srf0638
11d ago
Lol, I read it more as addressed to an audience that's never done anything than as by an author that's never done anything, but you may well be right. Separately, the accounts I've read of Delta selection (e.g. Haney's Inside Delta Force) make it pretty clear that the challenge comes more from navigation, elevation gain, bushwhacking (using the road is an auto fail), and beating the time cutoffs than from merely covering ground as such.
srf0638
12d ago
the Fort Bragg Cartel
My buddy (who has periodically contemplated trying out for the 19th SFG and could probably hack it) put me on to this. It's entertaining, but if I had to take a drink every time the author delivers what is supposed to be harsh criticism of Delta or ST6 that actually makes them sound absolutely fucking rad, I would have passed out in a state of advanced intoxication a quarter of the way through.
srf0638
18d ago
If someone is experiencing physical sexual dysfunction, then they should of course address that.
But if you're feeling moral guilt over not being fully present, then my good ol' fashioned practical advice would be: stop.
YMMV and so forth, but I should think a suitably galaxy-brained anti-porn interlocutor would respond by saying that these aren't really two different things--perhaps "full presence" is an unnecessarily obscurantist way to describe whatever it is we're going for here, and by the same token "physical sexual dysfunction" obscures the existence of psychogenic sexual dysfunctions with physical manifestations, and "causes" in the following should be taken to read "reliably predisposes with reasonable probability in a reasonably large fraction of the relevant population", but porn causes lack of full presence which in turn causes sexual dysfunction, and sexual eufunction is more important than the enjoyment of porn. Do I, myself, actually believe this? Eh, not enough to bet my life on it, but enough to avoid watching porn.
srf0638
19d ago
It's been like 2 years for me, I'll let you know if I ever figure it out. Admittedly I haven't gotten around to Hornblower. Mr Midshipman Easy was ok but not the same sort of thing at all.
Based on your other comment, Wodehouse might not be a million miles away from what you're looking for. Obviously lighter, but a good deal of the same spirit.
srf0638
23d ago
alternatives to Strava
For social, no idea. For tracking/logging, I like intervals.icu.
I'm finding it to be kind of an abusive relationship
I don't think any wearable measurement that includes the word "score" (stress, sleep, recovery, readiness, ...) is worth a thing after the cost of potential nocebo is accounted for (see e.g. https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/bad-bedfellows), for what that's worth.
srf0638
27d ago
A different post reminded me that I just finished Anton Myrer's Once an Eagle, a sprawling midcentury epic supposedly beloved among America's military officer corps. Doesn't really get into gear for a while but no regrets. Now chipping away at John Holt's How Children Fail, as reviewed in the ratsphere--so far, some of the phenomenology of confusion seems exceptionally penetrating and insightful, but there's a good deal that seems wrong or confused. And there's not much of a positive program yet, but after all it's not called How to Unschool.
srf0638
28d ago
Periodic reminder that state and regional conservation corps exist all over the American West and possibly elsewhere (see e.g. http://ccc.ca.gov/, https://sccorps.org/, https://thegreatbasininstitute.org/nevada-conservation-corps/, https://www.rockymountainyouthcorps.org/cc-field-life) and are sometimes cool but generally a bad deal relative to entry-level land management jobs.
Hand size is a lot of it.
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