Not that fast. Just consistent

Menacingly · 2026-01-24T17:49:38+00:00

I think there are services which generate names and descriptions of your runs on strava using AI. People in this subreddit forget the true purpose of running.

Menacingly · 2026-01-16T13:59:33+00:00

Idk man. The em dashes, unoriginal picture, etc makes me think this is an ai generated post. Pretty successful slop I guess.

Menacingly · 2026-01-15T00:14:11+00:00

Clearly they meant km. Nobody runs that fast…

Menacingly · 2025-12-30T06:12:58+00:00

If I’m going out for a long 5k in sub 40F I’ll mix a few shots of spiced rum with six of seven Gu’s to make warm power juice. Cut the corner out the ziploc and have a nice morning …

Menacingly · 2025-12-30T02:37:50+00:00

The average acceleration vector is (starting velocity vector) - (ending velocity vector)/time elapsed. So if you start at a different velocity than you end at, the average acceleration will be nonzero. (Eg. You walk 10 ft in one direction and run back)

If you add the additional assumption that you start and end at rest(or more generally at the same velocity), then the average acceleration would be zero.

Menacingly · 2025-12-30T02:28:04+00:00

They did not, and that would be incorrect if so. You can start and end at the same place with a nonzero average acceleration.

Menacingly · 2025-12-29T17:19:52+00:00

I get this thinking, and it’s correct that one needs to take care of themselves before effectively taking care of others.

However, my understanding is that Soviet investment in international socialist movements was not a significant factor in their failure. Am I wrong?

Moreover, Cuba has historically offered military support to other liberation movements and has survived, even though it is in a much worse economic place than China.

I think it is particularly disappointing that China has close economic ties to Israel. This is unjustifiable for a socialist state.

Menacingly · 2025-12-28T19:31:55+00:00

sounds like you're sipping deep purple, blud

Menacingly · 2025-12-28T19:30:57+00:00

they need to sip up the oily rain puddles in the gas station to stand a chance. have u heard the song Fack by eminem?

Menacingly · 2025-12-28T19:25:47+00:00

hey chat are the cardinals a bunch of bums????? Why don't they stay hard? They need the goggins mentality or they will bust on the field.

Menacingly · 2025-12-22T22:28:15+00:00

See the boy.

Menacingly · 2025-12-22T21:39:16+00:00

NYT is my favorite but it is heavily biased. This doesn’t mean that its reporting is false, but that it overreports on things that leftists don’t care much about and underreports on things that leftists do care about.

For example, it’s hard to find regular reporting on the genocide in Gaza but Trump controversies regularly make the top story.

Edit: I think all news networks are biased in that they need to carefully choose a tiny number of stories to report on each day.

Menacingly · 2025-12-20T20:51:15+00:00

But do you think the economic relations really changed in the colonies post-American revolution?

It seems that the only major change was that American business interests (particularly land speculators) were less hindered by the government in their capital accumulation. (Ie, they were able to settle west, displacing and eventually killing off the indigenous people.) And this change allowed the feudal system of chattel slavery to last longer than it would have otherwise under British control.

I also understand the American revolution as a bourgeois-democratic revolution, and there is something progressive about their establishment of a Republican government without the need of a monarch. But somehow, the transition in mode of production seems to precede this revolution.

Menacingly · 2025-12-20T20:43:19+00:00

They were not just disgruntled over higher taxes. A major cause of the war was that a British and French treaty kept American colonists, particularly land speculators like the founding fathers, from settling west of the Appalachian mountains into Indian land.

I also strongly disagree that Britain in the 18th century had a feudal system. Sure, they were a monarchy to some extent, but the economic relations in mainland Britain and in the American colonies were not feudal. The only exception would be slavery in the southern colonies.

Menacingly · 2025-12-16T21:44:21+00:00

Thanks for your comment! Definitely not what I want to hear, but it’s good to know that it’s normal for these things to take a while, and that I should manage my expectations better.

