u/PitifulEar3303

I never really questioned this until recently, and now I notice it EVERYWHERE.

Most women, including me, will subconsciously stand further apart from men/boys, and not just in public or in a queue. I do this among friends and families, too.

Why do we do this? Gender based fear? Culture? Upbringing? Social indoctrination?

Unless they are our BFF or loved ones with a deep relationship.

He even showed his real military registration booklet.

What he said is quite believable, but is any of it true? He is quite convincing in my opinion.

Do you seriously believe YOUR mind could come up with EVERYTHING in this reality?

That YOUR mind invented E=MC2, not Einstein's mind?

That YOUR mind did all the hard work for thousands of years to fill Earth's history?

That YOUR mind figured out advanced physics of the universe?

That YOU alone has the privilege of living as a brain in a vat created by some advanced aliens?

That NOTHING is real because YOUR mind created everything?

THIS........my Friend.......is the very DEFINITION......of........Hubristic Ego.

Right?

We laugh at the life haters and spam their posts with life-affirming, positive shiate, yet deep down, most of us will absolutely choose a rich and powerful life vs whatever crap life we have now, right?

Are we lying to ourselves?

Is life really that great or are we just mad coping?

Are the Antinatalists right? lol

此前，一名边境执法官员和一名已退休的香港警司被裁定有罪，罪名是在英国境内为中国从事“影子警务”活动；鉴于此，英国政府已召见中国驻英大使前往外交部

https://www.reddit.com/r/MartialArtsUnleashed/comments/1t32xwh/wing_chun_form/

This was me, 50kg, lol.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/comments/1sv4ddb/is_it_possible_that_someone_is_genetically_unable/

I just got my first successful dead hang pull-up (bar below neck).........and also an L-sit pull-up, at the same time.

Which is super weird because I couldn't do any pull-ups a few days ago.

Thank you @Histogenesis, for telling me to just yank it hard and fast.

Apparently, I was following some "Super hard" advice from YouTube experts that beginners cannot achieve, wrongly promoted as "For beginners". lol

Slow and controlled from a dead hang, chest to bar, hollow body, forearms further from chest, etc.

I did it from a dead hang by just activating my scaps/lats, then yanking hard and fast with my elbows into my hip. This got me over the 20% bottom lock and all the way up over the bar.

If I do it slowly with my chest facing the bar, and forearms further from the chest, I get locked at the bottom 20% and fail. lol

I think these YouTube experts have been showing me "expert" techniques, not for beginners.

The "Slow and controlled" part is the problem for me, maybe too slow and too controlled. It locked me out at the bottom 20%.

Plus, I have a very "thicc" bar that I can't wrap my thumbs around, so I have to do it with a suicide-grip; maybe this removed some power from my pull?

Slow and controlled + suicide grip = very difficult for beginners, maybe?

Anywhooooo, I can do 3 reps, max, lmao. Dead hanging too long at the bottom will also drain my energy, so I had to yank it up fast. heh.

Well, just sharing my story and progress.

Maybe one day I will be able to pull up like them experts, slow and controlled, and chest-bumping the bar.

My last shred of interest in Sam's "truth" is fading.

Yes, Mamdani is no saint, and will make some stupid mistakes, but to say he is the SAME as Trump but on the left, is Fox and Friends' level of BS.