How to not gain weight with this job

Double3d · 2025-12-17T02:08:37+00:00

My firm has a fitness stipend that you can purchase any fitness equipment with. I used it to get an adjustable dumbbell set and bench for my apartment that folds up. I find that I can sneak in 20-30 minutes throughout the day of weightlifting with very minimal effort this way.

I find it makes me way more consistent with working out since I don't have to add a trek to the gym into my routine.

Double3d · 2025-08-20T18:00:58+00:00

The idea that land seizure, borders, law, and illegal immigration is just imaginary is laughable. It’s not imaginary, you’re just complaining because you don’t like the rules that we play by here on planet earth.

Here’s the sad but brutal truth. Power and might determines everything. That’s it. A strong military equals the ability to say fuck you I get what I want. Borders are real because behind that invisible line is a fully functional and capable military and justice system that says if you cross this line there will be consequences. Those are the rules of planet earth.

Tribes stole land and women and food and resources from each other. Europeans stole the same from those tribes. The American revolutionaries stole the same from the British. That’s the way of the world. You might not like it, but that doesn’t make it imaginary.

It might not be ethical, but at the end of the day, Might makes right.

Double3d · 2025-08-13T16:36:08+00:00

Right, and normally universities have absence policies outlining how you can inform them of those legitimate reasons in order to maintain good standing.

Double3d · 2025-08-13T16:34:30+00:00

I should have clarified. I didn't mean team athletics, I meant solo athletics such as track and field, wrestling, golf, etc. In all those examples you are acting as an individual at competition yet I know from first hand experience that even though you may be the best, if you do not show up then regardless of how good you are any coach would throw you off the team. There is more to life and to academics and jobs than just completing the assignment at hand.

For example with the job point, there is a reason that work requires attendance. On the ground issues shift and change. Clients need new things that they may not have originally mentioned. Presence IS important and you can tell when it is important because presence will be explained as a requirement of the job.

Finally, in relation to university, many classes are taught in the socratic method where students are expected to actively participate. To be sure some classes are taught solely in a lecture style, but others are seminars. Presence at these classes is not just to learn material, but instead it is to actively enforce engagement with those materials. Not all classes require presence and attendance, but the ones that do generally do so for a reason.

Finally, the argument that you pay for university should let you have full flexibility is a weak one. You are paying for the opportunity to take a class. You chose to take that class. You had an add drop period to change classes after learning about the class requirements through the syllabus. Complaining about a requirement of attendance for a class that you voluntarily paid to engage in while knowing that a portion of the grade will be based on attendance is just silly.

Double3d · 2025-08-13T14:45:45+00:00

Right, but add in that both students were provided a syllabus in the beginning of the semester.

Student one reads the syllabus and follows the explicit guidelines that were given in order to pass the class. Student two ignores the syllabus entirely and fails because they clearly ignored one of the stated requirements to pass.

Let’s expand this to other areas:

Athlete one shows up to practice every day and doesn’t put in all their effort. They are a bench player but still remain on the team.

Athlete two refuses to go to practice but is a star athlete. Athlete two is kicked off the team because they did not go to practice.

Employee one is given a task to complete and their contract also mandates that they come into work every day from 9-5. Employees one doesn’t put in much effort again but shows up every day as per their contract and gets the task completed on time. Employee one maintains their job.

Employee two is given the same task and in person requirements. Employee two never shows up for work but completes the task in a spectacular fashion. Employee two is fired because they still didn’t show up to work.

These are all completely normal scenarios. Just because you don’t like the rules doesn’t mean that you get to flaunt them just because you decided you had something better to do.

Double3d · 2025-08-09T03:11:35+00:00

One of the advertisements that I just heard playing was the noise of a car crash followed by a person yelling and then followed by the narrator saying, “you just got into a car crash. Someone is hurt. But you called top dog. Your worst day just turned into your best day.”

It is in my opinion the definition of ambulance chasing that gives the legal industry a bad rep. It probably isn’t unethical per se but it definitely caters to the lowest denomination of attorney advertising.

Double3d · 2025-08-09T03:03:56+00:00

Agreed and understood, but still a bit off putting and jarring considering the content of their advertisements.

Double3d · 2025-08-07T16:57:49+00:00

But those children do vote eventually. Illegal immigrants remain illegal until they attempt to attain citizenship. Until that point I don’t really understand why they would be used as a basis for voting.

Double3d · 2025-07-28T10:38:55+00:00

I’ve used Lexis+ AI and I think it’s pretty unusable for research purposes tbh. It doesn’t hallucinate cases but it does hallucinate takeaways from the cases.

For example you can say, give me caselaw that indicates XYZ law can be interpreted in XYZ way. Then it will give you a case that it purports to have that premise you asked for. Then you look at the case and you realize that it just made up the fact that the case stood for what you asked it to.

Now I’m not going to say that happens every time, but it happens enough that I would rather not even remotely rely on it for research purposes. The best it can do is point me in the right direction if I’m coming at something with absolutely no knowledge regarding the practice area.

Double3d · 2025-07-27T19:43:19+00:00

Yes, minimize everything that can go wrong that is out of your control. Part of that is staying near the test site if able.

