Overall, severe obesity will be more common in 2030 than obesity was in the 1990s.
What. The. Fuck.
Something has gone very wrong somewhere. Likely in many different places, but there’s nothing “natural” about this. I know the Fat Acceptance shitheels are just trying to cope, but they aren’t helping. HAES is BS, but there will be no conversation about any of it due to no money pointing the right direction and people entrenching the harm by building identities around fatness and the like.
I bet Alexander the Great had a brother: Jim, the Kind of OK (when he’s not drunk).
People treat so many things like pure magic that are just showing up, doing the work, being diligent and getting it fucking done.
I guess it’s much easier than actually doing the things they think are magical achievements….
Losing your job is what getting exiled from your village was 1000 years ago. It's losing that stability of seeing the same people every day. It's SUPER hard to get the same sort of relationships purely socially.
— Jessica Price (@Delafina777) September 5, 2019
Do people really find any decent social relationships at work? I never have and not many people I know have, either. Not that I know many people, but outside certain “creative” fields I think this is quite rare. It appears she just happens to be in one of those fields.
I watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
What a loving, sprawling, tonally-confused mess that I still adored. It was like a reverie, almost Lynchian in some aspects, with no real plot to speak of. And that is not a knock against the film at all. What I think it mainly was attempting to do is to immerse one in a world departed, mostly forgotten, even by those who lived it. It worked; the whole milieu felt utterly foreign. We have changed so much since then while mostly denying it — but Tarantino understands how much has changed, thus he can transport us back to that world of greater openness and receptivity to…just whatever happens.
And Margaret Qualley! Holy crap, she was just great. I liked her ok in The Leftovers, sure. Nothing wrong with her performances there. Perfectly solid. But in Once she was giving off sparks of insuppressible energy. Great acting and inhabited that role completely; all the subtle little physical things she does are just perfect.
almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983.
Yep. We’ve gone backwards greatly over the past decade as we’ve allowed the droolers and corporations to control what we can see, what we can do, how we can use computers.
This is why I get so angry at Mozilla. It could be different but they won’t let it be.
Bitcoin Was the Best Investment of the Decade.
No. It was potentially the most profitable. That is not nearly the same thing as “best.” When one considers investments, these are some of the factors one must assess: risk, potential returns, volatility (beta), fungibility, liquidity and usefulness, the time horizon and security.
There are others; those are not the only ones. However, Bitcoin fails on the most of these measures. If you were lucky enough to get in early it was probably profitable. But as an investment, it’s terrible in most ways that matter.
Ahahahaha!
You know, I’ve been hearing that since the late 1990s. And it wasn’t true then, isn’t true now, and wont be true for a long time. Not that Google isn’t doing some interesting things. But they are operating at a scale that is beyond mere mortals and very little of it applies to anyone else.
I see these “firewall is dead” articles pop up about every five years, and every time a vendor is trying to peddle some bullshit product or service.
Just wanted to comment on this post with some additional info.
As my partner pointed out, people are talking about Kumail Nanjiani’s transformation as if it were some sort of magical feat.
But it only takes about 4-5 days in the gym a week for a year, spending about an about an hour a day, to look like that. You do have to work hard. But that’s life! You want results, you must put in the labor. You can’t just stand around and listlessly lift weights and sit on a machine and paw through your phone for an hour. And sure, the time required could be a bit more, could be a bit less, depending on your genetics and how correctly you eat, but it’s not magic. Just putting in the effort and time is what it amounts to.
And remember that the photo (and all photos like this) would be taken under these conditions:
1) When he’d just worked out (so muscles are filled with blood, only way to get apparent vascularity like that).
2) After he’s dehydrayed and fasted.
3) In great lighting.
4) Oiled and flexed (while appearing not to be flexed, very easy to do).
And there’s nothing wrong with that! When I cut and take photos, that’s how I am going to do it, too. But one should be aware of exactly what’s being done and how it can be deceiving.
Getting that fit is not some alchemistic, unattainable endeavor. But it does take effort, intent, and resolve. Anyone can do it, though, with much fewer resources than he had available.
It’s the right decision since streaming is inexorably linked to payment, but just a reminder with streaming you don’t have the right to listen to music. Spotify hides the memory-holed music by default but you can turn it back on in settings. pic.twitter.com/aX6a71oXoT
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) December 18, 2019
But the propaganda says EVERY SONG EVER is on there. Even though, as I’ve said before, I can find roughly half the music I care about on there or any streaming service available in the US.
Mate outside your species.
Hybridization is a major engine of evolution. https://t.co/nwQXsNkh19
— Stewart Brand (@stewartbrand) December 17, 2019
I’m already outside my species, sleeping with a goddess. Anything else would be a step down — no thanks.
The first two pages of a google search almost never surface blogs or personal websites anymore.
And a great loss it is, too, because often the best and most well-researched info is on blogs and personal websites, not some corporate propaganda page.
Watchmen. Finished the last episode.
Holy fuck, that is some tight writing. Just excellent in all its aspects, even the parts that didn’t quite gel. It said so much so well. This NYT review captured it best.
It’s hard to overstate how risky, how primed for disaster, was the challenge that the creator, Damon Lindelof, signed up for. First, to adapt a notoriously hard-to-adapt subversive superhero comic. Then to lovingly, impishly subvert that subversion, extending the story backward and forwards in time. To do all that while reframing the story as an antiracist pulp thriller, weighty without being pompous or exploitative. Oh — and could it also be electrifying and playful and fun?
Exactly. When it opened with the Tulsa Massacre in the first episode, I thought, “There is no possible way this could go well.”
I was so wrong. What a great show, art.
Twitter ad targeting is a bit imprecise.
I am getting an ad for equipment designed to help spine surgeons.
While I am flattered by the implication that I would know how to use this technology, and I am glad it was invented, I am not sure how this ad is supposed to help me.
— Alan Cole (@AlanMCole) December 16, 2019
When I use a browser where I happen to see ads on YouTube, I get ads for Plan B, shampoo that appears to be attempting to appeal to Latinas, and various ones for mascara and the like.
So…YouTube seems to think I am a Latina (woman) who does not want to become pregnant, and who also needs some help with personal grooming. Those algorithms are killin’ it, ya’all!
He writes in his post:
I found out a year ago I was going to be in Marvel’s Eternals and decided I wanted to transform how I looked. I would not have been able to do this if I didn’t have a full year with the best trainers and nutritionists paid for by the biggest studio in the world.
That’s just not true. Sure, it helps, and though I don’t quite look that jacked yet, I am getting close. And I’d look a lot more like that if I cut (lost weight) for a few weeks, which would be inimical to my goal of building muscle.
I had no personal trainer, no studio paying for anything, and I was working a full-time job. It just takes will and time, showing up and doing the fucking work. That’s it.