@hemohobgoblin @Gena_I_Gorlin He did set his slaves free upon his death however, and he was known to be kind to his slaves. Jefferson’s story is more troubling.
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Rick Camp
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@hemohobgoblin @Gena_I_Gorlin Even more damning is that GW used deception while his slaves were in Philadelphia to circumvent a state law that would have set them free at 6 months. He used pretextual reasons to send them to Mount Vernon for a “visit” in order to restart the clock, and keep them in bondage.
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If you want to know the real meaning of work, read Frederick Douglass's account of his first time working as a free man.
After escaping slavery, his first job was loading coal onto ships. It was new, hard, dirty work.
Here's how he describes it:
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@DrSuneelDhand It also might be low testosterone. You never see large, muscular, aggressive men (or women) playing tennis.
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Alternative take: it’s not the tennis
It’s the fact that people who play tennis regularly are those who are fast, nimble, and slim (they would be anyway, without the tennis)
You will never see someone with a high body fat percentage who plays tennis regularly
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta
Tennis players live 9.7 years longer than sedentary people. Not 9.7 months. 9.7 years. Nearly a decade. The Copenhagen City Heart Study tracked 8,577 people for 25 years and ranked every sport by how much life it adds. Badminton: 6.2 years. Soccer: 4.7. Cycling: 3.7. Swimming: 3.4. Jogging: 3.2. Tennis almost triples jogging. A separate study of 80,000 adults found racket sports cut all-cause mortality by 47% and cardiovascular death by 56%. Swimming hit 41%. Aerobics hit 36%. The question is why racket sports destroy everything else. Three mechanisms stack on top of each other. First, the physical demands. A tennis rally requires explosive sprints, lateral cuts, and sustained aerobic output. You're training fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle fibers simultaneously. Most cardio only trains one system. Second, the cognitive load. You're reading spin, predicting angles, adjusting position, and executing motor patterns in real-time. Your brain is solving spatial puzzles at 80+ mph. That hand-eye coordination and strategic processing builds neural connections that protect against cognitive decline. Third, and this is the one researchers keep coming back to: you literally cannot play alone. Every racket sport requires another person on the other side of the net. That forced social interaction triggers neurochemical benefits that solitary exercise cannot replicate. Strong social connection alone increases your chance of longevity by 50%. Jogging is you and your thoughts. Tennis is you, a strategic opponent, and a community. Dr. Daniel Amen is right. The data is overwhelming. If you want the single highest-ROI activity for a longer life, pick up a racket.
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@drterrysimpson I almost never encounter an avowed racist. Either they are somewhat rare, or they don’t want me in the club.
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Ever since I met my first racist in college, I continue to be amazed at how many there are in this country and how much they think they are not.
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@cliftonaduncan Smells like a free country to me, and I’ve been clean and sober a long time.
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I used to think like this, then cities started legalizing weed and now I fucking hate it.
𝑰𝒗𝒚𝒔𝒐𝒏@stit57881
Smelling weed in public for me is like smelling the little baked pie on the windowsill in cartoons I can't lie
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@Legal_Fil Wouldn’t it be difficult to prove someone put forward a theory they didn’t believe.
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My general view is thay more lawyers should be disbarred for putting forward theories that they don’t believe.
I’d make an exception to this rule in criminal cases, but as a general matter, we have a real problem with prioritizing cleverness over truth.
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Why do seniors have to pay for car insurance on a car that is paid off? If it's paid off, it should be paid off. Make their neighbors cover the cost of their insurance!
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@jerryteixeira Is this true for older men (on trt)? I feel like I should be pushing up as much as possible or I’ll lose strength.
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Myth: Heavy weight, low rep builds muscle. Light weight, high rep gets you lean.
Truth: Both build muscle, as long as you stay under 30 reps per set.
Heavier weight optimizes for maximal strength. Lighter weight optimizes for strength-endurance.
But once you're north of 30 reps, you're likely too light to stimulate growth.
Stay in the 5-30 rep range.
Add load when it gets easy.
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In response to the absurd definition of 'binge drinking' (more than three beers in one day qualifies!) the US govt uses
Bird on Fire 🔥@nobodyknows2322
@Arctichawk_ I have always said and maintained that whether alcohol is a problem for a certain person or not depends on whether it's doing things like interfering with their career or ruining their marriage, not some flat numerical catch-all rule
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@criticalurban It’s impossible to look cool on a bike. The best you can do is get where you’re going and get off before anyone sees you.
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Bikes are objectively inferior transportation by every metric. Slow, minimal carrying capacity. Can't carry passengers. Exposed to the elements, the rain, snow, sleet, heat, and cold. It's awful. Incapable of practical regional access.
