TRIGGER WARNING: Going to the gym or interest in fitness has been linked by such luminary publications of note as Salon, The New York Times and the BBC to racism, white supremacy and far right ideology. Proceed at own risk.
HEALTH WARNING: Gyms are known to the State of California to cause cancer. May contain nuts.
GLIB WARNING: If you happen to squat above 250 pounds or own a gym you are worse than Hitler. I honestly find it beyond ridiculous that sections of the left want to equate health and fitness with the far right, along those bad things like discipline, motivation, effort and self-improvement. Though I am on record saying discipline beats motivation
Now to the matter at hand. Fitness. In particular resistance training. Or you know, lifting. Do You Even Lift, Bro? As not all exercise is created equal, lifting heavy-ish weights and bouncing around on a bike in Lycra like a little kid are not the same type of exercise, though both help. There are various things people train for. Health, strength, muscularity, function, looks. Though these things generally tend to be interconnected. There are things you can do for each, depending on your goals. My fitness writing does not cover people who want to actually compete. Just look OK, feel good, be strong, be functional, as much as possible given the constraints of each individual. I know circumstances vary greatly, but a little usually is better than nothing.
Now I will say from the start that I think humans should strive to be reasonably lean, low body fat. I am not an adherent of the Mark Rip-a-toe philosophy of oh you are 5’9” you should weigh 230 pounds. I generally think a very high body weight is counterproductive health wise and function wise, even if mostly muscle. Pro open body builders are not that functional. They can barely run or jump, look like turtles when on their back, need 7 pillows to sleep and chafe walking long distances. The heart works hard when you weigh a lot even if mostly muscle. Flexibility is not just ability to flex. But the case of the pro bodybuilder is not something relevant to my writing. No one will have those issues really. One of the dumbest things you can hear in fitness is “I don’t want to get too muscular”. Great risk there, you casually jaunt to the gym, accidentally do a few extra reps and BAM too muscular. No one ever gets too muscular without trying really hard and usually hopping on cycle.
Why does resistance training work? Well biology is the long and short of it. Biological organisms adapt to stress. A tree that is not subjected to any wind will be weak and break. A wind strengthens a tree over time, as long as the wind is not strong enough to break it. Stress is essential, but not too much stress. Lifting with the muscles not the ego as they say in a gym context. What doesn’t kill you sometimes makes you stronger, but not always.
The basics of fitness which you see everywhere are: Stress, recovery, adaptation. Apply a stress to the body – a stimulus it is not used to. Then eat and rest. Biology does the rest. Simple, huh? Well maybe not that simple, but no need to over-complicate it either. Another key fact is to lift in manly kilograms not in sissy pounds.
The recovery is simple-ish: get enough calories, enough protein, a decent amount rest and, importantly, of sleep. Sleep was for a long time an underrated variable, though as in most such cases some risk overrating it. It is important but, like most things, not to the degree to excessively obsess around it. The basics you know, cool dark room, clean bed, good mattress and pillow, do not eat a few hours before bedtime, no screens or cold light an hour or so before sleep. Nutrition is not the goal for this post, but basically you need about 2 gees of pee per kaygee of body weight. If you TRUST THE SCIENCE (Tm) it may be 1,86 g/kg. If you trust the BRO it may be as much as you can get. Just use a round number, though it amuses me that the great American measuring system still uses grams per pound – 1 is the standard.
You can add variables here and there, but that is it, in nuce. Your body naturally handles the adaptation part within its genetic
limits off course, or with a little help from the old vitamin S if that is your bag. So, what is left for talk about is the stress part. Which simply put is: do something strenuous, but not too strenuous, as to not exceed recovery capacity or get injured. No need to go to snap city. Now if you do things correctly – and you won’t, no one does, but close enough – stress changes over time. Because if you stress-recover and then adapt to the original stress, it is no longer as stressful – because you ehm adapted- and you need to make sure that it is, and you do this by progressive overload.
