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				Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Then nothing is cost-effective except for fossil fuels and hydroelectricity, ultimately.


But we already knew that; that's why banning their use is such a powerful socioeconomic weapon.  Nuclear just happens to be both the closest you get to viability (since the plants from the '70s and '80s seem to be doing just fine; that was back when construction and labor were way cheaper though) and something that's arguably worth funneling research dollars into from a materials science perspective.




even if you just handwave away the problem of storing dangerous radioactive waste that lasts for millennia and hope it doesn't leak into the rest of the environment




This line always frustrates me because this is an isolated demand for rigor.  Mine drainage (and it is a rather interesting flex that a modern mining company saw fit to name itself after the most expansive environmental mining disaster zone in human history- that being the Rio Tinto, which is what that's a picture of) will kill future Fred Flintstone far more quickly than anything else will.  Fortunately, we discovered radioactivity before we invented the backhoe.


And I get that you have to convince John Q. Public of that, who will never come around in their lifetimes thanks, ironically enough, to radiation exposure (they sat too close to the TV while watching Simpsons reruns).  Which is why you basically can't do this until you have a military that will deal with that.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


having a source of power that isn't reliant on fossil fuels could prove to be particularly useful in a future where fossil fuels are harder to come boy or the Middle East is in a state of war




This is the reason why France has the nuclear system it does- it was de Gaulle's baby precisely because the US doesn't have French (or European) interests at heart.  France was under [his] military dictatorship at the time, which helped get things moving.


He was right, of course; both in 1973 with the US-caused oil shortage and then in 2022 with the US-caused LNG shortage.




place a huge emphasis on the density of their energy source are another good use for them




It's not so much that as it is completely obviating the need to resupply with fuel.  And, especially relevant for submarines, nuclear power functions even with a complete lack of oxygen, so doing that is a no-brainer.




I haven't seen any convincing evidence that nuclear power is a sustainable answer to the depletion of fossil fuels




It's the only alternative that can work anywhere on the Earth's surface on a calm, cold night.  Lighting a fire is the classic method to get energy at that time, but "magic hot rock" is fine too.


I once heard stated that the reason it's difficult to get good output from nuclear is because they simply can't run the reaction hot enough- hence the emphasis on exotic coolants (molten salt, etc.)- whereas with LNG the exhaust heat is sufficiently hot that you can heat the steam driving a secondary turbine to the point where it's very, very efficient.  Of course, because we want to reserve the right to quench the reactor if it gets too hot for... certain reasons, we'd like a coolant that doesn't make the problem worse if we do that.  At least with LNG you can turn the gas off and the reaction will stop.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 1, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


taking away big chunks of its independence for political reasons




It's literally just "your rules, fairly".  If they didn't like that, maybe it shouldn't have been their rules to begin with.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 1, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The modern education system (specifically, post-Cold War) exists solely as a make-work program.


Actually, there's a lot of make-work programs, but this one is the largest of its kind.  It works so well that most people don't even understand it is one, and will actually defend its secondary aims as if the secondary aim, education, was the intention.


(And to be fair to more industrious countries- the US in particular- it can work far better at that secondary aim than is commonly given credit.  After all, it would otherwise be mind-numbingly boring.)


It takes a massive chunk bite out of the least productive part of the unnecessariat: all children, all young adults up to around 20 or so, and a significant fraction of college-educated women.  The social fiction that this is important is load-bearing to a country's stability due to the sheer size of the cross-section of the population warehoused there- if it went out, recession would instantly follow.  There's not enough work to employ these people (we've been punting on this problem since the 1930s) and we have enough food for everyone; making them feel useful keeps society stable.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 1, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's "cheating" because the people of X nation don't want to open the door to the Deus Ex world where you have to pay to take the drug for the rest of your natural life or die from being unable to compete with your peers (that can afford it), hence the compact against doing that, and why taking the drug anyway is treated as defection.


