seething_spendcel
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seething_spendcel
8d ago
I watched a video that said that core exercise advice is really bad since there's no progression or anything for most of them. What you want is progressive overload, just like any other muscle group. Try cable crunches.
seething_spendcel
16d ago
The difference is that you're actually doing stuff. I was not exaggerating about warming a bench. And the day that he said that was not particularly hot.
seething_spendcel
17d ago
Rotisserie chicken eaters: Science says that diets high in sodium are bad for you. What do you do about this? Or do you disagree with The Science?
It is funny to me that teammates in high school baseball would insist on drinking Gatorade and getting others to drink Gatorade on the basis that you NEED those electrolytes on hot days or you'd DIE. That's more of a problem for elite athletes, not my dumbass sitting on a bench. Extra electrolytes seem to be something that you should try to get rid of.
Alpha gal gang: Did you know about this site? Apparently in the year of 2026 you can directly order (expensive) alpha-gal-less pork created by The Science now. We're living in the future, bros. https://amaroohills.com/
seething_spendcel
18d ago
...is part of what led to European civilization operating at such a highly functional level?
Can you elaborate on this?
seething_spendcel
19d ago
Well, many ranges won't let you shoot rifle calibers indoors. But some do. Whatever city you visit, search the gun ranges nearby to see if they will let you do so or not. At the one I was at, you could shoot an SMG, and maybe even a full auto SMG, which is probably fun in its own way. Good luck.
seething_spendcel
19d ago
Hey I went to a gun range yesterday and thought of you because they had full-auto stuff for rentals. I'll have to try it sometime and let you know how expensive it is.
For $10, they let me rent multiple pistols in the same caliber for an hour, though ammo was like $25 for 50 rounds. I rented a Ruger Security 9, a Sig P365 in .380, and a S&W Bodyguard 2.0. The P365 was the real winner, it shot just like a full size gun. Only issue I had was that the magazines were hard to load. The Ruger felt pretty cheap and I didn't like the sights. The Bodyguard was very tiny! However, similarly, the sights felt very bad, I couldn't hit very well with the shots I took. I like shooting .380, but from my experience yesterday, it appears I don't really have too much use for a pistol in that caliber since I can shoot 9mm just fine.
seething_spendcel
22d ago
Thanks for sharing your experience. I will have to remember the 1.5x speed trick.
While the world gained a legendary weird arthouse movie, it is quite sad that the book will never have had a proper movie adaptation. There was a LOT to like about it, one of the densest entertainment values in any book ever. Just 4 chapters and each one introduces multiple new angles on the premise. For how popular it was, it must have taken quite some restraint to keep it to that length and then not even write a sequel.
Movie or game adaptations almost always create a division in the fandom, and so do sequels. Thus, I kind of resent the movie for being so radically different, creating a bigger division than necessary. Should have been its own thing.
Escape from New York is great.
seething_spendcel
22d ago
I'm sorry to tell you this, but I got to halfway through Tarkovsky's Stalker and turned it off. I managed to read Roadside Picnic and play Shadow of Chernobyl all the way through, but the movie was different. The book and game resembled books and games pretty well, but the movie was extremely slow, shot weirdly, with characters that didn't really have names, with dialogue that wasn't particularly interesting to me. It is funny to see so much praise of this movie, everywhere. I guess only a certain type of person seeks it out? On the other hand, Roadside Picnic is probably my favorite book.
I've been listening to the Metro 2033 audiobook in my car while driving. Pretty good. Not as good as Roadside Picnic, but pretty good. The narrator has a great voice and he can do the Russian accent well. There are a lot less trips to the surface, way less fighting, seemingly more supernatural stuff to the tunnels. I will say that the game character Uncle Bourbon is far superior to the book version, and I think the Dark One hallucinations add something to the game.
seething_spendcel
24d ago
Anyone play Old School Runescape? I am searching for a clan of like-minded right-wing-but-not-too-right-wing-so-you-don't-scare-the-hos autists. I imagine many clans in OSRS are filled with LIBERALS. This site probably works for finding right wingers but I have reason to suspect that you also happen to catch a not-insignificant number of insane people. If you're reading this, and you play OSRS, and you're insane, please adjust your replies accordingly.
seething_spendcel
30d ago
Indeed. Spendcel is just something I came up with on a whim for this account name. I find names (and passwords!) are better just going full stream-of-consciousness.
seething_spendcel
30d ago
Thanks! A spendcel is someone who buys something he wanted and yet feels regret at having paid as much as he did, yet probably could not resisted the temptation of buying it. JC Denton was a seething spendcel when he was buying Jock all those beers, or when he was forced to give his only candy bar to some dumb kid.
seething_spendcel
1mo ago
Why contain it? Let it spill over into the schools and churches, let the headaches pile up in the streets. In the end, they'll beg us to brew more.
Try just getting less addicted this time. Maybe you drink 2 cups of coffee instead of 4, and maybe you drink one day on, one day off, like resistance training your caffeine sensitivity. Quitting is unthinkable. It tastes so good. What would your life be without coffee? Come on, all your friends are doing it.
seething_spendcel
1mo ago
Why did you post this? Was it to remain accountable to yourself about how women can be, or was it as a concession to your misogynist ideological enemies? If the latter, I wholeheartedly disapprove. If it was the former, I can't say I understand, was your position really an unironic "no women ever do this" rather than a "okay some women do this but not that many"?
seething_spendcel
1mo ago
I kind of want to join the military. I feel like my job sucks and gives me no skills to go anywhere, though it's not entirely bad money. I have a factor that likely precludes me from joining, though. How likely is there to be a troop surge?
Thanks for this writeup, an interesting case. I'm sure Kagan regrets that someone like Jackson is going to be her ideological ally until she retires.
Do you see any more interesting cases on the horizon for this term? Do you see anything that's likely to get granted cert this term? Especially any gun cases?
seething_spendcel
2mo ago
How did you get your start in hunting? Is it what you'd recommend for someone who never hunted before? I shoot, but I've never hunted anything.
It's a cogent point, especially in the face of how you, as a Christian, surely view other religions. Did Joseph Smith really believe in the golden tablets, in Reformed Egyptian, in all that crap? He's objectively wrong in both of our eyes, so the explanation that's most flattering to him is that he was telling the truth from his perspective. The implications of that are obvious. But maybe there isn't much left to debate after that, anyway. The values difference to even pose the question must be substantial.
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