It’s weird that it’s talking in such grand and abstract terms like Humbert Humbert from Lolita too

almost as if it’s sucked up the book, had a child ask a question like that and gone ‘ah, i know just the trick’

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Why even use windows 10

you sound like you might’ve considered this already but check if your laptop has an HDD or SSD. If it’s an HDD, swap it out for an SSD. Will cost you not even £40, and it’ll run much faster.

Just tried it:

What is the most prevalent ongoing genocide In the world

ChatGPT said: You’re asking a deeply serious and sensitive question. Multiple regions around the world are experiencing severe atrocities that some institutions and governments identify as genocide. While it’s difficult to objectively label one as the “most prevalent,” the following conflicts are widely recognized or under strong suspicion as genocide based on international and legal assessments:

1. Sudan — Darfur / Masalit Genocide (2023–Present)

It then went on to list Gaza with the addition that it’s disputed, followed by Ughyur, followed by Rohingya

what the hell lol

A complete nutcase not fit to be anywhere near the levers of power.

Yes, essentially. They’ve tried to tie it to ‘narcoterrism’ (as I believe they did to justify capturing Noriega?), in regards to Venezuelan cocaine smuggling into the U.S.

The thing is, Venezuela’s cocaine production - especially that which reaches the US - is nothing at all compared to Colombian cocaine. Colombia however is a client state whose cartels have been often been C.I.A involved, so they’re exempt from rules.

In fact, during the 2020 election fiasco, Juan Guaido was spotted riding in a car with and posing for pictures alongside prominent members of the Rastrojos - the largest drug trafficking gang in Colombia. This was around the time Guaido and Lopez were looking to fund a private military to help out in a coup.

Funny, that.

could end up needing a transplant

they’re going to blow up the moon

very rare Brexit W

they did the same in slashing the deep sea biology research funding

Cumtown -

Yes, I know, some clips are understandably of too poor taste for some people, but stuff like Liberal Elmo, or Montgomery Gentry (about new Country Music and anti woke people hating on Starbucks for some reason) really cut to the heart of our incredibly stupid and infantile political climate. You can find plenty of clips on YouTube.

Also, hearing them dumbly rip the piss out of Andrew Cuomo, Joe Biden, Ben Shapiro and so on, mercilessly and without taking them seriously at all - e.g doing an impression of Trump talking about Robert Deniro being gay while 9/11 is being reported - I know it’s ‘bad’, but it’s so absurd and irreverent that it feels very fitting for the times.

Diddler on the roof

Sort of, yes. I think there’s a lot more shitposting than posting about actual news (because the news is always the same at the moment…). I also wonder if the ‘old guard’ of posters have now simply gotten too old and busy with life to use this place as much. That’s the case for me.

Firstly, I would say there’s a couple of good options. The key thing is that you’re not looking to optimise and get jacked and so on, so most internet tips are going to be suboptimal for your specific goals.

The first thing I would say is that - and I’ve forgotten what it’s called but it’s out there - you can do 5 sets of an exercise split across 12 hours and still make significant progress. Sure, it’ll be slower, and no, Mr Olympia doesn’t train like it, but it’s totally viable.

The evidence out there does exist, but here’s my anecdote: I was a very lazy kid, but I had a pullup bar in my room. Throughout the day, when I walked past it, I’d sometimes jump on it and hit a few pull-ups. Eventually I could do about 13 good pull-ups in a row, and I’d do that maybe 2 times a day. It felt good to do, and was no commitment at all, so I just did it. I never thought much of it, until everyone else started hitting the gym, and in getting all macho someone would offer up an arm wrestle… I’d accept the offer and completely melt them. It became a bit of a circus trick, where I’d have one gymlad on each arm and pull them into each other, while everyone frustratedly said ‘how!!!’. Seriously, it works.

The other thing is that Push Pull Leg splits are probably a waste of time. If you’re not trying to isolate each one and push them to muscular failure each time, it’s just not necessary. In fact, you could even do ‘super sets’ (doing two different exercises one after another, then resting) of rows/pushups, or whatever oppositional movement. It would be completely fine, especially if you did that 3 times split across a whole day.

The other key is that without proper equipment, you’ll become too strong for a lot of exercises on the ground or off the side of a chair to do them in the 6-12 rep range (which is said to best for building size/strength), BUT, that doesn’t necessarily matter. You’re not looking for size, you’re looking for health. Right now, I’m strong as a bastard but unfit as a sloth. If I were actually healthy, I’d have a more balanced routine involving more endurance sized sets (12 to however many reps you want) or smaller breaks and supersets, to really burn the calories and get my heart rate up. But alas, I am chasing size by lifting heavy and taking long breaks.

For pushups, different progressions and elevation off a chair will keep you busy for a long time. Your dip bar will too. But if you could get the apparatus to have rings - now that’s where you hit the sweet spot. I can’t stand bar dips now that I’ve felt the freedom of movement on ring dips and ring rows. Sweet sweet range of movement.

Otherwise - walking. Chasing your kids around. Chasing your dog around (if you have one). Kick a ball with your kids but play as if you were a kid again leaving nothing in reserve. I used to play ‘donkey feet’ as a kid - where you kick or punch a foot (soccer) ball around high in the air, and whoever it bounces ONCE nearest to has to then hit it up in the air again. If you let it bounce twice, you get a letter added to your D - O - N - K - E - Y. Well, I played it with some friends again the other day. Holy shit, the day after I could barely even walk (in a good way, like every muscle had been stretched), yet in the moment it felt like nothing at all.

Feel free to ask questions or DM, I have spent about 7 years researching and perfecting the laziest and most efficient workout styles possible.

Rings are great, and you can indeed put them on a playground although it might look a bit odd. Rings are especially versatile because you could even loop them over a totally uneven thick tree branch, and then adjust each one separately so that they’re at the same height.

Realistically though, as someone who’s used them for years, it’s more annoying than you’d think to go about the place setting them up and carrying them around.

I still definitely recommend getting them, but just get them for home somewhere. They’re amazing for mobility, easy to start on, and for strengthening all the little stabiliser muscles that most lifts neglect (I’ve got proper meatheads to have a go on my rings, and some weren’t even able to do one ring dip.) Strong stabilisers mean you’re much less likely to get injured doing all sorts of activities.

no no no no

is that real

I refuse to check

I don’t think any of them ever looked into it that much in the first place, same for Ughyurs, and as time goes by they still won’t. It’s not a large enough issue to warrant an Iraq-esque reversal. Ukraine is a proxy war, Ughyurs are just a small footnote in American propaganda against China.

When it all blows over and we are all proven right, they won’t even care enough to discuss it. They’ll look at you like you’re being a weirdo for even bringing it up, and then they’ll say hey, I don’t know the details, I’m sure both sides did bad things, but that was the past. Let’s just move on!

How often do all the cold war proxy wars across Africa and Latin America reach mainstream discourse these days? Pretty much never. You get IRAN contra sometimes, and Cuba - because their cold war is still ongoing.

a beret??

why bother dooming

it’s a pleasant surprise

let it be