This is the same argument that results in the majority of software created being slow stupid trash. “We don’t have time to fix those major architectural problems that are going to grind improvement to a halt later, we need to release this new stupid feature yesterday because line must go up.”

I wish it would hurt them bad enough they would fucking stop

What they don’t tell you about blahaj is they’re kind of cheap. Blahaj is not very firm. I was mildly disappointed when I got mine.

That’s so hot

The problem with religion is it primes people for believing things just based on a trusted authority saying so. There’s no evidence in support of the existence of any supernatural entities whatsoever, and there’s no evidence to support the existence of a life after death, but people believe it anyway and religion holds their “faith” to be a virtue in and of itself. You could argue that that isn’t harmful by itself, but consider that many religious people believe things that the evidence of their own eyes proves impossible, and that any idea is fair game when you treat faith as a virtue. It doesn’t matter if people today only believed the “good” parts of religion, eventually someone will corrupt their blind faith and convince them of whatever they want, like that being gay is a sin worthy of death, that trans people are evil and shouldn’t be allowed to exist, that your pastor is totally a great guy and you should donate money to the church and totally trust him alone with your kids. The dangers of religion are in teaching people to stop thinking for themselves.

I have to hard disagree with you there. The beauty of the math equations they test you with in school is completely artificially selected. The vast majority of math does not have nice neat solutions. There is a lot of it that doesn’t have any solution at all. The beauty of engineering is figuring out how much of things you actually need. You might calculate that some quantity should be an irrational number for some design optimum, but the amount of precision you actually need will be some range around that. When you do that and see your design in the real world actually functioning, that’s the greatest feeling in the world by far.

Every accusation is a confession.

This prompted me to read the gender dysphoria bible myself.

A classic gender dysphoria trope is the kid who wears nothing but sweatpants and hoodies.

Me sitting here reading it in sweatpants and a hoodie lol.

That is a beautiful cat

Just a reminder that insurance is a scam. You are compelled to pay for it under penalty of law in the case of car insurance, and the insurance companies do everything possible to maximize their profits, being for profit companies. What this means in general is that people pay more into insurance than they ever get out. If they didn’t the insurance companies wouldn’t make a profit. The money you pay isn’t going into some huge fund that supports everyone who pays for it. If it doesn’t go to paying out claims now it goes straight to the insurance executives, or investors, or to “lobbying” politicians to keep the racket going. The day you stop paying out you get fucking nothing. All that money is just gone, for the pleasure of maybe having your claim paid out if your insurance company can’t weasel their way out of paying. Insurance is a scam, a bunch of penny pinching middlemen draining the world of human productivity and effort for their own benefit and nothing else. Any benefit a particular individual happens to get is a loss to be minimized to them.

Those are rookie numbers. You need to pump those numbers up.

Just a reminder you can say fucking here. Fucking fuck shit you can, and holy fucking dogshit does that cunt fucking AI bullshit not even fucking work to replace a fucking intern, let alone a full ass engineer.

I think my CEO is doing something wrong then because he seems to be trying to maximize IC whiplash sometimes.

The true answer, which not one single CEO will ever want to hear until the problem becomes so dire it threatens the business, is if all the tools available are hot garbage, it’s time to build your own. Generality in software has a cost, and for large multidisciplinary problems like job tracking or ticketing, that cost makes developing an in-house tool for solving your specific problem and your specific use case much more efficient than what any general tool could produce. All those stupid features that some other company depends on, or no one uses, or are only there because someone was trying to capture all possible use cases, can simply not exist. That makes the tool faster, more efficient, simpler to use, and when you realize there’s some feature that would be really valuable you can just implement it rather than cludge together some half assed version in someone else’s proprietary shitpile. There is a scale where things like jira make sense, but much like cloud services it’s a technical trap because by the time you realize the tool doesn’t really work for your use case it’s too late to switch. At that point you’re already past the point you need to start developing your own tool, but the sunk cost fallacy is a bitch and there’s never enough funding for that. Pay no attention to the csuite salaries.

People are going to recommend pushups because of course they are. The problem with pushups is you plateau relatively quickly and need to do a ton of reps to make any progress, which is inherently limiting to strength and muscle growth due to the amount of fatigue you get from doing so many reps. Being really tired means your body has to spend more resources recovering and thus has less for building muscle. This is true for pretty much all body weight exercises unfortunately (caveats notwithstanding). Bands will be equally limiting due to the lack of progressive overload (caveats caveats). You could do progressive overload by doing pushups with stuff on your back, but that’s pretty awkward and uncomfortable and can seriously impact your form.

There are a large number of chest exercises available if you are willing to invest in some actual weights. If you have the room I would recommend finding a cheap barbell and some plates, which you can usually find used on craigslist, and a cheap bench (such as this) and rack (such as this). Obligatory fuck amazon, but those examples highlight how cheap the basic equipment can be. The weights will unfortunately be more expensive, depending on what is available locally, but will unlock a ton of exercises beyond the simple bench press. An adjustable bench will allow for all the press variations, and the barbell can be used for a myriad of exercises that cover the entire body, save the lats which are kind of difficult to train with just a barbell. To answer your specific question here the gold standard will always be the standard bench press.

If you don’t have the room or funds for a barbell and plates, I would still recommend at least getting a cheap bench, since that will provide a comfortable platform for other chest exercises (not to mention a lot of other exercises). Another option would be adjustable dumbbells, but unfortunately all the options available have limitations. The all in one adjustable sets (such as these) will cost more than just getting a cheap barbell and plates, and don’t usually have very much mass, which limits their usefulness. The barbell type (I have these) are a bit annoying to use since they are less compact and still require plates. The mass you can put on them is much higher though, so you could easily get by with just those even for leg exercises, despite them being somewhat unwieldy with large plates. You could also get a dumbbell set like those found in commercial gyms, but those are generally quite expensive, require a lot of space to store, and you can only use a small fraction of the total mass at any given time, making them one of the least efficient options for a home gym setup.

If you decide some kind of dumbbell is the best for you I would recommend any of the variations of the dumbbell press, but the best would probably be the dumbbell fly, which requires much less weight to get good tension in the peck muscles and can provide a very deep stretch (which is currently recognized as good for efficient muscle growth). Needing less weight to get the same stimulus means it’s easier to set up, it’s safer to do without risking dropping the weights, and if you do drop the weights there’s less risk of breaking something (or annoying your neighbors). Depending on where you are in your journey you may not even need dumbbells at first, getting a good workout from books or jugs of water, which would save on cost. You could also do this with the bands, but again progressive overload will be a challenge.

At the end of the day the best exercise is the one you enjoy doing, so take people’s advice as a guide and not as prescriptive. If you find an exercise that you like, that feels good, and makes you feel like you’re making progress, stick with it, and try not to hurt yourself. Injuries suck.

Or you can spend $1200 on a home unit and spend a shit load of time and pain both learning a new skill and destroying your facial hair in the comfort of your own home! You won’t get discouraged by the magnitude of the project at all…

You can say bullshit on the internet. You can also say shit. Some more fun words you can use are fuck, cunt, cock, dick, pussy, bitch, and ass. Don’t let the cunty puritans win. Don’t give in to censorship.

Unless he’s actually an egg, and has misattributed the sexual receptivity of lesbians being due to the goodness of his dick, when in reality they can sense that he is in fact a she, deep down in her secret heart.

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Here in America we have great wars, the best wars, possibly ever. We do war so well we fight on both sides, and we always win. We’re so good at war, we keep it civil. The most civil of any war, possibly ever.