This article is men-focused and a bit misogynistic, but the advice doesn’t really differ for women. The below is 100% the case.

TRUTH 1: YOUR GYM IS YOUR ENEMY

You’ve seen it a hundred times – the same thing I saw upon walking into my first brand-name franchise gym: roughly 5 percent taken up by free weights; 5 percent by stretching areas; 50 percent by cardio machines; 50 percent by weight machines. Any reasonable person might conclude that cardio and weight machines are the best gear for getting fit. They’re not. Nobody thinks they are – not even the people who make them or the gym owners who buy them.

So glad I learned all this in the military, and have been safely ignoring standard fitness baloney since then. What’s in that article is how you actually get strong, resilient and more capable. Everything else is just wasting time.

I know, as with most “intellectuals” and with (for example) Ian Welsh, there is huge bias against weightlifting. And part of that is I think because it fucking works. And it’s hard. That combo makes most people hate a thing before any other factors even come into play.

Not everything in this article is correct. For instance, dumbbells are also a great way to train and hit your stability/secondary muscles even harder (for certain lifts) than barbell lifts ever do. And getting to 10 percent body fat isn’t all that difficult. But the piece gets most of it right and that’s better than 99% of fitness articles.

This is so very true.

The confusion we’re describing here might sound minor to someone who’s never done professional IT support—but at any kind of scale, it adds up very quickly. A single, badly confused employee can require several hours to sort out—particularly when the support they actually need may very well be for a home computer, which hasn’t been set up for corporate access and control in the first place.

One single confused computer-incompetent person can keep a helpdesk person tied up for days at a time, sometimes. It’s happened to me and I’ve seen it happen.

For a sister company (note: I didn’t manage the IT for this company. If I did, this would’ve never happened) where a user forgot her passwords and changed some to something unknown, I spent more than two days fixing all the problems this caused, including a complete remote rebuild of her machine. One user. More than two days of me doing almost nothing else! (And this isn’t unusual. Some of the worst users basically need their own full-time helpdesk person.)

It’s shocking when you realize how little most people know about how to use their own computers — even very easy things, like what actual applications they open to complete their daily work.

One thing which seems forgotten in dating discourse now: almost all men genuinely like women, want to be liked by them, want to protect them. We keep telling boys to be more emotionally aware while also telling them that they’re constantly hurting women; they take it to heart. https://t.co/2ignSxUXHc

— The End Times (@TheAgeofShoddy) October 13, 2020

This is certainly what most liberal men are taught — that it’s damaging to a woman to ask her out or to have sex with her, that it’s not feminist, that any approach is harassment. And it’s only gotten worse over the years!

Of course the so-called “alphas” are successful because they just ignore all this horseshit and do what they want. So the incels are often right that the worst/most pushy men end up dating a whole lot more, because they utterly ignore “feminist” dating advice.

Once I also ignored this advice, I was a lot more successful too.

My biggest accomplishments in my 20s were graduating college, moving out of this really toxic vegan house, & talking @infomorph & his buddies into coming over for matzah ball soup. Oh, and I parlayed 2 batches of vegan PB chocolate chip cookies into a relationship and a job.

— Yael Grauer (@yaelwrites) October 13, 2020

Uh-oh, asymmetrical power. You had chocolate chip cookies and they did not.

These days, that’d be abuse and harassment in the liberal mind.

I've always supported lockdowns for short-term emergency response. I never anticipated that the justification for rule-by-order would quietly shift from "flatten the curve to avoid overwhelming hospitals" to "achieve <1 daily new cases per 100,000 people," CA's new benchmark. pic.twitter.com/aOKKyJZwSj

— Mason 🏃‍♂️✂️ (@webdevMason) October 12, 2020

Same.

One is understandable; the other is economy-destroying and hugely regressive. And to the liberals who say “the economy doesn’t matter.” Oh, shut up. Tell me that when you are homeless and starving.

Covid-19 is really a syndemic — and that shows us how to fight it. Coronavirus does not act alone but with co-morbidities such as obesity and diabetes.

HAES proving again to be utter and complete bullshit the moment any real-world stress hits. We always knew this, but a survivable illness is not so survivable if you’re the size of a house.

Of course, a lot of the underlying causes of even the above are systemic.

“Focusing on the virus alone is a mistake,” he told me, of the single-minded pursuit of Covid-19 treatments and vaccines. The deadly impact of the pandemic “is not caused by the virus acting alone but interacting with chronic diseases like diabetes, obesity, heart disease and high blood pressure — all against a background of inequality and poverty. We can’t fully control the infection without addressing those factors.”

It’s always a dilemma where the line between individual and collective responsibility should fall. However, no matter where it falls, in the end the only person who is really going to care about you and your health is you.

Act accordingly.

Wait, there are people who don’t know Cleopatra was Greek? https://t.co/9CN1wktGtU

— Milena Rodban (@MilenaRodban) October 11, 2020

Eh, Milena, most people know almost nothing, and what they do “know” is just wrong, as in this case. But indeed, Cleopatra was not Arab but was Macedonian Greek. It’s very unlikely that the royal line would’ve intermarried with the local Egyptian Arabs, so, not so shockingly, she would’ve looked like a Macedonian Greek.

What I loved about watching Eddie Van Halen play is he always looked like he was having fun and he made impossible things look effortless. What a performance.

I love the part where he’s playing two different melodies at the same time and looping them around one another and using the distortion to be essentially a bridge. Just HOW.