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				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Platonic male friends, at least the bunch I have, have no problem whatsoever talking about what they've needed to do to get to where they are as an attractive mate, or about female fertility and how that informs their family planning and mate selection strategies.




Your platonic male friends are likely similar to you in worldview and personality. I think the average person, male or female, would find anyone saying things like “mate selection strategy” off putting. I don’t know what words you use when talking about these subjects to women, but even if you’re being careful, you’re probably giving off an overly analytical, clinical, impersonal vibe that most people don’t like to see applied to human relationships.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Powered exoskeletons (sorry, physical assistance devices) are advancing quite rapidly already. A lack of cheap strong labourers might encourage that further, and even decrease injuries long term.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Oddly enough, D&D is becoming more and more popular among women and queer people. I know a surprising number of D&D groups where cis men are in the minority.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It’s also something I feel men could easily get into! It might be a hard ask to get Mottizens to be interested into crochet, but surely writing systematic colour coded checklists and buying fancy Japanese notebooks has to appeal to guys who are somewhat on the spectrum.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I feel like half of these critiques imply that the only type of women are the pretty but annoying ones on tiktok and instagram or the mid versions of the same.




If you’re a terminally online man, that’s the only kind of women you’ll be exposed to. You’re going to be checking out baddies on instagram, not some woman sharing her hobonichi setup and fountain pen reviews.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Every. single. day. I am faced with a loud cultural message that (unattractive) men are expendable, mostly unwanted, dangerous, useless, and generally deserve to be lonely, poor, and depressed. And, as a kicker, that 80% or so of men are unattractive to women, so its the majority of them who are marked for evolutionary failure.




And why are you faced with this cultural message? Because you’re in a social media bubble designed for maximum engagement, and judging by how often you post about this topic, they’ve found exactly what content causes the most outrage for you. A feminist would get the exact opposite impression and their feed would amp up all the threats, and violence women face - there’s no lack of misogynist outrage bait nowadays to make you think the majority of men are Andrew Tate supporters. If you’re an environmentalist, you’ll see constant panic on how it’s the warmest year on record and the sea levels are rising and yet we’re emitting more CO2 than ever. Right-wing populists will see news about how immigrants are flooding the country and taking all our jobs and grinding the healthcare system to a halt.


I’m part of a minority that faces much worse vitriol than what you see about unattractive men. I can read article after article, post after post, even on this forum, about how I’m mentally ill, worthless, predatory, dangerous, and the percentage of the opposite sex that wouldn’t date me is much higher than 80%. But I don’t, not anymore, I don’t engage with that kind of content even though I would be entirely justified to, wouldn’t I? But I realised the vast majority of articles I was reading were written by insane people, that most people didn’t have those viewpoints, and that the only thing engaging with this content was doing was make me depressed, angry and full of self hatred.


Just delete the stupid apps. Talk to people, read a book, find another, more  constructive topic to obsess over.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				When the Buddha Failed Me
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Rat-adjacent communities are surprisingly full of cults. Zizians, the people freaking out over Roko’s Basilisk, down to Big Yud himself cultivating a cult-ish vibe. If you lean left, aligned artificial superintelligence will grant you eternal life, whereas if you lean right, Jesus will.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 20, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I’ve heard about this as well but when I looked at the research, it’s nothing very conclusive and the most famous study didn’t differentiate between lesbians who experienced violence from male only and male and female perpetrators.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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I believe omnibenelovence is an interpretation added by later theologians. God, going by the Bible, and the reality of the world, can cause suffering when He musts.




I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.




God being perfect does not have to match our 21st century morality, centred on avoiding causing suffering at all costs. God can be perfect in His wrath, vengeance and glory, when he destroys cities and brings forth pestilence.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Why must God be subject to our conception of good and evil? Humans think of pain and suffering and death as “evil”, but why must God? Maybe He has purposes and intentions that we could not possibly fathom.


Humans like to feel like we are at the top of the chain when it comes to the complexity and depth of our emotions, but it’s possible that God sees our grief, our suffering, our deaths, the same we see the pain and death of animals. We have pets we love and want only the best for, but from their perspective, we do unexplainable actions that cause them pain, like taking them to a bad place where a stranger pokes them with sharp painful objects.


We also intentionally and unintentionally kill and let die countless living, sentient, feeling animals each with their own personalities, and apart from a minority of vegans (who still can’t escape killing pests if they want to have any crops left to eat) most of us don’t care, and don’t even see it as a blemish in our moral worth.


Rats are intelligent, social creatures with a personality, capable of affection (ask anyone with a pet rat). Who cries for the billions of rats living short miserable and dying in horrible pain every year? If you don’t, then why do you expect God to?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for April 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
So you’d tax per token, based on how much money would be paid to a human to do the same job? Seems extremely difficult to calculate in practice.


