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Apollo
2 weeks ago The Public Square
The nod you give the 16 year old who was benching with 10 pound plates each side benching with 20 now.
Apollo
2 weeks ago The Public Square
Rejection feels so much better than regret.
It’s like a burden is lifted from you.
Now, the only place left to go from here is up.
Apollo
3 weeks ago The Public Square
Wtf happened to r/Seduction?
Became a ghost town seemingly overnight, barely any new posts…even fewer comments.
Apollo
3 weeks ago The Public Square
Yeh I’ve seen the vaccine-SIDs threads too.
SIDS is bizarre to me.
Even the name sudden infant death. Very rarely do medical conditions happen suddenly, out of nowhere.
Apollo
3 weeks ago The Public Square
accepting any hypothesis simply because it agrees with one's preexisting world view
Yeh a part of me realised the main, reason I see plausibility is because of my pre-existing views.
Needed to share this with dudes on the same page to call it out.
Shoutout to that post, I used a bit of it in college.
Whisper Comically Serious
3 weeks ago The Public Square
I would be very cautious about accepting any hypothesis simply because it agrees with one's preexisting world view. Just because women are capable of evil, and infants are dying, doesn't mean that A caused B.
I suspect it has to do with the fact that every human being is basically a premature birth.
Other species stay in the oven a lot longer, but humans have to come out sooner because otherwise the head won't fit. This is why human infants are so fragile. I suspect that what is happening is a malfunction of the brainstem apparatus that keeps the baby breathing... and they simply stop.
Apollo
3 weeks ago The Public Square
What do you guys make of this dark red pill?
There’s an EC where this is right up their alley…forgot who.
Apollo
about a month ago The Public Square
I enjoy watching modern movies. Torrented, of course, since I am not giving those assholes my money.
Yeh, fuck giving these guys any money. Haven’t paid for a movie ticket since 2018.
think that Hollywood's complete intellectual bankruptcy represents a wonderful opportunity for literally everyone else who has a story to tell.
True. There’s always opportunity in chaos or decline.
The real issue is how do people with a story to tell actually get their story out? Everywhere you go, the big giants just expand their monopoly, whether it’s media or entertainment or something else. Hard to get your story out if they control all the methods of transmission.
Whisper Comically Serious
about a month ago The Public Square
I enjoy watching modern movies. Torrented, of course, since I am not giving those assholes my money.
Why?
Well, it's not because they're enjoyable. It's because stories are my latest obsession, which is not surprising, given that I retired early to become a science fiction writer. And, while the stories are no good at all, I enjoy thinking about how I would, as a writer, fix them.
Too much woke shit makes it hopeless, of course, but there's lots of stuff out there that is just flawed stories, because this generation of Hollywood has been so steeped in "social message vehicle" scripts that they have barely any writers left who know what makes a story.
I use this sort of movies as a kind of practice problem for my new profession.
Take Disney's "Moana", which I believe came out in 2016. Not super woke, doesn't spend a lot of time bashing white people (there aren't any to bash), not really offensive in any way. Just kinda... mediocre and bland. The production values are great, but the story is fundamentally broken.
But I had a great time picking it apart and thinking about how I would fix it with minimal changes. Came up with a pretty good answer, too.
I think that Hollywood's complete intellectual bankruptcy represents a wonderful opportunity for literally everyone else who has a story to tell.
Read MoreApollo
about a month ago The Public Square
It just gets so tiresome.
Wow another movie with the heroes having a big cgi fight and winning. Never seen this before.
It’s either that or another reboot of Batman.
They don’t make original movies like inception or comedies like Borat or the dictator.