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				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It rules out a flood.  No comment on other means of destruction.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Epilogue: 15 years later she falls for an American soldier occupying West Germany.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think there is a good story to be told about the decade leading up to the Nazis gaining power.  The communist and fascist paramilitary groups fighting it out makes for decent and very topical drama.  Maybe throw in a romance, make it The West Side story but with Red Front Fighters' League and Brownshirts.  I'm not a filmmaker by any means but I think there are a lot of depths to delve in this setting which has been largely ignored.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The same Vance who prays two decades of the rosary of the day and said, "But I always kind of liked that Pope Francis would just throw these bombs out there in the media.  Because it would force a conversation... he was kind of a genius at that."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 26, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Meanwhile the biggest argument against the Catholic Church is why hasn't God smitten us all yet?  It's inexplicable.  Maybe we have just barely enough rosarys/day to keep it at bay for now.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Men still have strong ties to women - we are your mothers, your sisters, your wives.  We are necessary to the continuation of the species.  We are still economically and socially useful, as a gender.


I don't think we've given as much thought as it deserves to the concept of a group that is just useless.  A group of people who do not reproduce, have weak friendships and no family ties.  What happens to them when they retire and leave the workforce?  I think there is something significant here that people need to pay attention to, because it's going to be a big shift in the coming decades.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Simple enough solution - which grandparent do you get along with more?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If you have the young enforcing the laws, the young paying the taxes, the young doing everything, what power do the old people have?  The power of the state?  But the state is powered by the young.


Eventually there wont be enough to go around.  When that happens, force comes out and the young have a monopoly on force.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The Odyssey makes for a bunch of great stories - tricking the cyclopes, the danger posed by lotus eating, having to pick between a rock and a hard place scylla and charybdis.  There are important truths in there which can be edited and revamped for kids and teens to enjoy and learn from.


The problem is when you put it all together it is a jumbled mess that leaves you wondering what the point all is, if you're a modern person with modern sensibilities.  Classicists like to study them because they provide a glimpse of what ancient people valued - how different these biologically similar people were! It's hard to believe that Odysseus didn't really seem to care that all his crew died.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There is a very simple solution - decrease the extra care elderly people receive.  It seems unpalatable now, because who wants to let grandma develop bed sores and die?  But the proportion of old people who do not have descendants will increase, and the people who are working and paying taxes will not have strong emotional ties to the childless old people.  I can see Social Security and Medicare being gutted in favor of people caring for their own elderly relatives themselves.


Alternative solutions are to increase working years through outbreaks in medicine - retirement age is 100 if the median life expectancy reaches 110.  Or automation/robotics gets to the point where 90% of jobs are taking care of the young and old (the remaining 10% being managing the robots).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
One of my swim coaches was stabbed to death in West Mesa.  For some reason, despite being a not great neighborhood, West Mesa also had the best pool complex in Albuquerque.


Worst that happened to my family directly I think was a tandem bike getting stolen.


I think the real trouble is in most cities the crime is segregated by neighborhood much more clearly than in Albuquerque, where you can have really great and well-kept infrastructure in an area of town who's name gets Google Autocompleted to "West Mesa Murders."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It goes beyond the Pokemon/trainer dynamic - there are gym leaders and the whole thing leads up to massive arena tournaments with winners.  But I see your point.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Younger kids identify with Pokemon more, weirdly enough.  The oldest plays a trainer, the younger three like being Pokemon.


But also it's more just the concept of natural hierarchy existing and being good.  I find most recent kids shows avoid this topic entirely or portray natural hierarchy as bad.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
On the flip side, I show my kids the original Pokemon cartoons. They teach the values of hard work, caring for those under you while still maintaining a strict hierarchy, respect, and other values which are harder to find in modern day TV Programming but are essential for a child.  Trainers are in charge, Pokemon have to listen to them, so eat your veggies.  Don't try to trouble the parental norm. Fighting authority is not a virtue.  Things can be hard, do your best and you'll get better.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This is getting into why this might have been a culture war topic instead of small scale questions, but I am curious.  Why did this exception make it through the Fair Housing Act but not others?


I don't think this story would upset me much if it was fairly applied, so that I could join a Catholic HOA, like you said.  Would be really cool to live in a community where a church and Catholic School were within walking distance and we had Corpus Christi processions and Christmas Caroling right outside my house.   But, we don't' live in that world, we live in the Fair Housing world.  So, why did old (not even that old) people get an exception?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If an HOA has a rule about noise after a certain time of day, then if someone violated it they would have to pay fees and potentially lose their home.  It's basically the same thing as this tiktok girl being forced from her home, but with less discrimination over something she can't control.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Honestly, in-context I can imagine older adults appreciating some guarantee that the neighbors won't throw a kegger and loudly play beer pong into the wee hours of the morning.




