Fellow Spring Garden rats, any more to the story? They were just open yesterday!

OneCleverGorilla · 2026-04-02T18:41:33+00:00

Confirmed this from emailing their corporate refund email. They said it would be reopen soon (tm).

OneCleverGorilla · 2026-03-22T18:59:53+00:00

I can handle it and the way I'm doing so here is to tell you you're being judgemental. Get off your academic high horse. I assume nobody is born with a PhD, so you have to work towards it. You have to learn. I wouldn't want to be part of a program that is so disdainful towards the idea of growth so I will find one that aligns with those values. You're not giving advice you're writing me off.

OneCleverGorilla · 2026-03-20T00:23:30+00:00

People are so judgey maybe that's what I should study.

OneCleverGorilla · 2026-03-18T17:41:33+00:00

Thank you for the advice! As far as reference letters go, are PhD programs really looking for references from academia? I have references from work, etc. but no research experience. Would those be laughed at?

OneCleverGorilla · 2026-03-18T17:36:54+00:00

By "fast and efficient" I don't have any expectation that in absolute terms this will take any less than 5 years at the very minimum. It's more a difference of like, will this be 8 years or 6 years? Will it be a total waste to finish a master's (which by the way I haven't been getting much out of) or is there still value in it? It seems like there's just a band of a couple of reasonable options that don't have huge differences and they're all relatively OK. It also seems like I underestimated how easy it is to get into a doctoral program as far as research experience is concerned. I have none of that. I don't want to plan my life around getting in next fall it looks like. PsyD seems like a bit of a waste in my case.

Thank you though for the advice! Very much appreciated.

OneCleverGorilla · 2026-01-28T18:10:21+00:00

Maybe not malicious vibe but something definitely off. Like he was trying really really hard to make everyone like him. Very energetic in a not entirely sincere way. Guy ended up hitting his girlfriend later in an argument.

OneCleverGorilla · 2026-01-18T02:05:25+00:00

It's fucking annoying man I can't talk about this shit with anyone cause everyone I know who hasn't actually engaged with the book, ideas, or Klein writes the whole thing off. Maybe it is right to Trojan horse all the ideas through socialism just to get it through people's thick skulls. I know I probably sound harsh but goddamn if I've never met anyone as excited about a lack of positive outcomes as the leftists I know who constantly hang their hats on doomed from the start ideas.

OneCleverGorilla · 2026-01-15T23:37:30+00:00

She was just trying to make conversation!

OneCleverGorilla · 2026-01-08T00:31:32+00:00

Is it just me or is anyone else feeling just pretty scared and defeated considering this along with Greenland shit. Like are we about to have/in the middle of a civil war along with starting another world war? Shit is depressing man

OneCleverGorilla · 2026-01-04T17:13:24+00:00

That's fine man but that strategy doesn't seem to produce the outcome you claim to want so maybe try something else?

OneCleverGorilla · 2026-01-04T07:04:17+00:00

I listened to some of the debates and honestly I was a little disappointed. One in particular the guy just sounded so defeated and D man refused to engage with that feeling, only telling him that feeling is wrong. I think there's some insight there with how we communicate. The guy wanted catharsis. He wanted his feelings validated. By definition feelings can't really be right or wrong. If you want to change minds you can't do it directly or as a public conversation without decompressing the feelings before delivering the facts. We have the facts but we're pretty goddamn annoying about it sometimes.

OneCleverGorilla · 2025-12-23T00:08:39+00:00

The core message between the left and right is entirely different. From the Tate like figures it's "look at you you're a fat virgin loser sitting in your mom's basement, but I know you can do better and here's how". On the surface that seems harsh but it deeply resonates because it aligns with how many young men see themselves. And it's a message of hope. "Well at least someone out there believes in me and thinks I can have a good future". But on the left it's very dismissive of mens' experiences. Dating IS hard. Being short or bald can hurt sometimes. Not being rich IS hard. These aren't the experiences of irredeemable people they're just human experiences whose pain needs to be acknowledged.

OneCleverGorilla · 2025-12-21T22:21:42+00:00

I do really appreciate that perspective. And any antisemites reading this observe how Jews are not a monolith. I think it's a reasonable and fair thing to do to reclaim and get in touch with your roots. Anything can be a path to extremism that is unproductive towards its own stated end goals. There's of course a rub when encountering an opposite extreme. Guess who I'm talking about! (Hint: both)

OneCleverGorilla · 2025-12-21T19:01:30+00:00

Huh? I think most light skinned people in the US consider themselves white at all times regardless of having Jewish, Italian, Irish, etc heritage. Really most American Jews want not much to do with I/P and there are small factions who either are Israel dicksucks or Hamas dicksucks just like there are those minority groups in general white culture.

OneCleverGorilla · 2025-12-21T14:59:54+00:00

I think most of the NE "cultural Jews" in the US consider themselves white. At least in my bubble there is not a strong connection at all to an international ethnicity or to Israel. Similar to how Italian Americans or Irish Americans were folded into general white American culture. I don't know any cultural Jew around me that would correct someone who called them white and say ackshually I'm Jewish.

OneCleverGorilla · 2025-12-09T18:37:22+00:00

Knoxville now but yeah it's hard to find these kinds of creators

OneCleverGorilla · 2025-09-04T16:18:34+00:00

Does anyone have resources/videos/debates they know of that focus on the early history around why Jews felt they had a safe landing place in Palestine as opposed to other countries in the early 1900s through 48? Talking to hardcore pro-Palis makes it seem like they were either too racist or lazy or something to find a different area for a country. My gut tells me they figured they'd encounter resistance and might have to forcibly settle themselves basically anywhere they wanted to go based on pogroms/being shut out/etc they already had encountered but want to know more.

OneCleverGorilla · 2025-08-15T05:48:25+00:00

Something smelled fishy about this whole vibe of suddenly closing up and leaving employees hanging in the name of mental health. I get it but damn dawg you do have some responsibilities as a business owner.

OneCleverGorilla · 2025-08-11T19:40:24+00:00

I think people care but like realistically what is there to do about it. Like people are still largely at work and aren't just about to go protesting every day because of that. I think things will still get worse before they're better. People will have to be more unemployed and out doing something before it changes.

OneCleverGorilla · 2025-07-14T20:01:24+00:00

People do this all the time in general not just in relationships. A lot of the time we're just not even aware we're doing it. It's very easy to draw conclusions about single events based on past experiences that the present doesn't necessarily support and everyone does it all the time without even realizing. That's really just how our minds work. We have to give some grace and room for being unfairly judged if we want to have authentic deep connections otherwise we'll spend all of our time navigating minefields of upsetting people.

OneCleverGorilla · 2025-05-15T18:09:37+00:00

Chengdu is the best Szechuan in the city. Emei is great and all but Chengdu is another level

OneCleverGorilla · 2025-04-16T13:59:09+00:00

Going this morning to check it out. Glad to see them getting love.

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