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				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 26, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
USS Maine sunk in Havana kicking off the Spanish-American War.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 26, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The scripting that was part of adding the category selection to the report comment dialog has an error in it. Hasn't worked for me since it was implemented. Seems like an error in making sure a category was selected before letting you press the report button. A null error... what did you do?




Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set properties of comments_v.js?v=e9b18a1c:56 null (setting 'value')






at report_commentModel (comments_v.js?v-e9b18a1c:56:20)






at HTMLButtonElement.onclick (thread string:number:number)




Ah. It seems like this field doesn't exist in the DOM so when trying to set it to null for a default it shits the bed.




const reasonField = document.getElementById("reason-comment")






...






reasonField.value = ""




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 26, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
A view in favor of Atlanticism clearly. Notably championed by the Atlantic Council and while technically unconnected to The Atlantic magazine, they certainly share similar views. Somewhat in cheek but it is a real philosophical force affecting foreign affairs.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 26, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
At a technical level I'd be more offended that the Academy which now produces both Airmen and Guardians recommends using "Guardians" in favor of "Mom and Dad."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 26, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
To be fair, the etymology of "understand" is fascinating, complicated and unresolved.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 26, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I was hoping one of the resident fin* people here with connections to London would have a top level on what's going on with the pound in particular. Seen some analysis that the new governments financial policies were a mismatch for ground level economic realities especially combined with energy subsidies for the coming winter. Then a much further downstream technical analysis of how a volatile bond market might have almost nuked pension funds.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 26, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
People latch on to magic incantations because sometimes you have to be saying things "sufficiently clearly that a reasonable police officer in the circumstances would understand" dawg.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 26, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
In aggregate most of the data shows those controls drive rents up. Those externalities lead to things like reduced supply (which increases rates) and higher rates on new renters to price in the inability to raise rents over time and to offset the losses from existing rent controlled units. Individuals in a rent controlled unit don't have their rents increased but may be subject to all kinds of other pressures encouraging them to give up their hereditary claim to Apartment 23B at 200USD/mo passed down through the generations.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 26, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
A principled libertarian probably wouldn't support the government mandated service provider monopoly/duopoly that creates the conflict in the first place either. One that accepts the public utility infrastructure principle applied to last mile (libertarians here, not anarchists) would probably want something like local loop unbundling rather than strict net neutrality. But regulating common infrastructure such that it cannot discriminate between private parties isn't heterodox within that philosophical framework. Right libertarians would typically favor auctioning services while left libertarians would favor a common carrier equal service regulation.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 26, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Peering/interconnection was a major aspect of the original Net Neutrality fight. In principle it should be possible for two nodes on previously peered networks to route through an intermediary network but in practice when it's tier-1s or near tier-1s (like Cogent and it's usually Cogent having/causing this problem) those routes don't happen. The 2015 Open Internet Order did allow the commission to look into peering/paid interconnection agreements.




Interconnection: New Authority to Address Concerns






For the first time the Commission can address issues that may arise in the exchange of traffic between mass-market broadband providers and other networks and services. Under the authority provided by the Order, the Commission can hear complaints and take appropriate enforcement action if it determines the interconnection activities of ISPs are not just and reasonable.




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 26, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That'd be news to all the Sailors and Marines marrying Filipinas and Thais.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of September 26, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
In my typical experience, self-checkout is about as slow if not slower. 1-3 machines down out of 6-12 across two sections (one notionally reserved for express). 1-2 helper/assistant types who are supposed to resolve errors, handful special case errors like WIC cards/coupons or confirm the shopper can purchase a semi-restricted item (cold medicines/alcohol) get easily overwhelmed by a handful of issues assuming they are there to do that instead of called away to deal with something else/shooting the shit with a coworker. Any sort of error is a hard stop and the wait for the person to notice/finish dealing with the three other problems adds up. The systems have so much lag built-in since you have to wait between scans for the system to confirm you put the thing in the bag zone that even if you were of the same skill level as someone paid to run a check-out register you'll still be slowed down. Of course these days even cashiered check-outs are slower compared to when bagging was a common minimum wage job for high schoolers. It's downright depressing going through stores with 10 check-lanes with only two of them manned.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 3, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


But how can you prevent imposters from submitting AI art to museums and competitions?




