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@_saratonnin Remember the marathon vs sprinter build arguments recently? I wonder if this is something the marathon guy crushes because the sprinter has to hold up 100 more pounds

oh ur fit and workout all the time? ok hold a lunge in place for 2 min

@LinkofSunshine I just want the option, so like I'm working here out of choice rather than necessity. Theoretically, if my Schwab account gets big enough, my chains are broken and I'm a free man.

FIRE made sense until I started a 9-5 and then I’m like wait this is fine

@TeachOfTheYear @wolfstrength See how this guy gets to stand up kinda straight? This is really nice for long femur enjoyers, that's all I'm saying.

@chudmogged @wolfstrength He’s trying to explain to you that your supposition that a low bar squat is more heavily back involved is incorrect and it actually attenuates back involvement. He illustrated this with the picture of his friend who has long femurs & it’s anecdotally true for me as well.

I don't mean to pick on you but they do not turn into good mornings. Anthropometry dictates you will have to lean over more than someone with short legs and a long torso, but you can back squat and even low bar squat perfectly well with some testicular fortitude. This is my friend Niki Sims squatting to just below parallel with a 300 lb squat. Niki and I are both 6' tall but her legs go up to my belly button. If she can do it with 300, you can do it. Front squats are a great movement that you probably also benefit from and I'm glad you like them, but this idea that long legged lifters "can't back squat because good morning," needs to be put away.

@TeachOfTheYear @wolfstrength I'm just talking about back squats PERIOD, not variations of them

@wolfstrength @Raahulx15 I think you're thinking I'm attacking something, I'm not haha. I have no criticisms or judgements, your choice to have the gear and go ham in that way is just fine!

@chudmogged @Raahulx15 Nobody thinks that you should stand on your pride and avoid wearing “special shoes” for ice hockey, soccer, baseball, football, basketball, etc. Lifting is no different

@Raahulx15 @wolfstrength This also works tbf but the bar in front is just such an easy fix I prefer it over special shoes

@wolfstrength I have long femur. Front squats is easy but i can regular barbell squats by elevating the heels.

@wolfstrength Well yeah I can back squat LESS because it becomes much more heavily back involved when my goal is to stress and grow my legs. I'm not a powerlifter so I see nothing to gain from pushing through that, also it's not leg length so much as femur to tibia ratio.

@wolfstrength I have long-ass femurs so back squats turn into good mornings for me unless I want to tip over. Front squats fix everything though, 10/10

Anyone who calls a correctly performed low bar squat a good morning or squat morning has, with that statement, demonstrated that they are not entitled to an opinion on the matter

@EricRSammons I was one of these people haha. Read a ton of science news and old books growing up so I had a ton of words I know how to spell and define but would sound retarded the first time I tried to speak it in conversation

I've found that some of the most intelligent young people I know often mispronounce words, because they grew up reading far, far more than watching TV, and so they know the meaning of more words than they know how to pronounce correctly.

@BigSiouxGuy @PetitReveVif Unfortunately most beenie baby collections were splintered over the 3 divorces each boomer went through 😞

@PetitReveVif I remember boomers buying thousands of beanie babies for literally no reason other than the manufacturer psyopped them into thinking they were gonna become valuable somehow

"Boomers never purchase anything." Every boomer yard sale is full of thousands of junk trinkets and cheap shit from Dollar General that no one wants but other boomers.

@SimonSchfe45703 Like someone else said in another thread, it's tough to respect someone you can fucking overhead press for reps lmao

Brutal how this is true

@DrewVento Idk if the genetic capacity for high IQ is going to win over the immediate "here's an iPad leave mommy alone" parenting lmao

If you have money you can now get designer babies and select for traits, then you can give them hgh to maximize how tall they grow. 7 foot ultra geniuses are going to become common and then we’re going instal computer chips into our brains and have a permanent super intelligent AI campaign. And this is just the beginning.

@KinjaExPat @matt_slotnick Don't worry I work my ass off happily, love this field. Just warning people who have an office job where they take 2 meetings, send 5 emails, and screw around in PowerPoint and call that a hard day, they will hate the 400k versions lmao

@chudmogged @matt_slotnick You mean actually working a little? The horror.

a 9-5 corporate job that pays $400K a year is like hitting the cosmic lottery. you have a higher quality of life than almost everyone that has ever lived in the history of the planet earth

@NEETzscheIDDQD boomer stocks got significant growth from all the offshoring and outsourcing, so they also set themselves up by making things worse for us

Boomers, who already racked up a $39 trillion of Social Security/Medicare debt, think that your tax dollars are "my money."

@cougedit93 @HedgieMarkets I suspect the end goal is that someone will just have the "best" AI and dominate a whole new industry, and everything we have so far just kind of ignited that race. But what in the world are they doing with the AI search lmao, horrible for public opinion

@chudmogged @HedgieMarkets And Google going to AI for the search engine impacts their ad revenue income stream. I’ve yet to see the business case that justify $1T+ annual investment. Much ‘optimization’ is from head count cuts. That has knock on effects that spreadsheets don’t count

🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products. My Take The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested. This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown. Hedgie🤗

@flabergastic12 @MommieHTX @RogueDarren @LTtheTrucky8 Productivity goes up over time, and so have corporate expectations. Younger generations work harder than boomers did so bad premise and now you look retarded like the 50yo

Zoomers on here are like "I'm 27 and can't buy a $400k house or afford to spend $50 on doordash, the system is rigged!" Like kid, I had 2 roommates till 29, and then 1 till 33 when I bought my own house. Cooked and meal prepped 90% of what I ate for 20 years. Y'all are bitches

@tokenlimitto0 @Poofarmer69 @HedgieMarkets @grok I'm just playing bb ❤️

@chudmogged @Poofarmer69 @HedgieMarkets @grok I mean, I was attempting to be civil, until the other guy wasn’t