Jim
1mo ago
Got to say, I find this one puzzling. Does Trump not already have Rogan’s core audience — MMA fans, online young men, etc — already locked down? It seems like he has few supporters to gain but many to lose if he has a gaffe.
Jim
1mo ago
Ah right, makes complete sense. I was thinking only of flooding caused by the ocean surging and not rain on land.
Jim
1mo ago
The topography of Florida precludes the sort of sudden deluges of water pouring down on unsuspecting towns, rather it would be a slowly rising water level that gives someone time to find elevation.
Can you help me understand why this is? I would’ve thought Florida, so much of it near the coast, would be more prone to rapid flooding. The water has a much shorter distance to reach wherever it’s flooding after all.
Or is your point just that people somewhere like Florida are accustomed to flooding so would be carefully observing water levels?
Jim
1mo ago
But those feelings go away after the first few weeks of the cut and I can continue in a similar caloric deficit without those effects. I also begin to find the bland cutting food — boiled eggs, chicken breasts, steamed vegetables, rice, etc — much more enjoyable. Which interpret as breaking the addiction to the much more satiating cutting/maintenance foods.
Jim
1mo ago
I’m a competitive bodybuilder and spend 4-6 months of the year in a bulking phase where I’m consuming around 6000 calories per day. And 8 to 10 weeks prior to competitions in extremely rigid diets.
And from this experience, I can tell you there is no doubt in my mind that food is 100% addictive, with a higher and higher level of caloric richness needing to reach satiety. When I’m on a restrictive diet pre-completion, I’d treat myself to chewing on a piece of seed bread before spitting it out — and it tastes so delicious.
And, on the other extreme, when I am bulking with no dietary restrictions (other than hitting minimum macronutrient amounts), I’d do things order a 12 piece bucket of KFC chicken, simply because I become so addicted to highly satiating food than I’m unable to force myself through the amount of lean chicken, tuna or whatever I’d need to meet my macro goals.
My experience from when I cut over between diets — bulking, cutting, maintenance — is how I know food is an addiction. When I begin cutting, the first 2-3 weeks is hell. I am lethargic, my head hurts, constantly starving, I have very bad breath, irritable, etc. But like clockwork I get used to the diet and go from choking down cans of tuna and steamed vegetables to actually craving the food I’m eating, and at that point I’m mostly on auto-pilot. The reason I am able to consistently do it is not because i have extreme willpower. Rather I’ve done it so many times before, I know the switch is going to flip and so in that sense it’s a huge bargain: you can get a 12 week diet for the price of only a couple weeks of actual grind up front.
Jim
3mo ago
What are the chances we could get a setting so the site theme is light/dark based on your iOS system setting? I’ve seen a bunch of other apps/sites that do this.
Jim
4mo ago
Jim
4mo ago
was thrust into the highest levels of politics without any skill development
How would you explain Trump stepping directly into the major leagues and winning in 2016?
You say that — and I don’t doubt that’s how it came across (not watching the debate). But I’m also seeing on /r/politics, threads, etc that Biden partisans are crowing about some apparent Trump gaffes.
So my feeling here is, baring one of them having a complete meltdown, it’s pretty much all ready priced in that both are going to produce some cringeworthy takes the other side can point to but on the whole it’s very likely not gonna move the needle one way or the other.
EDIT: actually I take this back. Even some of the most mind killed democrat partisans i follow on X are saying this is really bad for Biden. I still can’t bring myself to watch but I’ll take their word for it.
Jim
8mo ago
If one compares drug decriminalization, or general decriminalization policies with countries that follow law and order, the later not only have less drug abuse but also don't have to imprison that many people.
How do you explain the entire history of the failed War on Drugs, which seems to contradicts this?
Jim
10mo ago
I get your point. At the same time, it’s hard to imagine any Democrat pol would’ve been able to make “Drumpf” stick no matter how many times he repeated it.
Jim
11mo ago
The european mind cannot comprehend this
Jim
11mo ago
That’s illegal, in the US and elsewhere.
