#stunningandbrave
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I love everything about this. The file name is perfect.
This has been my profile pic on FB for around a decade now, for the same reason:
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Who cares about polio when you could have blue light disease.
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Iâm sure my pap would be impressed. His job when he was a kid (12) was to walk (crawl, stoop) around a coal mine with a torch to find the accumulated gas pockets.
It was all fun and games till the explosion caused a collapse. On 3 separate occasions.
Fortunately for him he was young and still lived with his parents, or they would have kicked him right the fuck out of a company house for not showing up to work.
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Oh man, free housing even?
The audacity of those guys, right?
They didnât even need money. There was a company store they could just walk into and get stuff from. You just give them your tag number and theyâd deduct it from your âaccountâ.
Edit: It should be noted though- the tag was to identify you in the event that you were mangled or otherwise destroyed beyond recognition.
Then theyâd find your tag and be like âOh, thatâs Jim. Better tell your brother in law that a house just opened up!â.
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It isnât, and a quick rereading of both contexts will tell you that. If I claimed to bench 225lbs for 50 reps, Iâd have NFL teams knocking on the door. If it then turns out I did them as 50 singles, I look like a dick.
Regardless, this is not the biggest fish you have to fry.
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My great-grandfather was a Nazi, I donât think I can put up such a plaque
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Why not just say it how EVERYONE else says it. Weird that it upsets you?
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Im sorry but calling something 25 reps in reference to programming volume, and calling something 25 reps with reference to something you did, are not even remotely the same context.
There is an obligation on the user of language to attempt to honestly convey their information.
I could say I deadlifted 952kg last weekend. Its true, in total volume of singles, I did. But I know how i said it will not be interpreted by 99% of people as reflecting the truth.
When talking about lifting ability, or accomplishments saying I did / can do weight x reps is, by right of being such a common expression that it doesnât suggest any ambiguity at all, absolutely going to be understood by 99.99% of lifters as meaning a single set. The miscommunication here is on you.
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It looks like ALL of you guys forgot about good old @BPGorilla
One of the many topics that would generate this debate, haha.
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I was on my way to look up âdopamine blastâ when I got distracted by Facebook, and look what was on it!
But at least Jim and his BIL didnât have to avoid all pleasure in order to feel less desensitized to pleasure, like @greenboy and these âengineers in San Francisco [who] are depriving themselves in order to heighten their happiness,â the poor things!
For those of you who donât feel up to reading it, it basically says that these guys are avoiding all pleasure (screens, eating, touching, talking) in order to optimize their lives by increasing feelings of pleasure when they return to their normal, ridiculously spoiled states.*
*I, too, live in a ridiculously spoiled state, but have the good luck to realize it and enjoy my screens, touch, food, and talk without having to live as (it seems) all of our grandfathers did.
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Thatâs tough in todayâs world. Does it weigh on you?
Note: Iâm not necessarily asking you to talk about it, just acknowledging your post and that the war was a hard and unasked-for thing for almost all people.
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Well it doesnât really. Part of my family is jewish. Canât really say Iâm proud of him! But I donât know the true extent of his possible crimes. I know that everything is not black and white. He was a russian noble and he fled the country when the commies took over. Lived in poverty and resentment. When fascism showed up he was seduced. Ended up âmayorâ of a town in the middle of France for the regime. And was executed during the Liberation.
When you stop to think about it, our grandparents were really quite fortunate that day to day life was so inherently rife with misery that they never got to suffer the ill effects one experiecnes due to excessive happiness.
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Now I feel kinda bad for having not done very well in life.
Like Iâm essentially walking around flexing my sensory/perception privilege by not having a great go in this world.
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But now you are waving around your privilege of being able to feel bad.
Think about those poor souls who spend every moment of their life experiencing such intense joy that they have become desensitized to it.
Have some empathy.
I was for a second, then it backfired when I realized how lucky I am to be unhappy, so now there is a nice little pep in my step and I feel pretty good about feeling bad.
As self perpetuating cycles go, this one is pretty good.
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Rather convenient that the cure for too much dopamine is to feel bad about all that dopamine youâve been getting which, in turn, rewards you with more dopamine.