Now stress is overload. Overload means you do something the body does not like. When it is no longer overload, you progress
it so it is once more overload. For resistance training I would say that, roughly, 4 reps to failure constitutes effective stimulus. If you do a set of 10 with 100 kg to failure, that is overload. If you keep the weight and reps identical the next work out and do a set of 10 with 100 with 2 reps in reserve, that is still overload. If next workout you are 5 reps in reserve, you need to progress. There may be a variety of ways to achieve progressive overload, though, in general, the most effective way is higher intensity aka increase the weights. This is both effective in achieving progressive overload and easy to track progress. You can add reps, sets, pauses, reduce the tempo, reduce the rest periods etc but in the end these are harder to track and implement properly than good old higher weight. Did you really do all reps with low tempo, or rushed it at the end as it was getting heavier? Overload is a point in time, progressive overload is over time.
Progressive overload, as mentioned in the example before, it is not needed or possible every day, every week. But over time, if you are not getting stronger, there is an issue. Off course up to a point in which you cannot get stronger, biology has its limits. Beginner? Every workout you may be able to add weight – as Marky Mark Rippetoe argues for via linear progression in starting strength. Advanced? One may rarely add weight. Off course one hits plateaus. And there are strategies to break plateaus. Though at some point, you will not want to break the plateau. You may be happy with your status and go to maintenance. And this has a great advantage that it takes a lot less work to maintain the gains than get them, as low as to one third of volume needed to gain. The sad part about strength and fitness is the use it or lose it part. If you could train hard for 10 years and then stop and keep all the gains forever, it would be great. Alas, the gains go away, they need constant maintenance. This is why it is good to train young: start lifting at 16, by 25 you will get most of your gains in and you can go to maintenance while life, the job, the kids and so on get in the way. Not much time is needed for maintenance.
I should also mention that I am on the high weight is important side of things. Higher weight makes you stronger and fitter.
You grow better. Off course within personal parameters, but one should strive to lift heavy and increase the weight. Again, going to The Science, when being close enough to failure, growth can be achieved between 3 and 30 reps in a set for muscle hypertrophy. 30 reps can be OK for muscle, though tendons, ligaments, bones respond better to higher weight lower rep work, and it is important to strengthen those. Also I get bored doing more than 15 reps, 15+ reps is basically cardio and I go to the gym to strength train. And in the end, you get stronger with higher weight, and more strength in the short term, even if it is a good part neuromuscular adaptation, more nervous system dependent, can still lead to more growth over the long term. Tempo does not seem than important as long as you do not jerk the weights around. In general, overall it seems best is explosive on the concentric and controlled – not necessarily slow but controlled – on the eccentric.
Why I keep saying not to over-complicate things? Fitness, in the end, has serious diminishing returns. If you have a genetic potential X, getting to 75% is probably easier than going from 75 to 95, and many will be happy with 75. Training decently well for 5 to 10 years will get you all the gains, and one year plus or minus does not matter. Health benefits taper out before strength and physique. I would say that 3x 1h of resistance training a week, done well and 2×45 minutes cardio/conditioning plus some day to day movement is plenty for health. I mention both types of exercise because I think in the past resistance training was underrated. Not all exercise is equal – lifting biking swimming running – so a blank statement of do x minutes of exercise per week is not useful. Resistance training good. Weight. Strength. Tendons and muscle. You are older and slip on ice, step the wrong way, bend over, and you pop something. Strengthening your back, your legs etc. helps prevent that, that way your muscles take the pressure off your ligaments or spine, and your ligaments and spine are stronger anyway. The longer you are strong the easier it is to maintain in old age. You know get off the toilet, out of bed, lift a grandchild if that is your thing. I would advise anyone to do resistance training and get the weights up as much as reasonable. Though accidents will still happen, nothing is 100%. Health, like wealth, is not guaranteed. Though, in general, it is better to be healthy and rich than ill and poor.
I plan at least one more post in this series that focuses on some actual workout schemes. But we shall see what the future brings. Until then, comments bellow.
Another key fact is to lift in manly kilograms not in sissy pounds.
