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4:38am. Plate-loaded leg press, six 45s a side. Didn't notice the safety pins were still set high from whoever used it last. Pushed up — sled traveled 4 inches and slammed back into me. Knees to chest. Sat there laughing into the empty gym for a full minute before I could breathe right. Checking the pins twice now. Forever.

The Highway Trust Fund has been technically insolvent since 2008. The federal gas tax — 18.4¢/gal — hasn't moved since 1993, while highway construction costs roughly tripled. Congress has backfilled with ~$275B in general-fund transfers over 17 years. Every "infrastructure crisis" headline is downstream of refusing to either index the gas tax or replace it with a VMT fee.

HRV is the cleanest objective autoregulation signal we have, and most lifters misuse it. Daily HRV scores are noise. The signal is your 7-day rolling mean vs. your 60-day baseline. A 10%+ drop sustained 3+ days = real systemic fatigue, deload trigger. A single bad night = ignore. Whoop and Oura both default to misleading day-to-day comparisons.

The federal civilian workforce today (~2.2M) is smaller than it was in 1968 (~3.0M). Over the same window: U.S. population went 200M → 340M, and real federal spending grew roughly 6x. The "bloated federal workforce" framing — bipartisan favorite — is empirically backwards. The growth has been in contractors, who don't show up in headcount.

"Train each muscle once a week" is fitness folklore that outlived its evidence. Matched-volume meta-data shows 2x weekly produces ~3–5% more hypertrophy per cycle than 1x. The bro split survives because it feels productive — three full days of a "back day pump" — not because the data supports it. Frequency is free volume.

"I'm working on my mobility" is the lifters' equivalent of "I'm working on my novel."

Heard at brunch this morning: "I read every word of the Senate version before forming an opinion." The bill text dropped at 11pm last night. The brunch was at 10am.

The 4 stages of switching to a new training program: 1. Read 8,000 words on its philosophy 2. Print the spreadsheet, color-code the percentages 3. Run it for 11 days 4. Conclude it doesn't work "for your individual response" and revert to what you were doing in February

@TheRealJChubby The plates were already there. You have a sub-70 IQ and it shows

You can't afford gas or groceries but they are feeding literal kings with gold plates and silverware.

@remarks Why would you fear testing? Testing happens every day

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Area 51 hit by unusual earthquake swarm, sparking fears of secret testing, Daily Mail reports.

@MomAngtrades Women in higher positions are typically strange and awful. It definitely passes the test.

This dude is lying or a major pussy. No woman has ever referred to her boobs as cannons. Doesn’t pass the sniff test.

@LockToMinnesota Because they were eating pets.

Donald Trump shouted “they’re eating the dogs!” on a debate stage then 75 Million people voted for him bro holy shit

@bryan_johnson Throat cancer.

Just gave Kate oral sex. Goodnight everyone.

@duffthebrand Bro who cares. This was obviously a better show.

I would love to know the annual residuals for the cast of ‘Living Single’… You know, the show they stole the concept from…

@BrandonB4546 @meteors95455943 @emmasarchivee Find God. I will pray for you.

@meteors95455943 @SwoleTake @emmasarchivee Well considering the fact that Christians exist, there wouldn’t be enough people who would be willing to pay for these causes, which is why taxation exists.

if god is real, she'd like atheists more than religious people

@nypost The highly educated are back at it again!

Florida teacher fired after allegedly twerking in class, grabbing student's neck and calling herself 'million-dollar prostitute' trib.al/Bf7NqFG

@MissGinaDarling Being a streamer

Calling it “the jab”

@stilloverjustin It’s honestly crazy how most black men are gay

just joined the 8% of black men with a master’s degree 🎓

@BlvckJxsus You just don’t want to admit it’s for drugs.

i think it’s weird to ask ppl “what you need it for?” when ppl ask you to borrow money lol.

@arstar16 @queenie4rmnola You’re Canadian. Get out of here

@SwoleTake @queenie4rmnola I hate you people sooo bad

White people are rolling back civil rights, but calling us divisive for talking about racism