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Pareo distribution: whereby 20% of the fabric shows 80% of the body

				
				
				

				

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				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I feel like whatever issue there is with child actors will just be part of a larger trend with actors humans in general with AI, i.e. we just no longer need to place real humans in such dangerous or effortful situations anymore, thanks to being able to show the same thing using computers.


After all, life is dangerous and risky, and humans are no longer working animals.

As such, some consider it on par with animal cruelty the notion that someone would ever consider having kids.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Actually, MLP G4 does this as well for 3 characters in particular, come to think of it.




Perhaps that's a reasonable balance?




No, it really isn't.


I get that nobody really watches sitcoms any more, but I'm really not interested in making The Cosby Show or Home Improvement (or Two and a Half Men) illegal to produce simply because there's significant value in retaining an environment that can produce them.


I think removing the conditions that make filming Stranger Things or Terminator 2 (or IT, Super 8, ET, etc.) possible/practical would be harm to broader culture that far outweighs the higher variance in outcomes the child actors in them have as-is.  You're not picking an adult up off the back of a dirtbike they're too big for and then CGI-ing it into something else.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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NZ is also beholden to American interests in a way Argentina is not, re: Kim Dotcom, and those interests are generally Blue-aligned.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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A slow Tuesday on Xbox Live?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


a live-action film in which the protagonist is a prepubescent child (e.g. Home Alone, the Harry Potter films) is not




Absolutely.  Fuck any real representation and wish-fulfillment for ~10% of the population.  Self-actualization should be confined to grownups only.


(Ironically, most kids and teens in animation are usually voice-acted by grown women; the few notable exceptions to that off the top of my head being TAWOG, Chowder, and the Iron Giant.)


You can fix most of the other issues with payment later or with some other contrivance, but I'm firmly in the 'stay in Omelas' camp here; the ideal number of burnt-out child stars in a healthy society is not 0 specifically for that reason.


"But muh creative freedom" is a nonsense complaint here, because what you're suggesting would completely destroy the ability to have sitcoms that feature families (alongside, uh, most of the Spielberg catalogue).  Erasing portrayals of that from TV and film because it's Unsafe will surely help TFR.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Modern society, on the other hand, does not believe that the ruling class assumed its status through hereditary privilege




The ruling class in modern society assumed its status exclusively through age (and to a point, gender, but it's the vaguest possible one as it's a whole 50% of the population).


This is orthogonal to actual merit (which is generally what hereditary privilege implies), which is why the standards this class imposed as they came to power were destructive.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 1, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Polite society ceased to believe it needed to offer a benefit to observing its standards.  Most have noticed.


"Standards on polite society" impose noblesse oblige over the sum of societal actors who control what politeness is.  Cancel culture was their effort to keep things in line.


What benefit did accepting cancellation or playing by those standards offer anyone else?  Financial ruin, felony charges, and death.


So we can't have standards in this age.  Much like the ozone layer, the societal machinery that enabled them has been damaged and will take some time to regenerate.