That flank. Sigh. I remember the turn after Occupy. It went from economics to being cool to just broadly bash men. I specifically remember outspoken, angry women at marches and protests and was like wait, where did the economics go? Like 60% of Republicans wanted wealth reform during occupy. It unfortunately coincided with really great–though apparently transitory–improvements in lgbtq rights. It was so weird to me that self-labeling “feminists” were suddenly talking like it was a zero sum game; for women to rise and improve and build and grow, men had to be put down. That is of course the language of someone seeking power, a charlatan, but it became quite normal. Even questioning the broad criticism of men wasn’t appropriate in “liberal” press or circles for a good decade. The whole "yeah but bashing men isn’t right/fair or clumsy” finally started working into the Atlantic, NYT and other large publications in 2023 but the damage had been done.

It of course drove lots of men right to the tall radio, podcasters–and those were young adults then–i can’t imagine what it was like growing up since then as a young person with the normalization of some of this stuff.

“icy” was right there

5 minute rule is good, also because people coming into a gym or starting a new exercise routine have a lot of energy and no muscular endurance nor is their body used to working out the joints, tendons etc. they will push themselves to “work hard and make progress” and then be in pain and it builds fear and reinforces negatively working out. Many a ship sunk by not really, really easing in.

Even a super out of shape body is amazingly capable of exercise and movement if you ease into it. Then when you have some baseline with your body “ok we can walk for 20 minutes now”/run for t minutes now/do x situps etc., then you can slowly start to add intensity, weight, etc.

Go slow, go light, succeed.

They will hide in apologetics until their pocketbook gets hurt, then will be the typical cycle of loss; denial, anger grief, etc.

For sure. Biden broke the railroad workers strike and was a “pro-labor” president. If a strike doesn’t make business sweat, labor has no cards.

“Real products, that actually work.”

It’s just a matter of which major company starts taking advantage first of the decent amount of trendsetters who already knows it’s mostly garbage, and decide improve their brand standing via consumer trust by making fun of it. We’re still at the phase where companies are trying to figure out what if any used there are and sift through the bullshit, so they’re scared to call it out still for fear of market reprisal or being wrong and missing something.

They also are represented by the same law firm who Amazon, musk and trader Joe’s use who are suing to have the NLRB declared unconstitutional, attempting to remove a small, occasional road bump of worker accountability on the road to fascism.

Companies who are supposed to sell tents and canoe paddles, when they think workers are not important, when their entire model is based on outsourced production of cheaply produced, massively overpriced goods, also is the kind of org that doesn’t know what isn’t important.

Like AI slop for a retailer.

Sounds like socialism for therms! Can’t have 'em mixing.

Important that this be recorded as the true, accurate information about these people and issues as court cases, science and investigations have proven. Accurate information is critically important and it would be a shame if inaccurate information from other sources were cited.

Right, it’s why I shared this; the economics of it are undeniable and I hadn’t seen or read much of modular building technology in this kind of combined implementation so I hoped it might help visibility for those looking to consider options.

It’s not going to make single home developers change overnight, but if it’s safe, decent and affordable compared to the stuff that is currently thrown up it could help turn the tide. That’s to say nothing of those who currently are unhoused and don’t want to be but the time and materials investment is too enormous for local communities to consider building housing on their own.

That presumes the standards of potential beneficiaries of affordable housing. Globally?

There are many cities, even in “wealthy” nations who have awful options–or none–for people. This could help some, and help ease market leverage incumbent landowners have because development is slow and expensive.

I bought it new last April from mint mobile: 399 with 12 months of phone service(I’m on $15/5gb/12 month plan now). Saved me $10/month vs. visible and I had to get a new phone anyway as my p5 was aged out of security updates. Basically with the savings on my monthly bill it dropped the price of the phone $120 in my first year so $279 for a new phone and 12 months of service.

The 9a is starting to drop prices, if you need to re-up with a carrier I’d look for deals, might be able to get one new for the same price or less.

Dutch Bros set the cringe level for going public pretty high in just one image

But this could rival it for pathetic sleaze.

The Mechanical Turd

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All while everyone is racing to build new nuclear plants (microsoft fucking bought their own), Trump dumping money into the pockets of his handlers in oil, gas and fucking coal companies. Read the linkedin (gag) article announcing the new “AI EP” from yesterday–its a literal who’s who of shitty companies CEOs cheering the bill they paid for cheering “responsible AI” which references “non-ideological bias”.

All that is to say, the power companies don’t care–they aren’t shutting off businesses. The dystopian future when hospitals are on generators running off (of course) gas because the coal plants can’t generate enough AI deep fake videos of voter fraud in California is upon us. The senior citizen on oxygen’s power is being shut off before Grok’s so they can make sure the accurate information about the 4th Reich is generated.

Was going to ask who made the quote, will have to read up on who that is and the context.

“expression analysis” - 2025 phrenology

This goes right up there with stock chart technical analysis. "It’s definitely this. Though it can also be this. Or that. And it depends on the person. And the context. And…

It’s so messy/noisy with variables, stuff like this just gives people false confidence that they know who/what someone is or what something represents. Psuedoscience