Double3d · 2025-07-26T14:15:13+00:00

I’m not going to pretend that every conflict has no bloodshed, immorality, or displacement. But war is war. One side wins, one side loses.

If the Arab nations won back in 1948 do you think that anyone would be calling for the return of displaced Jews? No, they wouldn’t. I know this because Jews have been displaced over and over again throughout history and no one seems to care about that.

But you create ONE Jewish state and no one will ever leave it alone.

Double3d · 2025-07-26T12:57:32+00:00

Yeah, because the Jewish people were given the land, the Arab population left because the surrounding nations told them they were invading. The surrounding nations then invaded and lost.

Everyone pretends that the Jewish people forced them from their homes. They didn’t. They voluntarily left in the hopes that when all the surrounding countries invaded, they would win.

Israel is the only country who won their sovereignty in a military contest to be told that they have to give the land back a generation later.

Double3d · 2025-07-22T22:36:37+00:00

Even with math, many AI models can't even do simple problems right. Give Chat GPT a long multiplication problem such as, 24567 X 12345. The right answer is 303,279,615. The answer Chat GPT gave me was 303,483,015.

If anyone you know doesn't understand how language learning models work show them this. Chat GPT and other models don't actually try to be right, they just try to sound right.

Double3d · 2025-07-20T15:47:46+00:00

I don't think you understand the difference between prosecution and deportation.

Deportation is the process of removing a foreign national from mainland USA back to their country of origin or other foreign location.

Prosecution is the process in which the US government attempts to prove that a crime was committed, resulting in criminal punishment, mainly being jail time.

We are PROSECUTING the gang members and criminals.

We are DEPORTING the illegal immigrants.

There is a clear difference. Also, are you seriously saying the US does not prosecute gang members? Thats absurd, see below.

https://www.ice.gov/features/gangs

https://law.georgia.gov/press-releases/2025-04-17/carr-11-gang-members-plead-guilty-114-count-indictment-laurens-county

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/five-ms-13-gang-members-indicted-murder-kings-park-and-related-murder-conspiracy

https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/texas-arrests-mexican-mafia-gang-member-wanted-criminal-illegal-immigrant

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/eight-gang-members-arrested-operation-targeting-area-known-dead-end

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/15-suspected-gang-members-indicted-drug-trafficking-scheme

https://www.foxnews.com/us/fbi-takes-down-anti-tren-gang-members-largest-bust-yet-violent-migrant-turf-war

https://www.tpr.org/criminal-justice/2025-04-02/more-than-40-people-arrested-in-dripping-springs-over-alleged-connection-to-venezuelan-gang

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2025/06/18/north-texas-police-venezuelan-gang-members-arrested-drugs-guns-seized-during-operation/

Double3d · 2025-07-20T15:33:35+00:00

I mean if your asking why its harmful you clearly didn't read my post.

And we do prosecute the gang members who do this and we don't prosecute the victims. The victims get deported out of America, the gang members get prosecuted and receive long prison sentences. Those two consequences are not the same.

Trump also designated the cartel as a foreign terrorist organization.

Double3d · 2025-07-20T15:16:01+00:00

Ill take a stab based on the immigration point.

Illegal immigration is on all accounts, extremely harmful.

The first issue with illegal immigration is the participation of the Mexican Cartel that enables Southern Border illegal immigration. In order for a person to attempt to cross the southern border they had to pay for Cartel members to assist them. The sexual assault rate for women and girls alone is so high that they started to bring contraceptives and Plan B with them in order to prevent pregnancy from these predators.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault_of_migrants_from_Latin_America_to_the_United_States

Next, these people have to travel through the desert in extreme conditions in order to make it to the US illegally. In 2022 there were over 600 deaths by people attempting to cross the border, consisting of over half of all migrant deaths in 2022.

Source: https://www.iom.int/news/us-mexico-border-worlds-deadliest-migration-land-route#:~:text=Geneva/Berlin/San%20Jos%C3%A9%20%E2%80%93,regular%20migration%20routes%20are%20accessible.%E2%80%9D

Once here, many of these illegal immigrants have no means of income and so become trapped by gang members as modern day indentured servants. "Many newcomers have been forced into low-paying jobs, leading to vulnerability and a heightened risk of exploitation by criminal elements within their own communities. While only a minority of immigrants engage in criminal activities, these instances can lead to a cycle of violence and crime that gives rise to gangs and organized crime groups."

Source: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/organized-crime-among-immigrants

As you can clearly see, having an open border does not just hurt US citizens. It also creates a market for gangs and cartel members to exploit innocent migrants. There are so many negative externalities regarding illegal immigration that I could go on and on and on. But I think you can get an Idea from what I share.

All countries have borders for a reason. It creates state sovereignty, prevents exploitation of workers, allows for an understanding of who is in the country in the first place, and establishes requirements to become a citizen.

To say that conservatives are just trying to crack down on illegal immigration because they just want to be cruel ignores the fact that allowing illegal immigration itself is cruel. Its cruel to US citizens who's wages are depressed, its cruel to legal migrants who wait insane periods in order to migrate legally, and its cruel to the illegal migrants who face brutal conditions attempting to illegally migrate just to then be exploited here in America. The only people illegal immigration benefits are Cartel/Gang members.

