Gordon Calhoun

Seems fair to me. I wish I lived in a world where the only platform he’d find is a street corner where no listens to his ranting.

Sometimes my pedantry can’t help itself, but the "their"s you used should have been "they’re"s

How about it’s just in poor taste to use it and its use probably says more about the user than the target?

And, if you use it, just be prepared for someone to take exception to you using it and you might just trigger yourself an ass beating or some other adverse consequence. Kind of like playing with fire crackers or bullet ants. Maybe, just maybe, you can find a better way to insult someone that’s a little more clever and incisive and makes you look like less of an ignorant asshole.

Yeet

In what activities do you personally engage to cultivate your intellect?

I was of the understanding reading books had fallen out of favor and reality shows, endless scrolling, 24/7 news, and podcasts were the new and supposedly best way to expose oneself to entertainment disguised as information.

What’s your preferred method of acquiring knowledge and exercising your intelligence to hit the proverbial ‘ensmartment button’?

Sounds like you better get busy on building that ensmartering button then, because exposure to knowledge through books and other educational media is the only way I know of to become smarter. I suppose healthy living facilitates the process greatly, as well.

Yeah, I mean, c’mon books. Why you gotta be so wordy?

For being a jerkface, you have great taste.

Second this one. Excellent series.

Steal what people have to lose and they’ll start acting like they’ve nothing left to lose…

The sheer unfairness of it stings and festers, I agree and feel the same as you. There’s some solace in knowing there was never really anything I could have done differently, except perhaps lived a little more decadently, although I’m not sure that would have made me much happier at the time and probably would have made me even more poorly prepared, mentally, for the austerity to come.

My parents were strategic geniuses for having this book in the house when I was a kid. I believe it helped my slow lifetime acceptance of the ‘life is no fair’ fact.

It’ll be interesting to see if it stands up to the test of time. For better or worse, I replaced my VTI index ETF with VTV to avoid the highest p/e offending tickers.

OooOoooOooo, a spoiler tag is a really classy way to do it. You must be some kind of GeNiUs!!!

It’s vague if they are okay with animated films intended for adults, so…

Titan AE, Iron Giant, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, The Rocketeer, Indiana Jones, Star Wars IV thru VI, Forever Young, The Incredible Journey (original, not the voiceover remake).

Replace button with book and press with read and yup.

And stock options.

I feel like you could say this about the entire federal government, which still has many non-nazis in it (just not at the tippy-top). Shitting on USNA administration’s stupid actions is one thing, but shitting on the midshipmen, absent some obvious reasons for them deserving it, doesn’t seem warranted.

What has been your experience with the Navy and Naval Academy to hold that opinion?

I know a handful of USNA graduates and they are very well-read and intelligent.

Started? I think the culture was already there and well established. The book just shone light on its existence to the mainstream, and yeah, probably accelerated its growth.

Edit: the irony being it was, kind of, trying to help involuntarily celibate men to figure out ways to be less celibate through seduction (vice even less moral, and more illegal, means).

Edit edit: a far, far worse book is The Professional Bachelor by Brett Tate. Anyone who ever wants to taste their own vomit should give it a glance.

Maybe the Singularity already quietly happened and it won’t become apparent until it’s far too late to pull the plug?

I don’t endorse much of anything in The Game by Neil Strauss, but for the discerning and critically-thinking mind it can provide some useful advice for flirting unawkwardly.