Believing there are 900 different genders or what have you is no nuttier than believing in the rapture and such.
So there’s that, I guess.
Aug
16
Aug
16
Play S
I didn't watch #loseastonein21days because that sounds like quite a dysfunctional way of encouraging weight loss, but based on my own experience when you eat below your BMR too often, you lose a lot of muscle and water and not much fat.
— Red Sky At Night (@redskyatnight) August 12, 2020
It depends on what you eat and how you do it.
Do it stupidly, and yes, this will indeed happen. How to avoid this is to eat lots of protein, having eating “windows” of six hours or so, and do resistance training during this time.
All of those tend to promote muscle retention. You’ll still lose a little muscle, but might actually get stronger (depending on level of current fitness).
People do things stupidly, and are surprised when stupid things result. Always mystifies me.
Aug
16
Or Well What
I plan to commit at least 78 thoughtcrimes today alone. Maybe more.
Aug
16
Sham
If liberals didn’t have fun shaming people, one wonders if they’d have any fun at all.
Evidence suggests “no.”
Aug
16
Dance
Great cover. I always liked this song. It just has such a nice melody.
And that drummer — holy crap, he’s great.
Aug
16
Speech
We need to oppose four core principles that are silencing speech:
1) Disagreements threaten personal safety
2) It's possible to be contaminated by association
3) Intent doesn't matter
4) If in doubt, get the authorities involved@EmilyYoffe.
[Thread]https://t.co/PEeBE5ah0k
— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) July 21, 2020
Good thread. I won’t say the “progressives” are as bad as conservatives, but it’s certainly trending that way.
Aug
15
Nope to Hope
Instead of lockdowns, teach people how to socialize safely in the time of coronavirus.
That’s the way to do it.
Fucking stupid-ass motherfucking liberals. Fuck them. They are as bad as the anti-maskers.
Lockdowns were always, always intended to be short-term. We totally biffed that and now it’s just too late. The liberal idea of “stay inside for a year or two” is a non-starter, and pretty much always was. That is a fucking virtue-signaling moral scold ascetic fantasy.
Between the disphit anti-maskers and the tosspot libs, we had no hope. No hope at all.
Aug
15
Conduct
I wonder if the same mooks who think conductors “do nothing but wave their hands” are the same people who believe government doesn’t have any role?
Probably so. Very probably so.
Aug
15
Brahms
I never cared much for Brahms. Just so stilted and stuffy. But Yuja Wang has changed my mind. Watch this below, or just listen. She plays her Brahms just so warm and mischievous. It’s great.
And no sheet music in front of her. Imagine being able to play a piece that long and complex and not worry you might get lost. What. How.
That version is so, so good, people. Now I know how Brahms is supposed to sound.
Aug
15
Cancel Me Harder
I know people will hate me for this — join the fucking club — but I think most (but not all) desire to transition to another gender is really a futile wish to accrue the benefits of both preponderant genders while attempting to negate the disadvantages.
Given that, I think most trans people would not exist in a society that did not enforce gender roles and stereotypes so strictly.
In other words, this emerges from cultural and personal trauma. None of this should be controversial, but anything with a hint of truth these days is.