I'd lean the direction in how photography is also considered an art form. It's not the mechanical creation of the image that is relevant so much as the artistic intentionally and editing that results in the image to be displayed. Prompt engineering and selecting which of many different output artifacts seems rather analogous to composing the photo and selecting which of many (and for some many many) takes to exhibit.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 3, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There might be some sources of error in that comparison. Hopefully 10-15 years of practical experience makes many of the types of questions you'd see simpler to solve. It's like trying to remember the mental/emotional state of not understanding the solution to a puzzle that seems obvious/straightforward in hindsight. I'd still agree things are probably simpler. In my own academic career I had the misfortune to having to take two versions of a foundational course; the first time as a non-program student taking it as a prereq to continue taking interesting higher level courses as electives, the second time several years later as a program student to meet degree requirements. The first was a notorious weed-out course, while the second one was significantly less difficult although more practically applicable for modern software.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 3, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The digg frontpage redesign was also at the same time as some pretty big revelations about how content made it to the front page. Back when large internet communities cared about that sort of thing on principle rather than whether it was useful.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 3, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Hasn't Paris been infamous for it's unique odeur d'urine for something like a century?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 3, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Probably "make the claimant whole". Read claimant as plaintiff/complaining party. Make whole as in do something to resolve the complaining parties issues to their/the courts satisfaction. It doesn't make much sense here since the assumption would be that a state would ignore the judgement for the purpose of not acting in the ways the complaining party would want to make them whole.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Given the context it shouldn't be surprising to be Donald J. Trump.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
How much of that is confounded by evidence of white folk having low to negative ingroup preference?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Comparing US production popularity abroad to foreign production popularity in the US is not a like for like comparison.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Colorado very much mandated closure of so-called non-essential businesses which killed more than a few smaller ones. Mostly entertainment type venues since the order carved out basically every job that had any sort of political constituency. For the most part though the Governor left the political liability of lockdowns to county governments. The mayor of Denver initially wanted to shutdown liquor stores but quickly reversed course after panic buying caused some trouble.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's interesting lumping in type 1 with type 2 diabetes as one of those societal harms that members of society are potentially responsible for even though the best guesses at cause are genetic predisposition with some environmental factor triggering. If anything, the parents should be the ones to be bear the costs (and they do for the most part as with many other hereditary diseases). Why should general healthcare costs be counted as a societal harm? Those costs are typically borne by the same person who made the decision in the first place. Are people not allowed to make poor decisions and then reap the consequences? If the appeal is from the perspective of publicly covered healthcare costs, then that sounds like the mirror of right-wing economic critiques of those options warning that it justifies the state intervening in your personal life decisions to control those costs. Your productivity loss and what looks like opportunity-cost based taxes are indirect forms of the state deciding what a person should be doing with their life rather the tax bill instead of the more direct truncheon. I think Douglas Powers said it best.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Autoimmune is a description of a mechanism, not the description of the cause. Saying that a person's immune system attacked their vital organs does not explain why the thing happened. Holding society at large accountable would certainly be novel.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It will be interesting to see the societal effects of the soon coming shortage of low dose amphetamines in the population given how widespread their usage.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
AM radio is practically dead. FM is dying (iHeartMedia the Clear Channel Communications rebrand has been steadily losing value year after year). Satellite XM requires a subscription. Even "pass the aux cable" is an artifact of an older era when people still had 3.5mm jacks in their personal music devices. Bluetooth connect to a phone playing YouTube music, Spotify or some other audio provider is extremely common.