Has the Time for 32GB of RAM Finally Come?

Ha, what? My main computer has 128GB of RAM in it — and I’d ram more in there if I could.

What’s the biggest lie you were told growing up?

There were many lies, but the biggest one was that any and every job more than “night janitor” would use math constantly, and if you didn’t basically become a mathematician you’d not be able to find employment.

This was a widely-told bit of mendacity. The reality is of course that in 90% of jobs basically no math is ever used, and even in those where it is it’s all automated away. The few that use actual math only use a tiny subset, and often even they don’t understand it all that well.

Everyone who said inflation would be transitory should be turbo fired. I told you right here on this blog that it would not be and I was correct because it was obvious.

How did I know? Well, I wrote long before inflation even kicked up that you can’t reboot the entire economy like a damn smartphone, as some people were positing. I knew capacity would disappear, dislocations would occur, expertise would be lost, and necessary areas of the economy would be suppressed.

High demand due to free money with lost capacity equals in-fucking-flation.

So, no, it wasn’t luck. I didn’t flip a coin. I knew it was not transitory, told you it would not be — and I was right. I should be getting the salaries and wealth of all those goofuses who claimed for so long that inflation wouldn’t last.

About the below, one time a tall girl friend (not girlfriend) of mine asked me to really wrestle her because she wanted to know what she could do against a guy. She was a good bit taller than me, outweighed me by a little, and was more athletic than I am or ever will be. I told her that it was probably not a good idea as I’d probably hurt her by accident.

She insisted. I told her no again. She insisted again so I agreed.

The wrestling match lasted about seven seconds. I pinned her absurdly easily, despite her outweighing me and being taller than I am. I was just vastly stronger. After, she said she had no idea just how much stronger I was than her because she was taller than I am and as mentioned outweighed me.

Certainly part of it was that I am just more comfortable with violence than she was. I am very fast and very decisive when it’s time to act. But most of it was that I was twice as strong as she was, or nearly so.

And no, I didn’t hurt her, mainly because I was still holding back. She was my friend. If it’d been a real fight I would’ve taken her down even more quickly.

With very rare exception even before I started working out heavily, I was 1.5-2x stronger in the upper body and 1.5-1.8x stronger in the lower body than women who weighed the same as I did then.

Now I am 3-4x stronger than women who weigh the same as I do in the upper body and 2-3.5x stronger in the lower body.

A lot of the “trans people in sports” debate is dominated by people who don’t realize just how much stronger the average man is than the average woman. And there are many men a lot stronger than I am even now. As lifters ago, I am about average — though I am still over twice as strong as I was five years ago.