Compare "but I can't afford insulin" in the US; while amphetamines are cheaper than that, the next generation of them may not be, in which case a norm that you take them to work might become very costly indeed.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Transnational Thursday for December 4, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


but because the Israeli settler represents everything evil in the left-wing world view




Or rather, the Israeli settler's existence is blasphemous by European religion.  And while we can dispute the way Europeans came upon this religion, the fact remains that the existence of Israelis speak against it, and by extension the Great Satan (that being the United States) that [in their view, and arguably correctly] is the only reason they can exist.


We compare this to anti-semitism because Jews have been against European religion before, but the god they worshipped was different back then so it was expressed differently.  Right now, Europeans worship a pantheon of various unnamed goddesses, so the methods of addressing blasphemy are a lot more "required to self-flagellate and live in terror and continual denial of the capabilities and desires others assume you have" than they used to be with respect to forced but one-time conversions, expulsion, and just straight up death.




China and Pakistan get away with it because they're not white




The European priestesses can rail against China and Pakistan all they like; they can't do shit about what they do, and they know it (compare "fargroup").  It's not so much "not white" as they are "can't possibly convince America to impose European religion on them", but they can do that to Israel due to it being a tiny country that is simply America's favorite vassal state (and to a point are jealous of this).


And in fairness, Europeans believe this worked against South Africa because the American religion adherents imposed American religion on them around the time a sea-change in what that was occurred (i.e. the 60s), and that just happened to rhyme/align with what European religion is now (so obviously, it was their efforts that did it).  So naturally, Europeans will try this with Israel, and will hence do things like try to drag Israeli officials into its ecclesiastical court (and the Americans find rhetorically useful to honor when it suits them, like having the Europeans excommunicate the Russian king a few years ago when he declared war on the buffer state between Europe and Russia) and sanction the Great Satan (the US) over its violation of what Europe perceives, in some degree correctly, is American religious law.


But American religion (or at least, the religion native to Americans) remains compatible with Israeli goals; maximally cynically, it draws a distinction between brown and Black.  Even European religion adherents in the US have mostly failed to have the American care for Black extend to brown, which is why they're conflated by adherents of that religion.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 1, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Murder both of competitors, politicians, and law enforcement, as well as of alleged collaborators, opponents, and personal rivals/enemies. Human smuggling, sex slavery/prostitution, kidnapping for ransom, and other major crimes, up to and including active armed insurrection against local governments.




So basically, they're just a government-in-waiting that the US doesn't like, and has thrown in with the existing government to remove them in return for owing the US a favor later.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I think the Nuremberg trials were rather fair.




Making a big show of "successor empire to all other European empires moving in and taking over makes a big show of failing to brutalize the population any more than is absolutely necessary" is a massive deal.  Europe had not been conquered in living memory like that (other than the Nazis; Napoleon did it too but he had been dead for a while), and the fact the Americans had the restraint to do this maintains a certain fiction that European populations still believe to this day- that they were "liberated" and not "conquered" (which is, in objective fact, what happened to them).




send the whole chain of command to the Hague




Perhaps, but since the entire reason the Hague exists is for the US (and Europe so long as it doesn't conflict with US interests re: Israel) to legitimize killing elites in non-US/non-European nations that oppose the aforementioned countries' interests (which is half the reason the signatories are who they are, and why the US is not a signatory to that agreement) it would be rather unusual for the US to try and kill off domestic enemies that way.  Of course, most of the provinces are aligned with the conservative/Blue faction, so it wouldn't technically be out of line with how that "court" is typically used...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 30, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


This isn't purely an Indian concept, I've seen this type of thing in mainland Chinese behaviour too.




This is also a solid characterization of typical western progressive behavior (and in Eastern Bloc countries under Soviet rule), too, which is perhaps why the two get along so well.


Co-ordination of meanness (of value-finders/productive people) combined with weak state capacity can delete Izzet by deleting its followers when they attack- personal firearms meant a defender could delete an outsized number of attackers, so peace was forced that way- which is why as states weakened coincident with the ability to co-ordinate meanness growing (which is why the Enlightenment happened when it did) Izzet was mostly suppressed in the West.


