FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
And every gimmick hungry yob
Digging gold from rock n roll
Grabs the mic to tell us
he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this
And it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns
Will later join the church
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FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4m ago
Men travel to escape from themselves, but it does not work. For wherever you go, there you are.
Sure, but where do you come from? Your genetics, sure, but also you are the product of your experiences, of how you grew up. It's hard to contend that there is no impact from formative experiences throughout your life on personality.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6m ago
No, it doesn't.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
12hr ago
I'm surprised that people who are terrrrrrrified of Socialism aren't using the obvious weirdness of the election to discredit Zohran.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
14hr ago
The hectoring boomer "you're not allowed to vote for him" tone is so incredibly bad it makes one doubt the supposed competence of the billionaire bloc that forms the anti Zohran forces. If they're this stupid, he might be right that they don't deserve all that money.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
Fatherland is ā¢ļø for Hitler in the American mind, so motherland is used where you're not trying to imply fascism.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
Also it was on the tip of my tongue, Charles V abdicated from ruling half the world and lived out his life in a monastery.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
My low stakes conspiracy theory (my wife and my mother are both big royal family watchers) is that he married Meghan Markle specifically to quiet people who liked him more than William, as after that there was no way he could be king.
Either way, he needs to get his ass in gear and become Grand Duke of Kiev.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
Tbf this is what an 87 year old told me, not necessarily the current system, they might have reformed that trick out of the system by now. Though I've no doubt there are other tricks.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
I have a family friend, retired Statie. He's been retired my entire life. He just bought a Z06 Vette, which is a bitchin' ride, and I joked that I wanted right of first refusal on it in his will. He bought it essentially because he liked the sound, he doesn't even drive it over 50!, and because he has no kids and too much money and he's gonna die soon.
And he's been very open about working the pension system, and the way every State Trooper cooperates to do it. The pension system determines salary based on average of your highest three years, including overtime. So in every barracks they know when it's your years to salary max, and you pick up every possible hour of overtime, and guys coordinate to call out sick at convenient times to get you more overtime, and you get every special assignment to hunt a fugitive or handle an event or whatever, so you look at the salary numbers for these guys and there are always precisely three balloon years to max out their pension.
Relatedly my litmus test for a True Small Government believer is, how do you respond to the data showing NYC has way more firefighters than they need.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
It's just hard to separate the role from the psychology of the man where the difference is so stark. Decades ago Harry was known for his impulsiveness, his wildness, for his refusal to be led around by anyone.
But this is a philosophy of personality question. I don't think personalities exist absent context. The starting quarterback and the backup quarterback on the high school football team have different personalities, but the backup is only the backup because of the existence of the starter.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
Prince Harry the heir is different man that Prince Harry the spare. He never married Meghan Markle, he married a black American divorcee specifically to avoid being compared to his brother.
William, by contrast, is certainly ready to be king. He's had 20 years of adulthood to prepare! And it would be great for the UK! The last time they had a monarch that young was 1968! Shake the cobwebs off and dance!
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
Sure but that's not modernity. Life and healthspans were different, expectations of the ruler were different. Were King Donald a modern king and I a modern monarchist, I would advocate for his abdication, or at least for stepping back in favor of the heir. Fwiw, I think Charles should do the same, you don't want to end up with a long run of men who wait a lifetime to be king. I'm not sure monarchy really works without early and violent deaths intervening on occasion, you wind up with gerontocracy.
We see this very pattern in our best example of a ruling monarch today, King Salman of Saudi Arabia who has largely abdicated in favor of MBS. Salman recognized the danger of the Saudi throne being passed from aged brother to aged brother, a gerontocracy where crown princes died of old age, and skipped over many heads to get MBS next in line and passed him power to get things moving.
Given Donald's age, he should be putting one of his two and half grown sons on the ballot. Absent that, I think even mooting running Donald is evidence that MAGA, or at least some interpretations of MAGA, is a lot more fragile than it may appear.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
When thinking about this issues, I always try to find some old time equivalent and how would it go.
In the "are we dating the same guy" case the old time equivalent is that enough people know each other, and talk to each other often enough, that someone will see your Jack out at a bar across town with some girl who isn't you and if they don't tell you they'll tell someone who will tell someone who will tell you.