Stones or get bent.
Atlas Stones for the win.
I’m not ashamed to say DEG played with my stones last time he was in town.
<em? sections of the left want to equate health and fitness with the far right, along those bad things like discipline, motivation, effort and self-improvement.
Arbeit macht frei, dude.
They want their victims unable to defend themselves. It is that simple. Disarmed in every way possible.
12 ounce curls
“Another key fact is to lift in manly kilograms not in sissy pounds”
I’m out. Pounds are better, and not just because metric is for eurofags. You could either lift something weighing 100 units, or 220 units. Which is better? The one with the higher number, duh. That’s just science, man.
Also, pounds are a unit. We don’t lift in hexadecimalounces. Pity the gram is so useless outside of buying drugs.
It’s “of
fcourse”.Unless you are intentionally triggering me, in which case, carry on.
Goddammit. OF, with one “F”.
Look out, you made Brooks go of.
It’s tough to argue against the idea that the Progressive left wants everyone to be a miserable loser.
You’re not a good part of the collective if you’re strong, confident, and independent.
Convince me the left aren’t crab-people!
I blame the keyboard, not my fingers.
Sadly, over the last few months I have basically quit working out due to massive schedule disruption on account of the move (they are loading up the moving truck as I type). Then, the weight rack and the rest of the home gym will have to wait for the barn where it will live to be built. With the exception of the rower, which is already set up in the family room at the new house. When the barn will be built depends on (1) when the state gives us our permit* and (2) the weather to be warm enough to pour the foundation. So who the fuck knows.
*We live in an agricultural area, and yet we need a fucking permit for a barn. This used to be a free country.
Climb mountains.
But don’t go chasing waterfalls.
I’ve been sorely tempted, of late, to set up a squat rack in the spare bedroom of my apartment.
For now I’m making do with some dumbbells and kettlebells.
Same equipment I’m getting some decent use out of.
Permitting sucks and should not exist.
Idaho screwed up shop building about six years ago. They changed the standards and now make you pour concrete around your poles in all types of soil (which screws up drainage and will lead to shorter lifespan of the building) and killed the metal building accessibility by requiring engineered slabs.
I’m not sure what they hit you with if you just put up a building without the permitting and build it like you want. It’s probably less than the permit costs.
Engineered slabs for all metal buildings? Good lord.
Yep.
My guess is the rules guys down in Boise are buddies with pole building guys.
They almost doubled the cost of my neighbor’s new shop. Which was going to be less expensive than a pole building.
I want to build a metal machine shed but don’t have the $400k or so that it’s going to cost now.
I want to do it on concrete pylons and fill it with pit run and 3/4-
Can’t build it legally anymore.
Insanity.
Gains don’t really go away. Once you’ve reached some strength level it is a lot easier to get back to that level than it was the first time. To avoid repetitive stress injury, sometimes taking a full break from heavy lifting allows for better recovery.
Completely modifying your work-out to low impact, light effort can also help break thru plateaus when you come back to it.
I mentioned this when we were discussing if Netflix would ruin Star Trek. The Drinker opines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsZMCgSUy0s
Isn’t Netflix buying WB, not Paramount? I thought Paramount also was making a bid for WB. Netflix will have the opportunity to out-CW the CW with all of the DC properties.
But I’m confident that the new Starfleet Academy show is going to be terrible.
Star Trek needs to die already and not like Spock where he was resurrected in the next movie.
It died long ago and even then it was overdue. I am really sick of hearing about it.
I haven’t opened it yet but other than including the Crushers I don’t think Lego screwed up the D.
