Okay, I totally laughed at that one.
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I wish I could bench at all right now⊠
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Why is this a confession? 
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In all seriousness, we had a discussion, probably in this thread, a while back and it had to do with how much your initiative and extra effort was actually worth, which is a question a lot of people ask themselves when the added work doesnât lead to an immediate reward, and I believe the general consensus was that that extra work is never a bad thing. This is the long term payoff of working harder than the people around you. It doesnât always payoff, and it rarely pays off quickly, but it almost always pays off down the line. Good job!
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Lol nice catch
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I confess Iâm very proud of myself for coming up with this:
The Reproduction Function is a biological production function that takes two or more inputs and, with certain probability, produces an output that genetically identical to the average of the producing agents. Although every species has a version of the Reproduction Function, we will be focusing on the human variant- also known as Sex.
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Congratulations man - that is awesome!
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Youâve got my attention.
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What happens when Iâm bored in Econ and happen to be scrolling Tnation at the same time 
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You have to mix that as an intro to some edm and as soon as the narration ends the beat drops. Boooom tst tst wawawawaâŠ
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Thatâs how pornos are born
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I confess that chin-up holds with chin above bar are the devilâs work. Iâm kinda shocked I didnât shake my rack apart or my house down in those 30 seconds of riveting inadequacy.
Stop: you are making me remember my prom.
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Dr. Gottman was given an apartment at the U of Washington for his research and spent decades having couples stay there for a weekend, where they were asked to just behave normally. The couples gave blood and urine samples and were wearing heart monitors and Iâm not entirely sure what else. And of course they were being videotaped. The Gottmans mined the information they gathered about the couplesâ interactions for info on EVERYTHING. Relative likelihood of sickness in poor/good relationships, at what pulse rate communication breaks down when couples argue, differences between the interactions (and pulse rates, etc) of what they labeled âthe mastersâ vs âthe disasters.â Just so much interesting stuff. Gottman was able to predict with 91% accuracy which couples would be divorced within five years.
Obviously not all âdisastrousâ marriages end in divorce, so yes, itâs more nuanced. Poor people experience more stress generally, which as you note is hard on marriages. They also tend to marry younger, have less education (more ed is associated with lower divorce rates), etc. Poor people have more of every kind of negative outcome, from substance abuse to disease risk to divorce.
The research and his breakdown of how to utilize it in marriage are fascinating (to me, haha).
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@garagerocker13 I donât know if itâs changed, but when I was in the Marines, the female equivalent of pull-ups was a chin-up hold for time, and I witnessed female drill instructor hang up there for over a minute.
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Very fucking legit reason to be proud.
The world needs more good coders. Thereâs a terrible shortage of you guys right now.
I think we already have enough shitty ones.
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Not shocked at all there. I know there are several 120 pound women out there who could kick my ass and I train hard to keep that number as small as possible. 1 minute of a hold like that is a real order regardless of who does it.
Sounds damn uppity.
Getting out of its place.
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You can take the man out of South AfricaâŠ
edit: for the avoidance of doubt, this is a joke and not a confession.
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