This makes some sense, but could be enforced with some noise ordinances instead of age discrimination?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I assume her father did, and her father violated the contract with his will.  If the daughter is now the executor of his estate, she has an obligation to fulfill the contracts her father signed as much as possible.  If I understand correctly.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


A cursory search indicates that 55+ communities are specifically exempted from federal law's ban on age/race/etc. discrimination in housing.




My question is more geared towards "What is the reasoning behind allowing this?"  What is the massive benefit to society that justifies creating this carve-out?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Why are 55+ communities allowed?   What are the perceived benefits of 55+ communities?
https://x.com/LeahRain77/status/2079094767233745170 has blown up on X and I know I've seen 55+ communities when searching for houses.  They usually come up on searches as less expensive and I guess I assumed they were assisted living facilities but looking at today's drama that's not the case.


It's weird to me that people are getting so offended at the idea of an almost-30 year old woman can continue living in the same home she lived in before her father passed away.  What is at stake here to these people that is worth the expense of suing a woman out of her house?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There are people in this thread who say homemakers just watch TV all day because chores only take a little bit of time.  I didn't say your mother is one of these people, but there is this attitude that homemakers don't need to exist that I'm pushing back on.  They actually did a lot for us and we still don't realize it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
My SAHM mother did to the socializing legwork, which is why I recognize this as part of the job.  Everyone knows someone in their job who doesn't seem to do anything and skates by, homemaking is no different.  But judging a job by people who don't do it well isn't the best way to assess its usefulness.


Men's social fabric will fall apart when women's stop socializing.  Who do you think gets to meet up at these parties and picnics the women organized?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There is a point in teaching children to read before they go into a school that teaches them the wrong way.  After schools dropped phonics and switched to whole language approaches to reading, it became harder to correct a kid's bad habits.  If a kid learns the right way to read is to look at pictures and guess, then a couple years down the line a struggling reader will be a nightmare to teach.  Instead of sounding out words, which takes work and is hard, the kid will keep drifting to old bad habits.


I highly recommend teaching a kid to read phonetically at least up to The Cat in the Hat (so largely simple consonants, consonant blends, and consonant digraphs) before they go into kindergarten if you can.  Some kids really can't because they lack the phonemic awareness necessary, like my daughter, but I wish I had held her back a year in the end because it was an expensive and time consuming mistake to fix.


When kids are in school, a homemakers primary job is to socialize.  That's actually important!  Volunteer, talk with people, find out special programs that other parents are sending their children to so that your kids get the advantages as well.  Organize parties, picnics.  Create a community.  Organize a meal train when someone is sick.  The social fabric is falling apart and no one thinks it has anything to do with the decline of people who went out to coffee every Monday after dropping off the kids and made strong and weak social ties across the local area?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm going to display my ignorance for all to see but it serves a point.  If this is so difficult for someone with the intellectual curiosity of the average Motte-goer, imagine how much harder it is for the the average schmuck.


About a year ago my 2017 Chrysler Pacifica started overheating after about 15 minutes of driving .  We took an overheating problem pretty seriously so my husband brought it into the local mechanic.  He's good, the best in my small town as far as everyone is concerned.  He went over it, used a diagnostic thingy, did a couple tests, said it was one thing.  Ok, he replaced that one thing and my husband drove it home.  It worked ok for a while.


After about a week, it started overheating again.  We took it back, mechanic did another look around, said something else needed to be replaced.  That probably both things needed to be replaced to start, but the second thing didn't show up on the diagnostic tool until after the first one was replaced and the error cleared.  Ok, we let him replace the second thing, all we had to pay was parts, he did the labor for free since he didn't get it right the first time.  A week later, it started heating up again.  We took it into the official dealership and a couple days later received back a car that hasn't acted up since.


Maybe we were taken for suckers by the most trusted and competent mechanic in town.  That's a possibility.  But the thing that seems more likely given the close-knit nature of our community is that the problem was too opaque and difficult to diagnose for someone in the top 1% of car mechanics in my town.  And if that's the case, average schmucks have very little hope. Why should I bother trying to learning how to work on my car when someone who works on cars full time couldn't figure it out?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If you can get a scan tool it's not the same situation I'm describing. Lots of auto manufacturers now send data to their own servers instead of keep diagnostic information on the car.  Then if an auto-repair shop wants to access it, they can't just scan the car, they need the auto manufacturer to provide it.  EV manufacturers do not even have OBD ports.  Other manufacturers like Nissan have blockers that keep you from clearing codes or running bi-directional tests.   https://dobkinlaw.com/trapped-by-the-tech-why-congress-is-battling-automakers-over-your-right-to-self-repair/


I've also had a car where everything is poorly accessible, and that accessing certain parts of the engine require specialized tools or taking the whole thing apart.  Increased safety measures have made crumple zones bigger and bigger, which means the engine, transmission, turbochargers, and emissions equipment need to be packed into a tinier and tinier footprint. The smaller the footprint becomes, the more things you have to remove between you and the alternator you're trying to replace. Audi designed many of its vehicles so that the entire front clip of the car must be unbolted and slid forward into a special "service position" before anything could be replaced up there.