Global thermonuclear exchange: What am I, chopped liver?

That's how you activate ultra stealth mode

Many such cases

So I wake up this morning and the first things I see are Kamala Harris doing an unironic "Thank you for your service Mr dick cheney" and Tim Walz doing Zionist lebensraum

Please my dreams were pleasant I want to go back to them

I can't believe she keeps trotting the "lethal military" thing out as an applause line and no one has stopped and asked "Wait, want to elaborate on what you mean by that?"

We're just in all mask off all the time mode and that is terrifying.

Sooo... Zero urgency, then?

Comic book nerd: "Look, right here on page 52 of the August 1983 issue of Captain America World Crisis Hjorkajork Invasion (third in of the 52-issue series), it shows Cap wearing the Indivisibility Ring on his MIDDLE finger, not his RING finger; the canon reason for that is probably the injury he sustained fighting the Chartreuse Calavera in Alternate Universe Capitano Mexico's Foiled Fiesta, spring of '78. Cap took a burritorang straight to his hand that would definitely have left him with some recurring tendonitis. Your HAVE TO move the ring, IT'S A CRITICAL CALLBACK that HINTS AT Capitano Mexico's possible return from the Null Zone!"

Comic book illustrator: "Dude, '83, huh? Yeah, that was definitely before I dried out. Probably an absinthe year, I think. I put the ring on his middle finger, huh? Sheee-it, go figure."

Woo, I always wanted to join the Trepa Nation.

Crap, I have 18th century brainworms to exorcise?

Heck Cattle

Comrades, there can be only one solution to this threat. We must create the Heck Bear.

Deliberately miseducated because the Hungry Ghosts needed factory workers and soldiers, not people who could ask questions. The tax code in particular is kept Byzantine on purpose.

I sometimes wonder how much we can blame people; we're here because the programming didn't work on us, but probably for a bunch of different reasons, many of which are also outside of our control.

Translation: Mind if we obfuscate the government's eventual refusal to do anything about restoring power?

"We've done it! We've done it, Igor! We've created the perfect utility monster! Soon it will be ethical... for everyone else to suffer! Mwahahahaha!"

Thanks, this site has been an oasis of sanity and I appreciate everyone here.

I'm a white hot ball of seething rage with no outlet crammed deep into the body of a boring American research analyst. Every where I look I see the way things are structured to prevent real change, to stop people from doing anything meaningful with their lives and I'm supposed to be grateful for it? I'm supposed to be happy that we're speeding headlong for a cliff at 75 miles an hour instead of 80? (Except it is actually 80 and we have collectively agreed to pretend it's 75 and that's Doing Something).

Whatever happens in this dog-and-pony show of an election people are going to suffer and lives are going to be snuffed out but people - some of whom I used to respect and trust - are out there celebrating the possibility of being

I'm a pile of joyless negativity and I hate it.

It looks like in 2020 things settled on 60/40 Biden/Trump by October, but in 2016 they were roughly 80/20 Clinton/Trump and that's as far back as they go so it's not like we have much of a track record here.

If Harris loses PA and MI, she's definitely cooked, so given that those states are polling pretty thin margins, 50/50 doesn't seem unreasonable.

Watching Westerners tie themselves into pretzels to attribute the acceleration of solar installation to anything other than the fact that China massively dropped the price of new panels would be hilarious if it weren't so enraging.

I think the American bourg isn't dumb enough to think war with China would end well and hasn't figured out an exit strategy yet, but the problem is the military is getting increasingly stuffed with members of the least reality-tethered Christian subclades. Tension between the financier class and military's Dominionist moiety builds until one of two things happens: the loonies get one of theirs into the top brass and we get a bloodless coup when the president voluntarily turns the reins over to the military, or capital's contradictions build until the US finally implodes (likely because its fragile food production system collides badly with our increasingly volatile global weather patterns and causes another Dust Bowl) and we end up Mad-Maxing it while the rest of the world tries to keep us contained (option #5 fully on the table here). Regional conflicts continue to boil over and cause chaos in Eurasia in the meantime but nothing progresses to the point where we're fully embroiled in a world war.

Reverse Pyramid Training helped me break through when I started hitting plateaus on the beginner programs. It's pretty simple, you start your lift heavier and aim for 6-8 reps, then drop 10% and try to hit two more and then another 10% to complete the set. There are some guides online.

Add weighted pull ups and dips to help continue your upper body gains, they make a huge difference.

The other thing to start looking into is nutrition. If you aren't hitting your macros it gets much harder to progress after you start to get into heavy lifts. Protein is important but so are carbs because muscles burn calories and you need energy to build more. It can be time-consuming and I relied a lot on make-ahead freezer meals.