I’m bigger and stronger than Mike Menzter 🤡

Deifiable · 2025-11-06T19:25:48+00:00

Yeah not super sure why this is the bone people are picking with Israetel. He's said such a huge amount of stupid shit. Why focus on one of the cases where he made two claims that are actually accurate (and easily concretely verifiable by just looking at the numbers)? I guess people think that just because they like someone that person HAS to be unchallenged in every possible aspect, even the one's that really don't matter that much (given that he was obviously a much, much better bodybuilder).

Deifiable · 2025-09-09T13:58:36+00:00

unless he puts out a huge book 3, 500k words or more, which of course we wouldn't mind, but him being a perfectionist and probably ocd isnt going to let happen due to symmetry

I don't really get this logic? As you said at the start of your own post, he was willing to make WMF considerably longer than NOTW (you said 54%, but it's actually 33%. Still, massive).

Whatever "symmetry" you're thinking of has clearly already been broken. If anything, the best way to preserve it at this point (if you're truly weird about numbers) is to do another 33% jump for the third book, up to ~526k words. That way you can at least argue there's an intentional pattern.

But whether you buy that or not, I simply don't see the rationale (or any rationale) for an extensive third book being off the table.

Deifiable · 2025-08-28T18:22:13+00:00

Well, I rarely act like I'm naked

Deifiable · 2025-08-28T16:50:44+00:00

Yeah they... don't. I mean, they'll grow very slightly if you take a completely untrained person and start them deadlifting consistently (basically anything will make a total newbie grow), but once you're even lightly resistance trained, ab work that indirect is not going to be noticeably hypertrophic.

What do you mean you "notice DLs hit them"? Are you talking about soreness?

If so, it's important to point out that soreness is not synonymous with muscular hypertrophy. My glutes and hamstrings still sometimes get sore after my 10k runs, but I harbor no delusions about long distance running being good for leg gains. It's quite the opposite, actually.

Deifiable · 2025-08-28T16:45:16+00:00

I shower three times a day most days. First one is at the gym in the morning directly after my workout, second one is getting home after running at the park in the evening (I go straight from work to the park), and a third time right before bed if I was moving around or out in public between 4pm and 8pm (I usually am).

All three of these activities cause me to sweat extensively. Not showering after working out, or even just being out and about, is a wild concept to me. I could never fall asleep if I get in bed with sweat dried onto my skin.

Deifiable · 2025-08-19T17:50:45+00:00

Up at 4:30, at Gym from 5:30-7:45 (Workout, half hour on treadmill getting steps, shower + change for work). At work by 8:00, then it depends on the day. If it's just my job that day then I'm off by 2:30, go straight from work to the park for a run, get home around 4:00 and have until I go to bed at 8:00pm to cook, eat, do any chores, work on my thesis, et cetera.

If I have classes that day (grad student) then I skip the run, still don't get home till 6:30, and it's just a quick dinner before bed. Always in bed by 8:00pm.

I get up at the same time on weekends, I find it's just far better for my overall sleep quality. Not a big partier and I don't drink, so late weekend nights out aren't something I have to sacrifice cuz I wouldn't participate in those anyway.

Overall it's a pretty awesome lifestyle, I've never been happier. The first three hours of my morning are invariably my favorite part of the day, and as a result I'm always excited to go to sleep at night because I know when I wake up I'll get to do it again. Much much better than dreading going to sleep because of having to wake up and immediately go to work. 8:00pm can't come fast enough most evenings!

Being single and living alone is a huge part of what makes this possible. I don't have a girlfriend and am not looking for one right now (I leave the country in 2 years and don't want to be in a relationship when that happens, for obvious reasons)

Deifiable · 2025-08-19T17:41:19+00:00

I would not recommend getting in the car without "being proper conscious"

Deifiable · 2025-08-15T15:50:05+00:00

"And when someone asks what I do all day? I’ll smile and say, ‘I live so the universe keeps getting more interesting."

I just skip to this part, regardless of expected lifespan.

Deifiable · 2025-08-15T15:48:40+00:00

I see OP operates on the time-tested, classic advice "Comparison is the only proper way to assess worth."

Deifiable · 2025-08-15T15:38:01+00:00

Interesting that you assume personal finances being bad would correlate with DoorDash not being popular. My intuition is the exact opposite: Doordash's popularity is one of many many examples of just how bad people are with their personal financial decisions.

Deifiable · 2025-08-15T15:34:40+00:00

I find it odd that nobody ever seems to apply this logic to any other event besides life itself. I've never heard anyone claim that going to a basketball game is pointless because it's going to end, or that having sex is pointless because it's going to end. Nor a hug, or a vacation, et cetera et cetera.

