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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025

Bluesky is where all the Leftists whom were offended with Musk buying twitter ran off to.

Mastodon I don't know anything about, so I can't really say.

truth.social is the social website Donald Trump spun up after being banned off of Twitter for some reason.

They're typically just twitter/x clones. Presumably Mastodon, as well.

Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025

The US would have occupied North Korea in the Korean War if the Red Chinese hadn't chased them out.

Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025

Your suspicions are correct, NHS toilet paper was originally invented in a bid to discourage the practice of sodomy on the wards, much like breakfast cereal prevents too much masturbation. Or as an exercise to see if graphene-like 2D structures were practical to make from cellulose.

While triple-ply is still not what I'd want to use (bidet supremacy), it at least doesn't make one long for death.

Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025

Okay, so I'm treating the fact that slavery is bad as a given here, and that certain societies can have correct or incorrect views on it. If you disagree on this we're not going to get anywhere. I'm not really interested in arguing this point, I'm sure many many others have done it better than I could.

With the benefit of hindsight, the North was correct on slavery, and the south was incorrect. This justifies many of the North's actions, such as the refusal to enforce the FSA.

Individuals living during that time are mostly blameless for going with the mainstream view, but they were still incorrect.

Note my caveat of "practical". Political pressure, or sanctions, or wars could be be required to fully stamp it out, but cause more damage than the slavery itself. That doesn't mean islavery is okay! It just means it's too difficult to fix or that free societies are more selfish than they'd like to admit.

Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025

Japan is too many people killed. Vietnam is somewhat too many people killed. Afghanistan is not enough. The only one that fits is Korea. Checking news shows that Trump actually did talk about bases in Korea recently.

I would not count that as "occupied".

Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025

Patient autonomy is very different from practitioner autonomy. A doctor is required to express the viewpoint that tuberculous is caused by a bacterium rather than bad humors. A patient is entitled to refuse to take antibiotics to treat it.

Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025

Yes. That what it means to win -- to marginalize your opponents. They aren't gonna get any better, but they can be cordoned off.

Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025

The point of paying astronomical sums for a few Eurofighters

A quibble: the importance of ramping up is overstated. Operating costs are much higher in the modern age than they were in WW2, and there are real diminishing returns from additional planes in the air. One modern strike fighter—with the proper logistical tail—can provide more value than a wing of heavy bombers. At less human cost, too, which is much more important than it used to be.

These constraints relax in a high-intensity, high-intel conflict, but they don’t go away. You’ve still got to fuel and arm and dispatch your planes. You still need confidence that they won’t die to cheaper SAMs or get blown up on the ground. In that scenario, 6000 Eurofighters aren’t worth 10x as much as 600.

Neither the U.S. nor Europe has faced a serious threat to air superiority since the mid-century. I hope we never do.

Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025

Toilet paper is the literal worst, bidet fam for life. Unfortunately the British seem to be set against moving into the twenty first century when it comes to personal convenience (see the separate taps in a sink instead of a simple mixer).

Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025

Japan, perhaps?

Friday Fun Thread for October 10, 2025

I wonder if the plan (to the extent that any of this can be called a plan) was to throw the nitro, and then remotely ignite it with the thermite-tipped bottle rockets.

That's something I might have come up with when I was 10.

Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025

It occurs to me that I have no idea what you're even talking about.

Twitter I've seen occasionally, but Bluesky? Mastodon? truth.social? I suppose they're also social media of some sort, but I've never visited those sites. If they even are sites, rather than apps...if that distinction even matters. Could someone please spoonfeed me with a three-liner about what those actually are?

Friday Fun Thread for October 10, 2025

If I google "nitromethane" I get two sales links among the results; apparently reputable racing and model racing leagues think it's too dangerous to allow, but it's not banned for private use? Well, either that or the two shops were Fuel Booster Inc and All Top Fuels and either would be happy to rush a team of "salesmen" to my house after I placed an order.

Thermite is basically powered aluminum mixed with powdered rust, isn't it? I once considered a demo for my kids, and at that time IIRC the only obstacle to getting everything off Amazon was that the smallest sizes for sale would make for a lot of demos. I'm not sure how it would be useful for a would-be murderer, though, unless the target can be convinced to stand in a specific spot under a prepared mixture and then not look up when they hear sparks flying above their head.

Proper detonators I've heard are difficult to make, but any crazy person can make something they think is a detonator, if it never ends up getting tested.