Pulaski is the best Dr and instead of Westley they should have included O’Brien.
https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/star-trek-u-s-s-enterprise-ncc-1701-d-10356?ef_id=Cj0KCQiA9OnJBhD-ARIsAPV51xNc5KCYnPIdXA6c-Lwr202jN5TgdlJJQN0dpJX3OIe2qzT3yLsaVRoaAtfIEALw_wcB:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!790!3!!!!x!!!19930801844!&cmp=KAC-INI-GOOGUS-GO-US_GL-EN-RE-SP-BUY-CREATE-MB_ALWAYS_ON-SHOP-BP-PMAX-ALL-CIDNA00000-PMAX-MEDIUM_PRIORITY&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=19930807088&gbraid=0AAAAADESMXJ-mavPqn1LoADhE3cDXtmB7&gclid=Cj0KCQiA9OnJBhD-ARIsAPV51xNc5KCYnPIdXA6c-Lwr202jN5TgdlJJQN0dpJX3OIe2qzT3yLsaVRoaAtfIEALw_wcB
What the hell is wrong with you?
Young Dr P
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/startrek/images/1/15/Ann_Mulhall.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20221211003204
https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Ann_Mulhall?file=Ann_Mulhall.jpg
That’s no doctor. That’s obviously some ensign that Kirk bangs and then gets killed off so he can show grief for 20 seconds.
Gustave gets it.
O’Brien is the best regular in all of Trekdom so there is that.
rhywun:
It’s canon.
Great risk there, you casually jaunt to the gym, accidentally do a few extra reps and BAM too muscular.
Happens all the time. Especially if you take that extra scoop of creatine and pre-workout.
your shirt basically rips off your bulging pecs
having your pecs ripped off sounds like a painful injury that would impair future exercise.
Don’t worry about being called racist for looking out for your health….the progs are busy going after the super racistest song ever – Jingle Bells.
This kind of retarded evil can only exist in a world of retards. I really do blame the people that fall for, bend their knee for it.
Stop paying attention to this shit. Stop voting for them.
I take that back. A world of cowards.
resistance training. Or you know lifting.
To be clear, lifting doesn’t necessarily mean you need a bunch of iron or have to wander off to the gym to watch the big-booty’d yoga pants wearing influencers. You can get a lot of the benefit with body weight resistance training. Push-ups, pull-ups, body-weight squats, that sort of thing. Not ripped – unless you’re an exceptional specimen like me – but good lean and defined muscle mass. And everyone, I mean everyone, can spare 10-15 minutes in the morning (or afternoon, you do you) do drop and give me 50.
Hmmmm, “big-booty’d yoga pants wearing”… Maybe there IS something to this whole “go to the gym” thing!
Hmmmm, “big-booty’d yoga pants wearing”… Maybe there IS something to this whole “go to the gym” thing!
Yes.
Dude….gym girls are poison. Pure poison.
As bad as hairdressers and redheads?
Crap.
Come to think of it my wife was a gym rat before we got married.
Ive dated the trifecta.
Pure poison
I’m not thinking about tasting them, just watching them. Wait, that came out wrong.
Threedoor:
/looks at the salon owning redhead girlfriend
Well, two out of three is only so bad, right?
After a certain number of stab wounds, the extra ones don’t really matter anymore.
As bad as horse girls but in a different way
behold the gem of the highland games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8UufhRS4fk
For as strong as she is, she still looks more feminine than your average WNBA player.
We have a highland games girl in our gym. Not as hot as that one, but ours does hold some world records.
She’s welcome to toss my caber.
The look on her face…the joy of being young and strong. If only it could last forever.
She’d put you in the hospital JR but it might be worth the fractured pelvis.
Death by Snu-Snu.
The spirit is willing but the flesh is spongy and bruised!
Dogbert wished for world peace because it would allow him to conquer earth with a butter knife.
Even that is overkill if you know how to triangle choke someone quickly. I did that to a rowdy middle schooler instead of getting the school cop involved.
I confiscated a toy ball (something another teacher asked to do with another ball the day before), and another guy got it and tried to play keep away with me by saying “my hand slipped!”. I was tempted to say likewise after I let him out. The look on his face was priceless.
It was my 2nd day of substitute teaching there, and I really didn’t want to send someone to the principal’s office, etc if I could handle it myself. About an hour later, the king bully of the school, all 130 pounds of him, came at me retard style and after I got him to back off, I popped the stupid ball with a pair of scissors.
