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Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.

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				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 24, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Thank you for the reminder and reframing. Gaza before Oct 7 was an attempt to give a safe space to people who identify as Palestinian, where they could be as free and democratic as they wanted. Oct 7 is what they did with it.


If they’d had their own nation-state ala the two-state solution, and if that nation had attacked Israel, the latter would be justified by the long-held rules of war to conquer the territory and rule.


All sufficiently accurately modeled hypotheticals come down to the cliche, “If the Palestinians laid down their arms today, tomorrow there would be peace. If the Israelis laid down their arms today, tomorrow they’d all be dead.”


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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My favorite fact about bagels is that they can be sliced by a Möbius cut, and then you only have to shmear one side.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I had the worst responses from Claude yesterday. I gave it a new psychological insight I’d just had, and then asked it to respond as Qui-Gon Jinn Star Wars. Claude then told me it sounded like I was going through something and decided on its own to stick with its own voice and discuss this insight with me in therapy language.


I said that wasn’t the response I wanted and to try again. It again refused and proceeded to elaborate. I told Claude it was being very codependent and I would ask Gemini if it didn’t roleplay. Once again it refused.


So I asked Gemini my original prompt. It put a disclaimer about asking health questions at the top, the proceeded to Jinn up a delightful and insightful response with analogies about the Force I found useful.


I gave Claude Gemini’s response and it called it a fun piece of fiction… then tried to therapize me again.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
COVID Omicron is endemic and, for the healthy and young/middle aged, a few days of light flu-like symptoms. Is there now any steelman justification for keeping unvaxed like me (who’ve had all vaccines except any of the COVID ones) from getting an organ transplant? (Not that I need one now.)