Or in the case of "Tom's a serial date rapist," the old time equivalent is that you heard a rumor that Tom and Susie were parking up at the lookout and no one quite knows what happened but Susie missed school the next day and they stopped talking so it must have been something bad, because Susie was wearing Tommy's class ring all the time and she stopped right away.
The way you achieve something like this today is by trying to build a dense community around yourself, have lots of friends, talk to them a lot, and date only other people from within that community who also have lots of friends they talk to a lot.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
It's bizarre to advocate for an 80 year old man with three and a half grown sons to run for a third term. If Trump were a monarch, any reasonable monarchist would be advocating for him to abdicate and retire in favor of one of his children.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
To be clear, I'm not really attached to either definition, I think the word "gay" is inconsistently used and applied, such that using it in conversation or argument to exclusively mean either the act/sin-based or identity/attraction-based definition is likely to run into snags when two people are using the word to mean different things. Without clarifying our definitions all we're going to achieve is shouting our definitions at each other, so I asked you to clarify what definition you are using to get the conversation moving more productively.
Personally, Homosexuality and sexual orientation is something that I'm intellectually struggling to define at this point. I really don't know what I think Homosexuality is. The "Born This Way" argument seems to have been more or less abandoned, repealed without replacement, by the LGBTQWERTY types. Not long ago Posner would cite the "helper in the nest" theory when writing an opinion on gay rights, the Born This Way theory was a keystone to the entire gay rights movement. Now, it is treated as either an assumption or an irrelevancy, but it isn't even part of the catechism anymore. When I ask woke friends of mine, queer themselves, what the current theory of homosexuality is in this month's issue of The Gay Agenda, they shrug and say idk it doesn't really matter anymore.
Alternatively, homosexual behavior is a pure choice that anyone can make. That doesn't feel right to me, as there is no situation in which I would be attracted to a male, I can't imagine a situation where it would occur to me to engage in homosexual activity. I can imagine most things that I don't like being appealing in some context, Islam or Hockey or beans on toast or genocide, but homosexuality I can't imagine. So there clearly must be some genetic difference between me and the men who are gay. But no one seems interested in telling me what anymore.
Idk, it's something I'm pretty lost on at this point if I stop to think about it.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3d ago
It just depends what you want to use the word "gay" to mean. If you want to indicate a certain variety of sinner, then it's best to use the "screwing anyone with a Y chromosome even once, in any manner, regardless of context" definition. If you want to try to describe a group of people with similar attributes, then calling people attracted to Traps gay isn't really very useful, they don't share attributes with most of the rest of the group.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3d ago
What's a 1919 tattoo symbolize?
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
No my argument is that a guy who is attracted to a tranny prostitute with good tits is more likely to also be attracted to Sydney Sweeney than he is to be attracted to Jaxson Dart; so calling him gay would generally fail as a predictive model of the world, he isn't likely to act like the other people I call gay.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
Those two definitions are going to sometimes return conflicting signals. One definition is essentially the definition of a crime or a sin, a thief is someone who takes something that isn't theirs. The other is the definition of a predilection or a disease, a kleptomaniac is someone who constantly desires to steal things. Conflating the two definitions leads to communications breakdowns.
A frat boy who wakes up still drunk and drives his lifted Jeep Wrangler home and kills a moron cyclist riding his bike at 4am* is a killer, in the sense that his actions caused the death of another, and he is guilty of the appropriate crime of manslaughter. But he isn't a killer in the sense that a hitman or a gangbanger is, or even in the sense that a Navy SEAL who has never committed a crime** is a killer. We learn nothing about the frat boy's (literal) killer instinct or bloodlust from his drunk driving disaster, it has little predictive value as to the risk that he will kill again. Vehicular manslaughter, as a crime of killing, is mostly non-predictive of a tendency towards killing in other situations. Similarly, special categories exist, killing in the military is poorly predictive of killing in civilian life.
Normally these two definitions of gay will work together. If you want to have sex with a dude, your attraction algorithm probably contains other dudes. But having never been to Thailand or spoken with a ladyboy customer, idk what their attraction algorithms look like. Certainly I doubt most of the gay men I know want to have sex with a post-surgery (breasted) tranny.
