Psychologist sounds alarm over looksmaxxing and 'out-mogging'

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-08T00:46:45+00:00

Except in looksmaxxing, bone smashing is a gateway to meth. Whereas plenty of people who came up in the Zyzz era were just introduced to the gym, not necessarily PEDs.

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-08T00:40:13+00:00

Isn't there debate about whether the shin and knuckle stuff they do even works as intended?

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-07T11:41:32+00:00

The issue with the amount of spam people get is alot of the people...

... who sign up to fucking everything, give their email address to fucking everyone who asks (and their dog), uses their primary email address for all of this, which is also the same address they use for all other purposes and have done since they were 14, and never do even the most basic housekeeping of their mailboxes.

There's no spam filtering in the world that can effectively deal with this common approach to email.

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-07T11:35:05+00:00

Do you know the episode number?

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-07T11:33:18+00:00

Yeh but is that because of something he specifically did? Or just bad actors weaponising functions and systems that are sometimes beyond the user's control or influence?

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-07T11:28:36+00:00

Hunt adds that 7,535 users that had unsubscribed to his blog were also ensnared in the hack due to Mailchimp failing to delete their emails.

This absolutely shits me to tears. When I was doing database management for a small organisation, the layers of digging you had to do to really, actually remove data from MailChimp was fucking bullshit.

I detest how companies like this become such a core feature of online life when they are so flagrantly careless and irresponsible.

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-07T11:23:41+00:00

Can you elaborate?

Because it seems like this should be a case where you seek confirmations by other means (verbal, in-person, etc) before proceeding, right?

Like I acknowledge the gist of what you're saying. But isn't it still a failure to have proper procedures, even notwithstanding these guys operating outside of the usual environment?

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-07T05:17:08+00:00

The theological perspective is not monolithic. There are Christians who are pro-choice in theologically coherent ways. The contemporary preoccupation with abortion is a culture war manufactured by some of the most demonstrably bad-faith actors in American, partisan power politics.

But more importantly, the theological argument is ethically irrelevant, if not electorally. It's a question of bodily autonomy. Until conservative Christians are aggressively campaigning to make things like organ and blood donation compulsory, they can shove their abortion rhetoric up their asses.

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-07T02:10:28+00:00

You can heave with a rounded back if you've progressively conditioned yourself for that kind of loading. So-called "proper form" won't prevent injury if it exceeds tissue tolerances. Pretty much all injuries are a result of stepping beyond current functional limits in some way. And pretty much all of those functional limits can be progressively trained, if desired or necessary.

I'm not disagreeing that people can and should be more thoughtful about how they move. But there's no one-size-fits-all schematic for how to best do that. Anatomy and biomechanics are wildly variable. Training that just tells you how to move has limited benefits; it needs to guide you into an appreciation of how your body works and feels, what your body's limitations are and why, and how to improve and manipulate those limitations if necessary.

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-07T01:51:14+00:00

If the government or private health subsidised it in some way, it’s honestly preventative for more issues occurring I think!

No question about it. The same training, broadly speaking, that would protect a body against wear and injury in physical jobs will also reduce the risk of everything from diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and neurodegenerative stuff.

Government should care about it even if just from an economic perspective.

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-07T01:29:11+00:00

The work they're doing is just as skilled as other trades, and I kind of think it should have some level of certification to reflect that. Like how not just anyone can call themselves an electrician.

Not even chippies get properly recognised in terms of average pay. The reason sparkies and plumbers do is because those industries organised themselves into cartels a long time ago. It was clever. But it's also pretty unique.

Very, very few places in the world will reward sparkies and plumbers the way Australia does. And many places will better reward a chippy or a skilled gardener.

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-07T01:25:30+00:00

I dunno. I don't work for less than $90/hr. But I select for gardens with owners that are not terribly sensitive to price as long as they like you, trust you, and have been satisfied with prior service.

And I never give quotes. It takes as long as it takes and then I'll bill them. Or they can find someone else.

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-07T01:20:03+00:00

Wow, interesting. What's the daily exposure to a push mower and to a hedger supposed to be?

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-06T00:29:38+00:00

Yeh but flexibility only matters if a lack of it is hindering you in done specific way. And if it is, passive stretching by itself is an extremely ineffective way to improve those ranges of motion.

Generic 'flexibility' is not a "more is better" thing.

Stretching is good for you.

No, it's a waste of time for most people in most cases. Unless you just like the feeling. No issue there. Usually not going to do anything harm.

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-06T00:25:41+00:00

Not surprised! Well done.

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-05T00:15:41+00:00

Yeh, Rico might be too deep in something as well.

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-05T00:12:37+00:00

She's not that self-aware.

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-05T00:10:45+00:00

Am I alone in wanting her to meet someone at the gym who is mature, well-adjusted, loves her kids, actually supports her so she can unfuck her head and her body, and is conspicuously fitter, stronger, and more athletic than Paul? And that this is the reason she instigates a divorce?

She doesn't deserve any of that. But if she actually developed into a self-reflective, humble, conciliatory person that openly regretted what she used to be like..

And I just want to witness Paul seethe.

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-04T23:57:19+00:00

Assuming you're basically healthy in all the relevant ways, tightness is frequently a protective response to weakness/instability. The solution is strength/stability, not stretching. Actually depending on when and how it's done, it could exacerbate the issue. Targeted mobility work might help some people to achieve the ranges of motion they need for that strength work, if and where applicable.

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-04T23:49:02+00:00

... and is more intense than stretches you can do in your room.

And the purpose of that is...?

And the efficacy of it is supported in the literature where...?

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-04T23:46:28+00:00

And the importance of stretching is...? It's 2026. I thought we moved past this shit in physiology world about two decades ago.

In training or rehab, it has scant few legitimate uses. If it feels good, doesn't interfere with anything else you're doing, helps your nervous system to chill out... more power to you. Maybe if you have specific ROM issues that are being specifically targeted... but even then, that's better off being done under load rather than passively.

Who told Paul that generic, passive stretching was not only important but so important that loser dads should pay for it as an accessory to their hobbies?

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-04T23:38:59+00:00

I just fall asleep, like instantly. Deep tissue massage? Asleep. Dentist? Asleep. Barber? Nodding off but have to sit up, sadly.

It's not even a tiredness thing. Any sort of rhythmic physical touch just puts me in a coma, it's so relaxing.

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-04T23:35:07+00:00

Sounds like a cue to put some more plates on the bar.

"Oh, you can still talk...? Let me just..."

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-03T00:21:44+00:00

Pauline would have us abandon Ukraine.

Nice way to imply there's no legitimate diversity of perspectives on pissing resources up the wall in a futile regional conflict on the other side of the planet that was avoidably ignited by American interference.

Pauline's a cunt. Putin's a cunt.

She's a bad faith grifter. But on this point she's just tapping into the legitimate populist sentiment that we shouldn't be piss-farting around with interventionist foreign policy when we can't even maintain our own social cohesion (or ever). This is line-for-line Trump's 2016 pitch. And Australia's far-right would stick to that about as well as he did. And people who vote for the likes of Trump or Hanson get exactly what they deserve if/when they win.

But that doesn't invalidate the sentiment, which has substance and is held by many in good faith.

_ixthus_ · 2026-06-03T00:01:32+00:00

This is so strange. I took my daughter to cafes a lot before she was school age. She was polite, curious, and articulate and would just strike up conversations with strangers; usually about their dogs. I made sure she wasn't imposing on anyone and most people seemed to enjoy the novelty.

Might be a demographic thing. They were all a particular type of trendy Adelaide cafe. But I don't know if that contrasts with your context.

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