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mcbigski

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  1. ^All that^ Also, start training with barbells. Apart from potentially improving your appearance, which it likely should, getting stronger is an immense benefit on its own. We all bounce around in meat space, and strength is very high utility. It's pretty easy actually to set up a positive feedback loop where strength training helps you navigate the world better, feel better, look better, and not fake confidence but actually gain it, because you're putting the work in to improve yourself. "Starting Strength" by Mark Rippetoe is a very solid guide for the novice that wants a reasonable path to physical self improvement. I've found it very helpful. I'm stronger at 50 than I've ever been, and my back feels better too.
  2. Well, I don't think SCOTUS should be deciding basic human rights. Who made them the boss? So let's stop there. SCOTUS should be opining on what follows the Constitution and what conflicts with it. Basic human rights in the USA as founded at least, should derive from a mandate from the people, as expressed by their fairly elected legislatures. Unless you're anti democracy?
  3. Very good reads. Part way through the second book and it's been a great story so far. As a Connecticut person myself, also with a Yale sibling I might be primed for the local references, which are bonuses. Regardless, both book are quite worth reading. Check them out. Author (Leigh Bardugo) is BWB friendly too.
  4. #Home Free. The US legal system has always been just, and will continue to be.
  5. Birth rates are lower in societies with low child mortality which makes sense and oddly in societies with economic prosperity (if there's contraceptive available). I'm pretty sure we could go fission every where, and have enough electricity for 8 to 9 billion people to run their devices. And have a birthrate right around replacement level. It could be a golden age for humanity, except that our leaders are corrupt and venal people. Bribes pay better than the right thing for people with no morals.
  6. OK bro. Follow the science.
  7. I'm sure that there are 50+ former intelligence agency employees willing to state that that story has all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation.
  8. I can't tell if your leveling me here or not. I feel like we got through 13 years of indoctrination with subversive impulses still intact.
  9. Weird how this happens when the Joe Biden got $5m from Burisma story also drops. Not Hunter, Joe himself. The corporate media is going to make all of next week all about Trump. I do expect Trump to get incarcerated though. Life in a despotism where elections are shams. 81 million votes for Joe!!!
  10. Haven't ever seen Tucker live, though I did read his second twitter feed was today. I no longer trust any mass media to be anything but Pravda. Plenty of actual reporters working online for now at least, that don't just follow the establishment line. I'd list them, but human nature is such that most of you want to be liked more than you want to be correct.
  11. I think your trust in the CDC ought to come with more verification. I'm certainly aware that was Rahm Emanuel quote, just did a bit of an ironic mash up. There's a Reagan reference here, so don't call me out on that too. My year book senior quote was "Individuality is the cornerstone of self respect." As was Alan's and Rob's. Jason buried that later in his quote after shout outs to his family. I'm still all for surrogacy assuming it's all adult consenting parties.
  12. In the entire history of warfare, are you saying no one has ever destroyed a dam for a tactical advantage? Even pre Isaac Newton, people advanced enough to walk mostly upright can tell up from down. Your best bet is to block me and listen exclusively to the Associated Press.
  13. Eh doctors are human and as susceptible to top down conformity as are the rest of us monkeys. (Why do 3 year olds need covid vaccines exactly, for example?) Patriot act was clearly a way, in hind sight, to allow the government of a nominally free people to surveil the domestic population. I see us going through crisis after crisis and always the answer seems to be more centralized control. "Never let a crisis go to waste" said Donald Trump, I think. Probably great if you're a billionaire controlling the media organs, but less so for us regular guys who wear tennis shoes or the occasional python boot. The media shapes truth for power. They maybe, possibly, at some point, afflicted the comfortable, but it's rare when moral incentives over power the financial. I'm old and cynical.
  14. Just keep boosting. Unless you're going to have babies yourself.
  15. Apologize if I've raised this before, but I always feel a bit disrespectful if I'm a fast food sort of place where you throw your own garbage out and I still have a lot of ice in my drink. Pretty sure that means that when the staff comes to empty the trash, they're getting extra liquid in their trash bag. Apart from taking less ice in the self service beverage kiosks, what's the best way to handle this? Ideally the trash would have a drain nearby for ice and liquid but I've never seen that. Maybe it's not actually an issue but it bothers me.
  16. I just wish our dams in US could only be breached by 'a direct nuclear strike'. I'm not an engineer, but I rather doubt that the Soviets built all of their dams to not only withstand century or more floods, but also direct nuclear strikes. What, do you read the NYT or something? Laughable. Again, not a civil engineer, but I'm pretty sure that degrading 5% and only 5% of a dam isn't an achievable outcome, even if assuming that you knew knocking out 5% but not 10% of a dam's damming would lead to your goal. I'm pretty sure both the Russians and Ukrainians can figure out which side down river from a dam is going to take the brunt of the flooding. So if it's mostly Russian aligned villages getting swamped, where are the incentives?
  17. I think you're being poli sci undergraduate degree ironic here, but really who can tell these days? Covid was mostly a manufactured deep state emergency that eroded our rights and sold pharma products. No idea what that has to do with helping couples with fertility issues, but I believe the children are our future.
  18. I had no beef with the guys that went to LIV. One of two things were likely true. Either the PGA was exploiting the players or LIV was over paying. In either case going to LIV to get the money is the right move for the player. Though I suspect the result of the merger will be that players are just getting slightly less exploited than the status quo ante LIV.
  19. My cousins then wife was a surrogate twice. After they had 2 kids. I assume she didn't mind being pregnant that much and the money was worth the missed time at work. Seems to me that there was a win win contract and why should anyone else give a shit?
  20. Congrats on the job and the Blue is excellent as well though I do like others more at that price range. Compare and contrast job search v app based dating please.
  21. I've seen Ty posting elsewhere so it looks our devious plan to keep him from the love of his life is working.
  22. Pod also failed to get my luggage to our connecting flight on the way home. To be fair both initial legs were an hour late so we did a lot of running through the airport in Dublin. Spain was great though.
  23. I have some experience with family courts but not exhaustive. My experience was that the attorneys seemed to conspire against their clients in order to extract the maximum out of the less solvent party. The Guardian ad Litem and the judge would impose therapy sessions from a very select list of providers. (I'm sure there are non corrupted family judges and GALs, but when money is involved, there are going to be too many exceptions.) I felt a whole lot stink from the whole thing. Based on my experience, the whole Alienation idea is just a way to place at risk kids with the abusive parent because the other parent will be more willing to spend money, which enriches court officers and their affiliates. IMO the non abusive parent is going to be way more wiling to spend money to change the situation, so if the court is corrupt, they have incentives to place the abused kids with the abuser. It's fucking awful, but I can't think of another reason why placing abused kids with the alleged abusing parent should be the default.
  24. Well that sounds like a book club short list. Thanks!
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