Aug 23

Not Even True

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Also, what Ian (and another commenter is saying) about lifting and athleticism isn’t even true. After I’d been working out for less than a year, I packed an entire moving truck up with a houseful of stuff all by myself. Took a whole day.

Before I started lifting again, I would’ve been absolutely exhausted beyond all belief if I’d attempted something like that. Instead, I filled the whole truck up and I was energized at the end. I wasn’t in the least tired. Compared to my workouts, it was cake. I could’ve packed up a few more trucks, no problem.

The next day, I wasn’t sore at all and it was like I’d done nothing. People believe the weirdest shit when they don’t like something for other reasons.

Lifting works.

Aug 23

Hip Thrust

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By the way, here’s how you actually do a barbell hip thrust:

Your ass should be on the ground (or the pad) when you start each rep!

Aug 23

No Trade

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So what? Lifting makes you vastly healthier. I will never, ever be an athlete or a dancer. What I will do is feel better and look better because I lift. I’ll also never be in the trades, so I’ll take these “useless muscles” and my vastly better health, thank you very much.

Amazing the horseshit people spew. You don’t like lifting? Fine. Don’t fucking do it. Solved!

Aug 23

Zero Symp

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Aella asked this question:

And this was one of the responses:

You made a risky investment. Boo-fucking-hoo. Pouring your life savings into any one thing is an extremely dangerous thing to do. It’s stupid, fantastically so. Zero sympathy here from me. Make a bad investment decision, reap the consequences. More of the rentier class should experience this.

An important difference between the renters who can’t pay and this person: when the renter can’t pay, they eventually get evicted and lose their home. When the landlord can’t pay for the houses they’ve over-leveraged and poorly invested themselves to buy, they still have their primary residence in which to live.

Huge difference, there.

Aug 22

Done Over

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Before the pandemic, before Trump, before this latest increase in polarization and truth hatred, I knew the American project was doomed the moment I saw people celebrating obesity and condemning those who refused to do so.

That’s when I knew it was done.

Aug 22

HUD Up

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My car has a HUD. It provides the speed of my car where I don’t have to look down at the speedometer to know how fast I am going. This is extremely useful and provides actual value. The less time looking down at a display == the fewer chances of something unexpected happening while you’re looking down instead of at the road.

It also provides other info like when a song changes — meaning I am less likely to look at the stereo, another accident-causing distraction in cars.

HUDs provide huge value to me. I don’t really want a car without one because it keeps my eyes on the road rather than down in the display gauges. I don’t believe she must’ve looked very hard, then, as the HUD in GM cars is extremely well-designed and keeps eyes up.

Aug 22

Chrome Only

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This link is porn, so don’t click on it if you don’t want to see a woman naked.

I found it because I click on any old shit on Reddit, and I don’t have thumbnails enabled so I never quite know what I will get for sure. But I noticed when I clicked on it, it did not play in Waterfox or in Safari. It only worked in Chrome. Been finding more and more sites like that, especially on the Mac.

Anyway, she’s cute, so there’s that. (She posted the link voluntarily herself on Reddit — I’d never link to or even look at anything I suspected of being non-consensual or revenge porn.)