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One of the great unwashed.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=p_TLzmjbhG0&t=1368 I couldn't do this, but the philosophy is correct.

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One of the great unwashed.


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				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I just watched it. I'm a fan of all the Kane Parsons YouTube series, and have spent time on the Backrooms fan community wiki. I prefer Parsons' universe as its more consistent with its lore.


I thought it was good. 7-8/10. Mainly because I like the lore and got more out of it than your average normie.


I like how the lore was expanded and it puts past renditions of 'monsters' into hi-res context, which is great. The universe is more or less fleshed out now in detail, so if this movie does well commercially we might get more.




The twist is that Male Lead is the monster, and the climax is his grotesquely personified id rapaciously chasing Female Lead through a hellscape maze of his own creation.




This is a very valid interpretation of the film. My theory is that the 'copies' of people are influenced by the mental integrity of the person copied. Clearly Clark was mentally unstable due to alcoholism, his external locus of control, his suppressed anger at his ex-wife, not helped by his undisclosed (nonlinear?) time stuck in the backrooms alone.


As usual with Backrooms, I love that they have normies enter the place and do normie things, which is kind of part of the setting. I don't get how the 'other organisation' is still so unprepared, incompetent and shit scared at going in there, but I guess they're like MRI technicians or something and completely unprepared to that environment.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for May 29, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Government trap for the Ayys.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for May 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The Joint Ventures are meant to be putting things under the one roof (and they will literally do so sometimes with a shared Project Office). This is mainly cosmetic though as every individual organisation within the JV will consistently act in their own interest. Its common to see people from one part of the JV send through a deliverable that is meant to go to the end client that says 'no we aren't providing this thing that was clearly in the Master Specification because its outside of our scope' until they get their skull bashed in have things explained by a project manager somewhere in the chain that they need to present their deliverable as if they representing the JV.


The short version is that better reporting structures and hierarchies could be made, but there are incentives against it. Having experience in major bids, there is massive pressure to quickly spin up a Joint Venture and divide the scope of work as soon as a tender is awarded so as best to meet delivery deadlines. This can cause massive confusion in communications at the start of a project as 'who is doing what' and 'what needs doing' is often unclear. Unclear communication channels and reporting hierarchies can persist long into the project, not helped by sub-organisations joining and leaving the project as their scopes are started and completed.


Also the usual financial and contractual incentives can create delay in communication and delivery. For instance, there is an incentive to be competitive on your company's individual bid for a scope of work. This might mean that you don't have much 'fat' in the fee, so to reduce costs you will limit the time you spend on the project (and will be responsible for to your internal line management). You will also not commence work on any part of a scope until a contract has been agreed. Even though the broader project itself may have hard deadlines coming up and a part of the scope has been overlooked and a variation needs to be negotiated and builders are notoriously tight fisted and wish to waste time arguing with architects, engineers and consultants that something is within their prior scope even though it isn't.


There isn't really a way around these issues. It can be common for some correspondence or deliverable transmittals to have over 100 recipients, leading to inbox hell which is its own problem as things get lost in the noise. It was also common to have to remind senior stakeholders that I had already responded or completed a task and here are the attached meeting minutes for the meetings which they chaired six months ago and three months ago where I discussed and resolved the issue at length after being accused of indolence.


tldr; Haven't really found a better way to deal with this except perhaps to push for a single point of contact for communication, but that just plain doesn't work on larger projects.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for May 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Major Building projects are often structured under a EPCM (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Management) model, and sometimes even in a PPP (Public-Private Partnership) arrangement.


This means you can have multiple organisations quickly spinning up a Joint Venture or other structure to deliver the entire project. This might consist of a public procurement organisation, along with a building consortium, an architectural company and an engineering company. In this case you would consider the public organisation to be the end client, but even they may be overseen by independent regulators for certain sectors (eg aviation or rail). Also the engineering or architectural company might subcontract out certain specialist disciplines (acoustic engineering, or landscape design) to other companies. So in some cases you can go: Independent regulator > Public Procurement organisation > Building conglomerate > Architectural Co > Engineering Co > Subcontracted Engineering Co. Due to contractual and other reasons (including individuals with controlling traits), every organization between you and the regulator may want you to line communicate through them rather than directly with any organisation above them. Also within any of these organisations as discussed there could be their own line chain of communication.


Now in practice you can normally talk directly to individuals across the project as long as you cc in relevant stakeholders, but sometimes, particularly when contracts and specifications are involved, things can be bogged down as every person in the chain wishes to review (and sometimes censor or otherwise modify) information provided by those below them.


Also, with mega projects there can be a ridiculous number of stakeholders that might presume you are available for the duration of a project that runs for 5+ years and attempt to contact you directly. This can be why some people refuse to put their mobile phone numbers in their email/Aconex signatures.


