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				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 22, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Saying you'd sacrifice a particular human in exchange for preserving a particular work of cultural significance will disgust a significant portion of the population.




What if they volunteer?


And how can man die better 
than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers 
and the temples of his gods?



				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 21, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Christmas is this week!


What are some of your favorite Christmas albums?  My Hall of Fame includes:


    

  • Christmas in the Aire, by Mannheim Steamroller
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  • Christmas Album, by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
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  • Charlie Brown Christmas, by Vince Guaraldi
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And not an album, but this rip of a 1974 Kmart holiday-season tape loop is a prime collection of vintage easy-listening holiday music: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EFuVl-p31xQ


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 22, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm baffled by the concept of a game studio where the coding-level devs make decisions on the overall direction and themes of the game.  Surely there are producers and executives analogous to movie productions with hire/fire power who set the parameters of the artistic output, no?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 22, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I would think there would be fewer issues of upset equilibrium (and reduced political deference) in this case since she's a county judge and it's a federal prosecution.  I'm certain if it was state or local law enforcement she was screwing with, nothing would have happened.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Nuclear waste continues to irradiate anything around it for an incredibly long time




This is meaningless without quantities though. Everything is irradiated at all times from ordinary nuclear decay, cosmic rays, and solar radiation. It is a manageable hazard. After a long time, the quantity of radiation emitted is going to flatten out to a hazard lower than the chemical toxicity you dismiss.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for December 19, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
FWIW Sargento is made in Wisconsin and sold in the grocery stores. It's fine for things like Mac and Cheese or Cheesy Potato Casserole or queso salsa. But they also sell things like Sartori and BelGioioso and lots of local micro producers which, as you note, are incredible for straight cheese eating.
(I just now realized the Sar in Sargento is Joe Sartori, who sold his interest in Sargento to work on the more crafty Sartori cheese.)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for December 19, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I read The Road a few weekends ago and while I did not end up sobbing, I did end up thinking for a good long while about how soft and easy my life is in historical terms.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 15, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I guess we know whose language is PowersHell. (I actually really like powershell, but I might be lawful evil)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for December 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Low - they typically use resistance heating elements that cannot thermally runaway because they become more resistive the hotter they get, they are manufactured from flame-retardant material, and have integral overcurrent detection and/or GFI sensors to prevent short-circuits.  Since the heating elements are directly against the body, they don't get all that hot.


I would also suggest a fleece or flannel hooded-cloak-style bathrobe.  These can be worn over clothes and are effectively a wearable blanket.  The long cloak-length ones should cover your legs.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This is what makes Atlas Shrugged evergreen. Its depiction of a society that regresses technologically not because of loss of knowledge or expertise but simple loss of will will always be terrifyingly plausible.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
At that level of dilution, the radioactivity would not be detectable above background, let alone acutely hazardous.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The problem is the "morally unimpeachable" requirement. The only way to gain this attribute is to avoid doing anything of real substance.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 8, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Why wouldn't that be covered as a search incident to arrest?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 8, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Nobody else mentioned it, but as best as I can tell 100% of the attempts to scam friends and family have been from subcontinentals.  They stole my friend's elderly mother's savings, without remorse.  Kitboga alone has probably done massive reputational damage.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 8, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Perhaps, but it still has to be someone's job to do that for it to get done.  I think Charlie is probably correct that whoever was managing the remaster didn't know or simply forgot that this was a thing that was needed, nobody got the job, and nobody at that level took the time to QA the final product.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 1, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You don't have to actively care about something for it to have profoundly affected your life.  In fact, I would guess that often the most disruptive things are the ones that people move on from, because that's how you get past it and move on with your life.  But it will still have affected you!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 1, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Ultimately we are both going to have to fill in the blanks as to what the "proper" interpretation of the rubric is. I suppose it comes down to who you trust to interpret the rubric properly - the instructor or Fulnecky. In this case, I have to give a little deference to the professor, because she created the rubric and I've experienced similar grading standards in the past. I suppose this sort of thing is what the University is interested in finding out.




I agree with all of this.  My problem is I just don't have any confidence that these kinds of standards are applied in a consistent manner, and I don't have any particular reason to trust this particular instructor any more than I trust the rest of University administration, which is not at all.  I will never, ever, forget how much this story about a University essay crushed me: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/teen-accepted-stanford-after-writing-blacklivesmatter-100-times-application-n742586


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 1, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You could get a LTO-9 robotic tape library capable of storing a lot more data than that for a few million.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 1, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't doubt it will be a tough cycle for Republicans, but off-cycle elections are not very reliable indicators, because gaps caused by differing voter propensity are greatly magnified compared to normal on-cycle elections.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 1, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's one of the few things they can do that can't be undone by a judge.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 1, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
In part, as a corrective to the perceived over-sensitivity of the prior military bureaucracy.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 1, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
How so? People are justifiably killed in the process of routine law enforcement all the time.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Perhaps not, but you are the one bringing up the context of a criminal trial, which does not otherwise seem relevant.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think Nyb is talking about cases where it could be clearly demonstrated that the President was not involved in the approval process. Later saying he would have approved it anyways wouldn't cure that.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think there are two related reasons: one, motivation dies quickly after becoming mired in bureaucracy. Someone who is highly motivated to provide a mentoring opportunity for a group of boys might not be able to find the drive to complete more than a single form, let alone typing up paragraphs of baloney. Same thing hampering science IMO.


Second is legitimate fear of liability. Even if you jump through all the paperwork hoops, even a minor accident can easily result in years of expensive legal wrangling, even if you ultimately win. Insurance against this is expensive and yet scourge bureaucratic hurdle to doing anything.


As usual, if you want to make the world a better place, first kill all the lawyers.