If bogus macho boasts keep the peace, fine by me. The only alternatives DIY or calling for back-up.
In many school systems, pretty much the only way a kid gets expelled is if they hit a teacher or other staff member. Ponder that on the true of woe.
Hard to go wrong with the exercises shown: deadlift, bench press, squat. I do variants of those with 25-pound dumbbells.
Herbetisme for the win:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9bertisme
The great thing about the English language is its modularity lets you change the function of a word and everyone immediately knows what you mean.
The bad part is someone wanting to use the noun form of “evolve” decides that they should write “evolvement” and sends it to the entire company.
Just consider it an evolution of the word.
Consider it evolution in action.
The situation is evolving
I am particularly fond of when you just stack suffixes and turn the noun “use” into the noun “utilization,” after passing through a verb form.
My pet peeve is the trend in advertisements to use nouns as verbs. “That’s how to money.” “That’s how you Europe.”
#metoo
There was a car ad, “For however you family”.
Made my teeth itch.
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25
This seems like an outgrowth of the “corporation as your buddy” phenomenon. (I forget who came up with that phrase.) Oh look! The corporate ad uses snarky, hip language! Cool!
A lot of corporate boardrooms could use a well-placed flashbang grenade.
Do I have to stop using the word ‘bumblefuckery’ and related terms?
If you want to get really basic, before even going to a gym you should be getting 10k steps* a day. I guess it was decided recently that it as no longer necessary, but it is. Walk your poor dog too.
*shut up about it being a marketing myth and not scientifically accurate. you’re fat and need 10k steps
My husky has been losing his mind since I went from a bad ankle to a bad knee and have been unable to walk him for almost a year.
I have so many holes in the yard, it looks worse than the golf course from Caddyshack.
unable to walk him
If I was anywhere close by, I’d volunteer to help out. PUPPIES!!!!!!!
Walking is an excellent exercise. It burns a surprising amount of calories, and your body is doing what it was optimized for. I would recommend that a weekly workout routine include one day of just walking (at a brisk pace) for an hour or so – 3- 4 miles. Weight vest optional, but I can tell you a “piddly” 18 pound weight vest amps up the walk considerably, and forces you to have good posture unless you want your back bitching at you the rest of the day.
I have my own built-in weight vest.
I heard that ‘myth’ busted by Sanje Gupta.
He can go get another Covid booster.
The myth is not that walking is good for you, it most definitively is. The myth is that there is something magical about 10k steps. That’s a number pulled from someones nether regions, marketing ploy from purveyors of spying machines that can ‘record’ steps.
A particularly dangerous myth? Unlike covid ‘myocarditis’ is worse than vaccine myocarditis, no not harmful at all and probably on the whole, beneficial. But a myth non-the-less.
In my opinion, it’s nuts to assume that the average person with a desk job that commutes to work is somehow going to find time to walk 5 miles every day.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/us-home-prices-negative.html
Home prices go negative for the first time in over 2 years — and may stay that way for a while
Home prices have finally come down compared with last year, though just fractionally, according to daily reads from Parcl Labs, which looks at high-frequency listing data on single-family homes, condos and townhomes, both new and existing.
They may stay softer, though, as home prices are down 1.4% in just the last three months.
So I managed to sell my house (yay!) and buy a house (boo!) at the top of the market?
It’s either a short term blip . . . or the bubble bursting.
You should have stayed homeless for awhile after selling and then you would have made out big time.
The key is artificially constraining supply by building codes and zoning!
And inflating supply with massive immigration.
Er, inflating demand, that is.
And my property tax will still track upwards at the average of 12.5% a year.
Win!
Competing health care plans fail in the Senate as ACA premium hikes loom
Story out of Japan. Former Marine who claims to have been a captain was out near a military base at a bar past 1AM. There is a curfew in effect for US personnel after allegations of sexual assaults and the typical sort of stupidity that service members engage in overseas. Apparently since September they have turned these patrols into American-only affairs with no Japanese police present.
