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The neighborhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised with a series of events which seem to run on lines parallel to those of what was known to the writers of headlines and "The Kensington Horror," or "The Stabbing Woman," or "The Woman in Black." During the past two or three days several cases have occurred of young children straying from home or neglecting to return from their playing on the Heath. In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a "bloofer lady." It has always been late in the evening when they have been missed, and on two occasions the children have not been found until early in the following morning. It is generally supposed in the neighborhood that, as the first child missed gave as his reason for being away that a "bloofer lady" had asked him to come for a walk, the others had picked up the phrase and used it as occasion served. This is the more natural as the favorite game of the little ones at present is luring each other away by wiles. A correspondent writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to be the"bloofer lady" is supremely funny. Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture. It is only in accordance with general principles of human nature that the "bloofer lady" should be the popular role at these al fresco performances.


				
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The neighborhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised with a series of events which seem to run on lines parallel to those of what was known to the writers of headlines and "The Kensington Horror," or "The Stabbing Woman," or "The Woman in Black." During the past two or three days several cases have occurred of young children straying from home or neglecting to return from their playing on the Heath. In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a "bloofer lady." It has always been late in the evening when they have been missed, and on two occasions the children have not been found until early in the following morning. It is generally supposed in the neighborhood that, as the first child missed gave as his reason for being away that a "bloofer lady" had asked him to come for a walk, the others had picked up the phrase and used it as occasion served. This is the more natural as the favorite game of the little ones at present is luring each other away by wiles. A correspondent writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to be the"bloofer lady" is supremely funny. Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture. It is only in accordance with general principles of human nature that the "bloofer lady" should be the popular role at these al fresco performances.



				

				

				

				

				

					

					

					
					
					

					
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Emoluments Claude




I hereby diagnose you with AI dependancy.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Moon base is probably the only place he'll be safe from the clutches of a future Dem US government.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Why not both? Vice signalling eventually convinces your opponents to get off their asses and give you a good kicking.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Impeached: 100-epsilon% as epsilon -> 0


Removed? Close to 0%, much as it would be hilarious.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Hey, don't knock servants. I wish I had them here in the UK. Unfortunately the Government of this country has made hiring people so expensive it's basically impracticable for all but the richest, and even then it's less of a hassle to hire housekeeping etc. for a few hours rather than have a dependable constant live in servant (plus the other issue, modern UK housing is so small there's no place to give your servants board).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Unironically neither of those two countries are bad places to live once you understand how they function (and are decently skilled enough to avoid the worst types).


				

				

						

							

								
    
									
									
									
									
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Polls are wrong, Dems are outperforming...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Unironically I can see him as being presidential material. He looks kind, unlike pretty much all recent candidates since Obama/Romney.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Ah, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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All I know is that Talarico is very good. Scott Aaronson endorsed him which is enough for me.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Democrat sweep over 99% on Polymarket: https://polymarket.com/event/balance-of-power-2026-midterms


Knew I should have put some money down, perhaps I had too little faith in American voters (hard, I know)...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Why do you say Abdul El-Sayed doesn't want to assimilate? Yes he wants to change America, but his wishes to change America are quite similar to those of like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, no?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Too bad that there are plenty of others already in your country that disagree, and they'll vote against you and your policies for very justifiable reasons from their side.


The R's offer is basically "the beatings will continue until morale improves", and then they act shocked when voters completely rationally vote D instead.


And who says immigrants don't assimilate. Imagine they all assimilated fully into D subcultures and values and voted D even harder. Something tells me you wouldn't like that eithe.


				

				

						

							

								
    
									
									
									
									
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The tories are considered one of the world's most successful political parties since they were founded in the 1800s, they are very good at adapting to changes and coming back and winning, see this article from the Economist a few years ago: https://www.economist.com/britain/2019/12/21/britains-tories-are-the-worlds-most-successful-party-heres-why


And even now, when it looked like Reform were going to eat the tories' lunch, they've somehow managed to get themselves back into 2nd place and if the UK's next government is right wing at the very least it's looking like they'll be the main player in it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This: In any case, something is wrong if significant numbers of people who don't actually live on a farm are not within walking distance of their local polling station.