Now most of the time things don't go badly, but it has been known for people senior in the hierarchy to have a bad day due to things entirely outside of the control of people lower in the hierarchy and disproportionately escalate issues because they don't understand the systemic reasons for the issue existing in the first place. For a person at the bottom of the hierarchy, this can be very very stressful in some circumstances. Like if the Executive Project Manager Builder screams at an engineer that they are in breach of contract because the engineer didn't immediately provide a deliverable because the architectural firm above them hadn't actually authorised them to do the work, because Janice from Finance had gone on maternity leave.


There is so much more that could be written about this, but just understand that consulting runs into miscommunication issues all of the time, due to factors that are often outside of your control, even if you are pro-active with your communication.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 24, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That reminds me. Backrooms comes out this week, which is a big entry in the liminal space horror genre. I'm planning to buy a movie ticket for the first time since Top Gun 2.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for May 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Consulting is very similar. You will have a line manager and then a number of different projects that have a project manager and various stakeholders that you're meant to talk to (including directly to clients for those projects). Sometimes the stakeholders of those projects are in other companies stacked 5 deep (and I mean 5 companies deep, each with their own hierarchies) before you get to the end client.


When going on leave, you're basically meant to tell everyone yourself that leave is happening. Do the procedure with your line manager, but email practically everyone you work with that you won't be available. Then fill out the outlook 'out of office' auto respond.


It's pretty exhausting. No, you can't trust anyone to do this for you. Most of the time your project managers are cc'd in on a lot of correspondence so if someone requests something from you they will step in and remind the stakeholder you are on leave and cover for you. But not always.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 18, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
How the mighty have fallen.


I was actually regretting equivocating men (even high value men) getting fast food with sex addicts who think that any hole is a goal, but there should be some standards for the women we choose in our lives. Shouldn't there?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 18, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
In my experience, the majority of guys that really ran up a bodycount weren't picky about the girls they slept with. It wouldn't surprise me if some had a sex addiction or self esteem issue.


I remember one guy who kept telling stories about how a girl he'd bag had big breasts and then a mutual friend would send a photo and you would see that the 'girl' was 40 years old and had 'big everything'. I never understood the appeal of going for unattractive women just to get sex. Mind-boggling.


'Fishing' stories of mass exaggeration were rife in the PUA community. You pretty much learnt only to believe people if you'd personally seen them walk out of a club with an 8+ on their arm.


Edit: Here's a professional athlete that went for some low hanging fruit. When the girl realised he was going for a 'slump-buster' and she'd never be able to wrangle him into a relationship, she went public in a pearl-clutching fake affront. The athlete (while not the best looking) could probably do much better, but is happy to settle for something average. He wouldn't be approaching girls like that on Tinder unless he had success doing so and was comfortable with the quality.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for May 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Once you get above the age of 30 your body really knows when it is eating healthy unprocessed foods and when it is not. You can cook very hearty meals that are still made from mostly unprocessed ingredients that are really good for you. Better performance at mental and physical tasks are just the start.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for May 15, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I always used to make eye contact before approaching women, but that's just me. I'd practically never get a cold response doing this, and early on it calmed my approach anxiety.


I knew some guys that would do things like dance up unseen behind a girl and grab her hips and it often had a bad end.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 11, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
90's action was definitely different from 80's action. Think Nicolas Cage or Jean Claude Van Damme as an Action Hero compared to Stallone or Schwarzenegger.


While 80's action was Big Muscles, Big Guns, Big Boobs, 90's was a lot more stylised. Political correctness had barely begun to seep in thankfully.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 11, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Agreed. My rough prediction of the future is that even if Musk's utopian future happens, people will still compete on status due to human nature. An almost certain measure of competition will be through the production, collection and presentation of human made 'bespoke' goods (even if they are of less quality than the AI produced stuff).


Its Barbershop poles all the way down.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 4, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Back in the day if you wanted to find a more sexually available woman in a nightlife environment you would absolutely look for tells like: wearing red, big hoop earrings, heavy makeup, big nails, cleavage etc etc.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 4, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


You are probably right that things are unlikely to move in the 'more testing' direction; there are likely some blue tribers around who would claim that if a woman was in a relationship with a guy while she got pregnant, any kids are spiritually his (unless she denies it, of course) and he should just pay up.




In Australia this is pretty much how it goes now. If you have a pre-established relationship with the children (of several years say) then you are presumed to have assumed parenting responsibilities and need to pay child support in the event of a divorce.


The 'needs of the child' are said to out way the injustice done to the 'father'. Why the state can't provide for the needs of the child and that only 'daddy's money' can spiritually succor the child even though the cucked man wants no relationship with them is somehow left unsaid.


So you get scenarios where a man assumes that his wife/partner has been faithful, happily signs his name on the birth certificate, develops a relationship with 'his' child and then finds out 5 years later that he's been cucked by her ex-boyfriend Chad. He is horrified at the betrayal, divorces his wife and wants to cut off contact with Chad's biological kids. The Family Court comes after him with the full force of the law and is willing to throw him in 'debtors prison with extra steps'. He says go after Chad for the cash. The court says you have assumed the role of father and have signed the birth certificate so pay up.


