FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
And every gimmick hungry yob
Digging gold from rock n roll
Grabs the mic to tell us
he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this
And it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns
Will later join the church
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FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
8d ago
Because it's not an environment suitable to small scale agriculture?
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
8d ago
The question comes down to: can a country stay the same [...].
Let's just stop you right there chief.
No.
Same people, different people, doesn't matter: the future is going to be different.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
9d ago
It's weird juxtaposing how ubiquitous porn is with how much its consumers seem to hate it and the people who produce it.
Like even smokers defend their hobby more.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
10d ago
Sure, and way more people in today's America genuinely, deeply believe in mental illness than believe in demonic possession. We'll see more explanations from the dominant religion of Scientism than we will from other religions. Even pious Catholics acknowledge the dominion of Science and Psychology, even most self-identified Catholics don't really believe in demonic possession as something that might happen to them today.
Though, you're right in that even within their respective paradigms, mental illness is much more common than demonic possession, and a "mental illness" like mild ADHD isn't much compared to possession. So maybe a better analogy would be if we had a survey asking people if they "are a sinner?" Far more right wingers would say they are sinners than left wingers, this would not reflect any underlying reality about sin.
I just don't really accept that "mental illness" is much of an explanation for anything, divorced from generalized statistics about outcomes, which are much more mixed and inconclusive and mostly gets into a series of No-True-Scotsman and Motte-and-Bailey games around what is actually meant by Red Tribe and Blue Tribe. There's something "the enemy is both strong and weak" about saying leftism is the cause and effect of mental illness, while also saying the left controls all the levels of power and all the commanding heights of industry and academia and culture.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
10d ago
I would think that's just measuring effectiveness of method. Firearms lead to more bodies, pills lead to more look at me attempts.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
10d ago
Do we have a dataset that doesn't consist of a survey question asking some variation on "Do you have bad mental health?"
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
10d ago
"Leftism is both a cause and effect of acute mental illness"
Query: are Leftists or Rightists more likely to report experiencing Demonic Possession? There are about 1,000 exorcisms a year in the United States, though the numbers aren't exactly reported in surveys, and I'd imagine a lot of Pentecostal exorcists don't think the Catholic exorcists are doing shit-all and vice versa. What is reporting Demonic Possession going to correlate with? Well mostly, it's going to correlate with belief in Demonic Possession, essentially no one who doesn't believe in Demons will report it, and essentially no one who isn't religious believes in Demons; so we can guess that more right wingers report demonic possession.
Similarly, self-reports of mental illness, which is what the study measured, correlate mainly that one believes in mental illness and has had contact with the mental health industrial complex. This correlates very strongly with left wing politics. I doubt the effect exists if one balanced for that first.
I should note my own prior here; you're much better off with a priest than a shrink.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
10d ago
I love the series of branch-swinging-assumptions we're making here.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
10d ago
So this week I started my 20kg kettlebell pentathlon effort. The 6:00 Work/5:00 Rest rhythm seems like a natural fit with BJJ, and I need to get myself back into lifting, I've been farting around since December. So far my physique results have been great, but I'm worried that as I get better at, or at least more used to, grappling the fitness benefit is going to fall off.
I started by doing a pure half, 3:00/2:00, on Saturday morning to start the month. I hit the reps easy, doing 60/30/60/54/60 on reps, hitting big single sets, but I screwed up the timing a little bit: I skipped some of the rest periods on early sets because I got bored, then ran out of time on snatch because I was trying to pack the car quick in the two minute rest. d'oh.
Tuesday I tried again, this time adding reps without adding time, to increase density, so 3:00/2:00 but 80/40/80/70/80. It went ok, but not great. I was able to hit the reps on the first four exercises without too much trouble, though I had to hustle to hit them within the three minutes working time. The added density definitely pressed me. But when I got to the snatch, I was able to finish it, but felt something out of place in my left lat. Not that bad, but enough that I took a dnf on the push press set. Technically still a higher point total than the first go. Can't get hurt over nothing.
It feels better today, so between tomorrow and Friday I'll give it another go.
BJJ wise, a funny thing happened. New guy joined, middle aged white dude, ponytail, used to do Aikido. We get to the open mat at the end of the class, he's kind of hovering around the edge, nervous to join. I want to be friendly, ask him to roll. I figure I'll let him work a bit, flow, use moves I don't typically hit, be gentle, don't push too hard, try to help him learn positioning. Anyway I let him start on top, hit a sweep, get to mount...and then this fucker tries to wristlock me from bottom mount. He's grabbing my fingers and trying to bend them. He couldn't actually sink it, because he had zero leverage, but it was annoying and if we had lost balance could have lead to injury. Which, I should have handled calmly, but in the moment my reaction was "Ok, man bun, you're tapping." And we worked our way through a bunch of submissions for him to learn.
Then the kid who was there for a weekend before he joins his Ranger unit bounced me off the walls a bit. C'est la vie.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
10d ago
If you ever wanna grab a Yuengling, just slide into my DMs I'm buying.
You'll have to go to good ol' @WhiningCoil for the great kettlebell exploits, though.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
10d ago
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
11d ago
I'm right where the northeast boswash megalopolis gives way to farm country, the last highway exit on the east coast. Twenty minutes east I'm at a small city LGBT center, twenty minutes west I'm at an Amish farm stand.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
11d ago
I think almost everyone has, but predicting that any [Person]-Trump alliance will fracture is like predicting that the sun will rise in the east. Trump is known for his tendency to fall out with prominent allies and advisers on a pretty regular basis.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
11d ago
Weird, I realize we're playing dueling anecdotes but I can't remember a single person I know talking about the environmental aspects of their Tesla. The comments they make generally included some mix of:
-- SEE HOW FUCKING FAST IT IS, 0-60 under 4 seconds, it has power instantly, etc...
