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				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Elon Musk's web app from the 90s that was merged and acquired and never seen again just wasn't impressive to me.




I don't recall ever bringing up his app from the 90's.




I think people only find him impressive because they wish they had the money, have just world bias and construct a narrative where he's a better man than them so he deserves the money.




I don't find him impressive at all, and I don't think he deserves the money. I'm saying that because of how he chose to spend it, he's had a massive impact on the shape of the world we're living in. That's all we've been arguing over.




Meanwhile they undervalue more impressive things like brilliant philosophy because there's no sex or money to be jealous of there.




Brilliant philosophy is brilliant. It's been a while since anyone has come up with any, but far be it for me to diss the one that's already produced.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Are those billionaires me?




That's not relevant, the question shows the flaw in the general logic of "Otherwise we ought to talk about the making of money and not the buying things with it."




That was not the premise.




If you didn't mean "if he hadn't stolen that money from me", maybe you should say that other thing you actually meant.




If he behaved fully justly some philosopher-king would have the money and we'd have cool things with it instead of a buggy social media website, increasingly censored.




We were talking about whether or not he's a great man of history, not whether or not he behaved fully justly. Genghis Khan was a great man of history. Stalin was a great man of history. Hitler was a great man of history. They are not what I'd describe as behaving fully justly.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The premise is if I did have that money




No, the only premise was that Musk is not given any money at your expense. So outside of a tax reduction equal to you contribution to the subsidies he received, you'd have no extra money regardless of how much he received.




Otherwise we ought to talk about the making of money and not the buying things with it.




Why? Lots of billionaires could have ought Twitter, and didn't.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


How do you know that?




Because you wouldn't be in a position to, not even if Musk stole no money.




What do I need to clarify for you? It seemed quite simple to me.




How, specifically, would you purchase Twitter, even if Elon Musk stole absolutely no money from you.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Obviously not what I meant. There is no point unless you engage with what I meant.




What you meant made no sense. You wouldn't have bought Twitter even if Musk got absolutely no subsidies.




No it's obviously a trivial action




It most likely determined the result of the American election, so it had a huge impact on the world.




And even on your metric he falls short of what I would do.




You wouldn't do anything.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 24, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
If that's the way she meant it, then it's basically taunting people. I don't see how it's more charitable than the OP.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 24, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


It's the position Britons have allowed to dominate in their name so it is what Britishness is.




The reason we are having this conversation is that the statement is controversial among Britons, so I don't see how they allowed it to dominate.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 24, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Melanie Phillips didn't invent the 'Britishness is queueing and Paddington and chicken tikka masala' model of national identity, she's just describing it.




She's not describing it. She's not saying "this is what a bunch of people believe about Britishness",  she's saying "this is what Britishness is".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I would have purchased twitter and more if he hadn't stolen that money from me.




Damn, you had $27 billion dollars? Sorry for your loss.




Writing a check isn't a great action.




Sure it is, as long as you spend it on the right thing. If he spent it on yachts, or parked it in an index funds whatever, that wouldn't have been a great action. But buying twitter and changing how it was run had a massive impact on the world, so it's a great action by definition.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Rofl also. You have it backwards -- these men aren't grand enough. I see them at their core as peasants, although really greedy ones that stole a lot of money. As far as I can see neither has ever had an intelligent thought, it's all chase current economically valuable thing to try to cheat money out of the stupid hum*n socio-economic system.




Great men of history aren't men with interesting thoughts, they're men who's actions change the trajectory of the world.  Purchasing Twitter alone was enough to earn him the title, and I say this as probably the biggest Musk skeptic on this forum.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for August 19, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Congratulations, you're a healthy young male! Do not try to put that into remission in any way, as annoying it might be.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I thought you meant "the west" in general, or on average, not "in one of the western countries".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yup, though come to think of it,  I'm not sure how much one can expect in either country.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


That's the whole reason people cross the channel.




I'd say the whole reason is money. Immigrants who actually want to integrate are a pretty rare sight. Even in intra-European migration.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean, maybe they actually see eye to eye on the controversial topics:




In the talk, titled "Tele-Babies," De Sutter, a former gynecologist, praises gene-editing as a moral imperative and quotes Julian Savulescu, who has co-authored an academic paper on "why eugenic selection is preferable to enhancement."




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The funny thing about rape is the west only made rape illegal in around 1865. It’s not even that ancient of a thing that was practiced in Western Society. A civilized advanced society still had rape legal only 80 years ago.




I'm somehow getting the feeling you are referring to something very specific, and not "you could just drag a random European chick into the bushes, and have your way with her, and it was perfectly legal all the way up to 1865".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think "baseline dignity and respect" is the level of respect you afford to people barring aggreviating or alleviating factors like mass rapes / achievements.


