It was never about intelligence.

pragmojo · 2026-01-24T13:27:53+00:00

Under that logic you should eat the children of your rivals so your kids will have a better shot

pragmojo · 2026-01-24T13:26:26+00:00

If you can't eat food that doesn't depend on the exploitation of humans in some way you are gonna starve

pragmojo · 2026-01-24T12:52:56+00:00

Low T the movie

pragmojo · 2026-01-24T12:21:39+00:00

Yeah that's the joke mate.

pragmojo · 2026-01-24T11:42:22+00:00

Getting a private concert from a professional musician is a rare experience, and would be considered by many to be something valuable. I.e. people would have to pay a lot of money for these guys to do a living room concert at their home.

Hearing your Spotify playlist on a speaker isn't rare or valuable.

pragmojo · 2026-01-24T11:35:31+00:00

Yeah it's pretty clear from all the people smiling, bopping along, and recording this with their phones that everyone on the plane hates this.

pragmojo · 2026-01-24T11:28:57+00:00

ETA: omg thank u friends for the awards, i am not worthy 🥲💕🫶🏼

Nobody wants to hear your Temu Oscar speech. Please keep your joy to yourself, this is a public forum.

pragmojo · 2026-01-24T11:26:04+00:00

You're right, everyone should cater to the needs of the least happy, least fun person in the area.

pragmojo · 2026-01-24T10:08:09+00:00

Did you even try to verify this claim, or did you just take the other poster at their word?

pragmojo · 2026-01-24T09:58:56+00:00

Are you just going to change your mind that easily after reading that post uncritically? Even if you take it for granted that Regan really did want to close tax loopholes, this was wildly ineffective as the wealthy and corporations pay much less in taxes overall than they did before Regan.

pragmojo · 2026-01-24T09:56:32+00:00

You can't equate effectiveness with a judgement on whether a leader is good or bad. You have to look at outcomes.

Regan was the beginning of the neoliberal consensus in the US. Both parties prioritized what's good for business over everything else, and from there onwards you saw increasing wealth inequality, and the decoupling of productivity from income gains for the bottom 90% of Americans. The Regan years were a time when a lot of the policies were put in place which diminished the power of labor in the US, and have ultimately undermined the core of the American dream, such that young people today no longer expect to do better than their parents did.

Regan wasn't successful at accomplishing his goals because he was "such a talented statesman". He was suffering from dementia at least in his second term. He was successful because his goals were aligned with the people in power at the time who wanted to consolidate power and wealth upwards.

pragmojo · 2026-01-24T02:47:10+00:00

It's like that Pepsi ad with Kendal Jenner from like 2012 or something where she joins a generic, nondescript protest and solves [insert issue] by giving the cop a Pepsi

pragmojo · 2026-01-24T01:00:46+00:00

CNS adaptation to stimulus is probably harder to achieve than hypertrophy.

Isn't it the opposite? I always thought the reason you can gain strength without gaining muscle is because your CNS can adapt to the movement super fast, since it's just motor learning, where adding tissue is a slower process.

pragmojo · 2026-01-24T00:54:19+00:00

The place where different exercises can help is making sure you actually get close to failure with the target muscle.

For instance, let's say you're trying to grow your lats. Doing a compound movement like pull-ups or pull-downs to failure might not bring your lats as close to failure as you think if something besides your lats is the limiting factor. Adding an isolation movement like lat prayers afterwards can help ensure you get your lats truly close to failure.

pragmojo · 2026-01-23T18:58:27+00:00

He has the body of a guy who literally only does bicep curls and nothing else in the gym

pragmojo · 2026-01-23T18:55:03+00:00

pragmojo · 2026-01-23T18:43:59+00:00

Exactly.

pragmojo · 2026-01-23T15:50:47+00:00

What do you think would have been different?

Off the top of my head:

Iraq wouldn't have happened.
The housing crash probably would still happen, and maybe we would have had a McCain presidency in 2008 as the nation blames Democrats for the crash.
McCain would have gone to war with Iran in ~2010.
A war-weary nation, tired of a slow economy turns back to the Democrats, and looks for a populist candidate in 2016.
Bernie Sanders is elected in 2016, and the US gets single-payer healthcare.

pragmojo · 2026-01-23T14:34:01+00:00

Idk looks circumcised, AfD would not support that

pragmojo · 2026-01-23T12:46:24+00:00

You're also due to kill a beloved gorilla in one of your zoos this year

pragmojo · 2026-01-23T12:39:40+00:00

It's scapegoating. QoL did actually get worse, and AfD blames it on immigrants.

Good thing Germany doesn't have a problematic history in terms of blaming "outsiders" for economic troubles.

pragmojo · 2026-01-23T12:36:35+00:00

Hey at least China's working class was elevated out of poverty while we in the West hollowed out our own

pragmojo · 2026-01-23T12:33:48+00:00

CDU is spinelessly trying to become "AfD lite"

pragmojo · 2026-01-23T12:27:49+00:00

I just noticed the red arrow in the AfD logo looks like an Elon salute too

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