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				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Congratulations, that's a nice problem to have.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I just bought a Tesla, and I didn't find any of the other American market very competitive on price, and none of them offered FSD.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The concept that area under the curve represents a useful quantity to determine is econ 101.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


but that ship has long sailed into its own bellybutton




A navel vessel, you might say


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Moose bites can be pretty nasti


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Just give police their nightsticks back. A poke in the back or a tap on the shins is enough to motivate most people to move along while discouraging the impulse to fight back.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 14, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


either the agenda is unpopular and they know it, or they don’t have an agenda to run on.




It's also a credibility issue. You can only run on building infrastructure or fixing Healthcare and then fail to do it so many times before voters conclude you are either lying or incompetent. Ironically Trump benefited from being outside the establishment in this regard, as while he didn't have any credibility in delivering government results, he at least didn't have the stink of repeated failure to deliver that both parties have accumulated.


This is the I think accurate point the abundance bros are making: it's not actually enough to be in favor of things people want, you have to execute as well. And simply allocating funding doesn't count as executing!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 14, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Intellectually I can't argue against doom, but I have faith in a special Providence that protects fools, children, and the United States of America.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Humans must be shoved


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yes, I own a home with a garage. I will need to upgrade the circuit for full speed home charging but it's not a big deal. I would probably pay cash or mostly cash. I'm just having a hard time figuring the opportunity cost of not buying sooner due to difficulty estimating the savings of driving old car and being unsure how much the price will actually rise.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
No but every comparable I've looked at is the same price or higher.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Should I buy a Model 3? I own a 2012 Fusion with 128,000 miles that runs fine but is almost 15 years old. The $7500 EV credit is expiring in September, so assuming that I like the Model 3 and it meets my needs, should I buy one before then or try to milk this Fusion another few years? It seems like really good value for the money right now, but I'm uncertain how much of the tax credit removal will be eaten by Tesla and how much will go into a straight price increase


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


but if the tariffs are painless and everyone is still buying cheap shit from China, aren't we losing???




It does count as tax revenue, so to the extent you care at all about deficits and debt, that's at least helpful.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 6, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Anyone use SAS direct attached storage at home? I want to retire a Synology used as bulk storage for my server, since it maxes at 4 Gbps ethernet. I could go with a cheap USB 3.1 gen2 10Gbps SATA enclosure, but it looks like I could get an enclosure with SAS backplane and connect the disks via SAS to SATA breakout cables, and supposedly, this will allow SAS disks to be used. I'm a little skeptical since I've never used the SATA breakout cables in this way, but since this would increase disk bandwidth by about an order of magnitude over USB I am thinking about trying it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Right, a rice reserve hardly seems any sillier than the U.S. Strategic Cheese Reserve.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't think so.  Those concepts still have pretty clear meaning and can be applied to the output of AI as well as humans.  What this line of argument is disputing is the (often unstated) conclusion: "therefore, AI is not valuable."  But this doesn't follow.  Humans distort information, accidentally or maliciously, make errors, hallucinate, and are generally somewhat unreliable, but their output still has value.  An AI can share all of those same characteristics and still be very valuable as an information processing agent.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
How do you know?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Sure, but so does everybody else.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The counterpoint would be that training missions aren't especially lethal, there's just a lot of them.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 30, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Case in point: https://kirkbangstad.substack.com/p/the-case-for-shutting-down-minocquas


One of our state political cranks (a FIB, natch) has vowed to shut down the community's Fourth of July parade because he doesn't think they deserve one.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The central units are generic and easy to get, cost only a little more than a nice portable unit, and the sweepers generally conform to one of only a couple standard types. The rest is just plastic tubes and wall ports. Biggest advantage is that the central unit can exhaust to outside, so heavy filtration is not needed to reduce fine particles and dust, and the power of even a low end central unit can't be matched by any kind of portable vacuum cleaner. The central unit typically has a collection bin you can remove and empty, like a shop-vac.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I own a 100-year old house myself, but my friend who has built new strongly recommends installing central vacuum lines during construction.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 30, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You might better have used the term "understandable" rather than "fair".  By calling it a "fair response" you are invoking the connotation of "fair" as "just, right, natural" which strongly implies that you believe that socialism is the correct outcome.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 23, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
None of that is necessary to keep a car at home.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of June 23, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Then who makes money from the food industry.




When margins are low but volume is high you can still make good money.  But in a commodity market, economic forces will generally push average profit margin to $0, so it's not surprising that margins are usually low and sometimes negative.