Guy refused to show his ID (guess his race), gets body slammed by over anxious MP who appears to be an officer. Ignoring whether the use of force was necessary, the internet is filled with outrage from the usual suspects. They’re arguing that the MP’s had no jurisdiction or authority because he was a civilian. To steal Zeg’s favorite phrase of late, that’s a self-licking ice cream cone of an argument if I ever saw one.
They are sent out explicitly to round up the drunk fucks breaking curfew. The guy was clean cut and obviously not Japanese hanging out around a military base past that time. So, odds are he’s probably a dumb fuck service member.
The Japanese government signed off on these patrols. People are pretending as if they know the rules and agreements for said patrols. They should have called Japanese police etc. How fucking naive do you have to be to think that the Japs expected the MP’s to call them every time a drunk service member refused to identify themselves?
There are all kinds of agreements between the governments, both formal and informal. Unless you are a military lawyer, you have no fucking clue what these MP’s were authorized to do and I’m perfectly willing to bet that the Japanese officials who agreed to this were perfectly fine with the notion of the US roughing up their own as long as they didn’t fuck with Japanese citizens. A tourist or two who could pass for military were probably considered an acceptable cost, as well.
The supposed former captain in the Marines has lawyered up with the typical accusations of racism. MP’s are dicks to white soldiers all the time. They’re dicks in general. If you were in the Marines and even stationed in Japan, especially as an officer, you know this.
If you weren’t looking to be a cunt, you would have just showed them some ID and everyone could have moved along on their way. Now you’ve created an international incident. So congrats dude. Maybe you’ll get a few sheckles from the US government to go away? You know, maybe?
I don’t blame the MP’s here even if they were quick to jump the gun. They were either issued orders that weren’t authorized for, or the more likely scenario is they were executing a policy agreed to by the US and Japanese governments that was poorly conceived. The Patrols, having started as a joint venture, are back to including Japanese police.
Now THAT, my friends, is a Ken Schultz style wall of text!
needz an IF IF IF.
I keed. I miss Schultzy.
Me too.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2025-11-26/okinawa-military-police-usfj-facebook-video-19892357.html
Original link.
1. So the MPs appear to be b(B)lack as well.
2. JP police can ask to see idea of any white guy who isn’t a resident alien. Pisses the gaijin off frequently.
I’d tell the MPs to piss off too if I’m in Japan and they ask to see my ID. OTH, not the local cops. However, I’d be polite first and say a I’m not in the service.
Bonus – a lying LEO – no fucking way!
Everyone here is an asshole.
Why spell check ID to idea?
If you are in Japan near a military base with no protections from the 4th, that’s probably a bad idea. This guy knows why these patrols exist. He knows what the MP’s are trying to do. There’s no reason to make things more difficult for anyone. This isn’t your local shitstain police officer looking for you to let them search your car. He’s former military. Yes, this is a case where just fucking cooperate isn’t just sensible, but fucking appropriate.
These solo patrols were approved by the Japanese government. I don’t think for a second that they cared if they were ID’ing foreigners who weren’t part of the military. There’s no point of solo patrols if you aren’t going to let them actually even ID people.
To be specific I I’d say call a local cop. I’lll show him my id.
I get your point, but no. It’s fiction as I’m too old and bearded. Also no way I’m out that late.
I’ve had lots of discussions with my friends about Okinawa.
Wonder if he was a SOFA civilian? I guess it perfectly routine for former service members to hang out at bars just off post in a foreign country.
I’d just show the ID. 50/50 that the local Japanese police would either be unfailing polite and drop it there after checking your passport or slap you around for inconveniencing them. Non zero chance that making a scene will get you an expedited removal.
Gustave – my main point of contention with the people commenting on this story elsewhere is this naive belief that the MP’s weren’t behaving as ordered and almost certainly how the Japanese government wanted them to.
There’s not a snowballs chance in hell as I see it that they signed off on solo patrols but really expected MP’s to call Japanese police to ID every fucktard foreigner around a military base.