Once state capacity eclipses the individual's ability to escape it, though, the followers of Izzet tend to be among the first to capture it if the citizenry doesn't wield it appropriately and crush them.  This typically requires a monarch, though, since wielding political power that effectively requires a citizenry that is able, willing, and has enough time to do so... and that's not an evolved behavior like Izzet is.


Again, I don't think this is a uniquely Eastern thing- it's visible everywhere you look, should you choose.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


can derive a complete physics, the universe, and divine the state of everything in it given nothing more than the text of the ten hundred most relevant books




Does a set of all sets contain itself?




which feels very ontologically lazy




Yeah, but now you're into the territory of religions, specifically those that suggests a deity actively maintains the (finite?) state of the universe in this way.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The civil wars will continue until the maximum wage returns to zero.


The problem with "well, it'd finally be a communist society" is that communist societies only work if the proletariat has a [distributed] monopoly on violence (and often they don't, or they lose it, which is why real communism has never been tried).  From 1750 to 1900 (and even today, to a point), this was the hand-held firearm, but as soon as that decisively changes you can expect industrial-scale 20th-century style mass murder campaigns to make its triumphant return.


Of course, drones may just as easily not form another shot heard 'round the world, but killbots require highly advanced manufacturing and materials which are extremely capital-intensive.  Which is why the average citizen, and in particular the average man, has seen his socio-economic standard of living decline over the last 50 years (hence why he is beholden to endless bureaucracy, the heckler's veto, environmentalism, etc. that didn't exist back when he was needed).


Can anything fix that?  Well, maybe you can ask the AI how to build your own personal nuclear deterrent in a cave with a box of scraps (in which case things get very interesting; there may be a time period where haplocide is available at one's fingertips if the technology develops in certain ways)- again, it's not a sure thing that everyone just starts killing each other... just a likelihood.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


all of which consistently center on a man who is passionately romantically interested, separately from his sexual interest in the woman as a piece of meat




Employees hate it when their managers do that too.  You give them a reason to stick around- some sort of buy-in- and they're more likely to stick around even though the wage might be lower.  They might even do those special intangible things that further your goals just because they like you.




that the plot of these movies usually spends a good bit of time introducing cheesy and implausible situations where the guy might prove his romantic interest and care-giving potential in definitively non-sexual ways




Companies spend a great deal on patronage and branding because, among other reasons, it favors the goals of the employee that asked for it.  I hesitate to say "potentialfag" because it's stupid, but why else do people stay in relationships other than the promise that it might get better or stay the same?  Evaluating a company is hard, since it's incorporeal and its logo means nothing to what the potential of working there could get you, but you can be attracted to what it is and what it does- SpaceX employees obviously feel their organization is spectacularly muscular.


I don't see many movies for men based around how great it is to serve garbage managers/companies, but stories that involve characters eventually surpassing them (the "boyboss" trope, if you will) are perennial.




That said, job insecurity is still a real thing; in this case, "if you're not interested in my ability to do the job, whose minimum wage is very low yet competition is very high (thanks, PornHub), I'm going to find someone else who is so the relationship actually has some grounds/stability/stakes to exist in the first place" seems pretty natural to me.


[We assume men women who actively want to provide free labor sex without this are a rounding error, as it's counter to biologically-imposed limitations and instinct doesn't fully account for UBIs IUDs.  Sorry, asexuals.]


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yes, but the average human being can't do that either.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


parents will not accept any case of child molestation that could have been stopped by a rule or procedure they have experience with or can think of




Nonsense, they trans their kids all the time!




it's not bargaining, it's just coping




Coping is just bargaining from a position of weakness.


