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				AAQCs Listed by User, August 2018 to March 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There are definitely some users with multiple AAQCs who do not appear in the list. The introductory post does say it's full of errors.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for April 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Hollywood's Hellfire Club: The Misadventures of John Barrymore, W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn and the Bundy Drive Boys


The same friend who lent me the biography of Errol Flynn lent me this one. Along the same tack, though not quite as wild a ride. Those were definitely different days.


Once you finish Bloom you can read The Coddling of the American Mind, if you haven't already.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Indeed. I'm overly critical. Happy Easter! also to @self_made_human !


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This appeared in my janitor queue and I marked neutral because although it's adolescent and unfunny, so what. Reading it in context I think it's adolescent, unfunny, and a shitty comment. Take this as a remark on the imperfection of the janitor system. (I know I can check context by opening a different window, and often do, but it's annoying to do on mobile.)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for April 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Just show me the formatted table post and not the username and I could've guessed it was you.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for April 3, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
42% German, 44% Autistic, not sure where the rest went. Redneck maybe.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


It's not that hard.




Could be that I've found your problem.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Any woman can manage to reproduce




If only this were so.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for April 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Not the doctor but epinephrine is known to have this side effect (think Epipen). I'm not sure what Throwaway05 had in mind.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for April 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I have been cautioned in the past that the Wellness thread is not a hugfest and I am aware of my own tendencies toward agreeability, even to a negative degree, but fucking hell man.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for April 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Same as any sort of cool down. Light exercise, even just walking, something to get your body moving and out in the world and take your mind off internal monologues.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for April 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There are many types of statin. Japan certifies I believe six, one of which is rosuvastatin, which I have been taking (one small pill a night) for about three years, due to elevated serum cholesterol. The standard dose in the US is about 5-10mg.


My pill is 2mg, well on the low side. But the lowered serum cholesterol levels are clear. I have never had any side effects that I noticed. Zero. My HbA1c is and has always been within healthy zones. My liver values (AST/ALT, bilirubin, albumin) are within healthy zones and haven't changed in any significant way since I began keeping close records of yearly health checks (about 12 years).


I have also started drinking 5mg of psyllium husk dissolved in water twice a day, though only for about a month and that's not long enough to see the possible effects (at least in terms of cholesterol levels, the digestive effects were pretty clear almost immediately.)


I get that people are wary of drugs. I personally have doubts about semaglutide, which has not had the long-term testing of statins. (roughly forty years for statins with hundreds of randomized controlled trials and meta analyses. Less than 10 years for GLP 1 receptor agonists like semaglutide). But statins are among the most studied of drugs. This doesn't guarantee complete safety for everyone, but then neither is aspirin safe for everyone.


The good news is that low doses to begin with can do a lot of work toward detection of side effects, if they're going to occur.


I am not a medical doctor.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


If you are poor, fat, and socially inept - as a man, you will be harshly judged and looked down on within our society




Yes, probably, and this is as true of women as much as men.


Your post has its points, but you seem to be operating under the assumption that all girls are sort of latent beautiful princesses. And would that this were so. I'd suggest that you're missing (as many who suggest that women just have to sit around being beautiful, picking and choosing which man to allow in) is that arguably most women are simply not very physically attractive in a conventional sense. This is especially true once a girl gets older and no longer has the lithe thinness of the teenage years (but many do not even have that.)


Post youth, the unattractiveness could be because of life style choices (poor diet, sedentary lifestyle, tobacco and alcohol use) or simply genetics. And your later statement that some women may have been born without makeup is either poorly worded or bizarre. I'd suggest men who rail against the unfairness of it all keep this in the forefront of their mind: There are many, many unattractive women. And this when the shelf life for even exceptional female physical attractiveness is measured in years--decades only with a lot of care taken.


I write all this not as a condemnation or dismissal of women. I'm at the age when physical beauty of random women near my own age is almost a non issue. Investing emotionally in one woman (who becomes your wife and the mother of your children) involves reconceptualizing what beauty means.


My final point is one that you seem to be making yourself: Men's worth is not necessarily tied up in how they look, and they are then capable of doing something about it. As WC Fields (or whoever) said to the woman accusing him of being drunk: "Tomorrow I'll be sober but you'll still be ugly."