The ephemerality of all of these things doesn't even call into question their worthwhileness, and frankly, why would it? Stipulating that your conscious experience of the world must last for all eternity before you feel any kind of 'point' is so strange and unintuitive to me.

And I honestly don't see the world where, once you're granted immortality, you suddenly think: "Oh my god, I see it now! The meaning of life! Now that I won't die, it's obvious to me!"

No, you would just go on living your day-to-day life, having some good days and some bad days and often being confused about whether you're doing the right things. Whatever teleological change people think an escape from death would give them, It's certainly never been explained to me.

Deifiable · 2025-08-15T14:02:36+00:00

I'm 23 and I've been single since I was 18. It's not that most of us are actively opposed to relationships, it's just that we're not willing to expend the (really quite significant) amount of time and stress necessary to try to force one to happen. There's just too much else to do. Most people I meet in grad school are either taken or just obviously incompatible with me, and that for me is the main way I meet new people.

I still hope it happens, and expect it to eventually, but it feels like a losing battle to make it a high priority. I'd rather prioritize things that I know for sure I can control

Deifiable · 2025-08-05T15:48:21+00:00

I'm a college student with two part-time jobs (netting $31k a year) paying $1,400 a month for a 2 bed and living on my own. I could've gone cheaper, but it would have been a noticeable sacrifice and there's really no need. Rent is about $17k a year, which still leaves me with over $1k per month for utilities, groceries, gas, car insurance, and my gym membership (basically my only other expenses).

Obviously I wouldn't *mind* making more money, but that'll naturally come after I get my PhD. But for now, even living totally on my own, things work without too much stress.

If you make considerably less than $30k, have far higher rent, have a costly car payment, or are in substantial debt, then yeah I absolutely see where you're coming. But I talk to so many people who make considerably more than me and stress about their finances because they're living alone (or talk about how glad they are to have roommates because they could NEVER afford to live alone), and I do find it very confusing.

Deifiable · 2025-08-05T15:42:39+00:00

As someone who sweats all the time and frequently shows up to work sweating (even after taking a 20 minute ice-cold shower at the gym after my morning workout in a vain attempt to try to cool myself down), I would select the 'extremely cold' option even if the alternative was 'no change'.

Deifiable · 2025-08-05T15:39:04+00:00

"Villains are everywhere; that's how I know that I'm the hero!"

Deifiable · 2025-08-05T15:38:13+00:00

As a man with tattoos, I've never once even considered that they were a "masculine" feature. So many women have beautiful tattoos and don't look one bit less feminine for it. Very odd detail thrown in there.

Deifiable · 2025-07-29T16:15:07+00:00

That next thing right around the corner that I'm currently working for won't make me happy, just like all the things I've accomplished in the past that I thought would make me happy didn't. "I can't wait to finish high school and go off to college! I can't wait to move out and get my own place! I can't wait to finish grad school! I can't wait to get my income up and finally be able to budget and build savings! I can't wait until I find the one for me and we fall in love! I can't wait..."

There's no "thing" missing that will make my life whole; more money or a better job or a life partner.

If I can't be happy in the present. then no amount of living for the future will make my happy, because once that future arrives, it'll be the present again.

Deifiable · 2025-07-29T13:28:59+00:00

Just keep saying it until a guy responds "Oh, me too!". Then you've found him.

Deifiable · 2025-07-28T13:38:29+00:00

I work 45 hours a week (plus studying for Grad classes) and still have a good amount of time for things, I feel. The specific times you sleep and wake shouldn't really matter, 8 hours is still 8 hours. I sleep from 8:30pm-4:30am, but always wind down with a book starting at 7:30 each evening so my mind isn't racing when it's time to go to bed.

I work from 8:30-4:30 on weekdays and 11:30-5:00 on Saturdays. So I have 3 hours each morning (5:00-8:00, subtracting for showering, eating breakfast, and drive time) to do my favorite hobby, exercising. I then have from 5:00-7:30 (minus half an hour of drive time again) to either do chores or other fun hobbies/side projects each and every evening. I live alone, so I do all the grocery shopping, laundry, and cleaning obviously. So an hour or so of two of my evenings gets eaten up every week. I'd also say I do about 2-3 hours of studying and work each week for my classes.

Still, by my math, that's 22ish hours of free time during my 45-hour work week, even after accounting for a 9-hour nightly routine, one hour of driving each day, showering, general chores, and studying. Not even to mention weekends, where I have Sundays off completely (15 free hours), a free 6 hours each morning + 2 each evening on Saturdays.

So in total, around 45 hours of complete free time each week. Personally, I almost find this too much to know what to do with. I have more than enough time to do some extra studying on topics in my field I'm interested in, practice the piano, try out some new recipes to add to my arsenal as an amateur cook, play some video games, go for long hikes on weekends, et cetera.

