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Quality Contributions to the Main Motte
Special Issue: The Whiteish Question
Contributions for the week of April 1, 2024
Contributions for the week of April 8, 2024
Contributions for the week of April 15, 2024
@clo:
Contributions for the week of April 22, 2024
Contributions for the week of April 29, 2024
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These are mostly chronologically ordered, but I have in some cases tried to cluster comments by topic so if there is something you are looking for (or trying to avoid), this might be helpful.
Contributions to the Main Motte
Contributions for the week of February 26, 2024
Health Scare
Affirmative Faction
Why Not Both?
Contributions for the week of March 4, 2024
Let's Talk About Us
Contributions for the week of March 11, 2024
What is a Man?
Contributions for the week of March 18, 2024
Free as in Software
Contributions for the week of March 25, 2024
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These are mostly chronologically ordered, but I have in some cases tried to cluster comments by topic so if there is something you are looking for (or trying to avoid), this might be helpful.
We also had the problem with the database earlier this month, so some of these comments aren't available in their original context. However I am reposting the comments themselves below; it's not a perfect solution, but in various ways it beats the alternatives I could think of. That said, if you find any errors in need of correction (misattributed comments, for example) please feel free to @ me. The number of copy/paste errors I made in the process of trying to put this together is... not small.
Contributions Outside the Main Motte
Contributions for the week of January 29, 2024
Contributions for the week of February 5, 2024
Contributions for the week of February 19, 2024
Contributions for the week of February 14, 2024
Contributions for the week of February 26, 2024
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These are mostly chronologically ordered, but I have in some cases tried to cluster comments by topic so if there is something you are looking for (or trying to avoid), this might be helpful.
Quality Contributions to the Main Motte
Contributions for the week of January 1, 2024
@gog:
Contributions for the week of January 8, 2024
Contributions for the week of January 15, 2024
Contributions for the week of January 22, 2024
This is a short first-person account of schizophrenia from a professional philosopher. I thought it might be of interest to y'all, in part because of the way that the author thinks through his hallucinations. His allusion to "hermeneutical justice" also seems worthy of reflection. It has long seemed to me that the most important thing anyone can have is a close and supportive family (==a network of unconditional long-term commitments to mutual well-being), and that some of the worst ideas in human history have been driven by people who lack a close and supportive family looking for ways to compensate. To have spent 30 years as a successful academic in spite of brushes with "near-collapses," thanks primarily to the efforts of a wife and a close friend, is perhaps even more interesting than the first-person account of rationally managing hallucinations.
This is the Quality Contributions Roundup. It showcases interesting and well-written comments and posts from the period covered. If you want to get an idea of what this community is about or how we want you to participate, look no further (except the rules maybe--those might be important too).
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These are mostly chronologically ordered, but I have in some cases tried to cluster comments by topic so if there is something you are looking for (or trying to avoid), this might be helpful.
Quality Contributions in the Main Motte
@aaa:
Contributions for the week of November 27, 2023
Contributions for the week of December 4, 2023
Contributions for the week of December 11, 2023
Altruistic Effectivism
Contributions for the week of December 18, 2023
Contributions for the week of December 25, 2023
After thirty weeks as @Soriek's passion project, Transnational Thursday is getting added to the auto-post bot. But it hasn't been added to the bot yet, I think, so I'm posting it this week, with apologies to anyone whose plans I've mussed!
Transnational Thursday is a thread for people to discuss international news, foreign policy or international relations history. Feel free as well to drop in with coverage of countries you’re interested in, talk about ongoing dynamics like the wars in Israel or Ukraine, or even just whatever you’re reading.
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These are mostly chronologically ordered, but I have in some cases tried to cluster comments by topic so if there is something you are looking for (or trying to avoid), this might be helpful.
Quality Contributions to the Main Motte
Contributions for the week of October 30, 2023
Contributions for the week of November 6, 2023
Contributions for the week of November 13, 2023
Contributions for the week of November 20, 2023
Contributions for the week of November 27, 2023
I'd guess the vast majority of you read Astral Codex Ten regardless of whether it gets posted here, but Scott's latest culture war (adjacent) post is not to be missed.
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Quality Contributions in the Main Motte
Contributions for the week of October 2, 2023
Contributions for the week of October 9, 2023
- "While the YIMBYs didn't get everything they wanted, they got a lot of it, and they are very happy."
Contributions for the week of October 16, 2023
Contributions for the week of October 23, 2023
@rallycar-jepsen and @KMC:
- This comment on racial identity, @KMC's reply, and @rallycar-jepsen's response.
Contributions for the week of October 30, 2023
Some People Did Something (Israel Edition)
- "To investigate, I started with the Red Cross's articles: 'Access for Humanitarian Relief to Civilians in Need' and 'Starvation as a Method of Warfare'"
- "Kinoite's Strategic Plan: A Legal War and a Heartless Peace"
@anatoly on:
@screye on:
This is a refreshed megathread for any posts on the conflict between (so far, and so far as I know) Hamas and the Israeli government, as well as related geopolitics. Culture War thread rules apply.
This is a refreshed megathread for any posts on the conflict between (so far, and so far as I know) Hamas and the Israeli government, as well as related geopolitics. Culture War thread rules apply.
This is a megathread for any posts on the conflict between (so far, and so far as I know) Hamas and the Israeli government, as well as related geopolitics. Culture War thread rules apply.
This is the Quality Contributions Roundup. It showcases interesting and well-written comments and posts from the period covered. If you want to get an idea of what this community is about or how we want you to participate, look no further (except the rules maybe--those might be important too).
