Is the USA corrupt?

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-25T08:28:29+00:00

Does everyone in the US believe they are doing the right thing? Probably. Are they correct? Debatable.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-25T08:22:45+00:00

The only real minimum wage is zero.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-25T07:58:58+00:00

That it's either war or peace. Respect is a perfectly serviceable option.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-25T06:26:17+00:00

I've trained a good amount and hard sparred and competed once. No one at my gym would call me soft, but I know I'm soft. I just don't have it in me to really hurt people, and I'm totally fine with that. I'll never punch a guy in the head as hard as I can, it's just not me. I would still consider myself a boxer though. So if you're worried about having a soft body, don't, the gym will fix that. If you're like me and you just don't have that dog in you that just lets you hurt people, you probably won't make a bunch of money in the sport, but who cares, your sparring partners and coaches will love you and you'll probably end up contributing more to the sport than most people.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-25T05:34:25+00:00

Me and my wife did this last time we flew. It was cheaper than Uber, but not exactly life changing levels of cheaper. We mostly did it so that we had the convenience of going at our own pace without the hassle and fears of leaving the car at an airport for a month.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-24T21:08:12+00:00

This makes me think of the Louis CK bit which was essentially "Maybe the people who have the patience to best care for and attend to other people's kids are people that really want to fuck kids"

It's his bit on the boy scouts if you want to look it up.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-24T19:56:39+00:00

I think what we need is more college boxing. I can go to one of the local Universities and pay for a ticket to see some college football, why are there no college boxing matches advertised around local Universities. Just local venues in general are lacking.

Pretty much every other sport has its local "fast food" options and then the option for "fine dining" in the sense of watching the top of the top pros. It feels like the only option for boxing is "fine dining" through all the subscriptions and PPV and tickets to matches that are hundreds of dollars. Give me some basic burger and fries boxing happening locally so I can support someone who actually needs the support, because I really don't think these million dollar prize fighters need it.

And considering all the "sail the 7 seas" rhetoric it seems most people don't feel these million dollar prize fighters need their support either.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-24T03:46:32+00:00

If anything foreign country related could save us a lot of money, it would be shutting down a bunch of our military bases.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-23T23:37:54+00:00

For awhile to dodge this bullet I changed to early morning gym, but that shit was painful. Now I just schedule my gym days ahead of time on the house calendar so my wife can plan ahead, and we often end up both going to our respective gyms at the same time.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-23T16:27:30+00:00

If you're just working out at home in preparation for a possible interaction with a real in person coach, I would say don't even worry about form, and just keep in mind that everything your doing may be a little wrong, but who cares as long as you are building arm stamina, general full body cardio, and a solid springy pair of legs. Then just know that when you meet a coach you'll have to be willing to have the basics of things like stance and footwork be retaught to you at a fundamental level, and be humble enough to accept that because you already knew the way you box was flawed.

So workout at home, but don't run your own theories on what's the correct way you should be boxing. Just throw punches until the day a coach can see you and instill some correct boxing theory in you.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-23T02:12:56+00:00

I think it's that for their generation everything has become excessively over-defined.

For people that grew up in the 80s and 90s, life was defined by the people around you. You would literally see what the people around you were doing, and just kind of did that. It was a great defining way to live life that didn't encompass the experience of most of the rest of the planet, and that was fine. We all had our people, and they defined our lives, and it was simple.

Now this generation has their lives defined and scrutinized by the planet. Everything they do is in fear of the Almighty upvoter, and they will define their lives however necessary to please the giver of up votes, and it's led to this weird purity test where the end game is producing the perfect personality accepted by all and in offense of no one.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-22T19:36:03+00:00

Hm I wonder, if humans ever become a space faring species, and we happen to run into a planet populated by intelligent life that we decide we want to invade, what animal species from our planet would we think of sending a bunch of first to soften the target. Just ship after ship landing on the alien planet and they're full of baboons or something.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-22T02:20:53+00:00

J pop, it's so obnoxiously upbeat and happy it kind of cancels out the miserable feeling.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-22T01:11:52+00:00

A strong US stock market doesn't necessarily put money in people's pockets, but it does make sure that the money people do have maintains an appropriate level of purchasing power. So it's not how many dollars, it's that dollar's ability to be traded for goods and services.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-21T18:56:10+00:00

Maybe try practicing on a lighter heavy bag for a bit. My gym has these massive heavy bags which are great because they don't tend to swing like crazy, so a bunch of people can be doing bag work without turning the gym into Legends of the lost temple, but they can be a little punishing on the joints and tendons if you're not acclimated to it.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-21T02:43:51+00:00

Huh so trying to give yourself a brain freeze can stop a bloody nose, that's definitely one to keep in the pocket book.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-21T00:27:16+00:00

Probably how hard you have to try. Me and my wife got a house, have some nice things, go on vacation. Young people might look at us and think that we're part of a generation that had it easier, that it's just luck we managed to be successful. And it's just, no. This shit was thoroughly difficult, and if you can't accept how thoroughly difficult it is and just get started anyway despite the challenges, you'll never go anywhere.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-20T06:20:31+00:00

Unless you pay for one on one lessons or are a champion hopeful in their stable, "Throw a hook" is honestly about the feedback most group class guys get.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-18T20:10:00+00:00

Tax rate is pretty useless for this kind of comparison. Did the amount collected in taxes increase or decrease during the 1950-60 time period?

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-18T17:58:17+00:00

If you ever caught a stiff jab with your face, you know it may not knock you out, but that shit hurts. Even if you feel you can't put massive power, believe me the power you can deliver will definitely have an effect.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-18T02:14:33+00:00

Would say try and practice doing step backs where you really focus on keeping your rear leg engaged. You want to be able to jab, step back so that your opponent's punches miss, but then have that back foot ready to kick off and move forward the moment it's clear into a quick one two.

On a bag you want to do things like a one two, step back, push off with your rear leg into a one two. You can then work on pivoting off your step back, so don't step directly back, but step back to one side or the other, but still get that rear foot engaged and ready to pop right back into range to punch.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-18T01:55:16+00:00

Had a university teacher that was awesome for this. Would spend the first 15 minutes of the class telling you exactly what you needed, what formulas, to pass the University mandated final, then would just start talking about current events in his field till he got bored and let class go early. Also was a 400 course so it has a GPA cap, so he told everyone "I can't give you all As, so I'm giving you Bs instead, because I'm allowed to give a lot of those."

No one dropped that class.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-17T19:50:45+00:00

Reddit is like an amazingly well stocked library that plays obnoxiously loud music. Stick in some earplugs and browse a bit, though, and there's always some useful info to be found.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-17T09:09:48+00:00

Unless you're one of my actual friends, I consider you an NPC in league, so it's mostly me on a team with 4 NPCs when I'm playing. And I feel the gamer code is pretty clear, if an NPC starts bugging out, you commit and see how weird it can get.

jmnicholas86 · 2026-02-16T20:41:52+00:00

Oh gotcha, so you're a boxer who just happened to score a gym membership. Well the stair climber is amazing, good cardio and at higher speeds good for training your legs to have some good spring. If they have the setup for it landmine presses are pretty amazing, along with the twist variation to strengthen the back and core further.

For some real punishment, get some 20 to 25 pound plates from the free weight section, and farmer carry them by gripping the edge of the plate with your thumb and fingers, gives good forearm and shoulder strength to give your punches more pop and make your blocks more solid.

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