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@PatrickDFarley @moultano You might be a rare exception, but almost every person couldn’t stop eating forever any more than they could hold their breath forever. At some point, the body overcomes a persons willpower and they cave. A similar thing happens with people who are wasting their time dieting.
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@RickACamp @moultano My calorie intake, if I'm paying attention, is whatever I want it to be
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All weight gain is due to CICO in the same sense that all deaths are due to a lack of oxygen in the brain.
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@SamMacD86958750 @TankorSmash @moultano True. Right now, the only thing we know of that can help at a population level is the newer medications (and maybe surgery, but that’s another kettle of fish). So, if you’re talking to someone about CICO and you want it to have any positive effect, you should also mention meds.
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@RickACamp @TankorSmash @moultano I didn’t say that’s the only thing to do. If some guy is smoking 3 packs a day and tells you he’s addressing his lung ailments by cutting out seed oils, you don’t play along. You don’t say quitting doesn’t work. You admit it’s hard for some people, but quitting has to happen.
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@fritzed_you @StephenFleming We’re allowed to wear a tuxedo to the beach, dumbass.
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@StephenFleming We’re allowed to amend the constitution dumbass. In fact we’ve already done it 27 times
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63% of Americans were not taught basic civics in sixth grade.
Micah@micah_erfan
🚨 63% of Americans support adopting a national popular vote for President.
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@FSlazer @StephenFleming Communication doesn’t seem to be helping this demagogue problem.
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@StephenFleming The electoral college was established in the 1700s to assure those choosing the President would assure a demagogue was not selected. Communications was very limited; few could assess a candidate’s character. Now we can & it makes a few swing states disproportionately important.
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@SamMacD86958750 @TankorSmash @moultano It will NOT work for the overwhelming majority of people. If it did, Oprah wouldn’t have yo-yo dieted her whole life, with access to every doctor, nutritionist, trainer, and more willpower/focus/determination than 99.9% of us.
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@RickACamp @TankorSmash @moultano But it IS helpful. There’s a connection between smoking and cancer. You need to be honest about that. People DO deny the CICO reality. “I tried everything.” You might think you did and we can talk about supporting you better. But it’s CICO. You have agency. And it WILL work.
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I can honestly not think of anything less attractive than a man taking my last name in marriage. I’m not sure why I feel that way. But something about it makes me grimace inside
Jill Filipovic@JillFilipovic
I truly hate this argument, which assumes men simply have names but women’s are all somehow men’s. By this logic, it’s not your dad’s name either - it’s his dad’s. And not his either - his dad’s. Your name is actually your name. And yes of course women should have the legal right to change their names in marriage but let’s please not lie to ourselves that marital name-changing isn’t incredibly sexist and a very literal manifestation of patriarchal power. So is patrilineal naming for children, btw. One answer to “but it’s my dad’s name” might be to stop giving children dad’s name for a while.
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@DocAbirHealth The average person isn’t capable of summoning the willpower, consistently and continually, to diet and exercise effectively enough to lose weight and keep it off. Oprah, a remarkably capable woman, couldn’t do it with every doc, nutritionist, and trainer money could buy.
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No there wouldn’t.
If the average joe got a prescription that said 300kcal deficit for 12 weeks, 3 resistance training sessions a week and 10k steps a day, it would go in the bin.
Patients are hardwired to want a pill. The easy way. Take a tablet and it’ll solve my issue mindset.
They want the easy option. It’s so easy to think that taking a pill will make you better or at least manage symptoms. And it requires zero effort.
Not to mention the fact that people already know what they should and shouldn’t be eating for the most part.
They know the exercise they should be doing.
But they don’t. It’s not a knowledge issue.
Also I do think if doctors were in better shape and then they gave health and lifestyle advice, patients would be more open to doing these things.
Having an obese doctor tell you to exercise and eat right is not going to make anyone want to implement that advice.
Mike Matthews@muscleforlife
If doctors prescribed diet and exercise as zealously as they prescribe drugs, there would be a lot less chronic disease.
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@Gianpattention @moultano And this bullshit is why we are still stuck having the discussion.
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@moultano no, all weight gain is due to CICO in the same sense that all savings are a portion of income you don't spend.
It's very linear and very easy. Just eat less or consume more by eating the same and you lose weight. If you don't it's your fault 100%, and no one else.
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@ahaternumberone @moultano It’s not that it isn’t true, it’s that it’s not helpful to 95% of overweight people. You tell someone the escape velocity of the earth, but if all they have is a bicycle, it’s meaningless.
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@moultano I feel like there’s some big misunderstanding here.
The reason people keep bringing up CICO is that there is an insane amount of people saying it’s not true, and you need to establish that it is in order to have any kind of reasonable discussion about weight gain/loss
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