Obligatory edit: My tastes are certainly not the tastes of many. One man's plain girl is another man's beauty, etc. well as it should be. My larger point is that life isn't all roses for all girls everywhere just because a few young attractive women have a high profile and many followers / orbiters.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Very interesting. I'd be happy to get back to just 1986, without the constant drumbeat of nuclear annihilation of course. We had broadcast networks but phones were on a long cord and if you were lucky you had one in your room.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Hamnet, infant mortality and attachment styles
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I am reminded by your post that Paul Ehrlich has died.. His obituaries focus, rightfully so in my view, on the errors of his theses as outlined in what was arguably his seminal work, The Population Bomb. His ideas had a lot of ripple effects, including the ideas of forced sterilization and abortion. I remember my environment seminar in undergrad was full of readings from that text, which was even then quite old. So many false prophets, so little time.


Edit: Covered already by @Eetan


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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That would shock me, if true. Basically I'm just saying that in my experience even as a protestant from the south of the US, purgatory was something I knew about from a very young age.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				The American Renewal Act: A 127-Point Systems-Level Overhaul (Citizen Juries, 20% Market Cap, and a New Constitutional Anchor)
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Beyond a desire for challenge, acceptance of a dare, or obsessive interest in the topic, why should we devote the considerable time to this from an account that has only this post?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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"Unusually sincere." That's a new one for me.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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some long dead Greek bloke who said that doctors shouldn't operate on kidney stones




Again I am faced with what is probably a fundamental difference between you and me. Could be generational. You seem often to seek out the snark; I'm far more traditionalist. And it's hard to know how seriously you take something when reading comments online. A lot of the people who post here, for example (here being the Motte in general) seem extremely hostile and angry in ways that have only become normal since the late 90s or whenever it was and phpBB.


I guess my larger point was not "will you get in trouble?" rather "Do you have second thoughts?" from the viewpoint of integrity as a doctor. Within an hour after my first and only substack post I had at least one person sending me a message saying "It's her, right, this is her?" with a name--all because I had posted the first name of a person and enough context that, in 2025, identifying real people from internet descriptions is relatively simple. I felt slightly bad about this, but my readership is not significant enough that it would matter. Probably. The southern women I know don't actually like anyone to know anything about them at all, but that may just be my social circle.


Anyway, carry on.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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It isn't an accusation, just a question. I remember that William Carlos Williams story The Use of Force and never felt he had betrayed some confidentiality (and as you say it was probably at the very least fictionalized.) But maybe he did.


I tend to write about real people to a degree, and though I do fictionalize, unless I'm writing for historical record, Im only bound by the somewhat less mystical rules of social politeness, not the Hippocratic oath.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Very entertaining. I will ask, however, where you may stand ethically, writing publicly about such patients? I'm not sure of the standards.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 8, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If you're reading the Nevill Coghill version, which is old, he used the iambic pentameter of the original, which is possibly why the word screw is used. This is, ironically, an attempt at maintaining the poetic integrity of Chaucer. Try the David Wright version.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 6, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
For my own wife, breast reduction came naturally after a short time post-nursing. Obviously this must have been accounted for? You mention the kids crawling all over her though suggesting they're quite young.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 6, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm still on task. I've smelled MFK 724, Byredo Blanche A d P, the two MM you mentioned, as well as Gentle Night, and a few that the girls insisted I smell because they were presumably trying to move merchandise. Also Freesia Mist. All this has taken considerable straying from my usual scheduled route, but that's a good thing.


I'm quite impressed with all of them. But we're not quite there yet. I feel like you mentioned Aqua di Parma Colonia which I haven't yet found. It's nothing in Tom Ford, which some dude who was dressed extremely well took many minutes spraying on little business cards and waving them like he was snuffing out a shrine votive candle (which you should never blow out with your breath). I extracted myself by lying.


I'm not a great shopper. I like to buy what I want and be done with it. It's a worthwhile search, though, in this case, though I expect many question my testosterone levels. I appreciate your assistance.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well the examples given several times were doctors. There are degrees of wealth, obviously. If we're talking about billionaires, we're far from my area of knowledge.