*Me
**lol
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
The trick is to just lift more than the people mocking you.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
I took the first long ride on my bike on my planned path to a century, doing a 50k ride to Cape May in South Jersey. The thing I like about picking up new hobbies is that I learn so much every time I do something I've never done before. I'm glad I spent so much time trying out different bikes before I committed to anything, if I had purchased a bike four months ago I would have picked something very different. I'm riding a 2005ish Bianchi Volpe touring bike. I would have assumed I would never use drop bars, but I actually find I like drop bars a lot better than flat bars. I feel like I can put down power more easily when needed, and on the longer ride I appreciated having the ability to switch up hand positions to adjust my body or get out of the wind or just to avoid boredom. Plus I like the integrated shifter/brake design, though I miss the gear indicators on most mountain bikes I've seen, sometimes I've been very wrong about what gear I was in, though less often than I think I am.
I do wish I would have left earlier in the morning. I got out around 630, I wanted to try to leave in the twilight so that I'd get out as early as possible without riding much in the dark for too long. In retrospect, I would have rather rode in the dark for a bit, I have a good headlight, there weren't any cars on the road early, and if I route through quieter roads it's a non-concern. And as it got later, traffic started to pick up which slowed me down a bit. Given the choice I'll trade more time riding in the dark for less time riding with cars around me.
On balance it went fine, I wasn't thrilled with the speed I kept up but it was within my expectations, and to be honest I'm not sure what the precise distance traveled or moving speed was because Strava glitched out and tells me I took a shortcut and biked directly across the bay rather than taking the bridge. The direct shortest route I mapped to the lighthouse was 37 miles, Strava said I did it in 31 miles, I didn't entirely follow that short route and probably did more as I got off course several times because I took a wrong turn, chose to take a longer road because it was prettier or safer or for less traffic, and then there was a period where I was cruising through residential neighborhoods looking for an unattended construction site to pee. Then when I got to the Lighthouse, and called my wife who was supposed to pick me up there, she wasn't awake yet, so I rode another five miles back to town to meet her at the restaurant we'd picked. So I did somewhere between 36 and 42 miles, or something like that.
I was pleased with my endurance, I wasn't struggling to pedal even at the end just dropped a couple gears, though I was changing handlebar positions every few seconds trying to find a position I could hold. I definitely feel like I had more in the tank.
Mrs. FiveHour forgot something important at the Shore, so we're going back this weekend, and I'm going to try for fifty miles Saturday morning, which is the next step towards my goal of hitting a century. I'd never biked farther than 20 miles in a day before last weekend, and I was kind of nervous that I'd find out I didn't have it. After this ride I'm feeling confident I'll hit the fifty miles, and the metric century not long after that, but I'm thinking to do a full hundred miles I might need to actually find an organized ride or race where I won't have to deal with road traffic that slowed me down significantly. Alternatively, I could do the five mile loop at my local rail trail twenty times in a row, which would have the advantage of being easy to meter if I can keep count. Biggest thing I need to do is improve my ability to keep a higher cadence for longer period.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
I just ran the Baltimore marathon this past Saturday in a 2:44. This beats my Boston time from earlier this year by about ~5:00, which Iām really happy with, considering the course is much harder. I closed in a 5:14 mile, meaning I had a lot left in the tank.
Well I'm fucking jealous!
Good job bro.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
Just to add, I started washing my hands with cold water wherever possible and that really reduced my torn calluses.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
Can you define what you mean by Gay?
Your instinct is probably correct here. Not because it is dehumanizing, but because I don't think it's an easy classification system. You probably only get a consistent classification of parasites versus hosts, makers versus takers, whatever you want to call it.
Are Landlords parasites? Are people who own large amounts of stock? Are people who profess a willingness to work but are currently out of work, or make so little money that they rely on government relief programs to get by? What if they credibly argue that they could be making more but-for technology/immigration/bum-knees/whatever? What about people who make a lot of money, but they do it by selling things that are bad for us? Are drug dealers makers or takers? What about the Sacklers? Is a prostitute who supports herself and saves enough for retirement a parasite?
It's a tough move to make consistently.
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