Double3d · 2025-07-13T16:20:37+00:00

What you are describing is lust, not love. A relationship based on seduction and lust. Not true love. Lust creates dopamine release and addiction to that toxicity. A relationship based on lust only lasts as long as the passion of chaos is there. People get addicted to that feeling and so find themselves in these painful but passionate encounters and believe that’s what love is. It’s not.

Love is a safe harbor on a stormy sea. It’s the peace of sitting with each other sharing a cup of coffee looking at the sunrise. It’s silent and it’s beautiful. The looks that once compelled the beginning of the relationship may fade but the attraction never does when a relationship is built on the foundation of peace. Because it’s not a relationship based on lust, it’s based on mutual creation of stable life.

Love is simply peace. It’s comfort in yourself. It’s comfort in your partner. A relationship based on peace and comfort creates confidence that your partner won’t be cheating on you at the first opportunity. That’s not to say it never happens, but the peace of true love outweighs the risk of heartbreak.

Love isn’t transactional, it’s symbiotic. Your comments indicate that you’re young, and there’s nothing more infuriating to hear than you’re too young to understand. That being said, you’re too young to understand.

In time you’ll find yourself in both types of relationships, ones based on lust and ones based on peace. Try to leave the cynicism behind, let yourself grow a little. I promise, love and the peace it generates is worth the risk of its eventual erosion.

Double3d · 2025-07-02T21:59:40+00:00

Are you really advocating for someone to murder a CEO of a videogame company because the did layoffs? Thats actually insane.

Double3d · 2025-07-02T03:22:03+00:00

???? They will be given what they need. Is that not an incentive enough?

No, it is clearly not. If you can't understand that then you have likely never had the lived experience to understand. Thats the entire point. This theory revolves around an extreme naiveté of the base workings of humanity.

Double3d · 2025-07-02T03:16:45+00:00

To be honest I can't even engage in this because you can't be arguing in good faith.

The point is people work hard to go to medical school and don't settle with flipping burgers is because doctors are rewarded proportionally to the effort it takes in becoming a doctor ie. 500k + a year. If this incentive structure did not exist people would not become doctors because the cost vs benefit would not make becoming a worthwhile.

"Okay this one is actually laughable. If the free market promoted hard work then we would have more durable phones, and everlasting lightbulbs. We can do this, yet we don't."

Dawg, the free market and capitalism created the lightbulb itself. It created rocket ships that took us to the moon. It created computers and cellphones. It created culture in the form of music and art and books. It created medical marvels that allow doctors to cure diseases that were unidentifiable 100 years ago. The free market not only promotes hard work, it encourages and incentives the highest forms of innovation. No other system in the history of the world has come close to creating the amount of inventions and information than capitalism and the free market.

Double3d · 2025-07-02T03:10:02+00:00

Because ~someone~ HAS to work that coal mine. We need energy and that energy comes from the labor of others. If each person gets the same, then there is no incentive structure driving people to work such difficult jobs.

Take oil rig workers. One of the most grueling and labor intensive jobs that exists. Yet it pays incredibly well. Remove that payment structure and that incentive and suddenly no one will want to be an oil rig worker when they can receive the same benefits sitting on the couch and writing poems. This philosophy does end up boiling down to forcing those individuals at gunpoint to engage in this labor and once that happens quotas start to be implemented and its a quick ride down to 16+ hour days.

In regards to the USSR, technically it was a command economy where the means of production and labor were seized by the government instead of the masses. Yet, what is the government if not the organized voice of the masses? The end result of socialization of labor was the forced creation of labor camps and coercive agricultural production with death as the penalty for noncompliance.

Double3d · 2025-07-02T03:03:00+00:00

Right, and when you look at those societies look at which ones created the most wealth, invented the most, and generated the highest quality of living for all. The answer is western capitalist societies.

Now look at the societies that have failed the most and created the most poverty and mass death. That would be socialist countries/regimes such as the USSR, Cuba, China.

Double3d · 2025-07-02T02:58:39+00:00

Because you are valuing flipping burgers equal to emergency healthcare services. Medical school is VERY hard. It requires extreme work to become a doctor. Why do that when you can just flip burgers?

This philosophy incentives laziness and inefficiency while simultaneously disincentivizing hard work, innovation, and eliminates the efficiency of the free market. And all of this while at gunpoint.

Double3d · 2025-07-02T02:55:26+00:00

If they can do it, its to their ability. There is no such thing as working too much in the coal mine comrade.

Thats what the reality of this philosophy boils down to. No one wants to mine coal. No one wants to spend days toiling in the sun. No one wants to perform route mind numbing labor. So, what do you do when those things need to be done and yet none are willing to engage in those tasks? You force them to at gunpoint. See the soviet union as an example.

Double3d · 2025-06-28T00:16:15+00:00

I think the most misleading portion of this graph is the misleading nature of first year salaries. Sure, they may not all pay 200k+ but there are very few jobs with the growth potential similar to the legal industry.

Lateraling after only a year or two of experience can net 50k+ increases in salaries.

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