Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Recap Radio" channel.

  1. Every single word, every single letter of "Produced for the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, by the Motion Picture Division, Theatre Arts Department, University of California, Los Angeles" goes perfectly together. In my view it's less of a sentence than one single huge word which is not yet in any dictionary but perhaps should be.
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  2. I run into women like her all the time when I'm just doing things like going shopping in a busy area. She's mainstream now, more or less qualifying as normal. I'm pretty sure she would be considered a little boringly normal and conformist by some.
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  3.  @tatie7604  And let's not kid ourselves about the prospects for the average mind. Those whom you look on as unintelligent today will be admired as solidly bright in twenty years. For the last half-century at least, high intelligence has been negatively correlated with the likelihood of having children. Good looks likewise. What could better guarantee a stupider, uglier future?
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  4. Not only that, but English-speaking Montreal was just an especially civilized place overall. (The people we see here were Montrealers.) That wasn't a mere local conceit, either. It was something unfailingly recognized by the British and Americans who came through.
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  5.  @barbaragalbreth4429  The prevalence of smoking peaked around this time. It was normal to smoke. Around 1965 about 70% of North American adults were smokers.
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  6. I think you should be reading up on whatever is two levels worse than psychopath, Dr. Mengele.
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  7. Quite often an indicator of PTSD. Watch interviews with the late novelist Kurt Vonnegut, who experienced the firestorm of Dresden and its aftermath as a US soldier in a German POW camp. He smiles briefly like this when describing horrible things, but it is just an oddity and coping mechanism, not an indication of a twisted or evil nature in the least. It's a sign someone has been through a lot.
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  8. Psychopathy and ASPD should never be confused. You should look them up.
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  9.  @yayhoo8848  An interview and questionnaire study revealed that women teachers commit adultery more than those in any other line of work.
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  10. Of course they were. You've got a lot to learn about the past, and not just the deep past either.
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  11. Everyone thinks a psychopath is an insane, violent and malicious monster. The term itself seems to suggest the worst type of person possible. It turns out the psychopath is a commonly a mere misfit, unhappy but quite sane, and probably just a victim of one or more abusive family members as an infant or toddler. They don't get anywhere in life, disappoint people, and are less giving than most—major shortcomings which nonetheless don't live up to the hype. Burglarizing a post office is rightly considered a serious crime, disappointing others is bad, etc., yet if this guy were the worst thing society had to deal with, we wouldn't be too badly off at all. I liked him more than I did his betters.
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  12. I forgot about him wanting to shoot the doctor. That is very serious I suppose, but we weren't told he ever drew a gun.
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  13. Today she'd be completely run-of-the-mill to the point of being considered a conservative, depending on her precise zip code.
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  14. Actually if you look at the standard formal rating system it stresses a lack of responsibility, planning, impulse control and lasting relationships. Risk-taking is frequent. So it's more of a loser thing and need not have anything at all to do with really dramatic and scary things like crazed and irrational thinking, violence, or criminality. A psychopath can be a relatively harmless and nice person. For example, the risk-taking can center around drug-taking; the lack of impulse control can mean quitting jobs; lack of responsibility can mean not building a career or starting a family. It's ordinarily a misfit syndrome more than an evil, raving, dangerous maniac thing.
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  15. Although for a couple of decades in the early 1800s a handful of US immigrants were allowed to bring slave servants with them, afterwards there were never any Jim Crow laws or segregation practices in Canada, where this film came from. So it turns out the "expert" is you.
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  16. Don't forget left-wing people. Lee Harvey Oswald was left-wing and fit the profile very well. But not Trump and Putin. They are disqualified by their commitment to career, inhibition of impulses, and long-term planning. (Not that they would score zero on the test either. But they wouldn't get a high one qualifying them for the diagnosis. Look it up.) Whatever they could be diagnosed with would be something else.
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  17. To be resold to a fence of stolen goods. It's actually mentioned in the film that the fence was caught and some stamps recovered.
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  18.  @barbaragalbreth4429  Native Americans also considered smoking it a spiritual if not religious experience owing to its intoxicating, dizzying effect. They didn't consider it suitable as an hourly or daily habit.
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  19.  @tzuccolo2001  🎵Pair a noya, big destroya.🎶
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  20.  @suchabadkitty1293  I guess you don't know what methadone does to people.🙄
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  21. The standard Montreal accent of the time was best exemplified by the newspaper reporter near the end; the subject of the film also sounded like a Montrealer, the doctor only possibly. Others may have had rural or small-town roots or been from cities elsewhere in Canada; the post office manager was a European.
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  22. The workings of the algorithm are like weather: there are definitely reasons behind every infinitesimal detail of both, and you can see patterns in the higher effects, but the causes are so complex that there seems to be a randomness to them. Explaining this video getting in your feed is like explaining why a breeze from the WNW blows on your face on a particular summer day for five seconds. In a sense there are reasons; in another there is no reason.
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  23. He doesn't sound French-Canadian. Montreal has long been home to countless ethnicities and I take this man for an Eastern European.
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  24. Thank you. That's exactly what's going on in this section. You and I would get along great. Cheers, mate
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  25. I bet he was exactly right, but had no idea how to deal with someone in need of psychiatric treatment.
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  26. Today she'd be a Yale law professor, New York Times senior section editor, or member of Congress.
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  27.  @spoonshouse9542  Nietzsche said things along those lines, believing that practically everything degenerate in Western civilization came out of the New Testament. I found him cogent on that.
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  28. Childhood abuse in fact was mentioned as the suspected usual main cause. Your attention must have wandered right then.
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  29. What? Why? I could see why it might be true if the parent who said it despised the other parent, but we were given no reason to suppose that was the case here. Do you not think children take after one or both parents' traits? So once again, why?
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  30. I'm guessing she wants to get pregnant with the doctor interviewing her this very second, and as she speaks is feverishly hatching schemes to make it happen.
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  31. Your outlandish optimism wouldn't survive a single month's contact with patients like her whether you were a doctor or not. But I get that you yearn to be recognized as an extremely fine person, morally. To be told you can do good for yourself and others.
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  32. Psychopaths tend to be losers, not monsters. The term has been distorted by TV and movies (like most things in life, except even more than most).
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  33. Read the video description, above.
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  34. For people in the habit of quitting their jobs and who have committed burglary?
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