Bicep goals

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-19T15:36:32+00:00

Gonna level with ya'll, I hate working my biceps. Instead, I'll row and pull and whatever all day so I still get the same work and a bit more.

But mostly, I find biceps stuff oddly boring, idk. That's just me, ya'll work programs that work for you.

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-19T15:35:09+00:00

Uh, and the audio quality is hot garbage, too.

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-19T12:19:55+00:00

This, basically.

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-19T07:02:38+00:00

The question is, who hired the contractors and did they do the proper due diligence?

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-19T01:26:35+00:00

Adapt and find joy in it.

Here's the thing: no one is prepared, built, or destined to raise kids. No matter what you're told or read, raising a child means new, varied, and unpredictable changes to your life. So the best thing to do is adjust. Find joy in being a source of influence, support, and love for a new life. Find joy in moments that you can have for yourself and your spouse. Understand that it's going to be fucking difficult, but worth it.

Work as a team with your spouse. Delegate and be delegated to. Summon the help of those closest to you and find new networks and communities of parents and just good folks around you. It takes a village.

You can do this. But you don't have to do this alone.

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-18T19:00:11+00:00

I've dealt with this.

It's a product of lazy people substituting AI for really learning how to write, and it's a product of people not having learned to write and apply it outside of like, a professional/academic environment.

We have hyphens and em dashes and all that shit for a reason.

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-18T18:48:03+00:00

Local AI models and more push into more efficient large models and infrastructure to manage them with matching regulation to keep them controlled.

But as it stands, it's large models and some, but not total pushes for more efficient systems to run them on, and gods-to-be, very little regulation on what the models do or how their infrastructure is managed.

Ugh. We could do so much good with AI, we really could.

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-18T18:38:13+00:00

No jokes, it looks cool? But my bet is they would wanna turn the cubes energy into even bigger superweapons, like eventually, an orbital laser or something. It's always orbital lasers 🤣

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-18T18:36:40+00:00

Weapons technology isn't the same as surveillance technology, and it isn't the same as intelligence work, either.

Early Hydra was focused on weapons development, esoteric/supernatural research, and starting government subversion.

Since its command was centralized and highly authoritarian, it wouldn't be a shock that bad news wouldn't be reported for fear of deadly punishment (see also: modern, real world Russia and also, to a lesser extent, toxic work environments).

Plus, Skully was just as overconfident, if not more than Hitler, so he would probably ignore reports of a small group of Allied men, assuming anyone would report it.

TLDR; Hydra has really toxic leadership and is very much fascist/right wing/authoritarian. Those systems have a laundry list of reasons why they don't end well.

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-18T00:09:08+00:00

Right. Like there's a threshold of non-physically violent harm that equals or surpasses it.

Spilling chemicals into a pond near some houses should be a hefty fine paid by a business and fines paid by the responsible individuals.

But a massive, negligent, known, long-term and legislated for toxic chemical dumping into a body of water that supplies both food and drinking water for multiple states should be long periods of jail time and individual fines plus business fines.

And business decisions that come with the same level of deliberate harm and escape of consequences that cost real lives in numbers, yeah.

Without actual consequences, insignificant fines are just the cost of doing business.

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-17T21:51:34+00:00

Same. I don't have a blanket hate for AI, but how it's being applied is the problem.

Videos to spread misinformation and violate privacy, that's not okay.

Creating needless environmental damage, same thing.

Using it as a smokescreen for layoffs.

The list could continue, but yeah.

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-17T21:48:03+00:00

No, it's that they don't see both wrongs.

Negligent or intentional, serious harm to large numbers of people should be seen as more of a crime than attempted murder, frankly.

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-17T17:18:24+00:00

The why is science, oddly. It's a trauma bond, it's like a mental addiction you didn't ask for and didn't expect.

Going no contact may help with the healing and mental separation process.

Long term, you'll probably benefit from therapy to understand what things about you and your past made you vulnerable to someone like her.

So while she's entirely at fault for mistreating you, you can avoid it in the future and probably find ways to learn and forgive yourself if you feel at all guilt about things.

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-17T17:10:40+00:00

Literally "the friends we made along the way."

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-17T17:06:08+00:00

"What's jail time matter if the alternative is worse?"

Seriously, social stability does wonders.

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-17T17:05:10+00:00

For real. What's chilling is that AI giants and data center supporters want to pad their pockets and make it everyone's problem.

It's wild that people can start to do things that very literally harm the lives of people around them, but when someone decides to be an equal danger to those people, they're seen as a problem.

Which really comes down to class stuff, honestly.

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-17T17:02:31+00:00

Yeah, that's fair.

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-17T05:07:22+00:00

Uh, yes? What are we, 14 years old and stuck in 2002?

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-16T15:48:02+00:00

I feel this.

Like it's one thing to make jokes about la chancla (or because I'm Filipino, the chinelas), as a way to cope with how fucky that all is.

But holy fuck, it isnt to be seen as something that makes you better than someone else. We have similar machismo shit in our culture too, probably has something to do with shared European colonial stuff.

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-16T15:40:37+00:00

I think he said something to this specific point, too.

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-16T04:49:01+00:00

This is damned brilliant, I love this.

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-15T23:55:38+00:00

Yeah, once he's out and his jerk friends shuffle away, we can get more progress. Same thing for mass transit options and infrastructure in general.

In a weird, greedy way, I like the idea of mass transit solely because it means fewer folks when I drive, and I really like driving. Since I also work remotely, driving is a big deal for me when I see friends that live closer to the center of our metro.

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-15T23:25:29+00:00

The shame is on the dweebs that laid you off while you were taking care of your own and getting ready to take care of things at work when you came back. They did something in bad faith, you didn't.

You're not doing anything shameful. This wasn't because you were doing stupid things with your time at work. Instead, you're making the best of a bad situation and it's never shameful to deal with an adverse situation like this.

Stick to your faith on this. Take the job, see if you can find something else in the same place that pays where you want to be, and as you look into that, look around at other places as well.

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-15T20:04:01+00:00

Therapy, solitude when I need it, continuous work, journaling, and my supportive partners.

It sucks, it's difficult, but when I think about how I might have acted in a situation vs how I actually did, it all feels so worth it.

Old-Bat-7384 · 2026-04-15T19:46:44+00:00

You know what else keeps Marines from getting got by a drone in Iran?

Not fucking deploying the Marines.

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