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				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
By that logic do you hold the USA responsible for 9/11 as well?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I much prefer Iran doesn't get nukes, but to be contrarian, why should Europe care? Iran isn't threatening to nuke Berlin or Rome.




This is a luxury belief for people who think that global security is a default condition.  Europe doesn't have to care about the free flow of goods because the U.S. does it for them.  It baffles me that the same people currently panicking about the traversability of the Strait of Hormuz would be indifferent to chaos or autocracy in the middle east.  Is the supposition that, if the U.S. were to likewise walk away with "why should we care", peace and prosperity would flow unbounded?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well I think this dispositive.  If it's 50/50 whether the USA is morally culpable for the atomic bombing of a country it was at total war with, who vowed to fight to the end, and who started the conflict with a surprise attack, I don't find it at all believable that the USA harming uninvolved countries in response to an attack by China would be blamed on China by more than the lizard-man constant.  I don't take any assignment of moral blame to the U.S. seriously because the U.S. is always held responsible for everything.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Interesting.  Who do you suppose most people blame for the atomic bombing of Japan?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


When it comes right down to it, America is the one who went in and started killing people and blowing things up.




Where was Europe's plan for preventing Iranian nuclearization?  Did they care at all or accept it as a fait accompli?




If America were actually in really serious trouble as a result of outside aggression, we would do what we could to help our ally if asked, and I hope the reverse is also true.




Nobody I know honestly believes this, or at best, believes "what we could do" would amount to fuck all.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
We are not burning your house down, but possibly we aren't going to put out the fire out of deference to you any more.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I suspect a lot of people are also disturbed by the process by which this was conducted. Previous significant renovations (construction of the East and West wings, Truman's renovation) were done in conjunction with Congress, paid for by the government.




I have a hard time seeing the zone of Congressional authority here: it's an executive action on executive property for the direct use of the executive.  Congress has the power of the purse, it doesn't and shouldn't have veto authority over every government activity.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Is there a consensus somewhere that the up/downvote is not a proxy agree/disagree?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It was not a science procedural, it was more of a techno-thriller set on the Moon.  It's my least favorite but I chalk that up more to taste than quality.  Andy Weir conceded in that CD interview that he probably made the main character a bit too much of an asshole.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well if it's shortly before midnight, presumably absorption is minimal.  He would be wrong during the day though.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
RTA, perhaps this is a type of genre as an analogue to the police procedural, the science procedural, and I enjoy both.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Same. I bought The Martian back in the day, so I bought Artemis and Hail Mary shortly after release. Never imagined either one could be adapted to a movie.  Andy Weir definitely likes his protagonists to be a bit Reddit, but I dig his methodical, well-researched but creative plots and the characters are at least not one-dimensional. I watched that interview with Critical Drinker and it was actually quite interesting. He was pretty candid about his writing process and how the industry works.


ETA: Best-looking space movie since Interstellar at least, and more relatable characters. I really like a sci fi story where the moral is not about the hubris of man or the cruelty of the xenos.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for March 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Similar, 302.  Also lowest on the literary (26), and missed only one between both technical and computational.  I also only chose options I was reasonably confident in and did not guess at all.