I've read the Didact for quite some time, but a few things have definitely gelled in his writing style of late. First, an extended look at the classic observation that most psychologists get into the profession because they desperately need the kind of help it supposedly delivers [https://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2019/02/dont-date-psychologist.html]... > The irony of a grown woman in the midst of a full-blown hysterical meltdown, calling a relatively calm and unemotional man "immature", will e…
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I figure Bohemian Rhapsody is getting best film, though Black Panther would be my second guess due to "oscars so white" concerns being so obvious in having both it and "Black KKKlansman" being nominated. Why BR? Gay issues, aids, persecution of immigrants. Boomer music. Live Aid. The last lets the older Oscar crowd feel self-congratulatory.…
I've enjoyed the movie reviews over on the Blackpilled youtube channel. Some, like American Beauty, I'd caught wind of a good chunk of how awful it was despite being, at teh time, all in a "art and indie movies about weird shit are cool" immature phase at the time. Others, like Pleasantville, I had not. One that I had, and had never liked the movie, could feel how off and forced it was, was Forrest Gump. So yes, there is a sense where you never know what will come at you. After all, the…
While doing some digging in on the latest two offenses against masculinity - namely the Gillette ad and the APA endorsement that preceded it, I ran into the following from a psychologist who's not happy about defining masculine traits as toxic per se: This dovetailed nicely with a Youtube vid pointed out by a friend of mine, a lecture on Stoicism as the heir of greek philosophy: The second vid is quite long but completely audio-friendly. Now, I haven't done as much - very little in fact - raw…
Or "Etsy is cancer..." Yeah, yeah, I know. OK. It popped back into my head to do something about my laptop's Apple logo. Yes, I know - but I've got a fair bit of experience with *nux and until the very recent slate of pre-shipped linux systems such as the ones from System 76, didn't want to dick around that much getting Linux working, and did not feel like going Microsoft was getting away from the suck either, and don't consider Android any less compromised from a privacy standpoint, in…