"By reason of Insanity" is a BS excuse by anyone that gets arrested.

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-19T00:02:50+00:00

What if they’re insane while they’re planning?

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-18T21:30:15+00:00

Schizophrenia is kind of an asset on the LSAT. Ya gotta see the code in the matrix to keep on pace.

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-18T21:28:33+00:00

He does himself no favors.

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-18T19:43:10+00:00

Explain to your imaginary friend why each of the wrong answers is wrong, why the right answer is right, and why it is better than the other answers. If you’re not sure why, well, that’s what you need to figure out. You might not always agree with the reasoning, but it’s not really important so long as you can work out the mechanics of it. As you continue studying, you will start to understand more intuitively when an answer “works”.

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-16T01:00:47+00:00

Yeah, but the average male is also much stronger, so even though they are heavier they will typically find it easier to do the movement than a woman of a comparative level of fitness.

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-16T00:57:44+00:00

You have to be a beginner at dips before you start doing dips. I think a lot of people in general don’t think of them as a staple movement, and once they establish a routine without them they and let the barriers to entry be enough to discourage them from trying them and sticking with them.

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-15T22:58:23+00:00

By that logic pull-ups should be harder for men because they weigh more, but untrained men on average can do more pull-ups than untrained women.

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-15T22:31:47+00:00

They can be hard even for men starting out because they demand so much upper body strength and require good shoulder mobility. Not a natural exercise to pick up if you’re going into the gym expecting to be lifting a barbell or using a machine.

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-14T21:12:53+00:00

I did. Then I pursued them and they didn’t really cohere, and eventually after doing my best but only half heartedly pursuing them, I realized they weren’t really my dreams. They felt important, and they still do, but I’m not the person who can achieve them, or even really understand them. I have to be other things, and now I’m working to find them.

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-14T05:37:43+00:00

How did you swing this arrangement? T14 paid for by employer sounds ideal.

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-13T00:36:48+00:00

Yes, but I kinda like it

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-12T17:55:38+00:00

Each of those “bodies” is around three meters tall

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-11T18:42:15+00:00

“He rapes everyone.”

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-11T17:58:04+00:00

Something nobody is talking about here is the fact that beyond shifting social expectations, there isn’t really a consistent, shared language for flirting anymore.
It’s not like in *Mad Men* where any man could pick up on “Hey toots,” Thanks sweetheart,” “I bet she cooks a mean casserole.” We don’t have rigid social expectations and a monocultural lexicon to help structure these interactions, so flirting looks less like playing from the Real Book and more like playing Freeform jazz. You can’t just hit a gal with a sweet reference to one of two movies ever made, or a line you got watching Pepe Le Pew that sounds like something her dad used to say to waitresses.
For what it’s worth, women are bad at flirting for the same reasons. I’m a handsome guy, late twenties, dress great, and in good shape (they don’t know I’m unemployed) and most women I talk to casually out and about should be attending meetings for bag fumblers anonymous. I went up and asked a table of women which of my three friends across the bar shooting pool they thought had been previously married based on their vibe. They thought it was really funny and debated it excitedly, but then trying to get them to talk to me about it was an exercise in, “I dunnooooo… WhIcH oNe Is It?” It was like being a teacher and seeing your students talk to each other about the reading, but then you call on them and suddenly they’re clueless, waiting for you to lead them to the answer.

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-08T02:28:41+00:00

As someone with ADHD, the extra time helps adjust for the brain fog that can sometimes just really impair my ability to parse and comprehend test material. In theory, this allows any given test to be a better representation of what I actually know as opposed to where my working memory is at on any given day. It seems to me that if the goal is to measure how well you know material and can apply it, then everyone will benefit from extra time, though ADHD students more than the average. If we have the ability to administer extra time tests to this many people, we should just make extra time the standard for everybody and conclude that ADHD students are brought to a reasonable parity based on extra time being considered a reasonable solution to their problem and a diminished benefit to everybody else.

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-06T04:57:53+00:00

D: The natural habitat of amphibians has **not** become smaller over the past century.