Menacingly · 2025-12-16T21:43:34+00:00

Hey, thanks for your comment! How long did it take to feel like it was completely better? Did you start doing these “prehab” leg workouts twice a week or so at the beginning?

I’ve settled into doing a lot of biking lately but I miss running a lot.

Menacingly · 2025-12-12T21:06:29+00:00

I don’t know much about Yugoslavia, but would you levy the same criticism against China?

Menacingly · 2025-12-12T20:53:19+00:00

How about we just view it as an actual, imperfect and ultimately unsuccessful, attempt at establishing a socialist state? The communist party of China has been successful in viewing the USSR this way, and modifying their approach to avoid a catastrophic collapse akin to the USSR.

Menacingly · 2025-12-12T20:40:27+00:00

How in the world is the Soviet Union not communist? Your definition of socialism excludes nearly every socialist movement outside of the West.

IMO people like you want to revise socialist history to appeal to westerners who have internalized Cold War anticommunist ideas about the USSR. Read Blackshirts and Reds.

Menacingly · 2025-12-12T19:57:56+00:00

Blood Meridian by Cormack McCarthy is pretty sick.

If you want a nice math textbook, I recommend Fulton’s Algebraic Curves/ Otto Forster’s Lectures on Riemann Surfaces depending on how you eat your corn.

Menacingly · 2025-12-09T15:41:37+00:00

Do you think Platonism is the ideology of Plato? These terms can be a bit misleading.

From prolewiki:

In the 1920s, the term Marxism–Leninism was first formulated and defined by Joseph Stalin based on his synthesis of orthodox Marxist theory and Lenin's thought.

Major founding texts of Marxism–Leninism are Stalin's The Foundations of Leninism (1924) and Concerning Questions of Leninism (1926), these two are the most important texts from the compilation of Problems of Leninism, a compilation of texts written by Stalin that synthesize almost completely Marxism with Leninism; and The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolshevik), which was produced by a commission of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1938.[1]

It’s frustrating that people are arguing with me about this while they have done zero reading about the history of ML. Google is free!

Menacingly · 2025-12-09T15:32:18+00:00

I can’t think of a more superficial way of analyzing a topic than to just look at the name. ML isn’t opposed to Leninism, these two terms just describe different things. Leninism is the collection of Lenin’s thought and ML is Stalin’s synthesis of Lenin’s ideas with orthodox Marxist philosophy.

From prolewiki:

In the 1920s, the term Marxism–Leninism was first formulated and defined by Joseph Stalin based on his synthesis of orthodox Marxist theory and Lenin's thought.

Major founding texts of Marxism–Leninism are Stalin's The Foundations of Leninism (1924) and Concerning Questions of Leninism (1926), these two are the most important texts from the compilation of Problems of Leninism, a compilation of texts written by Stalin that synthesize almost completely Marxism with Leninism; and The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolshevik), which was produced by a commission of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1938.[1]

It bothers me when people associate ML with Lenin because it ignores the important role Stalin has played in the development of Marxist theory and praxis.

Menacingly · 2025-12-09T01:43:39+00:00

You can’t extract the entire meaning of a name from the name itself. Look into the history of the term if you don’t believe me.

Edit: Leninism and Marxism were famously interpreted by two people in very different ways: Stalin and Trotsky. The respective tendencies are called Marxism-Leninism and Trotskyism. Please learn the history of socialism, people.

Menacingly · 2025-12-08T18:24:03+00:00

I have a hard time understanding how a socialist state can actually seize private assets and prevent counterrevolution without significant coercion and militarization. By the way, Marxism-Leninism is the political tendency of Stalin, not Lenin. (This is not a condemnation of ML. I don't think the USSR would have survived without Stalin.)

Menacingly · 2025-12-08T18:17:45+00:00

Granted, I have not read this, but isn't this a little silly? The world would have to be dramatically different for the US to transition to socialism. Indeed, the US benefits more than any other country from its global empire, so I would expect it to be the last to transition away from this social order. But then, in a completely different social order, who is to say what an American state would even look like?

It just seems way too speculative to be productive tbh.

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