RoyGBivensAction
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RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6d ago
I really have to wonder how much of this is people just not taking care of themselves.
For people complaining on the internet, it's mostly this. All sorts of complaints about random aches and pains and injuring themselves in their 30s that bears no resemblance to my experience.
Personally I'd probably put my physical peak around 32 when I was fighting fit and winning tournaments.
Interesting choice. For longer-distance endurance races, men's performance seems to peak around age 33. I would expect an earlier peak for more explosive/fast-twitch dominated events.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6d ago
Third rate universities have programs like lumberjacking, which do require manual labor.
Makes me think of Deep Springs College.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6d ago
It was definitely a Special Episode kind of moment and speech
After years and years of not watching tv/streaming shows/movies/what-have-you, they all feel like A Very Special Episode when I'm forced to watch something. It all feels like a lecture where the lecturer views me as an especially dim child.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6d ago
I would like to get a set with particularly good art & symbolism, and I've never found Rider-Waite compelling on that first prong. Same for Crowley-Thoth and others that are often recommended.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6d ago
"Our enemies are simultaneously too strong and too weak" is frequently described as a common trademark of fascism
The damage done by that Umberto Eco essay is up there with the xkcd "showing you the door" comic.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6d ago
What's a deck you find compelling from an artwork perspective?
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6d ago
Fun Friday music: OUT DEMONS OUT (weirdo hippie music by the Edgar Broughton Band covering The Fugs)
The Edgar Broughton Band was a British blues band who had an early entry to the mashup genre by combining Captain Beefheart's "Dropout Boogie" and the Shadows' "Apache" into "Apache Dropout." They recorded a live album at Abbey Studios in late 1969, but the only song released at the time was "Out Demons Out," which is a cover of The Fugs' "Exorcising the Demons Out Of the Pentagon." The rest of the live album isn't very good (it was released in full in 2004 and is available on YT), but "Out Demons Out" is a fun piece of schizo hippie weirdness.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
6d ago
(Never watched GoT and I have no idea who “Grima Wormtongue” is but that seems pretty anodyne as far as name calling goes.)
I did not expect someone to miss a LOTR reference on TheMotte. Ever.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
7d ago
Would you consider a Chinese or Vietnamese person less American if they were born here and spoke English natively?
By that standard, Jared Taylor is Japanese.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
7d ago
I've seen that naming system in person. It works out poorly when FiveHour IV has multiple run-ins with the law and the other FiveHours get arrested for his warrants because a roadside cop can't be bothered to sort it out.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
7d ago
Perhaps they’re at work.
Probably not. I go on weekends around opening time. I realize the demographics might be different at 1pm, 3pm, or 5pm on the weekends compared to opening.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
7d ago
I saw maybe six white people in the entire store, and no white or even hispanic employees.
When I go to Costco, there is not necessarily a shortage of white people. However, there seems to be a total lack of white people under 40. I assume it's related to day/time when I go, but it's an ominous feeling.
RoyGBivensAction
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7d ago
Not quite. His attorney got ahold of the items somehow, but then turned them over to the FBI when asked for them. You can rest assured that they were the same items the FBI initially found, and speculating otherwise is being a conspiracy theorist.
Also, during that search:
On the first floor, agents also found a plastic bin tucked under a bookshelf in an office. The bin was filled with hard drives.
The hard drives all had tamper-proof "evidence" tape on them when the FBI found them, Maguire testified.
Nothing suspicious about that.
At the very least, an itemized list of images found on those hard drives and CDs would constitute "the Epstein files" that could be released.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
7d ago
It sucks getting older and realizing, you've been left behind with the other rejects, and now you've got to find the least damaged item in the returns bin to try to build a life with, knowing full well that's all you are to someone else as well.
I have no fucking clue how I did it. I have no fucking clue how anyone else is expected to do it today, except that it seems even more impossible, and the odds even more remote. But it sucks seeing all the "good ones" taken, and it hurts even worse realizing that goes for you too.
Yeah. And it's hard because so many damaged items in the return bin are still convinced they're the well-adjusted ones.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
7d ago
Convincing a woman to give up a their smartphone will probably go as well as asking them to cut off a finger, but maybe one can ween them off the most harmful apps and restrict them to just messaging friends and sharing photos to a site that doesn't allow viewers to interact directly.