Like here in the UK even if you're in a small town your nearest polling station will very likely be within a 5 minute bicycle ride and unlike busses and cars, bikes don't suffer anywhere near as much from malicious road traffic interference.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Non-European immigrants vote D by supermajority numbers




If only the Rs would stop pursuing policies detrimental to Non-European immigrants, they might end up voting more R, like how Latinos now do. No party is entitled to the vote of anybody.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yeah, Lula bad but Bolsonaro worse. What Brazil really needs is a Tony Blair or Reagan type. If I had a vote I'd have explicitly made an effort to go and vote against Bolsonaro and since Lula was the only choice for that, he'd have gotten my vote.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Say what you like about his policies but it's hard to deny Lula is exceptionally good at Politics, a bit like the Tory party here in the UK.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You can't copyright an idea, this is basic fundamental IP law. You can protect designs yes, but only for a few years. Copyright over software only covers the exact source code itself and as the claimant you must prove the defendant copied from your source code to hold them liable. If they take 100% of the functionality of your code and make their own copy from observing just the functionality itself that's completely fine and you can't do a single iota of stuff about it.


From Pumfrey J back in the day:




Take the example of a chef who invents a new pudding. After a lot of work he gets a satisfactory result, and, thereafter, his puddings are always made using his written recipe, undoubtedly a literary work. Along comes a competitor who likes the pudding and resolves to make it himself. Ultimately, after much culinary labour, he succeeds in emulating the earlier result, and he records his recipe. Is the later recipe an infringement of the earlier, as the end result, the plot and purpose of both (the pudding) is the same? I believe the answer is no




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Man that LGTM video is a banger.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Stallman-level intensifies...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The prop software dudes are on a losing battle. Qwen 4 and Kimi 3.1 are coming in just a few days and the previews once again show they are only a low single digit number of months behind the western frontier. We'll have Opus 5.5 tier open models by the new year. We now live in a world where you can Reverse Engineer Anything and western software companies need to make peace with that.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Who knows, perhaps after I retire a few years down the line. Large and juicy bonuses push that timeline up, so please pray for me to get an especially big one this round, Inshallah!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yes, for basically the reasons you mentioned there's a strong and very misguided (IMO) strand of people who basically Arab-worship. Something like Arabs are great and amazing because they were the ones who were sent God's last messenger and the word.


If anything I think this gets it the wrong way around. I think that rather the reason that out of all the peoples of Humanity Arabs were the ones sent the prophet was because they were the most degraded and in severe need of divine guidance and correction (e.g. in pre Islamic arabia when a man died his eldest son automatically got to take all the man's wives except his mother for himself, in addition to many other things that will make you go wtf when you hear about them the first time).


However this is a conversation Islamic society is not yet ready to have, so alas...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


And you yourself have posted repeatedly about how you consider yourself a higher class of being than the peasants ( but still Muslim!) who fetch and carry for you at home.




Hey, converting means you don't get treated like a dhimmi anymore or as "not a real Muslim" or anything like that. The Arabs have this bad habit (they've had it for over 1200 years, the fall of the Ummayads was in big parts becuase the Arab Muslims kept treating the convert Muslims worse and it lead to serious resentment) but it's a speicifc Arab flaw, not anything to do with Islam or Muslims more genreally.


It doesn't mean that everyone is equal within the class of all Muslims. Yes, we are all equal before God, but that's because the differences between us are negligible in comparison to how Great God is (sort of like floating point precision smoothing), and not about how we're all equal as humans otherwise.




And of course, if there is one group that treats Arabs more brutally than the Israelis, it's other Arabs.




Again, a very specific Arab flaw. I'm not even a particularly big fan of Arabs personally, the Eastern ones lucked out with oil and now seem to think they rule the place, while in reality they aren't any different to Algerians or Tunisians or Libyans, some more humility from them would be very welcome.


But hey, if you're curious, your nearest mosque is probably not too far away (and only going to get closer as time goes by). There's no pressure either way.