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				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Those contrivances all rely on the police being able (or willing) to do something that is extraordinary.  Standing in front of a stopped vehicle is not extraordinary.  It is something that an ordinary non-police person is allowed to do, for brief periods of time.  It seems unremarkable that what an ordinary person is legally entitled to do, police should be legally entitled to do as well.  Whether it is a good idea?  Highly contingent, which is why I think broad policies either prescribing or proscribing are unwise.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Sure, and I suppose I would be fine with a policy that officers may not randomly stand in front of vehicles and play chicken with them.  But contingent on there being a lawful vehicle stop, I don't follow the logic that it is entrapment to raise the severity of fleeing the stop unlawfully.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Eventually, the people willing to die to attack a police officer standing in front of their car will all be dead and the problem solves itself.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't think there's a wide gap between "trivially easy" and "drive away really fast, oh and the police are not allowed to block you"


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


While the officer isn't exactly participating in a new crime, they do enable it pretty straightforwardly.




I don't understand why this logic wouldn't apply to any interaction between police and civilians.  E.g., you can't participate in resisting arrest if you're not being arrested, therefore police should not arrest people.  You can't participate in obstruction of justice if you aren't asked to provide your license and registration, so we shouldn't allow officers to require that either.  This is the path of sovereign citizen madness.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't think police officers have a duty to retreat, in which case whether he could have moved or not is not really relevant.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
But if you make it trivially easy to evade enforcement of non-capital crimes, it's unclear why anyone would do anything other than evade all the time.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 4, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That would depend largely on what Denmark had to say about it, I think.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If you're not looking a fool at least some of the time, you're not doing anything of consequence.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The app idea runs counter to the concept if "skin in the game."  What would actually work is an organized paramilitary counterpart to Antifa, with actual ranks and unforms and hierarchical privilege, responsibility, and accountability.  However the SA are still such a potent memetic vaccination it probably couldn't happen until some time after the last Boomers are gone.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This is the U.S. I work for a company that provides B2B IT services.  I get 5 weeks of undifferentiated PTO per year and can roll over 1 week.  Most of my work can be done from home, meaning I very infrequently need to take sick days, so this works out well for me IMO.  The company has also been pretty lenient with letting people borrow from future PTO in the case of genuine medical necessity to avoid having to use FMLA leave.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There's no health and safety issue with children not being present in a facility.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Assuming a judge doesn't simply throw out their convictions.  It does however seem to be a stake through the heart of the "fraud is so miniscule it's not worth enforcing" argument that's been made about all kinds of welfare programs.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I agree 100% about "unlimited" vacation, but the single pool doesn't bother me as much as an alternative to being either paid out for unused sick days or having to malinger to get use out of them.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I found the Rachmaninoff all-vocal All Night Vigil work to be good example of this.  It may not have as many moments of raw frisson as a rousing symphonic or operatic work, but it deeply touched something spiritual inside me.  I particularly enjoyed the technical excellence of the Robert Shaw recording.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Many employers have just a single pool of PTO, so days you take off for being sick come at the expense of days you could have taken off for fun.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I have this, it's a total game changer.


Otherwise, I'd say plant your cruise at something just slower than most of the traffic, park in the right lane, and let others do most of the work.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 22, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


but only in public




I assume you mean only in places they have permission to be. Which is always in public, but might also be private places they are invited into.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 22, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Saying you'd sacrifice a particular human in exchange for preserving a particular work of cultural significance will disgust a significant portion of the population.




What if they volunteer?


And how can man die better 
than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers 
and the temples of his gods?



				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 21, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Christmas is this week!


What are some of your favorite Christmas albums?  My Hall of Fame includes:


    

  • Christmas in the Aire, by Mannheim Steamroller
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  • Christmas Album, by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
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  • Charlie Brown Christmas, by Vince Guaraldi
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And not an album, but this rip of a 1974 Kmart holiday-season tape loop is a prime collection of vintage easy-listening holiday music: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EFuVl-p31xQ


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 22, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm baffled by the concept of a game studio where the coding-level devs make decisions on the overall direction and themes of the game.  Surely there are producers and executives analogous to movie productions with hire/fire power who set the parameters of the artistic output, no?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 22, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I would think there would be fewer issues of upset equilibrium (and reduced political deference) in this case since she's a county judge and it's a federal prosecution.  I'm certain if it was state or local law enforcement she was screwing with, nothing would have happened.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 7, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Nuclear waste continues to irradiate anything around it for an incredibly long time




This is meaningless without quantities though. Everything is irradiated at all times from ordinary nuclear decay, cosmic rays, and solar radiation. It is a manageable hazard. After a long time, the quantity of radiation emitted is going to flatten out to a hazard lower than the chemical toxicity you dismiss.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for December 19, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
FWIW Sargento is made in Wisconsin and sold in the grocery stores. It's fine for things like Mac and Cheese or Cheesy Potato Casserole or queso salsa. But they also sell things like Sartori and BelGioioso and lots of local micro producers which, as you note, are incredible for straight cheese eating.
(I just now realized the Sar in Sargento is Joe Sartori, who sold his interest in Sargento to work on the more crafty Sartori cheese.)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for December 19, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I read The Road a few weekends ago and while I did not end up sobbing, I did end up thinking for a good long while about how soft and easy my life is in historical terms.