It's fucking incredible how the left has gone from trashing the WTO in 1999 to being woke-scolded into supporting globalism. The backlash to the Nagle expressing an historically normal socialist understanding of labor-capital relations is evidence of this shift.

— we're going to abolish Sean McElwee (@martsendo) November 21, 2018

Exactly. Nagle’s view was the mainstream left position up until 3-5 years ago, so it’s odd to see her and this view portrayed as abhorrently mega-racist.

Compassion isn’t a plan. Open borders only works if countries are roughly equal in development and culture, and not essentially controlled by mega-corps. How is this not clear to every delusional open borders supporter?

The one and only reason I didn’t join the Democratic Socialists of America is that they are for open borders, explicitly so. I can’t associate with any group so fervently moronic about an issue no matter its other benefits.

I don’t believe Tumblr banning nsfw content really has anything to do with porn at all. I suspect it’s a deliberate purge of dissident voices by a large corporate force. After all, Verizon now owns Tumblr and Tumblr is by far the most leftist-attracting site on the internet. And Verizon, as evil companies go, is very damn evil.

Why wouldn’t they get rid of the largest leftie congregation if they could do so credibly? Of course they would. And they are.

Such a great song.

I really am completely fascinated how with at every turn, Mozilla managed to make the worst possible decisions regarding Firefox. They would’ve done better with coin flips or entrail reading.

Partially my fascination is due to my witnessing it in real time over a decade — it’s rare to watch an implosion where there were so many warnings combined with so little meaningful action and to be able to have a front-row seat to it all, with most of it out in the open (as Mozilla was a fairly open organization). Most failures are hidden; this one was right there in front of you in all its ugliness.

Still, too bad. They had every chance and threw it all away.

Corporations ruin everything.

This, of course, will be used to mainly clamp down on already-marginalized communities as it always is, and just the threat of banning will make the platform less vital and interesting. I don’t consume porn blogs, but many of the blogs I did visit on Tumblr had nsfw content often or occasionally. Those will all be banned now.

Time to abandon that platform altogether.

I want to highlight something Staci said about deadlifting at Nerd Fitness.

Whenever anyone asks me where I got my shoulders/abs/etc, I answer the same: deadlifts. Why do a million crunches when I can just do deadlifts instead? Way more fun! Plus, deadlifting is actually more effective.

Yes. You can do literally a million crunches over many years or a few months of deadlifting and get exactly the same effect. Deadlfiting is the single most effective weightlifting exercise there is, bar none, not even a contest and none other is even a remotely close second, especially when safety and ease is considered. That’s why it’s my favorite; it has the most bang for the buck.

A deadlift is a system shock, in a good way: it works nearly every muscle you have, and it doesn’t take all that many reps to do it, either.

If I could only do one weightlifting exercise ever again, it’d be deadlift because I’d still meet 65%+ of my fitness goals without doing anything else.

Deadlifting two hours a week or so will be more effective than any 50 hours of other exercises you might do, so if you aren’t doing that one, you’re probably spending a lot of unnecessary time that you don’t have to spend.

If we ever do detect an extraterrestrial presence approaching or landing on earth, we are probably doomed if it’s not robotic.

The only conceivable reasons to traverse interstellar space would be colonization or religion. Either one would be very bad news. There are no economic reasons to do so under any easy-to-imagine energy regime in this universe.