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				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think it’s usually the reverse.  The kids starts it, then they start making money and the parents push the kid to continue even if they don’t want to.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for May 29, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
My advice would be to start out doing short stories.  They have a couple of advantages.


First, they have a quicker turnaround.  You can get a first draft done in a week or less.  This means that you have more time on the back end to rework what you have into something that works.  A lot of good writing that you see in books is actually rewritten, and often several times.  If you have a story that’s ten to fifteen pages, you can easily rewrite the bad prose, or fix the plotting or see where the characters are doing weird things.


Second, the level of detail you need to get started is a bit less.  You don’t have the space for a long detailed plot, or fifteen pages worth of world building information.  You don’t have the space in the story to worry about what happened to your main character in the fifth grade and all the trauma it caused him.  In all of that, you have time to hit the highlights and move on.  This removes the temptation to follow Tolkien in the sense of spending large amounts of time building an entire universe and not writing the story.


Third, they’re easy to put out into the world.  You can just put it on a blog, or a website.  You can submit to short story contests, you can print them at kinkos and hand them out on street corners.  Thus the need to worry about gatekeepers is less.


As far as characters, I personally use the type descriptions from personality tests (MBTI or Socionics or Enneagram) simply to get a sense of how the character might think.  That helps me because if I don’t make a point of giving each character a different personality, they all end up sounding like me.


I’ll also recommend looking up the Brandon Sanderson lectures on either podcast or YouTube.  He’s dealing with a more advanced level of writer, but it’s helpful.  You can also find podcasts about the technical skills of writing like characters and descriptions and so on.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 31, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think a lot of the “more/better” thing is that it is often stuff that’s easy to recommend, has few explicit costs, and provides an easy way to avoid blame.  TBH it’s a cop out, and really if someone isn’t communicating a concept properly, you can always ask.  And second, because the answer is talking about the problem instead of figuring out what went wrong and how to fix it, no accountability happens and thus nothing changes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 31, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Even if you’re cribbing notes off the Internet forums that incels use, you still need to craft a character that is more than just a collection of ripped quotes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 31, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


most popular sport would end sometime within the next fifty years, and nobody would notice or care.




I think most of our sports will eventually go that way.  Football has the disadvantage of being expensive to play, expensive to attend, and thus really only works as a TV show.  Add in that there are more commercials than playing time and that really nothing much matters between the 35-40 yard lines of the respective teams, and you have a problem.


Baseball will probably go first, as much as I like the sport.  The games are too long for TV and Internet, especially when you have innings of play where nobody does anything.  When you need to put a guy on base to shorten the game in extra innings, you have a problem, namely that your game is long enough and boring enough that overtime is a problem for you.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I agree.  Up until the modern era this was how stories worked.  The characters and plots belonged to the people in the culture.  Robin Hood or King Arthur, fairy tales, and so on were stories with lots of different versions and regional variations depending on where the stories were being retold.


And I wish this was how things worked now.  I’d absolutely love to see what Mickey would be like if you had stories written by contemporary artists.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The thing that sealed it for me was that Caroll never really provided any concrete information until  Kavanagh provided it first.  The date — down to the year, the location of the house, the people at the party, etc. she knew nothing until she was fed the information.  And there was never to my recollection any contemporary evidence that the two had met.  No mention of this party to other people, no journals, no police reports, no anything until he’s up for the Supreme Court.  She never said anything at any other point of his career.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This would be my guess.  I’m very concerned that the Petrodollar is going away, and hyperinflation will result as we can no longer maintain our standard of living and certainly not our generous welfare and social programs.  This probably means that civil unrest will happen.  The people who suddenly don’t get their welfare benefits for months are not going to give up peacefully, especially if prices are also inflating by double digits.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Quality Contributions Report for May 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not sure what they’ll be if they achieve sapience.  I’m hoping for Spock, personally.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Quality Contributions Report for May 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I missed @FtttG post about Dave, and while I’ll agree that Dave is likely porn sick, I don’t think that’s what happens all the time.  My impression of most trans people of either gender is that they rarely understand anything other than what media or social media tells them their desired sex is actually like.  They tend to, for want of a better term, “LARP”.  Trans women tend to suddenly wear makeup and frilly dresses and take up interests in things that media holds as traditionally feminine interests.  It comes of as the gendered equivalent of a white man deciding that his soul is that of a black man and proceeding to go out wearing dreadlocks, fake gold teeth, flashing gang signs and tattoos, and eating fried chicken and watermelon.  No one would think of such a thing as a serious attempt to live out the life of a black man because that’s not remotely the way most black men live.  It’s a stereotype, tropes, and are generally things that whites or at least racist whites think black men are like.