I’m gonna need a citation on this one … if this were true then it seems by definition the little ads atop my search results advertising — you guessed it, TVs — would also be illegal. Yet there they are.
Jim
1yr ago
When they’re not discussing political programs they have a lot of the same takes or bugbears with popular ‘liberal’ or ‘mainstream’ culture (marvel, games, funkopops, consoomerism etc).
I wouldn’t really say “same takes” so much as inverted or mirror images.
E.g., with all those you’ve got one side — the left in case of these specific examples — with almost a parody level enthusiasm for marvel/funkopops/etc and the other side with some over the top curmudgeonly hatred for some harmless hobby (in this case literally plastic trinkets).
It goes the other way as well. There’s no shortage of ultimately harmless right coded interests/products — NASCAR, bodybuilding, country music, etc — that seem to get treated like punching bags for the left.
Jim
1yr ago
he even follows @cremieuxrecueil
Who the hell is this and why is he significant?
If someone like myself — by all accounts an “extremely online” person compared to your typical man in the street — does not know a thing much less heard of this person/thing then it’s pretty much a given that any scandalous association you seem to think this implies won’t amount to anything with your typical reality TV addicted swing voter (i.e., the ones who ultimately swing elections one way or the other).
Jim
1yr ago
Kirk realizes that if Elon and Tucker are the bellwethers of post-Covid conservativism
Tucker sure, but fwiw I’ve never been convinced that Elon genuinely views himself as part of “conservativism” or even more broadly “the right”.
I would agree there’s been some definite shift in his public persona, where he seems to have pivoted from the “real life Tony Stark” to an almost parody level Chud Inc. persona. My best guess and working theory here is the shift is more social than political. As it nearly coincides with his move Texas and when he first started appearing on Joe Rogan, displaying a public interest in firearms, smokers, and all the other stereotypical interests of a Texas Chud type person r rather than a Silicon Valley scion.
Jim
1yr ago
Hmm, I think the site may just put it like that for mega threads. I don’t seem to have the option to edit it.
Jim
1yr ago
Just created it since it seems like no one else did: https://www.themotte.org/post/757/israel-gaza-megathread-iv
Jim
1yr ago
This is meaningless though without the accounting for the political leanings of where Jews happen to live. I’m willing to bet if you the average Jew was no more democrat leaning than the median voter in his county, you’d still come away with Jews, measured at the national level, leaning democrat. But normalize for the political leanings of where Jews live and I guarantee you’d see a very different picture.
Jim
1yr ago
They'll more likely support Hamas than Republicans, exceptions like Kushner aside.
As a Jewish man, i can’t even begin to describe how misinformed this is. Believe you me, we are the furthest thing from a monolith, with the quirky Larry David-esque stereotype being but a minuscule sliver of the diversity of the American Jewish community.
Consider this: just today in my random internet readings, I’ve come across Jewish opinion running the full gamut: from far-right hawks like Ben Shapiro, to stereotypical campus, progressives, academic leftists, deeply religious orthodox and pickup-driving gun toting southerners. We are all of that and more, plus everything in between.
Jim
1yr ago
Are the pure native Australians able to speak in languages in a fully fluent way?
Jim
1yr ago
How is it safe for Biden to visit Israel with a war raging next door? Like he’s got what, 100 secret service with him at a given time? Or maybe it’s even 500, I dunno. But I assume he’s not bringing tanks, mounted guns, and all that good stuff.
What is stopping like Hamas/Iran/Al Qaeda from saying “here’s our chance” and throwing everything last thing they’ve got and going after him? Is it just the host county, Israel in this case, is responsible for security, and must I assume go to great lengths with a US president in town?
I’ve never been able to get into podcasts, but I actually found this engaging. Part of it might’ve just been the week long hype cycle. When it first got announced Trump was gonna be on JRE, it legit had me soy facing.
Now will this move the needle? I’m not sure. I find Trump entertaining but for people more ambivalent, I feel like this may have just come across as more of the same Trump who is already a known quantity.
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