They’re okay, depending on what your goals are. But they aren’t the be-all, end-all by a long shot.

I guess I would say that they’re good for certain kinds of ‘functional’ fitness (altho, to be clear, all fitness improves function), but if your goals are hypertrophy or power, they’re not going to get you there.

FWIW I was RKC ceertified (although my certification has lapsed).

There’s absolutely no way in hell that it’s just adultery, not when she explicitly says that she can’t remain and still hold on to her ‘Christian’ values. Paxton has done a fuckton of things things that explicitly go against what Jesus taught in the four gospels, and against damn near everything that Paul wrote as well, so it’s gotta be more than just extra-marital sex.

Reducing the US military budget would likely also have the added ‘feature’ of resulting in Europe being under the thumb of Russia, and Africa, Asia, and South America being under the thumb of China. A large military budget–even if the military isn’t used–has the effect of acting as a deterrent. We’ve already seen that Russia has no qualms about using their military when they think they can get away with it, and China is continually threatening Taiwan (among others).

Kind of. It’s still not nearly as effective as Firefox with uBlock and a few other extensions. The downside is that some sites are just broken on Firefox, and blocking ads, etc. makes a relative few sites unusable. Which, yeah, 99.999% of the time I’m fine with. Until it’s something I need to do for my day job.

Speak for yourself.

I’m an anarchist that wants to destroy America.

Just 1" PTFE domes. Nothing super weird.

I mean, more weird than subdermal implants.

TBH, you can use things like this as openings to start talking to people that support Trump, and get them to start asking real questions. (And not the Joe Rogan, “I’m just asking questions!” kind of questions, but sincere ones.)

Thing is, if you treat all MAGAts like they have the plague, and refuse any and all contact with them, you lose the ability to influence them at all. People that risk losing all of their social network when they change their politics–or their religion, ask me how I know–are much less likely to ever change. So cutting them off completely ends up reinforcing their beliefs. 'Course, no one has to put up with their bullshit, but if you don’t, who will?

Funny, that can be applied the other way too, when you can’t find anything right about MAGAts…

It’s mens rea, lit. “guilty mind”, e.g. intent. If you take an action with the intent to cause a death, that’s murder (in my state, that would specifically be malice murder). If you take an action that is likely to cause a death with reckless indifference, but not intent, that’s usually something like murder in the second degree. If you cause a death through negligence or by accident, that’s usually some form of manslaughter.

Most traffic accidents are negligent; people don’t (…usually…) get into a car with the intent to kill someone, nor are they usually driving in a way that the know is likely to cause harm to other people. There are obvs. factors that will affect this–such as driving drunk–but causing a death is usually unintentional, and not through reckless indifference.

See also: troubled teen camps.

…This is how America has dealt with most wars: we sell weapons to the belligerents. No, it’s not “our war”, it our profit opportunity. Frankly, there’s no downside for the US. We sell old weapons systems to NATO, and then turn around and buy more weapons systems from gov’t contractors. We get higher employment, and we’re spending net zero dollars doing it.

Indeed. It runs smack into the problem of falsifiability.

I had to get up and walk down the hallway within an hour of waking up from a major spine surgery. I swear I could feel the muscles that they’d stitched back together trying to tear themselves apart through the stitches

That was 20-odd years ago; I look forward to never repeating that.

Uh. Shit.

And I’m going to have to get a tractor to power a snowblower pretty soon here…

It was definitely unpleasant, but not the worst I’ve had. The worst was sternum implants; even though they used a shit ton of xylocaine, it was def. wearing off by the time they were pushing the implants in, and suturing me back up was… Ow. Definitely not fun.

By open mind, you mean an empty head? Devoid of critical thought and rationality?

As far as I can tell, there is nothing in chiropractic practice that is not quackery.

Think about it this way: the basic practice is the idea that you have misalignments causing problems, and that you can manually manipulate the body back into alignment. But then what keeps you from getting unaligned again as soon as you stand up? (Nothing, of course! That’s why you have to keep going back!) Take, for example, the common inguinal hernia. You can manually manipulate it so that you’re forcing the intestines back through the abdominal wall. And it absolutely relieves the immediate discomfort. But you’re not actually fixing anything; you need surgery to stitch the tear up. If you have weak support structures causing a problem, then physical therapy is going to create a permanent solution. If you have a herniated disc that’s not healing and causing referred pain, then you need to surgically fix the herniation.

I had a ‘pastor’ try and witness to me yesterday, insisting that his spiritual experiences made him right, while the spiritual experiences of people that converted to Judaism or Islam meant they had been deceived by the devil.

Assuming that your backup isn’t also infected.

Doesn’t have to be in the bank either; if you’re traveling with your life savings in cash, then if you get pulled over cops are likely to seize that money. Just because fuck you, that’s why.