lukas099

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by lukas099 2y ago
I mean, yeah, full-time live-in servants would be fantastic.
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by lukas099 2y ago
They could be at an evolutionary equilibrium already.
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by lukas099 2y ago
You can bet your right ass cheek there are all kinds of shenanigans going on right now. The president himself has broad immunity and is a known grifter, and for his lackeys of course there’s the pardon power.
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by lukas099 2y ago
People definitely pick phones for hardware too.
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by lukas099 2y ago
How so?
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by lukas099 2y ago
'Course the epigenome affects the genome to via natural selection at the population level.
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by lukas099 2y ago
To me, the real luxury is labor, and I bet servants would be cheaper in Thailand than the US.
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by lukas099 2y ago
Hmm. I'm just spitballing, but maybe as a path to U.S. citizenship in order to take advantage of more favorable tax codes and enforcement for the wealthy?
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by lukas099 2y ago
> You'd think that management consulting firms, you know, who are supposed to be good at optimization and reducing costs, would have figured this out. Maybe they've figured out that enabling their employees to stay a few extra
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by lukas099 2y ago
So it's okay that anybody in Trump's White House can break any law? I disagreed with Biden pardoning his son and I disagree with this.
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by lukas099 2y ago
Maybe some people with sensitive stomachs are able to detect things like this quicker than others. Further, maybe the gene for a sensitive stomach confers a survival advantage not just to the individual, but to relatives of the individual (
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by lukas099 2y ago
Muscle mass comes back quicker too, independently of strength. See this forum post and the attached paper. https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/muscle-memory-revisted/1...
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by lukas099 2y ago
What grandparent said wouldn’t lead to people dying though.
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by lukas099 2y ago
It’s not that the sky is falling, it’s that we’re autocratizing. Usually that’s a gradual process.
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by lukas099 2y ago
Democracy Forward has brought many of the lawsuits against the president’s executive overreach IIRC. Democracy Docket has had a lot of success protecting voting rights.
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by lukas099 2y ago
Free range birds cannot be quarantined?
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by lukas099 2y ago
There are certainly sympathetic federal judges, including on the supreme court, but as a whole the judiciary is not (yet) owned
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by lukas099 2y ago
You said “it's well-known it's not a physique that correlates with actual physical strength” when the reality is closer to it being perfectly correlated, so no, I wasn’t nitpicking.
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by lukas099 2y ago
The courts have already rebuked Trump on multiple counts.
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by lukas099 2y ago
Yes, I think Trump is violating the Impoundment Act and the courts should set him straight.
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by lukas099 2y ago
They are mostly pushing for a strong Unitary Executive theory-based government. At least so far, their grabs have been within the Executive branch
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by lukas099 2y ago
It’s not that it’s from my country, it’s that the top athletes from a pool of 350 million or so people are all competing to play it at the top levels. I’m not sure how many are competing to be ice skaters, but that’s why I said it’s ‘one of
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by lukas099 2y ago
Yes
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by lukas099 2y ago
I meant currently successful, not throughout history, but yeah I can see that.
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by lukas099 2y ago
If you define strength as one-rep max, sure.
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by lukas099 2y ago
Yes, but they are stronger than 99% of people. You claimed that their muscle size had no correlation with strength, which is absurd.
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by lukas099 2y ago
You are grading American football on a world football rubric. One could just say that world football is not demanding because you don’t need much strength, you can be small and fast (easier than being big and fast), you don’t have to be phy
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by lukas099 2y ago
Agreed, pretty much any man can dramatically increase their lean body mass from baseline with 3-6 hours per week of resistance training for 6 months if they haven’t already done so.
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by lukas099 2y ago
I agree that strength is specific, but my point is that ‘bodybuilder muscle’ is not strictly ornamental. Powerlifters have incredible muscle mass, they just aren’t picky about covering it with body fat because it doesn’t make sense for the
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by lukas099 2y ago
Fair enough. I would submit that you probably have a local perspective as well.

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