After that comes depression, though medication can fix that; then some form of acceptance.  Lying flat is a symptom of the former but an expression of the latter.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


You can have neither but you can't have both




Sure you can- clearly, all you need to do is to become a public schoolteacher.  After that, you may sexually interfere with kids all you like (generally with the regime's blessing; so all you have to do is align yourself with the regime).


Sure, you will still generally get arrested if you actually get physical with them- but for molesters, that interference is the end goal (they're getting off on it), so that doesn't actually hinder them any.




are not really arguments but just social pressure to avoid this point being made




Internalized misandry hurts men and lying flat under these conditions is the correct "negotiating tactic".  What is sabotage (including inaction) if not bargaining -> negotiating -> politics -> warfare by other means?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well, freedom of association was never in the Constitution to begin with.


(Not that it helps nations that have it in theirs; their problem is more that they put a "we're not obeying this fuck you lolol" in the header instead.)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Capable civilized attorneys are fully in the tank for progressive taxation and the welfare state, though.


Technically, their failing to reproduce is also good old-fashioned eugenic sterilization.  And maybe that's OK.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Life getting safer makes men and women believe that delegation and training is riskier and may be delayed, preferably (and observably) indefinitely.


So it becomes less important, thus the need to accommodate for it is less, thus the concept that it should even occur passes away.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for November 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yes; minor males get prosecuted for self-produced CSM all the time.


Some even get charged as an adult for it, which tends to be A-OK with the courts because again, male.




Of course, what's actually being litigated here is more along the lines of




Were there ever child sex abuse cases happening under a mother's own roof where the woman was deemed not susceptible enough to the man's manipulation and control [as in, she gets charged for it]?




and dissenting on the assumption that "the woman isn't being sufficiently Believed (that being coerced != pained emotionally)" in this case, which this dissenter even took pains to point out.




or humiliation immediately after or in the minutes, hours, or days following the sexual misconduct depicted in the material




Again, smuggling in the "consent can and should be withdrawn afterwards" standard.  The accedent likely realize this from the other direction; "regrets it afterwards" is not a law on the books.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


We let them get away with their lies; that they didn’t believe, or profit, that they didn’t know, that they were threatened, that the disease just happened to them, and that it was hard.




Yeah, I remember the Covid times too.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Women don't like bureaucracy either.




The fact they're the only class with the power to deal with it (because the moral hazard is in their favor) but are doing fuck-all about it is the fundamental root of the problem here.


Men gave up their power to unilaterally dictate terms to women in relatively peaceful ways.  Until women figure out they have to do the same- until they fully embrace the fact equality is a solved problem, as men did so many years ago- this will continue, but the fact they're on the high side of those gibs makes this unlikely.


Liability being financially ruinous because reasons (that are tangentially related to the above core) doesn't help things either.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yes, that's what they say about the Pence Rule as well, which exists for the exact same reasons.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


And ignores "they also maintain readiness to take action to preserve this society if it is threatened" factor.




Management doesn't know what to do with a department that's "just a cost center, what does he even do, shouldn't we just eliminate the positions?".  And once that happens, the consequences to a lack of maintenance usually don't show up for a while.  Sure, they might be catastrophic, and often are, but that's future management's problem.


This is a common pattern across companies; it stands to reason that because the same people who end up managing companies also tend to manage a society more generally (something that is also a company, just a very large one, and when it fires people it tends to be more literal) societies inevitably end up sharing that failure mode unless something forces them not to be.  In other words, any organization that isn't maintenance-first (or "isn't explicitly right-wing") ends up being wholly unable to do maintenance even when required (or "inevitably ends up left-wing", per Conquest).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 24, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


What are we even talking about?




Specifically, anti-regime violence.


The demand for murder of [not men] vastly exceeds its supply- this is why it has to be overestimated and/or overstated.  Compare "femicide" for the more general case.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of November 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


no punishment for women that rape




The traditional viewpoint is that women- by definition, the passive partner in any sexual encounter- cannot rape.

Why would you expect any society to bother proscribing a logical impossibility?  (Not that it stopped them from "can you be gay with yourself", but...)