Yeah, as if finding fit, financially responsible, and mentally stable wasn't hard enough, then add in "not addicted to their phone/social media."
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
7d ago
Along those lines, it's not normal that evidence went missing from Epstein's apartment after the FBI's first search but prior to subsequent searches.
RoyGBivensAction
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8d ago
I sometimes feel like I'm getting too far out there for thinking along these lines, but then I remember this scandal:
State supreme court justice resigns over pornographic email scandal
McCaffery is at least the fifth public employee – and the highest ranking – to lose his job over the email scandal, which grew out of an internal review by the attorney general’s office into how it handled the Jerry Sandusky child molestation investigation. The others, who all resigned, were the secretary of environmental protection, a lawyer in that agency, a state parole board member and a county prosecutor.
2nd Pennsylvania justice to resign over porn email scandal
I remember initial reporting indicating the emails might have had images far beyond simple pornography, but now I can't find sources. Kane also made allegations that US attorneys were involved, but I can't find that charges were ever filed or anyone resigned.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
8d ago
Indeed, part of the issue is most women can't even meet my basic expectations for fitness, fiscal responsibility, and mental stability. And the ones that can are taken.
This was the most frustrating asymmetry that drove me crazy when I was on the market. Putting in serious effort to be fit, financially stable, mentally stable, well-rounded, interesting hobbies, solid friend group, and all the other many attributes that high quality male candidates are supposed to have, only to be confronted with legions of single women doing, at best, a few of those things. It seemed like the women doing most/all of those things got married to someone they met in college or grad school.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
8d ago
So you see, the gudness of the git gudder matters not, because people will always just reject the message anyway. But it matters not. "Git gud" always reigns supreme in the end, for it is the truth.
I think fat girls are sexy af, so I'm biased, and I'm aware my biases are not shared by everyone. But, it can't be that bad, right?
This is almost indistinguishable from advice sarcastically attributed to tradcons. "Men, you need to git gud, and you need to be willing to marry overweight single mothers!" Boy, what an appealing reward for gitting gud.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
8d ago
Whelp that's enough of TheMotte for me today.
Would you feel better to know that I know an affluent white couple having the exact same terrible experience with a white child adopted from methbilly parents? No racial angle at all (the adoptive father is even from a similar borderer-descended background as the child). Yet nurture is still failing horribly and it's a coin toss whether the kid ends up in prison by his late teens.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
8d ago
I hate cutting weight. My lifts (never impressive to start with, but acceptable) have gone to crap and I feel tired all the time.
215-220 lbs (at 6'2") overall felt great. My lifts were decent, I still had abdominal definition, and running 2-3 times per week (where my long run was probably 6-8 miles) felt pretty good. Some health numbers were trending in a way I didn't like, though, so I signed up for some trail races and have been working on getting my weight down.
I'm now around 195. My health numbers have shot back down to what they were a few years ago, my running distances are up, and I have way more definition, but as I said, my lifts are now terrible and I'm tired all the time. I'm still 3 months from the first race and having another 5-10 pounds gone would make a marathon much easier, but I'm already wishing I could go back to being heavier.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
9d ago
Other people may be thinking unflattering things in their heads.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
9d ago
I'm honestly surprised the shooter was just good enough to narrowly miss a headshot, but then couldn't even get a body shot for his follow ups. He got off at least three controlled shots before Trump ducked down.
Or he was such a poor shot that he was aiming at the body, jerked as he pulled the trigger, and the shot just barely missed the head. Thus the lack of body shot follow ups: he was that bad of a shot.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
12d ago
Back to my main point: people covered in tattoos and/or piercings are the human equivalent of aposematism, change my mind.
As a middle-aged curmudgeon with zero tattoos or piercings, I agree completely.
I had wondered how these two knew each other:
[the defendant] had previously sent [the victim] a text where he threatened to chop off his fingers because of a drug debt which he at one point claimed amount to E2500.
[the victim] had texted him back insisting that he only owed him a couple of hundred euro
A horrible tragedy, yet there may be a lesson present about engaging in drug transactions with someone covered in face/neck/head tattoos.
Bingo. Reading, working out, listening to music, doing hobbies, socializing with friends, etc. I haven't seriously watched anything since Twin Peaks: The Return.
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