The entire field of lifting is almost entirely scientism and marketing.

The biggest crock of shit is that there is this "proper form" and that injury is from deviation from this "proper form".

There is inherent, non-reducible injury risk in both running and lifting that both sides like to down play.

China is constrained on this by near certain mutually assured economic destruction.

Even the food supply in China would basically be destroyed unless you believe that the population is going to just go back to a diet of largely rice with meat being a luxury.

20-30k ballistic missiles at Taiwan would cause a global depression that dwarfs the great depression. There would be almost no way the CCP survive this. That is why this subject is mostly people talking nonsense.

Reunification has to happen politically, persuasively, over time and without firing a shot.

I can see my Quest 3 on the shelf next to me. Something I really love but don't put on much because it is like entering into a giant virtual empty park with a couple of pieces of half finished play ground equipment.

Pointless AI image generation on Instagram seems completely on brand to me.

My mother kept a type of year book that each year I would say what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think in 5th grade I said physicist.

You know how they nurtured this curiosity? They did nothing. I don't think either of them even know what a physicist is beyond something to do with science.

I think in 6th grade I wanted a microscope that I eventually got but had no guidance on what to do , what to look at. I don't think I even knew there was this concept of "biology".

A huge number of kids have this same experience as I did right now.

What is even worse is life is ultimately a path dependent process with a huge part of the outcome based on the deterministic chaos of initial starting conditions.

No shit I would rather have my father be a particle physicist and my mother a librarian with a passion for reading non-fiction to kids.

My parents did the best they could but they are not intellectuals in the slightest and neither is the average person now. Claude would have been a god send to me in 5th grade.

Most political issues don't have a "solution", they have various trade offs that are contingent.

At least the grammar nazi was performing a type of service.

The LLM nazi is adding absolutely nothing.