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				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
A noteworthy exception, but a Crown possession in living memory, and possibly not scalable past city-state.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
"Helps" not really in any formal sense.  Republican Congressmen are not actually in thrall to Trump to the degree you seem to think.  He got very little from the Republican Congress his first term (not even border wall funding!) and seems likely to get little from them his second term either.  Key members have interests more or less orthogonal to Trump's.  He could possibly pound the table and demand legislation, but I'm skeptical how much it would move the needle - after all, Congressmen are not elected nationally.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If it is indeed hopeless, than we can at long last dispense with the concept of building anything for the future.  Loot what you can, while you can.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Under Article I, legislation must be passed by Congress.  The President only has the power to veto or not.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I mean, plenty of Asians preferred living in the US (where they were a minority) to living in Asia, because by and large, being an ethnic minority is not that bad a deal in the US.




I think there's a reasonable fear that the "being an ethnic minority is not that bad a deal in the US" is only the case because of the unusual and ahistoric forbearance of the existing ethnic majority.  There's a disquieting dearth of places friendly to ethnic minorities that are not run by white people.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for May 23, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I have been using Pop! OS on laptops that don't support Windows 11. It seems nice.


Just a caution to the OP though: I've been down this road a few times, and family members did not really appreciate the benefits of Linux compared to the hassle of not being able to use the Windows apps they are used to. Even the ones I thought for sure only used web and email. In every case, I ended up having to abandon the effort.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 19, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Maybe you're thinking of Biden? https://youtube.com/watch?v=ciwyYnwYFaQ?si=nEANKgR7xGw6h2Vk


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 12, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I agree with this. It would be far less troubling to just slide the hotel clerk a few bucks and ask if they have any scarves that haven't been claimed for a long time.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Tinker Tuesday for May 13, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I've used https://www.taydaelectronics.com for a few projects and found them to have a limited but pretty useful inventory at very reasonable prices, aimed at hobbyists rather than manufacturers.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for May 9, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It prominently features the iconic Windows 95 startup sound famously created by Brian Eno on commission from Microsoft.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for May 9, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If you're a Millennial, this Windows 95 theme ambient track is probably pretty nostalgic.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Atmosphere does actually absorb a lot of radiation.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
A Martian settlement would not be a sealed system without inputs or outputs, so the example of the biosphere projects is less relevant than, say, the ISS.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 28, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This doesn't make sense to me.  Building and operating resort hotels is largely orthogonal to colonization settlement, especially where (as in the case of Mount Whitney and Antarctica) the insurmountable obstacles are legal, not technological.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for April 30, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Did you parboil?  The one thing I find a little tough about brats is that if you are grilling from cold, it can be a challenging to make sure they are fully cooked before the outside over-chars.  I usually parboil the brats prior to grilling, in a bath of light lager and sliced onions.  That way, they're fully cooked when you put them on the grill, and the only thing you have to worry about is imparting the grill flavor and getting the perfect char on the outside for your tastes.  As a bonus, you can drop them right back in the beer bath to keep warm, and they stay nice and juicy for hours.  And, the onions go great on top.


Agree that a gas grill is really just a gas range that happens to be outside instead of in your kitchen. No comparison.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Tinker Tuesday for April 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm not replacing the outer stops, which are rather rough and still have some old paint. The new window pushes up against it from the inside, so the caulk would, I guess, create a seal between the stop and the window. Granted, I'll  also caulk between the edge of the stop and the window on the outside so maybe it's not that necessary anyways. It's just what the installation instructions say to do.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Tinker Tuesday for April 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Working on replacing a couple of the hundred year old double hung windows in my house. Not really that challenging as far as home improvement projects go, if you order prefab vinyl pocket replacements. But I'm at the point now of being ready to install the new windows and am wondering is there is a better way to seal it on the outer stop than applying a thick bead of caulk and then working fast as hell to shim it true and square as is reasonably possible in such an old house.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for April 25, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Haha, same.  I've been getting by with Polo RL Blue since I was a teenager.  Question for afficionados - if you wear high-complexity scents on the daily, do you forgo underarm deodorant entirely? Or use unscented?  It seems to me that they are often sufficiently strong to at least compete with if not overpower more nuanced scents.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 21, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Zorbathustrians, perhaps


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 21, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Wisconsin has open court records, so you can view the case details here: https://wcca.wicourts.gov/caseDetail.html?caseNo=2025CM000814&countyNo=40&index=0&mode=details#summary. It does indeed appear to be three charges of misdemeanor battery.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 21, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It seems that you are leaving off the very first paragraph of Section 1505, which precedes the one you posted.  It reads:




Whoever, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or obstruct compliance, in whole or in part, with any civil investigative demand duly and properly made under the Antitrust Civil Process Act, willfully withholds, misrepresents, removes from any place, conceals, covers up, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means falsifies any documentary material, answers to written interrogatories, or oral testimony, which is the subject of such demand; or attempts to do so or solicits another to do so; or




It would seem to me that if they can establish the alleged facts, it clearly fits under "removes from any place, conceals, covers up".  It does not contain the required element of corruption which you wrote about, just "intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or obstruct compliance".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 21, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The police can go away. The power can go out. The trucks might not show up to stock the grocery store. These things can happen. People can make them happen, if they believe it to be to their advantage, and a great way to convince them of that is to make them feel that they and their families are in danger if Something Drastic Is Not Done.




I mean, the problem is I can personally take active steps in my life to overcome those obstacles.  They are difficulties on a level I can immediately understand and take practical steps to remedy.  I think to a lot of people those problems are a lot more tolerable than the problems created by unaccountable bureaucrats and judges with alien moral values exploiting arcane legalisms.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 21, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That in itself would be a pretty grave intrusion into the President's authority to conduct foreign diplomacy.  If that is permissible, it would be a short distance to e.g., court-ordered economic sanctions or court-ordered economic aid.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 21, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Exterminator.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Tinker Tuesday for April 22, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
One thing you'll need is a decent switch.  You can usually pick up retired enterprise switches on eBay for not too much.  But you'll want something that can at least handle a variety of VLAN configurations, so you can segment your testing networks and prevent things from talking to each other that should not be able to.


You might also want to consider beefing up one of the computers (or getting a retired server) with RAM and installing Proxmox, a free hypervisor for KVM/LXC.  You can then set up a VM for docker containers, and VMs for various test systems or toolkits.