It’s a very strange idea indeed that attempting to win someone over to liking you is harassment. I’m not that old but I don’t understand modern thought processes all that well.

Imagine building the internet and then just using it for a zero-sum partisan culture war, rather than using it to cultivate the kind of unitary fanaticism needed to wage a billion year campaign to conquer the galaxy.

— scientism (@mr_scientism) February 11, 2019

That might be the best and most incisive tweet ever written, and the scope in which I prefer to think. I get tired of people telling me all the things that are impossible. Over very long time scales anything that doesn’t violate the laws of physics is possible. One needs only look at humanity’s short history to see that very clearly.

In many ways, we’re still apes playing with stone tools on the savannah. We don’t always have to be that, no matter what you’ve heard. Just because something seems impossible now doesn’t mean it’ll always be that way. Don’t get trapped in the mundane, amongst the ahistorical and depressive “nothing is possible” crowd where everything from a spinning Jenny to a lightbulb would’ve been deemed “just not possible.”

Most people have no imagination and no idea of the vast scope of time or the concept of plateaus and knowledge consolidation and how this leads to easier climbs up yet higher slopes.

I have no time for those who don’t want to climb, and even less who don’t understand that there is a climb to be done.

Still think there’s like a 10% chance there has been a past advanced civilization on earth that was responsible for one of the planet’s large-scale mass extinctions. A good candidate time period is the Great Dying.

Very little from this era survives, and if the technology of the time were not based on metals we’d never find much of a trace. Heck, even if it were based on metals we’d still have trouble.

I want to strengthen my joints and back and I want a professional to help me and I don’t want essential oils to be part of it

— bletchley punk (@alicegoldfuss) February 11, 2019

Yoga works; weightlifting does too and it’s quicker. You don’t need to lift as heavy as I do (relative to your size/gender) to strengthen your joints. Something more moderate with higher reps is good. Yoga does indeed work, but weightlifting gets you there faster and makes your joints and your back stronger than yoga alone can.

As long as you use proper form not only do your joints get stronger but the muscles around them help insulate them and protect the joints from harm. It’s a myth that weightlifting does damage to your joints. Sure, if you deadlift some absurd amount with bad form over many months or years, you will hurt yourself. But that’s true of any exercise, even yoga.

So the slow way is yoga. The quicker way is lifting weights.