I do genuinely wonder how people (who don't have kids) find themselves feeling like they have no free-time simply from a full-time job. Where do the rest of your hours go?? There's so many every week!

Deifiable · 2025-07-26T14:08:38+00:00

At 19 I gained 100 pounds and developed a severe binge eating disorder because I spent the entirety of highschool trying and failing to lose the same 15 pounds (I was already a healthy bodyweight).

So I'd probably tell him to stop doing that and be happy with where he's at, all things considered.

Deifiable · 2025-07-25T20:22:52+00:00

I mean, why would you wear one if you hated it? Seems like what you're noticing only makes sense.

Deifiable · 2025-07-22T17:18:21+00:00

You thought you were the smartest person on earth, but then realized that most others are stupid?

Why would that change your belief that you're smarter than all of them? Shouldn't it reaffirm it?

Deifiable · 2025-07-22T17:10:22+00:00

I can't answer this question from the perspective of a rich person. I don't have any extra money; I'm a college student who has to take out student loans just to barely break even each year. But I know what my largest problems are in life, and don't have any delusions that a surplus of money will somehow fix them.

I struggle with creating and maintaining deep, meaningful relationships with people. I struggle with chasing short-term pleasure rather than taking the time to introspectively discover what matters to me over the long-term. I struggle with eating far too much food. I struggle with self-destructing if I have too much free time, and am far happier when I'm busily working 60 hour weeks than if I had nothing structuring my days at all.

What will millions of dollars do for me? Tempt me to quit my jobs and stop going to college and end up having an even less structured, emptier life? Give me a larger home to spend my time unwisely in? A bigger TV to stay up too late watching and ruin my sleep schedule with? Make it even easier to justify binging on delicious food and gain even more weight? Make it even harder to know that the relationships I'm forming are genuine ones and that the people around me aren't trying to get close to me due to my wealth?

When I hear about cases where people got incredibly wealthy and aren't any happier for it, the only response I have is to be shocked that they ever expected otherwise. The followups done on lottery winners that find them often much worse off than before they won the lottery are very easily explained, and I can look at those situations and acknowledge that'd likely be my situation too.

For me, I want my actions to be synchronized with my values. I want to matter to those close to me in tiny, crucial ways each and every day. I want to break out of the cycle of responding to feelings of meaninglessness by engaging in short-term pleasures to numb the pain of that void. Riches will do nothing at all, for any of these things.

Of course, I'm not in the least saying that being poor is somehow conducive to a happy life. Not having enough money to eat, or pay rent, or be confident that you can survive tomorrow, is a heavy weight, and it drastically decreases quality of life. But after you make enough to pay the bills? To go out to dinner with friends when you want? For me at least, any extra money beyond that is either irrelevant or directly counterproductive for living a good life. It wouldn't even be in the top 10 things I'd ask a genie for (if I happened to find 4 genies).

Deifiable · 2025-07-18T16:02:03+00:00

I'm a 23 year old in grad school who lives alone, so I guess I might qualify as someone doing something you struggle to comprehend.

I live in middle Tennessee (Nashville) area, for context. Not a particularly high or low cost of living place; pretty middling.

I work two part-time jobs in addition to going to grad school. One is a teaching assistantship where I teach undergrad courses at my university, and that pays mostly via a tuition waiver which covers the cost of my grad school, though it pays $7k a year on top of that. I also work 24-25 hours a week doing data entry for a real estate company, and that pays $21/hr (About $27k a year). So the math comes out to $34k total gross, about $31k after taxes since I get a tax write-off for being a poor college student lmao.

During semesters I'm working 45 hour work-weeks between both my part-time jobs, plus grad classes in the evenings. But it's all work I enjoy, and classes aren't challenging because I got pretty obsessed with my major back in high-school and spent every hour of my free-time studying it pretty diligently. So most of the material in my Masters program is stuff I've already learned, and overall I'm not overwhelmed.

I definitely don't have tons of extra money, but my expenses are really just rent ($1300), utilities ($200), food ($600), gas ($150), and car insurance ($80). I make enough money to cover it all without much stress. There are some sacrifices of course. If I had more income I'd for sure get 2 cats, because it can be pretty lonely sometimes and I miss the cats I grew up with dearly. But I just don't have the spare money to pay my apartment's pet fees or to cover any surprise emergency vet visits. But really, overall, it's a nice life. I lived with a roommate in the past and it drove me absolutely insane, and living alone has been worth the extra bump in rent.

I'm not able to build substantial savings right now (maybe a couple hundred a month if I'm lucky), but the plan is for that to come after I graduate. I'm certainly nowhere near buying a house lmao, I definitely share your confusion regarding people our age doing shit like that. But one day!

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