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@lakeeater After 7 years practice I know just enough about homesteading now to realise how truly screwed I would be if the food tap turned off.

wait wait not yet I thought I had a few more years of poorly structured prepper hobbies to half-ass before this happened

@phx787 @asaadhanna I saw a quote from a pilot once "when about to eject, put your neck in the position you want it to be for the rest of your life"

@asaadhanna Bros back probably is killing him. Glad to see he’s ok

The American F-15 pilot who was shut down by a friendly fire incident is alive and being hosted by a group of Kuwaitis.

@KingVelesI As an out of shape man in his late 30s this gives me the push to get ripped. Great post brother.

There is a popular misconception that middle-aged men have a harder time building and maintaining muscle naturally than young men. The research, however, disagrees. (And yes, that's a real picture of a natural bodybuilder in his 50s. Read on.) I want to address this myth as I've been repeatedly accused of being on TRT (testosterone replacement therapy) and lying about it by people who believe my physique is naturally unattainable for someone at the advanced age of 37 (one foot in the grave, right?). Sadly, there are many such people. Their argument centers around the idea that since testosterone declines with age, a man's ability to build and maintain muscle must also proportionally decrease. However, these relatively small changes in natural testosterone levels have been shown not to have a statistically significant impact on a healthy man's ability to build and maintain muscle (similarly to how a healthy man taking small amounts of exogenous testosterone will produce no anabolic effect). A man's ability to build and maintain muscle starts to decline only when actual sarcopenia (age-related muscle loss) begins. For most healthy men, that doesn't happen until the 60s, or even 70s, in some cases, and while significant negative changes to muscle mass or hormone levels can be observed earlier than that in many people, lifestyle factors have far more to do with such cases of premature decline than age does. So yes, as surprising as that may sound, if an 18-year-old grandson and his 60-year-old grandfather decided to start lifting together, the two could expect to gain muscle and strength at a similar rate, and multiple studies on the effects of resistance training on individuals of different ages confirm this. So where does the myth about men needing TRT to be lean and muscular in their late 30s and beyond come from? I believe the main source of this idea is the fact that other aspects of athleticism, like speed and agility, are indeed already well on the decline by the 30s. Since speed and agility are what most sports are about, most athletes will peak in their 20s and retire in their 30s, contributing to the perception that athleticism in general starts declining at an early age. Strength and muscle mass, however, don't follow this pattern, which is why athletes in sports like natural bodybuilding and powerlifting tend to peak late. Natural bodybuilder Jeff Alberts (pictured) is still competing at the very top of his sport and winning contests in his 50s (and this is in the open class, not the masters, mind you, and in a federation that prohibits and tests for TRT). Bottom line, claiming middle-aged men need TRT to be lean and muscular has been abundantly disproven by both research and the peaking ages of natural athletes in strength sports. All this also explains the phenomenon of "dad strength", as people tend to accumulate strength and muscle throughout their lives and don't start losing them until old age. While this may be bad news to folks who like to use their age as an excuse for why they're out of shape, it is great news for men in their 30s, 40s, 50s, or even 60s who wonder if it is too late for them to get in great shape. No, guys, it isn't, and you can still do it just as easily as your sons and grandsons. Get to work, and happy lifting! :)

@M_1F886 @ronkelawal Not enough people understand we had the solutions for 1000 years, then along came modern materials and everyone jumped on them in the 80s and 90s and whoops. Turns out they are dreadful. What a surprise.

@ronkelawal We already know: lime mortar and plaster, and proper ventilation not "sealed modern plastic box".

I've just seen the UK described as a swamp in response to a story about a homeowner's persistent damp issue and it feels so accurate. We live on a swamp and it makes so much sense.

@GigaBasedDad Not kidding but I found one. Didn't even know I did until I brought her to the countryside at aged 28. It's possible bros. She just finished reading the bible cover to cover. We got bees, kids, chickens. In the UK too.

Find yourself a wife like this

I am very concerned by the government's mass rollout of facial recognition technology. This is a grave threat to privacy, and turns the presumption of innocence on its head. We are hurtling toward a mass surveillance state. It must be opposed!

@KingVelesI I have always had many, many passions. I reconcile that I will never be a "master" in any, but that is not my goal. Variety, spice, wonder and discovery are my returns.

If you have more than one passion, what is the wiser approach: pursue them all, or let some of them die to better focus on the others?

your anterior pelvic tilt is ruining your life btw

@dotCoop Very cool!

