, just a plain old accusation of atrocities.




And here's the Free Press:




It was unsettling to watch California governor Gavin Newsom on Monday spouting off a rejiggered blood libel this week, and not simply because Democrats have mostly succumbed to a fashionable Jew hate.




The term Blood Libel is used constantly in the Pro-Israel press to refer to anything that anyone accuses the Jews of having done wrong. Accusations of Antisemitism have become the new thought terminating cliche.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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it's not trolling, but rather their genuine belief,




distinction without a difference. Having strong half-informed opinions and arguing about them is fun.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 11, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't like that we're describing every accusation as a blood libel now. I'm not a fan of creeping woke rhetorical norms.


The doctor above objected that while they had seen cases of dogs anally penetrating humans, it was always consensual. This is an absurd assertion: the dog has no concept of consent.


I remain blissfully ignorant on the practicality of this entire episode.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Why successful people often have bad opinions online
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The answer: because it's fun.


Empirically, shitposting is proven to be one of life's great joys. The richest man in the world and the most powerful man in the world have both purchased their own social media networks specifically to feed their massive shitposting habit. Kevin Durant is an all time great basketball player, the night after the USA beat Serbia he was an olympic medalist, immensely rich, in Paris with thousands of other super hot athletes, and what did he choose to do that night, exhausted from his effort on the floor? Shitpost on Twitter.


People who can do anything they want still choose shitposting on twitter all night.


Having half-informed opinions about things is one of the great joys of life. Whether you're in a dive bar in Reading, PA; you're a weirdo autist on themotte, or you're on your iphone on your private jet.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 11, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I love the argument that dogs have sex with humans, yes, but they can't rape humans because they have an instinctual understanding of the Oberlin model of consent.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 11, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The AI investment boom is not based on fundamentals or on logical projections of existing technologies, there is an irreducible element of immanentizing the eschaton that underlies the story here.


Some portion of those working in AI believe in some form of the Singularity built around building the first AGI. This can range from "whichever company invents AGI first wins" to "fully automated everything" to a full on Singularity where technological progress goes vertical. Motivations range from the pseudo altruistic "We, the responsible and noble and freedom loving, must achieve AGI before They, the evil and oppressive and cruel, achieve it first" to the desire to become an all powerful feudal lord empowered by their newly created machine god. This doesn't matter to the analysis, the common aspect is the belief that after AGI is achieved, things like capital allocation and debt ratios won't matter.


They're not analyzing this along the lines of "based on our current services on offer and revenues this might be too much capital..." They're analyzing it along the lines of "what gets us closer to AGI before anyone else."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 4, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Life imitates art, first as farce, second as tragedy.


This feels like when I was watching Entourage and realized that all the awful absurd fake movies that they fake as a satire of bad Hollywood projects, have actually been made now, unironically. Narcos, Aquaman, Fire Country, these were all failed Vince and Ari projects before they were real movies and shows.


I have this theory that the government shakes the "ALIENS" coins in a coffee can every time that conspiracy theorists start to get popular, knowing that conspiracy theorists can't resist talking about aliens and will start going off about it and scare the hos. Right now, conspiracy theorists are getting increasing headway on right and left as a result of some of Trump's apparent policy reversals in office, so it's time to shake the coins at them and distract them.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 4, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Thank you! I've had a lot of thoughts about the process but haven't yet reduced them to an effort post.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 4, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Oh man are you missing out.


Quick rundown: Russini is a sports reporter, national profile but Philly football focused. Mike Vrabel is an NFL head coach, formerly of the Tennessee Titans currently of the New England Patriots. They were photographed together at a romantic resort in Arizona, and as a result evidence has emerged of a long running affair. When Vrabels team was on a losing streak she made a Spotify playlist called "keep your head up" or something like that, and shared it with someone named Mike on Spotify, it contains songs that Vrabel is known from interviews to love. They've been seen together all over, the joke is if everyone checks their camera roll they might find them in the background. They rented a boat together while she was pregnant.


And the kicker: her son is named Michael, and she was covering Vrabels game on site nine months before the birth.


Russini hasn't spoken publicly on the topic to my knowledge, while Vrabel has soft-confessed by publicly skipping day 3 of the NFL draft (arguably the most important day between March and August for an NFL head coach) to go to marriage counseling with his wife.