And then yea, there’s a good chance from what I know of Japanese policing that they aren’t going to look too kindly on the foreigner in the first place but you have dipshits online arguing that they wouldn’t be racist like the American MP’s. Saw one where they were like “imagine going to a country without police brutality only to get brutalized by American cops anyway.” These people live in a fantasy land.
Bro, look at it this way. The local cop shows up hands the MP my passport. They check if I’m in the service. If I was lying to dodge the MP I’m in deeper shit.
My thinking is if you are military there is no upside to playing that game.
This is the usual LEO power trip.
“…they wouldn’t be racist like the American MP’s.”
Holy shit.
Sensei – if the MP’s can’t ID me, I’m fairly certain you aren’t going to agree with the notion of them detaining me until Japanese police arrive, either.
Fair point. I’d just make them work for it.
Realistically I’m not going to fight off two cops so I may as well waste their time too. I’m fucked because I’m a white guy in Japan by my own countrymen.
Someone said this about Japan? Seriously? Did their pants catch on fire right then and there?
I remember this advice from a company lawyer….paraphrased:
“Don’t even spit on the sidewalk. Don’t jaywalk. Do not get into confrontations with people. Americans who have never been overseas don’t understand that guilt or innocence, truth or falsehood, legal or illegal have nothing to do with police interactions in most countries. Also police interrogations do not escalate into violence. They begin with violence, then the questioning begins.”
The asshole in question should have just showed his ID then said “Have a good evening gentlemen” Otherwise is stupid.
Thanks for writing Pie! You’re brave to take on this subject because there are many opinions out there, most of them very strongly held. But I really can’t disagree with anything you’ve said.
Brave to write for this audience? We’re just a bunch of purring pussycats.
My guess is the rules guys down in Boise are buddies with pole building guys.
They almost doubled the cost of my neighbor’s new shop. Which was going to be less expensive than a pole building.
I want to build a metal machine shed but don’t have the $400k or so that it’s going to cost now.
Affordability crisis? What affordability crisis?
Also- isn’t the building code being standardized nationally? By whom, I’m not sure; insurance companies? Me-too local officials? You never know when a hurricane will devastate the Palouse.
There is an industry standard but each state adds to it. For years Idaho had that standard as the official state standard. No longer it seems.
I can remember one tornado around Pullman that got a guys barn.
Lewiston HAD TO HAVE a new high school because the doe made California earthquake standards national and they just couldn’t remodel the existing building without doe rules. Raised my taxes 10.1% over that boondoggle.
So I managed to sell my house (yay!) and buy a house (boo!) at the top of the market?
The market (in some places) has nosed over.
The 2nd pic is my conception of spacemarine pt:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/11/easy-come-easy-go.html
Excellent work, Pie.
As long as people are doing *something* physical, I don’t think it really matters to much *how* they do it. If they have a specific goal or are training for something, absolutely they do. But strength and more are like diet, IMO, it’s based on genetics. Certain people adapt to training in ways the non-athletic, etc, don’t.
Indeed, the fundamental point behind it all is having the discipline to consistently work at it, regardless of what that is. My opinion also shouldn’t be trusted, cuz I was raised a powerlifting gymnast, and was good at ’em. Bro, too, and better. We have completely different eating habits and lifestyles. *Completely* Still, 20 years later, we’re both still at our powerlifting weight classes. Him ~114 and me ~132.
Work involves around 30k steps a day, 10-12 miles. I pick things up and move ’em around, pushing my cart, which might way somethin’ from time to time.
I *strongly* encourage bodyweight exercises. Can’t or don’t wanna find a gym? Just be a prisoner in your room like in a flick. Pushups, planks, all sorts of others. Cheap and it eats less of your time, if you’re in a crunch. And ya can keep watching what you already were and not miss much.
The Happy Chemical release from working out is a good reward to get used to. Does kinda fundamentally change shit.
