Elliot

well that makes up for it then

The current exaggerated style in which people perform masculinity is going to be seen as pathetic and embarrassing soon, and we're going to have a cultural backlash against it. I feel like we've gone far enough that this is pretty much guaranteed.

Also good god what kind of masochist are you to be reading Cormac McCarthy NOW? "Let me escape the horrors by entering someone else's nightmare"

Hahahaha you're welcome.

it reminded me of cherry flavored toothpaste.
chalky. exotic. sweet.

I just hate these people and I hate that we live in a society dumb and disinterested enough to have given them all this power.

we were lovers.

ngl I was genuinely horrified when I found out, and over time it's become kind of a personal joke.

I was quoted by name in the Unabomber's obituary.

This war costs over $1 billion/day, has already killed four Americans, has trashed our readiness against real threats, has destroyed our standing in the world, has shot up gas prices and may engulf the region in chaos.

But hey, at least the yokels who vote Republican have something to bray at.

Some things survive too much to hold your affection Big trees are big for a reason. Made it through the worst. You can’t wrap your arms around a big tree, but you can embrace it — big trees engulf you, could fit you inside if they really wanted to. Trees are so good at waiting. I just want life to be easy. Don’t care if I grow big anymore. Like an island oak, I’d take a few stunted seasons. A small shade, something easy for someone else.

Sometimes you have to say things to not feel empty.

they’re amazing!

Commanders Accused of Framing Iran War as Biblical Mandate, Jesus' 'Return' More than 100 complaints were made by military officers between Monday and Tuesday, totaling over 200 in total across every installation.

were the sending troops off to war telling them their job was to trigger the second coming, though? that feels new.

www.military.com/daily-news/2...

really seems like the admin wants to start wwiii/ armageddon, and apparently that’s what they’re telling troops.

Peter Thiel, who else?

i wrote 13 adrs today. i know kung fu.

today i am experiencing the “well actually we can just build a fuck ton more stuff” side of the ai-assisted coding revolution.

saw a video last night about people existing in a state of hyper vigilance and how you’re constantly asking “am i safe here” and “am i good enough” and lololol oh boy.

ok but don’t start putting knives through your knuckles

imagine if it were treated like "what I want out of my leaders" and less as an endless horse race

np! set strategy lately is
1 warmup set (x15 reps)
1 set to failure ~8-12 reps
1 rest-pause set (same weight as the previous set, or a little heavier). Go to failure, wait ~30s, try again, until you hit 20 reps.

To put it differently, the entire TSA infrastructure exists to protect you from threats that are an order of magnitude less dangerous to you than the airport bar.

We could have a dozen 9/11s a year and it still wouldn't beat the number of people who die in car accidents annually.

It would take *seventeen* 9/11s each year to beat the number of people who die of alcohol-related liver disease.

It would have been a net positive for humanity if the US had shrugged off 9/11, skipped the entire war on terror, and never established the TSA.

I don't understand the 100:1 conversion rate between the value of Middle-Eastern people's lives and American lives.

~3k people died in 9/11. It was horrible.
~400k people were killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Those numbers are wildly asymmetrical.

today I did:

incline db flies
iso lateral chest press (would have done db flat press but all the benches were taken)
incline iso machine press
cable crossovers
some pushups on the smith bar at different heights
smith shoulder press
and one set of db lateral raises

this is a new concept for alien: the ass-buster

it’s a dinner scented beard balm

chest / shoulders ✅

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