This is the gamergate of sports, because while it's mostly sordid gossip, but there's an inescapable element of journalism ethics here. Was Russini planting stories to help Vrabel? ((In Philly this is about Russini reporting on wide receiver AJ Brown being dissatisfied, possibly reducing his trade cost for Vrabels Patriots)) Was Mike leaking inside team information to Russini? If she was sucking dick for stories, is her career more or less ethical than Stephen A Smiths?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for May 6, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Bro science answer:


-- Do I know how I hurt it? If the answer is yes (Dave cranked on that armbar/I shouldn't have gone for that deadlift), then I'm more likely to know how it will recover


-- Is it getting better over time or worse?


-- Is it getting in the way of day to day life significantly?


If the answers to those questions are bad, then going to seek treatment is a good idea.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 4, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yes. Due in October. A daughter.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for May 8, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I have NEVER seen translation abbreviated as TL, and I was very confused until you mentioned Emily Wilson.


Fagles is the one that comes most commonly recommended as accurate and well done. I enjoyed Wilson's Odyssey, but I see where people didn't like it, I think Wilson is an interesting pairing with the War Nerd Iliad.


My favorite translation though, is Pope's




Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring


Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!


That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign


The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain;


Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore,


Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.[41]


Since great Achilles and Atrides strove,


Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove![42




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 4, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Even with a low in group preference you would think that men would organize jointly on matters that impact all men, like with the evolutionary disadvantage men have when it comes to ensuring paternity.




The most masculine way to organize a solution is "may the best man win." Which is the core issue with most male solutions to problems.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 4, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I just want to know if this is a Mike Vrabel -- Diana Russini post.


Somehow, as I approach fatherhood, the whole world is back to my teenage years. I'm playing WoW and sucking at martial arts, we're in a confusing and ill-planned war in the middle east, and the New England Patriots are ontologically evil.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 4, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There's also the guy who can't get a gun because he can't find three unrelated people who would vouch for him.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 4, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
As we should be.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 4, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


And unless a miracle occurs, either the SPLC will be back in the drivers seat or its principals will simply spin up an SPLD which will magically inherit all the resources and goodwill of the SPLC but none of the crimes.




I don't think this is likely. The SPLC had a long history of goodwill, running back to the legitimate civil rights era sainted by so many in the American mainstream. A new organization will not have that long anchor of sanity, it will be a woke organization from the opening shot.


Moreover, I don't really have a valuable opinion on the charges themselves as law, I have a simple layman's opinion on them: they're weird. If I donated to the SPLC, I would expect my money to be used on normal things, not non-profit cloak-and-dagger nonsense.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 4, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Do communist governments and institutions have a unique tendency to suppress dissent?




No.


Not unless you engage in significant somersaults to exclude right wing regimes that engaged in significant censorship of dissent and say that they are therefore left-wing.


Power has a non-unique tendency to suppress dissent, regardless of its style or origin.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 4, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Relevant Prior post, which in turn links back to my first AAQC


My problem with ressentiment is that I so rarely run into someone talking about it as something they are suffering, rather than a double-reverse-uno in which they are obsessed with how someone else is suffering from ressentiment, and as such their politics should be dismissed as the politics of envy.


Historically this is the province of the left, but it is better understood as the virus of identity politics in general.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I haven't been posting recently, I've been lurking. Most of the stuff going around is boring right now I guess.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yes, but more about the ridiculousness of the ongoing situation than about oil shortages or whatever.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yes. I've had many Israeli friends, and many more Jewish friends who had lived and worked in Israel for a time. There are large parts of Israel where I'm confident that if you dropped me there, I'd navigate with no more difficulty than I have in any other Western city.


The existence of a large (13%) haredi population doesn't invalidate Israel's western status any more than the existence of a small (10%) Amish minority removes Lancaster County from modernity.


Yes, my definition of western is essentially a place I feel comfortable.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for April 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The decline would be even more striking when controlling for population.)




Though less striking given the decline in audience for any primetime tv show. Used to be that primetime shows often hit 20 million viewers an episode, now they hit 5 million if they are lucky. So it's more like maybe a halving of their audience share relative to the secular trend.


2,000,000 is a pretty good audience. If you could launch a show with The Simpson's budget and be assured of 2,000,000 viewers, you'd get a green light. If an artist knew that 2,000,000 people would enjoy their art, they would make it.


This article, basically, but for TV.


There's no reason to expect the showrunners to operate on the timeline of taste, rather than the timeline of money.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


But it seems any type of premediatated or planned operation is just super legal and easy to get?




Nobody does that. /thread


Seriously, I don't understand how you think this is a dunk on the hypothetical person you're mad at. Your argument actually makes the safety standards seem very reasonable: they restrict only those tools of crime that are actually commonly used to commit crimes, and not those that are not commonly used to commit crimes even though they could be. The restrictions target the minimum reduction of liberty necessary to secure a large reduction in crime.