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These are mostly chronologically ordered, but I have in some cases tried to cluster comments by topic so if there is something you are looking for (or trying to avoid), this might be helpful.
Quality Contributions in the Main Motte
- "Nobody is offering me free benzos to keep me from going too far in defense of my own property."
- "Show up and take the bitch's gun away. Then I might be in a frame of mind for free heroin."
Contributions for the week of August 28, 2023
Contributions for the week of September 4, 2023
All Moderators Are Bastards
The Aliens Have Landed Gentry
Contributions for the week of September 11, 2023
- "I sometimes wonder if 'sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' is an even more effective description of human psychology than it was intended to be."
- "We are bound by the laws of physics, but we don't actually know what all the laws of physics are yet."
Will the Real America Please Stand Up?
Contributions for the week of September 18, 2023
The Best Offence is a Good Defense
Who's Cheating Whom?
Contributions for the week of September 25, 2023
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Quality Contributions in the Main Motte
Contributions for the week of July 31, 2023
Contributions for the week of August 7, 2023
Contributions for the week of August 14, 2023
Contributions for the week of August 21, 2023
Contributions for the week of August 28, 2023
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These are mostly chronologically ordered, but I have in some cases tried to cluster comments by topic so if there is something you are looking for (or trying to avoid), this might be helpful. Also, @Soriek's "Transnational Thursdays" have continued to garner AAQC reports:
- Transnational Thursdays 7
- Transnational Thursdays 8
- Transnational Thursdays 9 Special Edition: Forgotten Wars
- Transnational Thursdays 10
Here are the rest:
Quality Contributions in the Main Motte
- "Review of Yes Minister – televising the British deep state (in 1980)"
- "If it takes 10 quality, honest people to make a successful company or to run an electricity grid without blackouts..."
Contributions for the week of July 3, 2023
Contributions for the week of July 10, 2023
Race and Ethnicity
Sex and Gender
Religion and Irreligion
Contributions for the week of July 17, 2023
Contributions for the week of July 24, 2023
Contributions for the week of July 31, 2023
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These are mostly chronologically ordered, but I have in some cases tried to cluster comments by topic so if there is something you are looking for (or trying to avoid), this might be helpful. But first, we have a special AAQC recognition this month! If you caught last month's quality contribution report, you may have seen @Soriek's first "International Update." Well, there were five Thursdays in June this year, and Soriek didn't miss one. Pulling multiple Quality Contribution reports on a regular "feature" of the Culture War thread is impressive and bespeaks substantial community appreciation of this user's efforts. Bravo, @Soriek!
We now return to your regularly scheduled programming!
Quality Contributions in the Main Motte
Gex and Sender
Contributions for the week of May 29, 2023
Identity Politics
Contributions for the week of June 5, 2023
Identity Politics
Contributions for the week of June 12, 2023
Contributions for the week of June 19, 2023
Identity Politics
Contributions for the week of June 26, 2023
Islamic Exegesis
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These are mostly chronologically ordered. Here we go:
Quality Contributions in the Main Motte
Contributions for the week of May 1, 2023
- "Tourist pamphlets play up Louisiana’s French-ness. In reality, the Creole elite has not been in the driver’s seat since Reconstruction, and arguably since before the Civil War."
Contributions for the week of May 8, 2023
Contributions for the week of May 15, 2023
- "The ironic outcome of this is that for advocates of increased densification, you end up trying to make a fundamentally capitalist argument (less regulation will make us richer) on terms of anything but capitalism."
Contributions for the week of May 22, 2023
Contributions for the week of May 29, 2023
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Quality Contributions to the Main Motte
Contributions for the week of April 3, 2023
Recognition Diplomacy
Contributions for the week of April 10, 2023
Transitive Reasoning
Contributions for the week of April 17, 2023
Identity Politics
Contributions for the week of April 24, 2023
- "What is going in Sudan is a practical demonstration that being a global power does not mean that everything going on in the world is secretly about you."
Discriminating Taste
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Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?
This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.
Culture war topics are accepted, and proposals for a better intro post are appreciated.
This is the Quality Contributions Roundup. It showcases interesting and well-written comments and posts from the period covered. If you want to get an idea of what this community is about or how we want you to participate, look no further (except the rules maybe--those might be important too).
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These are mostly chronologically ordered, but I have in some cases tried to cluster comments by topic so if there is something you are looking for (or trying to avoid), this might be helpful. Here we go:
Quality Contributions in the Main Motte
- "Book Review: Men Trapped in Men's Bodies"
Contributions for the week of February 27, 2023
Identity Politics
Contributions for the week of March 6, 2023
- "For the most part, verifying that a prosecutor has met their Brady obligations is near-impossible."
Transform and Roll Out
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Identity Politics
Contributions for the week of March 13, 2023
Identity Politics
Contributions for the week of March 20, 2023
- "Becoming Radicalized by the Hugos"
- "I'm more pro-Sad than anti-Sad, though I'm also pretty heavily anti-Rabid. To give as neutral a summary as possible..."
FiveHourMarathon Gets a Hat Trick
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"1000th Comment: On The Value of Conflict or if we want to Make America Great Again we need to start raising kids with values we don’t intend them to keep"
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"Feminism knows that a sexual past can be a problem, but can’t imagine a realistic solution."
Contributions for the week of March 27, 2023
- "Recently, someone sent me a video about GamerGate made by BreadTuber Ian Danskin in 2021."
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