I'd like to see mandatory genetic testing at birth. There are other medical benefits such as identifying susceptibility to genetic diseases early as well as the 'needs of the child' in knowing with certainty who their bio-parents are. Somehow the courts don't seem that the 'needs of the child' are important in these other areas.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 4, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well done on following this up. A lot of these culture war flare ups don't get continuing coverage. I worry about losing track of a lot of these court cases as they take years to move through the system.


I don't think @FCfromSSC was wrong. I still think we're in a place where Blue tribe gets different treatment within the justice system for similar 'crimes'. The defendant here codes more Blue, while the deceased Paul Kessler codes more Red.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm gonna say Ramen noodles, some spring rolls and a peanut butter sandwich.


I know I'm meant to pretend to have a 3 course meal here, but sometimes you're spending the evening alone and go for convenience.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Its crazy how the thinking goes: "You can vote for anyone except for parties that will lead to fascism. Which ones are those? Don't worry, we're experts; we will tell you."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


It would be easier from a security perspective to host these events at a WH ballroom as opposed to random hotels in DC where security is more lax.




This. There's a saying in Risk Management; 'As Low As Is Reasonably Practicable', whereby you treat or reduce risks as much as you practically can. Also one of the best treatments for risk is Elimination. If the President holding DC events in public exposes him to public threats, you can eliminate exposure to those threats by holding events in private; which is to say on the White House grounds.


I know there is a motivation here to do an end run around the legal hurdles of the ballroom build, but there is a legitimate security argument for holding large events in a more controlled environment.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There are ways to solve the security problem, but yes in terms of risk management the question is 'at what cost?'


Are people willing to shut the hotel down for 24 hours to deny guest access to the lobby? Who is paying for that?
Are you willing to put multiple people on every single ground floor entrance to the hotel and at every portal on the ground floor before, during and after the event? Who is paying for that?


Are you willing to inconvenience the rich and powerful with tools like turnstiles, metal detectors, x-rays, pat downs and biometric recording the week before to be checked on the night? Who is paying for that (and not just in currency)?


How about shutting down the entire city block, snipers on every rooftop and swapping the chefs and service staff out for Seal Team 6 for the night? Who... well no one would.


The short version is that Security is a game of Risk Management utilizing limited resources deployed against a thinking adversary. Its most basic philosophy is of Defense in Depth, or a series of layered interlocking defenses with the presumption that some of them maybe vulnerable to being breached by certain attack methods while others aren't.


Here the system worked. If you want guarantees that it will work perfectly and that any event will always proceed undisturbed even though attackers are willing to throw away their own lives in the attempt, then you need to pay a significant price for that. Including a lot of inconveniences to the legitimate attendees.


Most of the complaints about how far the attacker got are complete cope (including by the attacker). They have nothing else to clutch onto at yet another failed assassination.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm wondering if some news outlets are doctoring the images to make his skin lighter. Compare the Kiwi Farms Family photo to this one from Reuters.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for April 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Outside of meditation retreats I never did more than 1 hour per day. Still, I remember when I was really into it I had a great experience. I meditated at night and then sat on a bench at a local park watching the moon. I have a vivid memory of being incredibly happy to be alive (because life was wonderful) and ultimately content. I literally could feel no desire for anything.


Happy experiences like that aren't the norm though and shouldn't be expected from the practice.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


"I Couldn't Fulfill My Boyfriend's Fetish, So We Opened Our Relationship".






My boyfriend, Drew .. is 29 years old and a trim 145 pounds. I am 24 and stopped weighing myself when I began eating disorder recovery. Jessica (not her real name), the woman with whom Drew had his first external date, is 44 years old and over 600 pounds.




Ah yes. I don't know what I was expecting, but I'm not surprised.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for April 22, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Basic focus meditation using your breath as a focus.


Your mind will distract you, you focus back on your breath, your mind distracts you, breath etc etc


Eventually your mind distracts you less and less and you relax.


Its a technique you can do to relieve stress. Really. Nothing religious about it. I use it against high stress situations and it speeds up sleep.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It frustrates me that people get paid and made famous by parading their messy lives around. She got paid a lot of money to wallow in her flaws and gush about how badly she treated her friend here. Perverse incentives.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


But Katy Perry is a weird character to say the least




Apparently so. Ruby Rose (who has all the hallmarks of a professional victim and like most professional victims, instantly makes me 'press F to doubt') made vague allegations that Perry sexually assaulted her back in 2010 (when they were both in their mid 20's). This is apparently currently being investigated by the Victoria Police.


There's lurid details of the complaint floating around, although now apparently Rose says "I am no longer able to comment, repost, or talk publicly about any of those cases, or the individuals involved”.