Domain Query Archives - Didactic Mind https://didacticmind.com/category/domain-query Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:11:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 182200397 Domain Query: Neo-Byzantine Intrigues https://didacticmind.com/2025/06/domain-query-neo-byzantine-intrigues.html https://didacticmind.com/2025/06/domain-query-neo-byzantine-intrigues.html#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:11:54 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=22286 We are back, at long last, after a lengthy break, with a new Domain Query podcast. Once again, we are answering a question from LRFotS Randale6, who draws an intriguing parallel between the current, parlous, state of the FUSA, and the old Byzantine Empire. Our friend argues that, like the Byzantines, the descendants of the […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2025/06/domain-query-neo-byzantine-intrigues.html/feed 6 22286 Domain Query: Original Sin https://didacticmind.com/2025/03/domain-query-original-sin.html https://didacticmind.com/2025/03/domain-query-original-sin.html#comments Sat, 08 Mar 2025 15:02:34 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=21922 LRFotS JohnC911 had an interesting open-ended question about Scripture, starting with Genesis 3, particularly focused on the nature and role of the serpent that tempted Eve: Hey Didactic, I have a question for you?Since you believe in Jesus Christ is the Son of God What are your thoughts on Genesis 3? Even if you don’t […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2025/03/domain-query-original-sin.html/feed 1 21922 Domain Query: Risk vs Reward https://didacticmind.com/2025/01/domain-query-risk-vs-reward.html https://didacticmind.com/2025/01/domain-query-risk-vs-reward.html#respond Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:04:07 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=21666 Today’s query comes from LRFotS Randale6, who has a rather interesting and very germane set of questions about the reasons why lower-ranked men in the SSH choose high-probability poor-quality outcomes, over lower-probability (thus riskier) but higher-quality potential outcomes. Here is the question set: Two questions. First is why do gammas/deltas pedestalize one woman to the […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2025/01/domain-query-risk-vs-reward.html/feed 0 21666 Domain Query: Clown College degrees https://didacticmind.com/2025/01/domain-query-clown-college-degrees.html https://didacticmind.com/2025/01/domain-query-clown-college-degrees.html#comments Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:24:27 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=21560 Despite being stricken with what feels like (but isn’t… probably) bird flu, I finally managed to get around to addressing a rather interesting query from LRFotS Randale6, who wrote in to ask about the monumental illiteracy and idiocy of Clown World: Didact, looking into the history of commies and world war two I find this, […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2025/01/domain-query-clown-college-degrees.html/feed 1 21560 Domain Query: Asian girls https://didacticmind.com/2024/09/domain-query-asian-girls.html https://didacticmind.com/2024/09/domain-query-asian-girls.html#comments Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:39:43 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=20943 It has been QUITE a while since we last did a proper podcast – first I was busy, then I was stupidly busy, then I was on vacation, and then I was (and still am) sick. But nothing gets older than an excuse, so let us crack on with a great set of questions from […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2024/09/domain-query-asian-girls.html/feed 2 20943 Domain Query: Come to the Dark Side, we have penguins https://didacticmind.com/2024/07/domain-query-come-to-the-dark-side-we-have-penguins.html https://didacticmind.com/2024/07/domain-query-come-to-the-dark-side-we-have-penguins.html#comments Sat, 27 Jul 2024 12:01:08 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=20788 LRFotS and fellow HALO afficionado MrUNIVAC writes a follow-on request to my original poast about programming for N00BS (well, sort of), to ask about how to migrate to the Dark Side: Realize this is a cold thread, but any recommendations for a Linux version that a lifetime Windoze user could get into without having to […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2024/07/domain-query-come-to-the-dark-side-we-have-penguins.html/feed 3 20788 Domain Query: The programmed mind https://didacticmind.com/2024/07/domain-query-the-programmed-mind.html https://didacticmind.com/2024/07/domain-query-the-programmed-mind.html#comments Sun, 07 Jul 2024 23:02:41 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=20694 LRFotS took a moment out of his sojourns through East Asia to write in about the utility and usefulness of programming as a skill, and how one might go about learning it in the most time-efficient way possible: Didact, I have been looking into programming for sometime now for making some side projects but I […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2024/07/domain-query-the-programmed-mind.html/feed 4 20694 Domain Query: Goldbugging https://didacticmind.com/2024/06/domain-query-goldbugging.html https://didacticmind.com/2024/06/domain-query-goldbugging.html#respond Sat, 15 Jun 2024 16:24:33 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=20573 The Domain Query series is back, with a new episode inspired by a (lengthy) request from LRFotS Randale6, about how to achieve some degree of fiscal and geographical independence from the long, and increasingly corrupt and decrepit, arm of Uncle Shmuel: By misfortune of my nationality (American) I am faced with a bit of an investment problem, […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2024/06/domain-query-goldbugging.html/feed 0 20573 Domain Query: Fake it ’til you make it https://didacticmind.com/2024/02/domain-query-fake-it-til-you-make-it.html https://didacticmind.com/2024/02/domain-query-fake-it-til-you-make-it.html#respond Mon, 19 Feb 2024 03:00:00 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=19859 This latest Domain Query comes by way of LRFotS Randale6, who asks a pertinent and germane question about the difference between natural and artificial, or “learned”, charisma, with examples provided as reference points: Didact, what are your thoughts on natural vs artificial charisma? For clarification I will provide a summary of each along with a video showcasing […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2024/02/domain-query-fake-it-til-you-make-it.html/feed 0 19859 Domain Query: Ask Didact Anything Day #3 https://didacticmind.com/2023/12/domain-query-ask-didact-anything-day-3.html https://didacticmind.com/2023/12/domain-query-ask-didact-anything-day-3.html#comments Sun, 17 Dec 2023 11:44:23 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=19435 Friends, the time has come for another Ask Didact Anything brain-dump. This instalment addresses a wide range of reader questions, starting with a fascinating article sent to me by a reader, and continuing on through various points of interest raised by members of my Telegram channel. (Join for the news feed – stay for the bantz.) […]

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