And even then when talking about criminal cases, we tend to believe in some "respect floor". Even death penalty enjoyers would balk at torturing criminals for entertainment, for exame.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Doesn't every website / forum do that? If not they'd be flooded with spam.


I agree with the sentiment, but I'm coming around to believing that this would be a tricky law to write. I thought the easy fix would be to have the protections only apply to smaller fora, but then H.L. Mencken rose from the dead and slapped my around with the printed out text of the EU's Digital Services Act.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Tinker Tuesday for August 18th, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
So, I think I did overestimate my progress on the story board last week a bit (let's say it was 30% instead of 50%), but I managed to make up the difference, and the whole thing is done now, +/- details I keep picking at every once in a while. With that out of the way, I'll be back to finishing the grenade launcher in the game proper.


@Southkraut is on vacation, but I'm pinging for tradition's sake.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
London itself has no port?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
They could probably get food shipped over from abroad.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


This is pretty much all I'm asking it to do. "Here's the contents of a paragraph or two. Turn them into a draft that I will edit and rewrite into final text."




That's more than a line...


Have you tried doing that a couple times manually to see if it returns what you want, and can work with?


I think Youcis' Will Stancil Show is actually a good reference for you here, even if it's a different medium. I can imagine method working, but the end result might be a bit uncanny valley.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 17, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


One such developmental milestone many miss out on is the comprehension that multiple claims can be true at once. It can be true that Arday was a plagarist and compulsive liar who represents the worst failures of academia and DEI policies and that the number of articles and focus on him was pretty excessive.




It seems like what you are missing is that disagreement is not lack of comprehension. It certainly can be the case that the amount of articles written on him was excessive, that doesn't mean that it was.




As one tweet pointed out, it's quite blackpilling to consider the difference in both amount and style that The Spectator covered with Arday vs Epstein and his associates.




Why is it blackpilling? We had a teenager smiling the wrong way become an international scandal. An actual fraud in one of the world's top universities being exposed having such coverage seems like a nothingburger.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
What you're asking for might exist, for example Emily Youcis has been hyping up the "Slop Canon" which is some sort of specialized tool for making music videos that I couldn't find a direct link to), and all the various coding tools are basically that, but for code, but I've never heard anyone mention anything like that.


Barring some sort of magical orchestration tool, I think this is the completely wrong way of going about this. Like mentioned in the previous Tinker thread, I've been working on the story board for my game's intro. Most of the AI usage was images, but I also decided to solicit feedback from AI (various models). I agree with @Skulldrinker, it sucks as an editor. It's ideas suck, it's criticisms are better, but very hit or miss, and in the event it's a hit, the proposed fix sucks. I still found it useful, but I'd rate it's effectiveness as slightly higher than the Rubber Duck method.


The workflow I'd recommend is:


    

  • write the thing yourself, no matter how cringe.
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  • if you're really insecure, ask AI for a rewrite, and pick and choose the parts you like
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  • ask it for criticism, and fix only only the things you think it has a point on
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  • if you're stuck, ask it for alternatives, but try to narrow the problem down  as much as possible. It's capable of coming up with decent lines, but I wouldn't trust it with anything bigger than that.
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of August 10, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Tragedy?




Yup. Why do you think we try to leave the North Sentinelese alone? We could educate them and bring them into modernity whether they like it or not. I thought the whole point is that doing so would result in exactly the kind of tragedy I talked about.




I have it on good authority that the disappearance of certain "particular expressions of traits" would be quite desirable indeed.




Why do you consider Mr. Sloot an authority?




C'mon, acceptance of HBD is basically consensus here.




Ok, and? If your point is "and therefore, doesn't that mean you should consider Hitler as worse than Stalin, as per your own argument", the short answer to that is "yes". You can see me hinting at that when I was talking about the tragedy that would result from an entire group of people going extinct. But that's not the end of the conversation, and before I go on with step 2, I want to make sure we agree on step 1. You yourself are kind of a good example for why this is necessary, as you seem to want to have it both ways "Hitler is worse than Stalin" AND "HBD bad", which is icoherent.




What isn't, and what I aim to inculcate, is acceptance of its full implications.




I think that's what kids call a "self report".




If you object to the contents of any of my above links, can you explain why?




Because I believe in the universal dignity of mankind, and because, unlike progressives, I don't believe lower intelligence makes one morally inferior?




If you do not, do you then object to @Chi_Wara's sentiment here? If so, what is he to do instead?




For a start he could stop throwing slurs at people, and borderline threatening to kill them.