Guy I know through his brother works stocking nights at the local Walmart. He loves it. He’s been a gym guy since the 80s and likes the constant physical nature of the job.
not quite random story: a family of Iraqi refugees settle in the US. The oldest son keeps getting expelled for fights. His name sounded like “gaydar” and he was bullied relentlessly. I think it’s wrong to respond to insults with violence, though I understand why. It works.
OK, which one of you did this? https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/12/11/man-followed-woman-to-berkeley-with-car-full-of-sex-toys-condoms-crack-pipes-taser-and-a-gun-police-say/
I don’t know the area or how long he would have been following her. I’m not even doubting that he was doing so really. I’m just kind of wondering how you really prove that’s what he was doing. It doesn’t seem he even stopped his car and got out when she did as the cops ordered him out of his at gun point. But there could be details missing that prove intent here I guess.
I mean, it’s fun to note the shit in his possession, but it wouldn’t shock me if all that “evidence” ended up thrown out and everything gets dismissed here entirely.
But I still have to laugh at the judge releasing him without bond. So you determined there was probable cause for the arrest and that the asshole was behaving like a predator, and you release him on his own for nothing. Sounds like the stereotype of a blue hellhole.
Multiple felonies and out on the prowl. I never thought I’d say it but it might be time to revisit the three strikes and you’re out policies.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/republican-controlled-us-congress-poised-allow-obamacare-health-subsidies-expire-2025-12-11/
The Republican-controlled U.S. Congress is poised to allow tax credits to lapse for 24 million Americans, as a December 31 deadline approaches with no sign of a healthcare compromise after the Senate failed to advance dueling proposals on Thursday.
In back-to-back votes largely along party lines, Democrats and Republicans blocked each other’s bill, leaving Congress no closer to reducing healthcare costs for many Americans, with premiums set to spike on January 1.
Never fear, the cucks will give in at the last minute.
Term not found in the article: Temporary.
There’s nothing quite as permanent as a temporary subsidy.
And Idaho senators being total progs.
Crapo is generally the least shitty one.
We also have a rep, Simpson that wants to tear out dams to apse the tribes and enviros while further subsidizing the hero farmers.
It’s been a while since I lifted, but I actually used his book Starting Strength when starting out when I was younger. I agree with the overall philosophy that if you are going to lift weights, you want to lift fairly heavy and at low reps. That was highly controversial when I was in the Army where every West Point officer thought they knew the true way and it was high reps/high velocity bullshit. And then there’s the dietary recommendations and how they feed you in the military. It’s impossible to get enough protein using the DFAC.
I cringe when I hear people say they just want to tone up so they do low weights at high reps. As Pie says, you aren’t going to be become a body building lifting heavy. You don’t accidentally become too jacked.
The DEFAC is designed to make you fat and unwell.
Low fat
Low protein
High carb
Bathed in seed oils
Then they complain you are overweight and have terrible labs. After making you inflamed and fat.
I weighed 200 in October and am now 220 after a 17-day stretch in the nuthouse. Oh well. The mystical experience leading up to it was awesome. I had visions of the end of the world and the afterlife.
As Agile Cyborg once said of me: you seem like an interesting person.
visual aids:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMRIOOvEeg4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji8oZTJAC5A
Quite the compliment.
Great episode. “If anything, you should get more possessions.”
leaving Congress no closer to reducing healthcare costs for many Americans
Beat that drum, little wind-up monkey.
Apparently Medea Benjamin is still alive, and meting with MTG. I really didn’t think crazy MAGA lady was quite that evil.
Also, who the fuck would name their girl-child Medea? Unless you really didn’t want grandkids I guess.
I had a liberal friend of mine asked me a few weeks ago why I think I would ever need a loaded firearm in such a safe area like ours. At the time I gave some boiler plate answer like when seconds count the police are minutes away. Here is a better response. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/news/machete-attack-in-scranton-kills-2-injures-1/ar-AA1S6gaR
Your neighborhood is only safe until it isn’t.
Biden street sounds like it is appropriately a shithole.
https://youtu.be/eqgJY4GwemY