-- I never have to get gas, sometimes justly limited to convenience but often with fuzzy math about costs
-- It's cool looking
-- It's an amazing feat of engineering
But never anything about the environment. Of course, I live in a much more rural area, so maybe people who live in more urban areas are making "excuses" for owning a car at all, where my compatriots are assuming that any functional middle class man must own a car? They might well have made the choice for environmental reasons privately and choose not to say so to me, but I know a lot of prius owners who talked about environmental reasons for their choices.
Certainly the idea that Tesla can only sell cars through left wing virtue signaling is belied by the number of cybertrucks on the road.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
11d ago
Tell me honestly: Am I boned?
No. If you get fired, you'll find another job, and there's at least a decent chance that your next job will be much better for you, as this one seems to be a poor fit.
So the worst case scenario isn't that bad.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
12d ago
Much appreciated!
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
12d ago
... Huh?
How does that solve the problem of drones hurled at Dodgers games or Morgan Wallen concerts? Or power substations or the George Washington bridge at rush hour? Or, hell, just in the general direction of downtown Dallas?
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
12d ago
I plan on watching it this week if I can find the time. I remember reading about the workouts Chris Kyle had Cooper do for the role. I like Bradly Cooper in general (go Birds!) And I'm interested to see how the film came out.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
12d ago
I guess this is something we can agree to disagree on.
What does this mean in context? When I say to my wife "Let's agree to disagree on [whether I bought the right range hood for our kitchen]" what I mean is something like "I want to eat dinner, make love, go the play we have tickets for tonight without arguing about [the range hood.]" I will totally argue with you about other things in other threads without bringing up asexuality! But in this thread right now, I'm going to keep poking, because I'm viscerally horrified at this:
I don't view experiencing the full range of human emotions as something crucial either. It's a nice to have, but not necessary to achieve the things that are important in life.
I don't know how you draw a set of things that are Important in Life, that excludes everyone who is deaf or blind or in a wheelchair (our core definition of a cripple) but includes Asexuals (or I suppose people who are born unable to experience anger or hunger). Some subset of deaf/blind/wheelchair people live great lives, better than average, I'm sure quite a few better than mine, but on average it limits your experience of life to have those crippling limitations. The full range of human emotions and experiences is what is important in life! It is what is human. The saints and the sages are heroes because they struggled with their emotions. The Buddha, meditating under his tree and being tempted and threatened with women and with armies; what does that mean if he did not feel lust or the urge to battle and glory? Mahatma Gandhi sleeping chastely with women is nothing if he feels no desire that he can conquer. What is St. Augustine if he can't taste the pears? That's what makes their experience and their accomplishment human!
I feel like I'm trying to explain why seeing color is better than being colorblind.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
12d ago
Very. A large amount of his personal staff seemed to act as pimps at various times. Which is, you know, odd.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
13d ago
SCP Foundation
I've read the anti-memetics division series and mostly enjoyed it, and a few others that were a lot of fun like the vhs tape of the Celtics game where the crowd became aware they were in the video. What are other great SCP stories?
I definitely agree with the idea that SCP is the modern repository of Cosmic Horror, in that Lovecraft relied on a kind of Satan-of-the-Gaps theory of the supernatural. Cults in foreign colonial ports, ruins in the remaining unexplored regions on the map, demon worship in the non-Anglo population of New England that the "respectable" parts of the world never touched.
But today most of those gaps have been closed, so to write in the same style and not just write a period piece, you need to move to new gaps. You have to write for today. Where do Demons hide in a world where I have satellite photos of the whole planet on my laptop, and people in the Congo have smartphones?
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
13d ago
I guess he lost me too. Reading the book it feels like, looking at the date, it presages a lot of stuff I like that came later (Sartre, Camus, Kerouac) but I'm not actually enjoying most of the book.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
13d ago
What a great advertisement for better border control. At this point, you basically have to be doing some kind of search on every single container coming in, right? But then, how do you find trustworthy un-bribe-able people at scale to inspect them all? As the story goes, if you don't think terrorists could get a nuclear bomb into the country, figure they could always hide it in a shipment of drugs.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
13d ago
Not having hunger signals is not bad, people can still live a good life without feeling hungry.
People can still live a good life while living in a wheelchair, while being blind, while being deaf. Those are nonetheless core examples of cripples. Hell, one of the most successful businessmen in my small town has one arm. He's not substantively prevented from living a successful life on most metrics, but he is crippled. "Can live a good life" isn't a counterargument to being categorized as crippled. "Doesn't make them a bad person" isn't a counterargument to being categorized as crippled. "Might be less likely to commit some sins" isn't a counterargument to being categorized as crippled.
Yeah but not having lust isn't preventing them from having sex, asexuals don't lack the ability to do so.
Perhaps they are mechanically capable of intercourse, but are they capable of fully committing and connecting erotically with another? Maybe they can force themselves to have sex, but can they ever want to make love?
I believe that there is more to erotic love as a human being than the mere mechanical process of penetration. And I believe that the inability to understand that is crippling emotionally. People who don't experience that are not experiencing the full range of human life.
I also disagree about anger. Williams Syndrome isn't any way to go through life.
Equally thanks to pressure from the Gingrich era Republicans in Congress.
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