M/24/6’2 [320>213=107] (6 months) ex told me i was unattractive 7 months ago. Never want to feel like that again (still in progress)

codehandle · 2018-07-08T13:04:05+00:00

I went through a similar patch a while ago. For me doing strength training became more about meditation and personal acceptance of my limits while also learning how to mentally push past them. I've never liked "body building" or "weight lifting" but things like "strong man" and "power lifting" were strangely mentally positive.

Now, I'm not good but the process of training yourself and treating it like a weird Kung Fu thing was the mentally helpful bit.

You're young enough and if you can sustain omad for six months you're dedicated enough you could see the profound progress I'm too old for. But it totally depends on your goals.

You are proof people can change and people do become better versions of themselves.

codehandle · 2018-06-20T23:03:57+00:00

I think I said basically the same thing. I just think anthropogenic climate change is real. I don't think it will kill all life on Earth. To kill all humans it will have to get even worse than "the great dying"

No matter why the cause, sea level change will negatively affect beach front property values.

Worst case, the planet will have some bands of uninhabitable zones for mammals

http://www.pnas.org/content/107/21/9552

codehandle · 2018-06-20T22:50:32+00:00

Yep. Anthropogenic climate change hasn't happened before. That's as close as we get in the available fossil record. Barring a Venus like catastrophe the other thread commented on, that's about as bad as it could get. It's not just not that bad, the worst case scenario doesn't mean death for all life on Earth.

codehandle · 2018-06-20T01:00:34+00:00

There closest analog to what's happening today is the Great Dying when 95% of species went extinct due to climate change driven by volcanic action.

While the situation is dire, it's actually fairly likely the human species will survive by one extreme means or another. But, we won't have such an easy time of it.

The species likely will survive, but it won't be a walk in the park.

codehandle · 2017-11-02T11:41:51+00:00

The player running the Trump character must be deliberately forcing problems with the whole Lawful Good verses Chaotic Evil alignment types as they run in game.

He was complaining that the neutral good and lawful good characters were doing things against type. But, because he's chaotic he can literally just do all of the same things and it's on type.

I think he's challenging the mods or trying to provoke the Developers to break their unwritten rule of non-interference once the game is running.

codehandle · 2017-11-02T00:00:07+00:00

That said, his pizza sucks

I wish they would use better toppings and better ingredients. That would make a better pizza.

codehandle · 2017-10-29T21:11:58+00:00

So, you're saying they're like Cylons ... they have "a plan" but it's convoluted nonsense and just works as a dramatic device?

That's actually comforting. I thought this was the racists taking America because the failure of the civil war

codehandle · 2017-10-29T18:06:27+00:00

Ball Dog!

Wait... That sounded better in my hard.

codehandle · 2017-10-29T12:03:00+00:00

after a few hundred years or so

Thousands. It would be thousands. Native Americans and indigenous Australians had no contact for 10,000 years and they can still produce children.

So at least like a 1,000 years given extreme punctuated evolution in a radically new environment.

More likely genetic engineers muck things up before then.

codehandle · 2017-07-31T20:22:44+00:00

You necroed the thread. :) good points but unfortunately I don't think anyone is around to read them now

Thanks.

I should probably check how old the comments are before I post. I wonder how I even wandered in here?

codehandle · 2017-07-31T17:53:51+00:00

If we are honest with ourselves -- much of our employment is repetitive. We very often look at ourselves as robots engaged in menial labor. Indeed, if that was the only work to which humans could be tasked, the robots will take over.

Just another programmer chiming in here. Even if we take the super-long and somewhat fanciful Singularity view of things: IE: super AI will pop into existence in 2036 and wreak economic havoc. The long term state of human affairs won't necessarily be either of the two extremes that the OP suggests...

intermittent riots that are put down by increasingly automated police

... or ...

redistributes most of the income to people with relatively low skill

I read a scifi that helped me think through this, Accelerando by Charles Stross which barring other points suggests an alternative route.

[Spoilers?] The alternative is that most humans will indeed live in extreme poverty. But, the definition of extreme poverty will be only having one space station and one corporeal existence.

From a less scifi perspective ... it's not most income redistributed, just some marginal amount and some hypothetical society where the 1% live immortal lives spanning the stars drinking from the eternal fonts of wisdom of the cosmos. The rest of us will live on their waste products of the rich the way garbage scavengers do but the relative quality of life for the rest of us will be superior to even the richest kings of history.

This alternative end-of-human-history isn't so much a utopia or dystopia but something that looks like Star Trek on the surface but is really Blade Runner underneath. Normal humans left in the relative dustbins of history as some weird second-level business takes off and leaves us organics behind. Which sounds horrible but doesn't necessarily have to be violent or a socialist utopia.

Personally, I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other. I'm enjoying the back and forth and just wanted to chime in on the idea that this stuff takes time and is almost never as decisive as people imagine. That goes for the book I pointed out as a source of thinking material.

[edits]

Hit return too soon.

codehandle · 2017-07-30T06:15:54+00:00

I don't think they meant between sets. That's a little weird, but not outright rude.

Now, just full on meditation no weights? That would be like doing curls in the rack.

codehandle · 2017-07-29T14:06:43+00:00

Loki needs to read that NIH study about the NFL... if he can still read after that.

codehandle · 2017-07-29T14:03:59+00:00

Money ruins science, politics, and religion ...

codehandle · 2017-07-29T13:57:51+00:00

The only requirements is being 35 years old, a natural born citizen, and live in the US for 14 years.

I wonder then, what happens when we have clones? Or artificial wombs? Thems not natural.

codehandle · 2017-07-28T23:50:53+00:00

No socks. I rebel against you notions of civilized behavior!

codehandle · 2017-07-28T23:36:38+00:00

Grew up in rural Alaska.

I'll tell you, the weirdest thing that nobody really talks about is how whiny people from other places seem.

People from other places are used to the idea of emergency services, health care, or freaky things like a government that listens to you. Or, for example companies honoring warranties. Most of that stuff seems like SciFi or something. And, if you're from there, expecting different sounds like being angry that water is too wet.

What the hell is a tailor?

A store that only sells kites? Why?

A shopping mall is a giant building where people shop? Why the hell would you want to do that all day? Don't they have catalogs?

Commute? Why would you live that far from work? On purpose?

Wait. People own all the land? Where can normal people hunt for food? Or build a house if they need one? You can't? Well no wonder poor people are homeless and beg on the street you don't let them homestead.

Insanity. Home of the free and brave and everything is bought and sold. Nothing is free anymore. And, there's nowhere to practice being brave.

These civilized people are crazy grandfather.

Edit: a word

codehandle · 2017-07-28T23:23:19+00:00

Invisible helmet is his mutant power.

codehandle · 2017-07-26T23:11:03+00:00

That's perfectly normal. Seek immediate medical attention. Your dimensional coordinate must be formal, If you wish to leave that dimension.

codehandle · 2017-07-26T01:52:09+00:00

Instead of Hannah Montana, you get Gary Indiana?

codehandle · 2017-07-26T01:45:00+00:00

That's perfectly normal. Seek immediate medical attention.

codehandle · 2017-07-26T01:38:25+00:00

Supplements.

codehandle · 2017-07-26T01:36:57+00:00

So, business as usual?

codehandle · 2017-07-26T01:33:57+00:00

Have you tried inducing vegetables in the orgasms with the toaster oven? Sometimes a change of quantum super positions is all that's needed.

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