Thank you!
Successes
- got new psych and new prescription of adhd pills which is A MAJOR BOOST and a win worth celebrating
- achieved social goal of spending time with friends outside of gf & family
- fitness goals about 70% met which is good
- weight goal unexpectedly achieved despite Xmas feasting (not a priority since actual weight isn’t important but more how I feel about myself)
Yet to achieve
- still have not joined a gym for a rowing machine. I hereby commit to signing up and having my first session BEFORE OR ON Dec 31st to technically avoid being a new year gym bro
- strength training schedule completely disrupted, I need to find a method of being regular with this. Any tips? I feel like the only way I can keep to a schedule is to do it daily since having rest days means I just lose track and forget, but I can’t do it daily because I’m an elder millennial and my chest gets hurty
Ideas for next month
- a friend who is like 10 years older than me and is in GREAT shape recently got his testosterone checked and he was very low and is recommending getting checked since it’s an easy win for health, fitness, well being, sexual function, etc, so I should do that because I’m at the age where I have a bad knee fuck you zoomers
Eternity in the fire pits might be bad but imagine eternity and a day in the fire pits
One thing I’ve learned this election cycle is how few people have any knowledge of utilitarianism. Genocide is better than genocide+1. Not acting is a moral choice, and frequently a cowardly one.
A lot of people are saying Hitler was a bad guy for killing 6,000,000 Jewish people but I think we should give credit where credit is due and praise him for not killing 6,000,001.
An easy way to avoid having your people shot at in foreign countries is to not send your people into those countries with tanks.
Orange bit looks like the neck and head of a bear. I think they’ve stopped for aesthetic reasons.
The video is accurate so far as this all benefits Iran but I just don’t buy this argument that Israel is gonna be like “oh shit we lost a lot of money and lost of sense of invincibility, pack it up.”
I don’t see that as the dialectic. Rather I see Israel going joker mode and refounding its national myth on a divine battle for existence.
Like, the attritional costs are real but they just don’t seem existential.
Look at Ukraine. Their economy can crater and they can keep fighting, their manpower pool can reach the point of functional exhaustion and they can keep fighting, half the population can flee and they can keep fighting. And the threat perceived by Ukraine was never as existential as the threat perceived by Israel.
Ethno-nationalist populations convinced they’re in a fight for survival simply don’t throw in the towel. Instead they double down, harden up, accept heavier losses, impose military rule, and start directing the militarily significant parts of the economy.
Ultimately Iran benefits from boiling the frog, that much is true. But it just seems like a leap of hopeful faith to think this is actually an existential threat to Israel meanwhile Israel will perceive it as an existential threat and harden up, double down, and stop counting losses.
Like… they’re more ideologically committed to Israel than Ukraine is to the Donbas and so why posit they’ll surrender more easily?
Something else needs to be in play to make this a dialectic of existential collapse rather than a dialectic of militarized ethno-nationalist fascism.
I don’t want an UBI or flat tax
Elon Thiel and Gates want a flat tax and see UBI as the Trojan horse to get that done
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Orwell also explicitly stated it was about “American millionaires” and “petty Hitlers of the de Gaulle type” in the west.
As well as “Stalin” because he was a piece of shit who only claimed to be socialist for clout while actually living and breathing the British empire.
But still it’s worth noting that 1984 was very intentionally also about capitalism in the west. His anti-communism is obvious at the surface but he was also saying what is happening in the west is the same thought control that he perceived as present under Stalin.