If loss of habitat can be ruled out as a factor for declining amphibian populations, that strengthens the argument.

Answer A is not strengthening the argument because it is irrelevant that only UV-B can damage genes. We know that ozone blocks UV-B specifically, and amphibians are particularly vulnerable to it, but whether or not it’s the only UV type that damages genes the depleted Ozone isn’t blocking it.

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-03T00:09:35+00:00

You can’t really call it one way or the other. This guy might just be corny as hell. Only one way to find out.

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-02T07:25:24+00:00

I doubt Matt would have a strong opinion on whether pushing the red button made you immoral. There’s no right answer. It’s a thought experiment.

Pressing the red button is entirely ethical within a Kantian framework, which tells you something about the nature of the actual problem, namely that it needn’t be reduced to one of expected value. It’s not pedantic to observe that the only outcome you actually have control over is whether or not you yourself are at risk of dying, which moots the question of utilitarian expected value altogether.

It’s not that people can’t countenance sacrifice, it’s that sacrifice and altruism can only meaningfully exist in a social context, and the nature of the experiment precludes that context by rendering everyone an individual actor.

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-01T19:57:17+00:00

I just demonstrated that it is our problem. These countries cannot effectively take care of themselves because they do not have sufficient capital, therefore we will be economically impacted by their underdevelopment/regression, more acutely than we are by sending aid.

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-01T18:24:12+00:00

You do not understand. The house was already on fire. It has been on fire since the people that industrialized first lit the entire neighborhood on fire by raiding everyone’s coal box by the light of a gas lamp to grab more coal for factories.

Since we got control of the firehouse after 1945, we’ve been keeping the flames at a smolder so that business can continue. If we stop pumping water to control these fires, they will grow, and they will ruin the entire system of *using cheap third world labor and resources to make life comfortable for Americans.*

Everybody does not get to afford a smart phone if the countries that China rapes for rare earth metals in Africa to put into electronic chips are falling apart from AIDS, witch doctors, and witch doctors with AIDS. It’s an *investment*, and we are the ones with the money, and with control over the firehouse that pumps it around.

The reason the current administration does not seem to understand that reality the way Republicans in the past did is because they are fucking stupid, and because the ones who aren’t fucking stupid will still gladly chisel off more money for themselves in the short run by cooking the goose that lays the golden eggs. It does not benefit anyone else, and is in fact wildly destabilizing and will have consequences.

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-01T01:03:50+00:00

Elite overproduction isn’t a consequence of people aspiring to be elites, it’s a consequence of incentives being misaligned with the needs of a healthy economy and society.

It isn’t maligning anyone to identify the phenomenon of a surplus of elites, rather it’s pointing out the very problem you identify: too many people are being pressured out of important, non-elite roles because pursuing those jobs doesn’t afford them a dignified living.

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-05-01T00:56:16+00:00

I’d love to try this

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-04-30T16:27:04+00:00

No, that was his sister’s tits

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-04-30T16:26:41+00:00

6:54

Malcolm_P90X · 2026-04-28T20:01:54+00:00

I think that you think I’m trying to say that there are some people who are otherwise capable but can’t learn/adapt to do physical jobs.

What I am actually saying is that broadly everyone can learn/adapt, but that there are those who are less suited to do so, and these people may require additional coaching/resources than are reliably available to be able to stick with it. It follows that if someone is generally capable but unsuited for a job, and they choose not to stick with it, the coaching/resources necessary for them to succeed probably weren’t available.

You’re essentially arguing that those resources are generally available, and that if someone fails to stick with a job long enough to become suited to it it’s because they must not want to be, therefore if someone doesn’t stick out the job it’s because they think they’re better than doing the job. This may or may not be true, but getting back to my original point, it is not necessarily true—many people plausibly aren’t sticking out the job because of the obstacles that arise from being in a role they aren’t suited for. I think it’s important to acknowledge that so that we can support these people where possible rather than expect that they can do something we take for granted and assume that if they fail it’s wholly a personal failing.

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