And what about local/self-hosted models? A decent GPU can easily output 20M tokens in a matter of hours, you leave it to summarise some PDFs overnight and suddenly you have to pay 30k?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for April 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


It made AIs something like 18x-850x more expensive




How did that work? If you’re paying $10/Mtokens, slap a 50% tax, aren’t you just paying 0.5x more?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You underestimate how easy it is to turn any random technical issue  into a heated controversy.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I agree, according to any pre 2019 definitions LLMs would 100% be AGI! It’s funny how the goalposts were immediately moved the moment we achieved it, probably because LLMs didn’t fit into our sci-fi preconceptions of how an AI should behave or suddenly “awaken”, and their strengths and weaknesses are completely different from humans, ordinary software, or stereotypical science fiction robots.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Anthropic raised $30 billion two months ago, their problem isn’t lack of money. All the VC money in the world won’t solve a bad engineering culture.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You seem very eager to jump on any negative AI news out of some desire to prove the “AI bros” wrong. What’s your motivation? Annoyance at AI mandates from above? At insufferable people shoving AI slop in your face at every opportunity? Just disliking the concept in general?


I don’t know if I’m an “AI believer” (what do you mean exactly by that?), I dislike OpenAI and Anthropic for the shenanigans they keep pulling, and I’ll jump ship to whichever AI service provided the best value for money. The tech industry hype cycle goes on and on, at some point people went crazy over Java of all things, now it’s just a boring programming language and you don’t have to be a “Java believer” to use it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well ackchually AI on GPU goes at least back to 2006.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Where is a Man to Go?
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
True! So testosterone supplementation would be a bit counter productive, like taking caffeine and a sleeping pill at once.


I guess I am curious as to what proportion of my lack of understanding of male bonding is due to neurodivergence vs being trans or whatnot, hence my earlier questions.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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If by masculinity you mean brutish chest thumping violence, the cage that forces men to suppress their emotions, the entitlement to women’s bodies, the urge to dominate, conquer, kill and plunder, or to have no worth except as a tool in service to others, then yes I am against.


If by masculinity you mean the bonds of brotherhood, athleticism and physical prowess, the courage to stand up for what is right, bravery in the face of danger to you and your loved ones, the need to do achievements for the good of all, to explore and discover and innovate beyond what is known, then yes I am for it.


This is my stand and I will not compromise from it.


In all seriousness, I feel like masculinity is too broad a term. Society wouldn’t be improved by the masculinity of drug cartels, gang violence or warlords. But is being a scientist, an inventor, or an engineer masculine? What does that word mean apart from “has traits typically associated with men”?


So yeah, good masculinity is good, bad masculinity is bad. Maybe due to my own gender identity or whatnot, but I believe that everyone, man or woman, should strive to have the positive traits of masculinity and femininity both, and avoid their negative traits. Mix and match however you want. Everyone benefits by learning to be courageous, athletic, independent, yet kind, nurturing and empathetic.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Not sure that was an upgrade, overall.




Banning smartphones in schools is looking like a very good idea to be honest.




What are your testosterone levels?




Around 1 nmol/L or 29 ng/dL, but that’s not a problem let’s say :p


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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It's only recently as we have become extremely feminized as a society that it stopped.




Is that a bad thing? Society being more feminised has led to a drastic reduction in everyday violence. I’m glad there was no serious physical bullying when I went to high school, judging by older generations and media depictions, it was rampant and traumatic.




Not sure I can explain it to an autistic person, but it's basically something like - you're fighting for status but in a fun way?




I must be too autistic because that doesn’t seem fun to me. The last thing I’d want to do with my friends is fight for status, but hierarchies and rankings and competitive games have always made been a source of stress and I wouldn’t want to introduce that in what’s supposed to be my relaxing wind down time.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Especially when it comes to… innapropriate behavior like everyone calling me a retard and making gay jokes. As a friend put it to me when I shared the story, the type of bonding and community I described above is pretty uniquely male.




What proportion of men do you think are comfortable with this kind of bonding, and how do you detect if someone is going to be receptive to it? Is it perhaps less common among people on the autistic spectrum?


Personally I rarely experienced the kind of teasing you mentioned, and never in a group setting. If someone called me a retard because I did something stupid, I would just feel bad, and I’d try to appease or avoid the person somehow. My thought is that it’s related to autism making it difficult not to take sentences literally.




The ability to turn on a dime from giving someone shit and calling them all sorts of offensive names to supporting them and building them up isn’t something you often see in groups where women are involved.




But what’s the point in insulting the other person? Why not just stick to supporting them in the first place?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 6, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
From the gay (and bi) men I know there’s not really a strict separation between tops and bottoms, most are vers and many will change their preferences over time, and I’ve rarely met stereotypically feminine gay men the way I’ve met stereotypically masculine lesbians.


Maybe it’s because most of the fems end up as trans women these days, so the gay male population ends up consisting of guys who are at least mildly comfortable with their masculinity (even if it’s limited to working out and growing a beard).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 6, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Still, looks nothing like Black Widow, obviously.




I think that’s the crux of the issue. If Marvel had been casting women who look like this instead of Scarlett Johansson, this thread probably wouldn’t have been made. When they think of a female athlete, most people in this thread are imagining a 5’3 petite woman with maybe a little bit of muscle, not Sarah Scheurich.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 6, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Across a variety of sports? Have you actually seen elite female athletes? Katy Ledecky is 6 feet, 159 pounds (183cm/72kg) and her 1500m freestyle record beats the male world record from 1973. There’s a similar pattern across most sports where current female athletes outperform the top males from 50-100 years ago.


While puberty starts earlier these days, I highly doubt there’s many 10 year old 6 foot tall supermen running around beating the top male athletes of the mid 20th century.