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				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It took me a bit to realize you weren't measuring capacity in pennyweights.  That would make 170k dwt. about 600 lbs., so a small boat.


Now I know.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


does a grocery chain have a corporate-wide VPN already?




I've never worked for one, but I assume they do for the POS system, along with other ERP system access for inventory, receiving, accounting, and so on.  They should probably have multiple subnets per site for the sake of isolation, but that's a bit of a hassle to combine with a VPN and may not have been done.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I guess a lot depends on when the system was put together, but as a professional I.T. guy, oof.  Of course you put them on the VPN!  That's been the sane choice for at least twenty years.  If you absolutely, positively can't for some reason, then you at least whitelist the control server at the firewall level and block other traffic to the device.


Now if they were small enough not to have an I.T. department, I'd understand.  But more likely I.T. was overruled.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Unfortunately, I attempted to write this reply and found that I was unable to do it sufficiently. I've been sitting at my computer for an hour and am simply not satisfied with the argument I've constructed because it effectively requires me to describe my worldview from first principles.




Oh boy, I can relate to that.  I appreciate the effort.


I want to give your post some more thought, probably review it after I've slept.  But two differences stand out to me:  One is that I think that different relationship practices vary in their conduciveness to human flourishing far more than you do.  The other is that I'm not looking primarily at potential mates but at other people I care about being led into costly mistakes by a society that encourages them.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 28, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Edit:  I saw "reactionary-reactionary" and thought you meant the second blogger, but after posting I realize you may have meant the Dread Jim.  I am leaving this post up in case I got it right the first time.




disagreeable assumptions made that undergird this article




I'm not the O.P., but I would be curious to see how you frame them, if you've got the time and energy to make it legible to folks like me who probably share many of those assumptions.




If there was one claim in particular that you wanted to highlight, what would it be?




My summary of the central claim:  The complaints that modern men are immature or poor marriage material aren't wrong, but they are incomplete; modern women suffer similar faults, but they aren't discussed because socially prevalent forms of feminism excuse them, or even laud them, in women.