Most women, unless they’re feeling fancy, are not wearing dresses in ordinary life.  Unless working in a field that requires it, most women aren’t wearing skirts.  If they’re just hangout wyother women, it’s jeans and a cute top or something.  And most women are not just doing things TV decided was feminine.  Lots of women like sports and play them regularly.  They go hiking and fishing, they play video games, they read science fiction and fantasy (and not all of us like romantasy).


So whatever is actually happening in the brain, I think it has less to do with a feeling of being a woman and more of a desire to be treated like a woman.  They know what the media tells them women like, but they have no other source of information.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’m not convinced anything less than 5 years is long enough.  It’s extremely short when the buildup to the election takes about a year and then you need at least half as long again to raise the funds to run.  That makes, at current, the term of the house members of 24 months with 18 months of “reelection related activities” and 6 months of everything else.  6/24 is 1/4 of the term with 3/4 for running for the next election.  Make it 36 months, and you’ll only have half of the term for actually doing things.  Make it 5 years and it’s 60 months, and thus 7/10 of the term is for doing things and 3/10 is devoted to winning office.  At this point it’s long enough that you can’t simply be good at running, you have to get things done.  And at 5 years, you have long enough lead times that the results of the changes you make are going to be known and thus affect your ability to win (imagine having the effects of taxes or tax cuts coming known before we voted on whether or not to re-elect the guy who voted for it).  It’s also long enough that longer term projects with upfront costs (especially infrastructure projects) become plausible.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I can understand the idea when it comes to disabling content in a game that the player owns outright and has the ability to either be played completely offline or to be played on player owned servers.  In both cases, you’re taking something away even though it would still function perfectly fine even without outside support.  I don’t think it’s reasonable to try to force people to keep their servers running in perpetuity.  That forces a cost on a company that might make them think twice before starting an online service simply because they can’t get rid of it later.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
My thesis, for what it’s worth is that this is a function of democracy and especially democratic systems with short terms of office.  The way to get and keep office in any democratic system is to become really good at winning elections and doing the work is at best a sideline and at worst a problem.  Having short election cycles makes this worse, as the time between elections isn’t long enough that a person can “get away” with doing the work.  If you had elections once a generation, you’d have very little of this problem, because you get 20 years between campaigns and this is plenty of time to do a lot of good deep work for the people of your district or state or country without having to worry about whether or not the people are happy about it.  If you were appointed, as we used to have governors appoint the senate, you’d never have to court public opinion, and therefore your ability to keep office relies on whether or not you impress the guy who appointed you or maybe those who can fire you.  You can thus ignore public opinions and do what you believe is best for the country.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think it depends.  Yes a lot of it is “high end” stuff going higher, but I think the general point is also valid that if I want my groceries to cost about what they did a year ago, im only going to get there by downgrading my purchases.  And I don’t blame people for complaining that a budget that a year ago included fresh chicken and beef is now downgraded to frozen chicken and ground beef.  Or that a budget that could include the occasional treat of bakery cookies is now downgrading to Oreos.


