Go here to watch a 103 pound woman deadlift 388 pounds.
Jesus fucking Christ. For reference, I am a decent deadlifter and I can do 340 at 160 pounds right now.
Day: September 26, 2019, 5:19 PM
Bugs Me
The ACLU issued a warning today about a new, seemingly innocuous white supermacist hate slogan being promoted by extreme right-wing terrorists: “I WILL NOT LIVE IN THE POD AND I WILL NOT EAT BUGS”
— Zero HP Lovecraft and 99 others (@0x49fa98) September 26, 2019
Someone else has noticed the same trend I’m seeing. It’s not like I’m super-observant here — it’s just obvious.
The liberal “utopia” is almost as bad as climate change. We should be creating a better world, not suffering through a terrible but barely-surviving human civilization. If that’s the liberal goal — and it appears to be — there is no hope and they have no chance.
Eco-fascism is likely, but I don’t think it’ll come from the right. The left will be where that arises.
Dead On
Judy with 125×5 after a few weeks of layoff. She comes in and trains even when her husband @MDVilntfluid stays home. In her 70s, she gets it. @iam_preethi #startingstrength pic.twitter.com/gEznmoL2Qb
— Grant Broggi (@GrantSSC) September 10, 2019
Nice. Hope I am still deadlifting in my 70s. I plan to.
Multiplicative Consp
The problem with dismissing conspiratorial thinking is that a lot of "conspiracy theories" are true, including a number of the ones social scientists use to judge whether someone is overly prone to believing conspiracy theories: https://t.co/8PXdvgs5fE
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) September 23, 2019
Whoa, Ezra Klein actually said something intelligent. That doesn’t happen often. But he’s completely right, and the actual conspiracies that scientists claim aren’t conspiracies are multiplying all the time as the past is retconned to fit the modern narrative.
Mirror World
After His Mother Died, Adam Smith Found The Secret in the Freezer.
This woman sounds exactly like my mom. I’m pretty sure my mother didn’t have a dead baby in the freezer, but all Barbara’s behaviors, her drinking, her berating of people around her, unwillingness to deal with her own problems — it’s all the same.
My mom also often claimed to be pregnant to worry me and my sister, or to try to disturb us. Why she thought this would disturb us I don’t know. I wonder if she ever really was? I suspect not, but as with Barbara it was impossible to tell which of my mother’s claims were lies and which had any sort of veracity.
Sad Times at Ridgemont Low
Sad fucking times we live in when the only capable systems thinkers are literal children, meanwhile the adults mince about puling that the kids aren’t being polite enough about the destruction of the world they’ll have to inherit.
It might be too little too late, but at least Greta Thunberg and her myrmidons are fighting the long defeat. If there had been 10 million of her 20 years ago, we wouldn’t need her now.