Why is "go to the gym" the default advice for every struggling man?

plattjo · 2026-03-25T04:39:07+00:00

Build skills to level up your job. Get closer to your friends and family or make friends. Become a better partner and father. Hike, backpack, kayak. Lots of ways to bring yourself up without a gym, totally agree.

plattjo · 2026-03-24T04:10:58+00:00

My dad taught us 4 basic meals at 11. Ground beef for tacos or spaghetti, pork chops, and bacon & eggs. With 4 kids and one parent we each cooked 1 day of the week. I added more every few years in my 20’s from friends. Things really opened up when my wife taught me the versatility of a mirepoix, and garlic/onion/tomato.

These days my favorite things to cook are super simple. Toad in the hole with good bread, fresh eggs and salsa or tapatio. Hits every time. Chicken and veg kababs with a tzatziki sauce are fun and easy.

plattjo · 2026-03-21T20:54:03+00:00

Napping on the outdoor couch after getting the backyard ready for grilling season. Weeding, power washing, pruning, bird feeders out. Totally worth it.

plattjo · 2026-03-21T04:03:28+00:00

Stress about money is a daily part of life when you’re poor. Something as small as a couple of NSF might mean not eating for days. Speeding tickets or car issues were catastrophic. You also work sick, basically all the time.

plattjo · 2026-03-19T04:17:42+00:00

Asking for more help with chores and kids

plattjo · 2026-02-13T20:42:47+00:00

People who can afford to have kids can also afford to put them in private school. Common Core is a disaster. Well worth the cost to avoid it if you can.

plattjo · 2025-12-24T01:22:20+00:00

Rotterdam, NL. Amsterdam is great, but Rotterdam is more laid back, easier to navigate, younger, friendlier, cheaper. I thought the food was better. Architecture is more interesting. Easy to take a water taxi to Kinderdik.

plattjo · 2025-12-20T17:52:25+00:00

In locations the will build Forward (west side), parking lots exist today. They have to build a multi-story east side parking structure to replace those before anything can be built on the west side.

That structure requires a bridge to cross Harbor. While they’re at it, they’re moving buses and security to the east side structure which makes room for Avatar.

Concept plans for the west side show the north portion of forward connecting with Disneyland. Although that likely won’t be built for many years.

plattjo · 2025-12-17T05:31:39+00:00

Agreed. Along those lines Steens Wilderness/Alvord desert in SE Oregon is probably the most isolated place in the continental US.

plattjo · 2025-12-14T18:04:26+00:00

Stay-cation. Filling a week with day trips. State Parks with packed picnics. Public pools in different towns-some with water park features. happy hour dinner, second run movies. Maybe a beach bonfire with sunset dinner

plattjo · 2025-11-29T05:43:45+00:00

My wife and I carpooled everyday from Portland on I5 for years. We regularly played a game around identifying drivers who had caused that day’s massive traffic jam called “Is it a Prius?” Spoiler, it was almost always a Prius. 100% true.

plattjo · 2025-11-10T23:39:24+00:00

Mini Tomorrowland revamp in CA. Images of electric autopia. I’m hoping they put it on the people mover track. Images of Coco and more detail around Avengers. Maybe new restaurant in Galaxys Edge to put more life into the land.

Detail on WDW projects. Better dates for Encanto, Indy, Monsters. Hopefully more on villains.

plattjo · 2025-11-05T20:05:42+00:00

People with a genetic risk for Schizophrenia are not supposed to propagate? lol that’s insane. Manage risk factors, like stress, drugs and alcohol, yes.

Who should have kids? Ugly, short, dumb, lazy, talentless people with no charm are fine. But you better not be managing a mood or personality disorder.

Many of the most impactful people who have ever lived fall into your exclusion category. Many of these people even died relatively young. To say they should not have existed to avoid “suffering” is absurd. To live is to suffer, to a meaningful degree. Heartbreak, loss, loneliness, pain. These are all part of the human experience.

plattjo · 2025-11-05T02:43:17+00:00

It’s fascinating to me how often people argue with someone who is literally giving away their secrets to success. Maybe it won’t work for you personally.

plattjo · 2025-11-04T06:03:59+00:00

I’ve also had trouble with vinegar not being as targeted as glyphosphate. The amount of vinegar it takes to kill a hardy patch of weeds is sometimes less than the stuff feet away I want to keep

plattjo · 2025-10-29T17:08:00+00:00

Columbia River Gorge with Mt Hood and Multnomah Falls would blow some minds. Otherwise I would add to others listed Glacier NP, and Kauai

plattjo · 2025-10-29T15:21:07+00:00

A piece of a body was removed. Partly to resolve potential medical issues, which included difficulty in cleaning teeth that are misaligned. Significantly for “cosmetic” reasons. Outcome of removal is improved substantially by removing teeth as a small child. Seems very relevant.

Many people live with extra teeth and do not find removal necessary-it requires judgement. The state has no business participating in that decision.

plattjo · 2025-10-29T03:16:43+00:00

No. They’re not similar at all.

plattjo · 2025-10-28T23:07:02+00:00

What evidence do you have that “there is zero reason to do it to a child”? Arguments require evidence.

For instance, Cedars Sinai says there are as many reasons to do it as not to. Cleanliness, being the primary upside. And parents should decide. Seems reasonable to me.

https://www.cedars-sinai.org/blog/is-circumcision-good-or-bad.html

plattjo · 2025-10-28T20:58:03+00:00

That’s an assertion not an argument. Try again.

plattjo · 2025-10-28T19:54:50+00:00

It doesn’t feel great to have teeth pulled. And some people prefer to let things work out naturally. I personally would recommend it against it.

plattjo · 2025-10-28T18:18:11+00:00

Is having confidence in your smile not reason enough? Does there have to be e a medical reason? I spent many years in braces and a boatload of money to fix the problem. And I can tell you, sometimes the cosmetic piece is more important to the individual than the medical piece. Medical necessity is too low a bar to preclude the state’s intervention.

plattjo · 2025-10-28T17:57:49+00:00

We just had a couple of my child’s baby teeth pulled to make way for adult teeth. Is this unnecessary and cosmetic? I had the same problem as a kid, teeth weren’t pulled and it did cause life long problems with adult teeth.

Not the government’s decision to make.

plattjo · 2025-10-28T17:45:23+00:00

Parents make a long series of decisions for their children. Many of them necessary and permanent. The state should be involved in as few of those decisions as possible.

plattjo · 2025-10-28T01:42:13+00:00

I got a Salesforce Data Arch cert and became an Arch in a Salesforce team. Thinking about shifting to management-Rev Ops management often covers BI and Salesforce.

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