You are fit enough when your “easy” workout seems crazy to other people.

That’s when you know.

Poltergeist 2 was not that great a film, but this fucking scene…man, I am not sure there has been a creepier scene filmed ever in mainstream cinema.

I love that it’s shot in broad daylight. That makes it even better (worse?).

Can somebody be “immune” to addiction in the same way some people are especially susceptible to it?

For sure. There is nothing I could get addicted to. Whatever it is that causes this in other people, I just do not have it. And I have very high level of self-control (which I think is somewhat separate).

Force me to take opioids for a year, I could quit them in a day. Yes, even with the harsh withdrawal symptoms as no one can do anything about physiological addiction. I just do not give much of a crap about that sort of thing. I don’t know why I am this way nor do I care. But I am glad of it.

What is a thing that makes you think “Wow, I’m really getting older”?

Talking to friends in their mid-20s and realizing that for them, 9/11 is something they’ve only read about in history books. They have no memory of it even if they were alive then.

A close friend of mine, her very first “world news” memory is of the second Iraq War in 2003. She was born in 1997.

I think every straight man alive has run across this:

Happened to me with more than one girlfriend. Said I didn’t feel like sex, got jabs that I “might be turning gay” etc. Contrary to popular belief by a lot of women, men are not unthinking sex beasts and we’re not always up (heh) and ready for sex.

And that last comment is dead on about how a lot of women behave. Many women dream of a world where they are only sexualized at the very exact instant they wish to be and no other time.

A lot of men dream of a world where they are sexually desired at all, ever. Big difference!

Resistance training rejuvenates aging skin by reducing circulating inflammatory factors and enhancing dermal extracellular matrices.

Have definitely noticed that women who lift look significantly younger compared to same-age women who do not…so, makes sense.

I’ve never seen it, but I understand there is some survival show called Naked and Afraid.

Just for fun, I want to make a variant of it called Half Dressed and Mildly Annoyed. It’ll be a bunch of people wearing short shorts and crop tops while baristas mangle their orders or fast food restaurants forget their fries.

I am sure it’ll be a hit.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

Not that I’d need it now, but there should be a dating service that only accepts women with no tattoos and no plastic surgery. These days, though, that’d be a very small percentage of women. If I needed it, though, I’d pay a whole lot for it. We’re talking high five figures if I were looking for a relationship. Tattoos in particular for me kill all sexual and other romantic attraction immediately.

What should the criteria for men be there? The same? Doesn’t seem quite commensurate but not sure.

Gave my resignation. Ruined my manager’s personal plan and they’re now trying to make my life hell. How do I not burn bridges?

Just use another person you worked with as a reference and leave immediately. I’ve been in this situation before and did exactly that. That bridge is already in full conflagration. Pro tip: if someone is burning you now, they’ll burn you later; the bridge is irrelevant at that point.

A two-week notice is a courtesy, not a requirement (in the US, other countries differ). Get the fuck out. I know American workers have been so crushed they feel like oppression is de rigeur, but at lot of that is like a dog that has been beaten so much it flinches when anyone raises a hand. As someone in the comments said, “Nuke that fucking bridge.”

That’s what I do and it’s never been wrong.

People would trust science and scientists more if they didn’t routinely claim things that are obviously absolute dooftastic horseshit like that there are no differences between generations.

When there are huge, obvious, and persistent differences but you can’t fill out your little Excel spreadsheets right to measure them, the problem is with your spreadsheets. Why that is not clear I haven’t a clue. Some people are inclined to place way too much trust in Excel even when reality is smacking them in the face so hard witnesses are calling domestic violence hotlines.