Friday Fun Thread for October 10, 2025

That reminds me of the time I sliced my toe open. I go to the hospital to get it stitched up, and the lady tells me I should lie back. Being in my early 20's and cocky as fuck, I go "It can't hurt worse than when I sliced it open, right?"

She just looks at me, gives up arguing, goes "Whatever" and gets to work.

She got about 1/3rd of the way through just numbing it before I tapped out and had to lay down, sweating bullets and nauseous as fuck.

Though I did remove them myself a few weeks later with some nail clippers and pliers.

Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025

When was the last time Trump “backed down” on his pet policy? On anything, really? At best, he’ll quietly drop a losing issue. Doesn’t help in this case.

I’ve gotten the impression that he really doesn’t care for defense spending and only really tolerates it as part of the Reagan package. Golden Dome is a prestige project. If he does spring for some sort of deal, it’s not going to be on behalf of the MIC.

Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025

I believe Afghanistan is the only choice. The US never occupied North Korea or Vietnam (you could argue the US occupied South Vietnam when it existed, or South Korea, but neither is adjacent to China). Afghanistan has a very narrow and closed border with China, though I imagine there's unofficial traffic across it.

Friday Fun Thread for October 10, 2025

We used to volunteer at a blood drive every year for scouts, and every year this guy would show up and pass out. Every year. Without fail. But he showed up. I still think of him.

I was deeply amused when I needed stitches on my lip after a BJJ mishap that despite the amount of pain being clearly less than I endure during BJJ, I was squirming and whimpering like a bitch to avoid the needle. while in the gym or working on a car I will voluntarily take larger quantities of pain without comment, I'm a whiner for needles.

I could never get large tattoos.

Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025

Wait, which country are you talking about? There are too many options.

Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025

They don't want a monoculture so much as they don't want to be forced to look at posts by Ted Cruz

Was Singal Cruz-posting? I don't get the connection.

Friday Fun Thread for October 10, 2025

Yeah, I do that too for run of the mill blood draws. Yearly physicals, stuff like that.

But man, when things go off the rails and some inexperienced nurse really has to start poking around, no amount of not looking seems to help.

Friday Fun Thread for October 10, 2025

Absolutely.

I used to get real close to passing out even from the briefest of blood samples. Turns out the secret was just not looking at the needle. Doesn’t matter if I’m otherwise distracted, if the nurse has a hard time finding the vein, whatever. As long as I don’t see the needle in my arm I’m fine now. Magic.

Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025

I would agree. If rare earths are essential for the defense industry, shouldn't they already be sourced only from domestic companies? If we rely on China for them, that's a problem that needs solving, not a way to get cheap materials.

Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025

I haven't noticed a large difference in TP quality between countries (including last time I was in Prague), although the quality improvement in cheap TP in the UK since I was a kid in the 1980's is massive, so there is definitely a correlation with economic growth.

Friday Fun Thread for October 10, 2025

I guess your calculations are just for fun?

Yes. (I've already hired a contractor to build a house, nominally for five occupants but actually for only two.)

What kind of living situation are you envisioning where such high density is required, but you are able to get what look like relatively modest building costs?

I don't see why a person can't build a small house in a cheap area. It's what I'm doing.

The HVAC costs also look suspect for meeting current ASHRAE guidelines for 7 occupants.

More specifically: In the per-assembly section, the book says that, for a 1200-ft2 house in year 2019, a cooling system costs 5.8 k$, while a heating/cooling system costs 11.6 k$. The number given is per ft2, not per occupant.

Square footage also need to be allocated for mechanicals if you assume you are occupying the basement and/or attic.

If you look at the designs, I have provided a laundry/utility room for the furnace (in addition to the washer, dryer, and circuit-breaker box).

Is the idea two parents and five kids? A decent number of municipalities wouldn't even allow seven non-related people to occupy a single-family residence. I know people do it, but asking three kids to share a 10′×10′ room is a lot by modern American standards.

These designs are compliant with the 2024 International Property Maintenance Code, which prescribes minimum bedroom area of 70 ft2 for one occupant or 50 ft2 per occupant for multiple occupants. They exceed the IPMC's requirements for dining/living-room area.

Culture War Roundup for the week of October 6, 2025

Depends on who you include in "nation". If it's including the Native Americans then yes he sabotaged the interests and conditions of the nation.

Manifest destiny, while it as a term was only coined well after the Jackson presidency arose from and was a labeling of what Jackson was doing. It is undoubtedly severely racist, see the aftermath of the trail of tears for example.