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ActuallyATleilaxuGhola


								

								

								
								
								

								
							
					
 
				


				
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				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 19, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm just a single data point, but I definitely


    

  • ask my wife to change when she wears clashing/unseasonal patterns or colors
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  • encourage my wife to go to the gym and take time of out of my work schedule so she can go
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  • avoid buying too much junk food so we can both stay relatively thin
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because I'm not attracted to fat, frumpy, flabby women, but maybe your point was about guys looking for a quick hookup?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 30, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
@Corvos See, this is exactly what I was talking about.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Hmm, this sounds fallacious.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 2, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Now, please give me your evidence




I can't provide you any evidence about an alternate historical scenario that never took place.  I'm openminded, what do you predict would have happened had Germany won?  Jew-hatred appears to me to have been an expression of German paranoia and and inferiority complex, once geopolitical rivals have been vanquished and the German people felt strong and unchallenged, would it have continued at such a fever pitch?  It seems like it would have become politically unnecessary in peacetime and probably a diplomatic liability.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 4, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You're arguing in favor of a broad definition of tomboy, while I'm talking about something rather narrow.  From the linked meme in the OP:


    

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    Thinks makeup is stupid
    

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    Rough speech like "I'm gonna kick your ass/suck my dick/fag"
    

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    Gets mistaken for a boy
    

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    Puts you in headlocks
    

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Sounds like a boy or young man to me.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for July 4, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Paralleling @JarJarJedi's story, I tried to outsource some annoying research to Gemini and it just gave me the run around. [TW: Boring ops work]  I was trying to find a way to copy a large-ish Cloud SQL MySQL DB from one GCP project to another.  Solutions I was given:


    

  1. Just make a clone in another project (not allowed)
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  2. Dump the data to a GCS bucket (I said I didn't want to do that in the original prompt)
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  3. Use DMS to transfer the data to an empty Cloud SQL instance in another project (sounded promising, was my original thought... but you can't select a DMS instance in another project from the drop-down)
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  4. Just use the public IP address of the other Cloud SQL instance as the target (and send my prod DB data over the internet? pretty sure the security team would kill me)
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  5. Just use the private IP address of the other Cloud SQL instance (...what? it's in another VPC in another project)
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  6. Just peer the VPCs (hmmm.... but no, Cloud SQL instance interfaces actually exist in a "private services subnet" which is part of a hidden Google-controlled VPC which gets automatically peered to the customer's VPC in the same project (A <-> B), and GCP does not support transitive VPC peering (A <-> B <-> C))
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  7. Just peer the hidden VPCs in each project directly (they're Google-controlled so we can't create peerings)
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  8. Peer the customer's VPC in the source project with the Cloud SQL VPC in the target project (that doesn't make sense)
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  9. Just dump the database into a bucket (sigh)
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In the end I probably could have just spent 30-45 minutes reading the docs and figured out what my real options were rather than spending severally hours trying half-baked solutions.  I just use Gemini for short scripts, text editing operations, and boilerplate now.


[PS. I think we can use PSC to solve the problem above]


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
lol, well, we could all technically live, Gilded Age style, in a single room, but I don't want that, so I suppose I have more requirements than just minimizing enclosed space.  I'd want a garage, a living room, a space for a dinner table, and ideally a porch.  I'm also trying to do a 2 floor build because I want to minimize the footprint on my lot.


But point taken.  After this thread I think I need to hire an architect.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Good to know, thanks.  It sounds like I'll just need to keep an extra close eye on the GC towards the end.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I was hoping you'd reply as IIRC you have three or four children too. I responded here regarding house size.  What do you think?  I was thinking we might also just make the rooms smaller in general so that there are the same number of rooms but less enclosed space to cool and clean.


Water flow is definitely important for us where we will live as mild flooding can happen even just with a bad afternoon squall.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Since this is the stupid question thread -- what should I hope to learn from those books?  They appear to be reference books about regulations. Should I study them so I can keep my GC honest or double check his work?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Does this add a significant amount of cost?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
We're still at the very beginning, so my answers aren't very interesting, but:


    

  1. Working off a loan, but we also have enough investment money that we could make more aggressive payments if needed.
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  2. We've picked a plan off of a builder's site that we liked. We're not really "dream house" people, we're pretty practical.  We've actually like most rentals we've lived in that were just cookie cutter designs. The only times we were unhappy was when we lived in a place with poorly sealed windows overlooking a street (lots of traffic noise) and when we lived in a house with poor insulation in a place where the temps varied between 15F and 95F over the year.  That said, I'm still thinking about getting an architect and doing a custom build.
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  3. A few years ago, I picked out a great lot in the heart of a small, fast-growing middle class town on the outskirts of a larger city.  The neighborhood is perfect and everything is walkable.  Tradeoff is that we have to build now.
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  4. It will probably end up being 4-5 years.
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  5. TBD, but it doesn't seem like there's much in that area.
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  6. I have family in the area, and I was very careful to avoid flood zones and flood zones adjacent properties.
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				Friday Fun Thread for June 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I tried the dark theme at one point, but it's not as good as TheMotte theme with DarkReader, so I just use that.


win98 is pretty cool though.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 9, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Why?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for April 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Hah, I was thinking of him too while reading this thread.  He was more interesting than most of the other trolls.  I snooped his accounts a year or so ago but it looks like he's mostly stopped posting about "powerology.". What a strange little era that was.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for April 4, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Was the kollectiv bit meant to be bolded?  Or spoilered?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I wonder if it's an age thing.  When I returned from overseas as an American citizen in my early 20s, my credit score was ~650 despite me never having had a loan or credit card.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


nakedly extortive behavior




According to what standard?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 19, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I understand where you're coming from, but I don't think the combination is as rare as you think.  Middle and upper middle class "alphas" or "chads" tend to be masculine leaders while also dressing well and requiring their girlfriends/spouses to do the same.  Think of the top salesmen in a sales department or C-suite executives.  I suppose the key is that they are probably not interested in women's fashion for its own sake, but only insofar as their woman's raiment can be used to reflect her man's high status and good taste (if I'm honest, this is also partially why I do it, I guess).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Dang, I was trying to think of a spin on Trample.  Nice.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for January 8, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Nice, thanks for the rec!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for January 8, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Thank you!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for January 8, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yes, but I actually like it neat. I have a bottle of Wild Turkey 8 in my cupboard that I'm trying not to think about right now, ha.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for January 8, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Cool post, thanks for writing it.  Should I read Shogun? It's been recommended to me a thousand times for obvious reasons, but I'm a jerk about historical accuracy and I'm worried it's going to be full of anachronistic nonsense or magical oriental Mr. Miyagi characters.  Maybe I'm approaching the book too seriously and should suspend disbelief?




For 2025, I want to read some self-help books, strange as that may sound, to get some of the books that are always being recommended.




FWIW, I'm reading King Warrior Magician Lover by Moore & Gillette, and it gets recommended fairly often in some manosphere corners. I'm only about halfway through and I'm not sure I'm totally sold on (what appears to me to be) all the Jungian psychobabble, but it's kind of interesting and different, and I could see how the framework might be useful for men. That might be one to check out.


Tim Ferriss gets recommended a lot.  I read the Four Hour Work Week back in college, but it didn't leave a huge impression on me.  All I remember is that he became a "kickboxing world champion" in some weight class by somehow exploiting a loophole in the rules and... that proved some point about hustling, or something.  But a lot of people seem to like his stuff.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 30, 2024
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Fair enough, I'm not a business owner so I wouldn't know.