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				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't think being 'religious' cuts it; the Aztecs were plenty religious. But if you're a Christian, that's a relief.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for August 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Retatrutide yes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


all people deserve a baseline of dignity and respect




Says who? This is a historically aberrant position.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for August 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If I eat whatever I want, I oscillate between 260 and 270 pounds. I'm also tall with very broad shoulders so this isn't as bad as it sounds. I'm pretty physically active too so a lot of that is muscle.


Point is, if I watch my diet like a hawk and eat no breakfast, a small snack for lunch, and a reasonable dinner, I seem to level out at 260 pounds, making me wonder why I bother. To actually lose weight I need to be in enough of a deficit that it makes me feel terrible and cuts my cognitive ability roughly in half.


A friend of mine once said that once you're 40 a diet is now mandatory but no longer effective, and that's about right.


ETA: I did try retard and it shifted everything down about 20 pounds, such that I plateau'd at about 240 and stayed there no matter what.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Ha ha, point and laugh at the Limeys




To be fair, they used to rule the world and are now some kind of obscene parody of the West, suitable only to scare the rest of us into avoiding their mistakes except inasmuch as we are apparently intent on recapitulating them.


I think the problem is women, but blame men, and really democracy, for getting us here in the first place.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Those memes reportedly included ... “racist statistics.”




Love how unironically people use this phrase. Wish "hate facts" would come back; that was a good one.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Nah.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Wizard's First Rule is a strong contender for worst book I've ever read. Hopefully he gets better with time.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I use Claude constantly and it's fantastic. Then again, I'm not using it to write code, which sounds like your specific problem.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Really gotta read Atlas Shrugged. Tried The Fountainhead when I was like 19 and while I remember a lot from it, and even fondly, it kinda put me off Rand for a long time.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


ra-ra-workers-of-the-world-unite




What would be the opposite of this?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There is no obvious line. Getting squeezed through a vagina is a pretty absurd standard for the beginning of personhood. I doubt they'll stop at pre-birth either; Singer and his cohorts argue that it should be fine to 'abort' one-year olds.


And why not? This sort of behavior has been pretty normal throughout human history. As usual, post-Christian fish have no clue about the water they've been swimming in.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Everyone seems to assume suicide but, given the context, unintentional overdose seems like a viable alternative scenario. Am I missing something?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for August 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It can be hard to see at the time but being single is vastly better than being with the wrong woman.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm wondering whether AI will invent its own mathematical notation, superior to ours, and if so whether it will even be comprehensible to us. You may still have a role as a translator at some point... though I guess it'll probably be better at that too.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


fell victim to Muggeridge's Law during the Obama era




If anything you undersold this. I ultimately liked the movie but it was jarring how on the nose it was, and contemplating how this used to be obvious satire when now it's, if anything, so much worse than portrayed left me unamused and depressed. (I was also, in retrospect, coming down with a nasty flu and am still fighting it a couple days later).


Still it definitely has its moments and belongs in the set of 'movies like that worth watching'. Ended appropriately. Also I have a soft spot for some of the minor actors. Always nice to see early Matt Ross, who made my favorite movie, Captain Fantastic.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm currently considering suing a certain company for fraudulent inducement and was astonished when my attorney told me their likely defense would be that I should have known better than to trust them in the first place. Apparently that's a real defense that works.


This might make me sound more dumb than I am; the context is that I kept providing services to them as they got later and later on payment. I didn't buy a bridge or anything.


So the idea is that given their track record of not paying on time or in some cases at all, it's on me for continuing to move forward in good faith no matter how many new agreements we signed.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
And thank goodness for that. Can you imagine?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think something like this happened in late Republican Rome.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't care how nice you are, but I think it would be appropriate to actually disagree with his points here and ideally back up your rebuttals instead of accusing someone of delusion.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Is the issue here with the word 'paid' rather than 'released'?




I think that's a pretty crucial difference, yeah.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yeah, we used to go every week and I'd come home with like 8 books and read half of them. Wish my kids could have that experience.


One daughter is now going to a private school that has its own pretty good library, though they only go up through grade 8, so unfortunately limited for someone at her reading level.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Worst cut is definitely something like top round.




Ah, yeah.


I do like, and purchase and eat, filet; it's just, as you say, pretty dependent upon some kind of fat sauce (I'm a huge fan of steak au poivre which generally wants filet) or an elaborate construction like a beef wellington, where it's saved by all the duxelles and buttery pastry. But I have seen people buy and cook filet 'mignon' (def not) with just salt and pepper, and then muscle through it with their molars, the whole time convinced it's a great steak.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Thankfully not. I just work there occasionally.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Great post. Tangentially,




for hundreds of miles around me, public libraries are cutting hours or shutting down.




Good. Took my kids to one once. Nothing like when I was young. The homeless people aside, the whole place was a temple of wokeness and the books belonged in a bonfire. I'm aghast that my tax money is going to support this establishment, just as I am when I drive past the local elementary school and see 'progress' flags and coded anti-white messaging in the wall murals. And that's before we get to all the trans stuff in both.


Down with all of it, I say. I'd pay twice as much in the relevant taxes to be rid of them. If I could send the people who've been running them to prison I'd do that too.