by Didact | Jun 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
The F-35 Joint Strike Flying Piano is sort of like a slow-motion car crash: utterly horrifying as a whole, oddly fascinating in its little details, and you cannot stop yourself from staring at the awful spectacle of its self-inflicted demise, even though you know...
by Didact | Jun 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
Simon Sinek takes some time to explain how leadership works properly: He’s right. The single most important quality in your life that will turbocharge it and allow you to achieve great things is not actually talent. It is consistency. You have to...
by Didact | Jun 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
There is this old joke about the American space program, which people usually bring up around (!@#$%^&*) Tax Day, that goes something like this: When NASA started sending astronauts into space, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero...
by Didact | Jun 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
I did not expect to wake up this morning and discover that Andre Matos, who was possibly the most famous power metal vocalist in all of Brazil, had died at the age of 47: Former Angra frontman André Matos, who made his start with Viper in 1987, has died at age 47....
by Didact | Jun 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
No matter how much your day sucks, just remember – you might be going on a caravan holiday with these guys: Of course, if you are actually a caravan… well, sorry dude, you’re boned. I mean, I don’t know how you’re reading this if...
by Didact | Jun 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Grand Strategikon and Excruciator Majoris of the Evil Legion of Evil had some interesting points to make with respect to my Memorial Day post: You listen to certain members of the alt-right too much. We’re too frigging geographically intertwined to break up...
by Didact | May 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
Certain events of late have gotten me thinking about the ways in which honourable men set ourselves up to be tricked and taken advantage of by the world around us. An honourable man is such because his word is his bond. He does what he says, and he says what he means....
by Didact | May 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
The great philospoher and wise man Jeremy Clarkson has often stated, and written, that cyclists and bikers should simply work harder and buy a car. Judging by what bicycles have done to China – and Vietnam, and Indonesia, and the inner cities of London and New...
by Didact | May 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
Former Navy SEAL Jocko Willink’s video for Prager U may be the most manly motivational speech that you have heard since President Trump’s inaugural address in 2017: The comments to that video are just pure gold. It is impossible not to feel inspired...
by Didact | May 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
All of that nonsense about “MUH RUSSIA!!!” really was a lot of hooey. And, by the way, if you really want to startle a beautiful Russian girl on a date, tell her that something is in fact a bunch of hooey. The reason for this is that...
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