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I am an anonymous General Dynamics Employee (ex army) I've seen your recent post about the AJAX. The project being 8 years overdue is not even half of it: - Vehicles regularly come off the production line with circa 150 faults on them. - We can't even build the vehicles to meet the test standard which we came up with ourselves. If the Army finds too many failures they will either change the test so that the vehicle passes every time or the management will scurry off to the civil servants from DE&S that work on site to ask them to sign a "concession" for the vehicle to leave the factory and arrive at it's new unit with said faults on the vehicle (even though it's brand new). - We have working for us a number of ex army guys, one a them an ex REME ****** who's sole job seems to be to argue with the soldiers when they find faults with the vehicles and try to find a way of telling them they're wrong and essentially get us (General Dynamics) out of fixing the vehicle - General Dynamics upper management set impossible targets which we fail to meet ourselves, even after reducing the target a few times before the deadline. What the impact of this on the soldiers on site is that in December for example (our most recent missed target) was they forced the soldiers to wait around on site for approx 16 hours a day just so that they could sign off any faults as and when we repair them, failing this our managers would get the spineless morons from the civil service would just sign a concession (meaning the tank can leave our factory and go to the army with faults still on it) - I hear that a large portion of the relatively small team of soldiers have signed off, the unit is about the size of a platoon and it seems that most of the guys I speak to have had enough. - General Dynamics management will force the whole team of soldiers to come in all weekend at a moments notice just because we have 1 guy working overtime. - As an ex soldier myself seeing how General Dynamics management abuse the fact that soldiers essentially don't have any employment rights is painful to watch, if the Soldiers refuse to work ridiculous hours of overtime or multiple weekends straight our senior managers who have the email addresses of high up officers in Army HQ will directly contact them and force the soldiers into work. - Sometimes when a vehicle has passed inspection and the Army now owns it, our low level managers at General Dynamics will encourage us to rob parts off it to repair one that has failed an inspection. - I felt the need to write this to you as an ex army guy myself I think that the actions of the company I work for (General Dynamics) towards the soldiers are completely wrong and they are also robbing the tax payer.

@AlmaMaito -moved to lonely strange town - hit a bar to play open mic one night - she's behind bar, wow. Out of my league - play gig, end up with other bar maid who is more my level. - she leaves me for another guy soon - my original crush there to comfort me - married, 2 kids, 13 years.

Tell me the lore behind your current relationship

@hamzam1981 @clemmygames Oooooh memories flooding back

@clemmygames MDK 1 and 2...total classics

@TommyJeffy @clemmygames I totally forgot I'd completed this game three plus times until I saw that picture! Damn!

@Kabetes0 Soju

@AwakenedOf We all couldn't cope so now have three generations under one roof. With 3 incomes and 1 pension we are keeping the wolf from the door. But for how long? Hope is lost.

Our combined monthly gas, elec, water and council tax costs are now £700 How is everyone else fairing?

@Islands_X_ @dotkrueger Payment beyond retirement eh, they went and mortgaged the damn afterlife

Japan had 50 year mortgages right before their entire financial system blew up.

@anon_opin Bold of you to assume most jobs are still meaningful, and not just placeholders in the economy for the population before we can automate the white collar class.

Instead of buying a mouse mover to make it look like you are online and working, just do your fucking job for fuck's sake. You lazy cunts just make work harder for the rest of us that have ethics.

@IrateHistorian @Intel_Slava I have a puukko, but now they sell it with a special metal tag on the base to stop exactly that, even for slaughtering chickens I don't want my hand slipping onto the blade.

@Intel_Slava Looks a lot like a Finnish puukko or the longer version the leuku. Agree with the other posters though, crappy knife to fight with due to poor grip design

Yakut from the SMO zone about the Yakut knife. The demand for them increased after that very video.

@brianrabil @plzbepatient Nice try but as a historian and archaeologist it just would be impossible to cover up that fact in the record.

The current year is actually 1728, not 2025. For centuries, we’ve assumed our historical timeline is seamless. But what if humanity collectively “skipped” almost 300 years? Enter the Phantom Time Hypothesis, which claims that the period from roughly AD 614 to AD 911 was invented. Today, I’ll dive into why this theory deserves a second look. Key inconsistencies arise from the so-called “Early Middle Ages,” a period marked by unusually sparse architectural innovation, minimal coinage evidence, and scant written records—conditions that are at odds with its purported influence on European civilization. Further scrutiny of chronological data reveals systematic discrepancies between medieval eclipse accounts and modern astronomical calculations, raising the possibility that centuries were artificially inserted to align with political or ecclesiastical imperatives. Compounding the issue, carbon dating methods and archaeological interpretations often rely on the very historical narratives now under suspicion, creating a self-perpetuating cycle of questionable chronology. Together, these anomalies strongly indicate that what we have long accepted as three centuries of recorded history may have been retroactively constructed, leading to the conclusion that our true year is closer to 1728.

Way too many low IQ conspiracy theories floating around. Give me high IQ conspiracy theories.

@Marcus48523 @mask_bastard They all just become corporate and all the whimsical funny stuff doesn't fly anymore. Feels contrived.

@mask_bastard All of Swordtube really, Shad, Lindybeige, Matt Easton, Skallgrim, Jill Bearup, they all in thier own ways have become increasingly insufferable.

Which youtuber has gotten so bad?