The general point is valid for most people is absolutely true — most people are being forced by inflation to downgrade their lifestyle.  Travel is definitely taking a hit as well.  People who a year or two ago were flying to Florida and maybe booking a cruise are now looking for cheap local things to do because they simply can’t afford that anymore.  Restaurants are definitely feeling the pinch when people look at the cost of living and realize that they don’t have the same amount of discretionary money they did last year.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It’s not just college, but finding work after college, paying off debt, and earning your way to either owning a home or at least renting a nice enough apartment that you’d feel comfortable having a child in.  This takes a while.  So if you’re doing the typical 4-5 years post high school, then an internship or two or a shitty entry level job that you’re working insane hours to get up the ladder from.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think there a lot going on that doesn’t get mentioned.  First the advance of technology— in 1940, a state of the art entertainment system was a radio.  In 1980, it was a color TV and maybe an Atari or later a Nintendo game system with a couple of cartridges.  By 1990, you have cable, vcrs, better game systems, and so on.  Food is much the same.  In the early twentieth century, mustard was spicy, and now it’s like not even comparable to the mild spicy food that you eat all the time.  The sheer amount and variety that we expect is different.  They felt rich if they had a nice family car, a color TV, and simple food in a fridge that didn’t automatically make ice cubes was plenty.  We’d consider that poverty, but they felt rich because technology was moving fast and they could afford to partake.  We see a decline where things that used to be things the average person could expect are gradually becoming unaffordable.  The mid century saw people able to afford to eat out more, and in the 2020s people can’t afford to eat out as much as they could have 20 years ago.  The same is happening with other stuff.  The standard of living for most average people is declining.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don’t think that you should have two different people on the same bills, as it introduces the threat of fraud as people cannot tell at a glance whether the bill is real enough to consider as real.  If one bill has a person no one recognizes, they’d probably treat the bill as potentially fake.  It also opens the weird political situation where MAGA types accept only the Trump bill and Blues only accept the other bill.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think what Kony and Harambe did was mark the rise of the social media based reaction to news as the primary way people interacted with the news.  Before that, they might talk about the news on social media, but the news came from other sources like CNN or local news.  Harambe and Kony started online and were talked about online.  It was the beginning of everyone being able to be sort of not only journalists but commentators, and that they not only could but should influence the outcome of the story.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That problem matters as well, but my main issue with over-educating is that it basically means that by the time a couple is ready to settle down and is financially stable enough to think about having kids, they are too old to have said kids, or at best one or maybe two.  Add in the much longer dependent stage means committing to a much longer project that’s actually quite resource intensive, which means that parents need even more resources to devote to their children.  It’s actually insane how many obstacles we put in front of the couple who might want to have kids.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think the education issue is part of the story as well.  A teenager in 1600 could just start adulting at 14-15 and be just fine.  You didn’t need to be able to read or do high level math, or even geometry.  You just became a blacksmith, or a farmer by following dad around.  Modern people need an almost absurdly long education in highly complex skills that massively cut into prime boot knocking years that happen in the teenage years.  A 16 year old male and 16 year old female are biologically the most horny humans around.  But, those kids are not free to indulge even if they want to.  Instead, we make them sit in classrooms learning about mollusks in preparation for taking the SAT with a view to going to college where they will learn higher levels of skills that hopefully within 5-7 years after graduation will have them earning enough money to get a two bedroom apartment in which, by the time these humans are ready to have children in the financial sense, they have much lower libido and the woman has missed half to 2/3 of her fertility to the education system.  Then everyone is like “wait, why no kids?”  It’s because by the time a person stable enough to have kids, they’re too old to have kids.  Hence fewer kids.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
See, I think it’s computers and communication.  In 1726, an event happening in New York might not be known in Los Angeles for months.  In 2026, an event happens in New York and the news reaches Japan within 10 seconds.  As such, the amount of information is much much higher, and the time you have to react to it is much smaller.  Waiting a week in 1726 isn’t slow because the time between you doing a thing, putting it in motion, and seeing a result is longer.  In 2026, waiting a week is waiting an eternity.  Your ability to do things quickly is much bigger, and the news cycle is so much shorter that everyone is like “it’s been three days, we must be losing the war, because we haven’t won yet.”  Wars in the past lasted for decades, yes in part because of transport, but also because the computer age allows you to do things faster.  I can order a strike in the time it takes me to answer a text.  The order reaches the front instantly.  The order will be executed in seconds.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You can in the sense that a country can simply decide not to have an army.  You will end up losing to those who refuse to abide by the restrictions.  You won’t campaign for 6 months, okay cool.  The guy running against you is, and so he gets his name and message out there, he gets the eyes of the public, and probably wins.  It’s an arms race that’s really hard to stop and it’s getting worse because of the media landscape that leads to very short attention spans and memories of what you actually did.


Most congressmen will seek reelection.  It’s also part of the system that no, or very few congressmen actually serve only one term.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean civilization itself runs in cycles and greater cycles.  Not just the concentration of power eventually leading to a Uniate system, then dividing, but the cycle of rising and falling empires, civilizational collapses.  Honestly, history is very cyclical and it’s really pretty clear to anyone who read it.  I think the cycles are much faster now than in the bronze and Iron Age because technology makes things move fast enough that the breaking down happens in decades instead of generations because things change that fast.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean I think especially for #3 a lot of this is baked in. Partly because of the short terms as compared to the time needed to gear up for the next election.  The term is 2 years, the campaign season is about 6 months, leaving about one and a half years to actually do things.  But that neglects two important aspects of the campaign: funding and name recognition.  If nobody knows who you are, it’s hard to convince them to vote for you, obviously.  And without a horde of gold to spend on campaigning, you lose.  But both of those things take a lot of time.  You have to make appearances, you have to get interviewed by the media, you have to have a social media presence, all of that stuff, and you have to get big donors to believe in you enough to fork over the cash.  So this probably takes about half of the remaining time, leaving about 9 months to do anything actually productive.


My immediate suggestion is that really, if you want to get congress back to doing legislative work, you need much longer terms.  A minimum of 6 years in office would allow the official the ability to stop campaigning and do the work.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
My issue with background checks and sanity checks is that they really are easy to put things on the record, and hard to get them off, such that unless the law allows for a statute of limitations, something that you did or were treated for 25 or more years ago will still show up.  That DUI at 18 might, unless the law limits the ability for a felony to remove your gun rights, mean 65 year old you cannot have a gun.  Nor does the system have any way to tell the difference between a violent criminal act and a white collar crime.  A guy who robs a store is probably a poor risk for legal carry, however I sincerely doubt that someone cooking the books is therefore going to go out and knock over a convenience store.