srf0638
8mo ago
This description of heating with wood is giving me flashbacks to a winter I spent in a yurt near the California/Oregon border.
srf0638
8mo ago
power sports
cycling
worse life outcomes
Eh? (Unless you're talking specifically about match sprinters, which is an awfully small sample size. The bad outcomes for endurance guys have historically involved low bone density and maybe skin cancer.).
Call Grayback Forestry or Franco Reforestation or Pacific Oasis and tell them you're interested, they'll walk you through it. A lot of the entry-level workforce consists of dumbass 18yo kids so they're used to answering questions. With your availability window you may not get out on actual fires much but Grayback will for sure have fuels work and I'm pretty sure the others will as well.
srf0638
8mo ago
When I was in a fairly similar situation, I picked up some contract wildland fire work. I didn't have any experience, but I was willing to travel and work, and they needed bodies. I enjoyed it overall, pretty slow at times but the money was decent. Seven years later, I'm a permanent employee on a hotshot crew, with a consolation master's. Unintended consequences (or were they?)
srf0638
8mo ago
I'll broadly echo this. My impression is that, at least post-COVID, blue-collar labor has as much bargaining power as it's ever had in the US, or very nearly so.
srf0638
8mo ago
Very reminiscent of the courtroom procedural bits in Sergio de la Pava's A Naked Singularity, which I liked a lot.
Thanks for the backstory. That's pretty wacky, but it sure beats sitting inside doompoasting all day.
Edit: read through some archives and man, that was kind of a bs ban. I hope he makes it and tells us all about it.
srf0638
11mo ago
Well, it certainly sounds like you'd know if it helped. I barely drink, haven't really a/b tested for myself, but it does seem like I enjoy being around people more when I drink, and when I saw that excerpt it occurred to me that maybe the author was on to something.
srf0638
11mo ago
I know several of these feels.
Do you drink? I can't find a full-text source online, but see https://twitter.com/snowset/status/1625119258265911296
It's interesting that we seem to equivocate between "lifting", "not being fat", "aesthetics", "the gym"/"gym bros", fighting sports and fighting ability, strength, and "being in shape" in this thread and discussions of this nature generally, as if they were all more or less equivalent, while endurance gets ignored, briefly passed over as "oh yeah, you gotta do some cardio too", or downright dismissed as a PMC affectation. At least some online endurance spaces are pretty normie left bluepilled (TrainerRoad forums spring to mind), though LetsRun is regularly accused of being problematic. Meanwhile, you yourself are a fairly performance-oriented endurance guy IIRC (I don't know if you own a power meter, but I wouldn't be surprised), there was at least a brief period in the 70s-80s when marathons and triathlons filled pretty much the same subcultural niche that Crossfit (and its knockoffs) and BJJ do now, and long-duration endurance is notoriously a limiting factor in most of the higher-speed parts of the US military. I don't really have a point or even a question here, it's just an observation.
See also: https://www.unz.com/isteve/right-versus-left-movie-stars/
(Edit, that came to me while out running: also, participation in endurance sport is exceptionally white-coded, and indeed competition at the highest levels is dominated by whites outside of running at marathon distance and below.).
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