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				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 23, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


They're in the works making their own VTT program, and my guess is that the next version of D&D is going to be entirely based around it.




They've been "in the works" since 4E but there were apparently some personnel issues* during the development process and lack of user buy-in once a playable version was somewhat available.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 16, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Admittedly, impulse control is a hell of a lot easier with steak and eggs than with a giant pile of fried rice.




Not necessarily. Someone who might consider an entire American sized large (14" dia) pizza as something for two proper meals but probably consumed as one long meal might be equally undeterred from treating a 40oz porterhouse in the same way.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 16, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Think something closer to a cattle ranch that also raises horses as working animals and someone growing up there with a pretty strong aversion to horse meat.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 16, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Maybe try confectioners glaze shellac as a camel's nose to get people comfortable with the concept.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 16, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't find flounder that tasty and it's nothing to do with their faces. The flipside is I know several people who seem incapable of eating any fish if served with the head still attached (and do not know the delicious truth of cheek/collar cuts in general).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 16, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
A lot of it gets into mind reading since the targets are not public information but that seems like a consensus opinion but on the other hand you have a Q1 2018 earnings report claiming it and Thor:Ragnarok were a success relative to Rogue One and Dr Strange the year previous. On the gripping hand you get into things like legs/multipliers and series entries effects on later releases like Solo which is a rabbit hole of cardiologists and robbers.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 16, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The change in school policies has moved very very fast so that even (not so) conservative Iowa is not free of the sort of CW fodder you'd see discussed.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 16, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You don't even need to be that distant suburban. In 2021 the same February storm that caused the Texas power crisis also caused outages in Oregon on the order 5 days up to almost two weeks all through the major metro area. That's a long time to be without power and unlike in Texas the natural gas lines were still operating (as were natgas powered standby generators).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 16, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Shouldn't one look in a bright one or is that where you find the halogen dealers?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Eggs in the US in general underwent a massive spike from a flu outbreak that wiped out a bunch of hens. The point of comparison is that minor absolute value but high percentage increases in price on common, high volume items like eggs greatly affect the day to day of consumers. Adding on to the current scarcity/pricing concerns for those items seems ill-advised to me but I'm economically insulated from it and will probably profit regardless. Alfalfa is a major hay crop for boosting productivity of dairy cows lowering the costs of milk among other uses for it in feeds. Constrain that crop and you'll have downstream effects on prices of things people care about like milk.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


In the same way that MIT and especially Caltech have resisted capture.




If this is what resistance looks like, it seems to be entirely a rearguard action of a defeated people.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I know I sound a little pissed off here. It is targeted more towards a hypothetical NIMBY in the sky than the OP necessarily.




You would have been better off deleting your entire section of calling your ideological opponents hypocritical, evil coded Muslims while in the same breath handwaving any criticism of your allies who might have some extreme rhetoric of their own.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Why do you think alfalfa is low value? Should hay the primary input for milk and secondary input for beef and eggs be scarcer, more expensive? $7 for a dozen eggs is bad enough right now.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Consider a cup of coffee. Where do you think the beans came from? Where do you think the cup came from? Where do you think the coffee maker came from? I think you are significantly underestimating the international supply chains involved in keeping a city dweller in the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Only applies to Londoners (living on the unceded territory of the RomanesRomani people). Why should that specific housing be made cheaper for the people who want to live there specifically at the cost of everything and everyone else?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Container ships are not 18th century tech. Standardized containerization (the physical one, not the VM replacement tech) is one of the major logistic technologies of 20th century that makes possible much of modern consumer life. (I would note that even simple logistic technology like standardized palletization is not universal, see: RU army logistics and why supplying positions away from rail lines is such a struggle for them.) It's not a tech level thing anyways so much as a cost of inputs thing. There needs to be a very good reason to be paying twice or more the cost of an input. Maybe an inland location has benefits that outweighs the additional cost but it has to actually be factored in especially when talking the volumes of inputs for a proposed megapolis.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Most housing restriction in the US isn’t top down though. It’s bottom up from local communities through their zoning boards and housing associations. Top down would be things like states overriding the ability for towns to make the decisions for themselves.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Most of them don't do a lot of river traffic anymore. Heck even Houston used to get steamboats up the Trinity route back around the civil war and that was before the sandbars at the mouth were cleared. Rail from an actual port is reasonably priced at this point but if the volume were to treble or increase by larger factors it becomes a bigger issue.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Six of one, half a dozen of the other.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


because the things coming by port first need shipped to a major port




Major manufacturing in China is in port cities around Shanghai, Zhejiang and Guangdong for the most part, particularly for things shipped abroad. If you wanted to you could build up some place like Omaha but aside from odd balls like Denver or Cheyenne, most of the big existent Great Plains cities are on tributaries to the Missouri for a reason. (Even those two are on forks of the Platte but not really navigable.)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Barges get pretty specific to the waterways they operate on but container barges can do a lot to service a city inland of a major port. Grain is also one of the bigger uses for barges.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The costs of moving freight and supplies like water become pretty important. Beijing has been piping in water from pretty far away (800+mi, 1400+km) and has committed to one of the largest infrastructure projects in the world to sustain the city. A very rough approximation for freight has planes costing ten times as much as trucks costing twice as much as rail costing three times as much as barge. When multiplied across everything a city needs, that ends up costing a lot raising costs of living in a big way. There's a reason most major cities that arose from non-political pressures are on ports. Political capitals might be placed elsewhere for military or historic (read whims/personal history of rulers) reasons but extracting resources from the provinces to feed and fuel the capital has been known to cause trouble when resources become scarce.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Tokyo isn't. Guess why.




Saitama.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Nativism applied to an ancient city founded by colonizers absent a pre-existing settlement and who has rights to it can be a fun problem though.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


We want existing people to pay 30% not to have more 60% ters. Which requires somehow to destroy the demand.




Why? Who's we? More specifically you're asserting affordability is the problem and it must be solved but that's not a shared prior.