You are most likely going to get bored sooner than you expect of having sex with your partner, so you better get on well with them. If you don’t have a goal beyond just companionship such as kid or joint similar life goals, the utility curve of a relationship or a marriage will

WARNING: Graphic Content Luckily, I have never witnessed a Pec tear in person That said, the VAST majority of the Pec tears I’ve seen on video over the years have happened when the person was in a high degree of Shoulder abduction (elbows super flared) BE MINDFUL!

Since everyone has offered their opinion on Michael Green's article, here's mine: Very good read A lot of people on twitter are getting stuck up at the details and shouting his estimated expenses aren't accurate and missing the bigger point: When the poverty line was created,

So I finally read the full article everyone is tweeting about, by Michael Green I don't agree with it all, but the overall point is spot on -- that being in the working lower-class, or middle class, now feels like you're the mark, with the government caring more about the

90% of looksmaxxing is just getting leaner

DeeZe ⛳🏌️‍♂️ I think they misread the data. Ppl spending more on discretionary spending is a second order effect of the affordability crisis. What's there to save for? The down payment for the house you can't qualify for a mortgage for? Your kids tuition that you'll never be able to save

Bret Weinstein just said something that won’t leave my head: For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented — sex and pair-bonding. Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the

Attractive men are nearly always portrayed as slim, well-dressed dudes running a company/organization of some sorts Never as a bulky “gym bro” hopped on TRT & creatine Another reason why bulking is beyond useless. No one thinks you’re hard, bro

When you choose a life partner:

The first part of this post is great. It's a refreshing original idea worth debating. But then it strains credulity when it gets to this part: "And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as “free” as sex became in the 1970s.

Many novels used to have really long sentences - 40 words on average. But average sentence length declined by ~half between 1820 and 1940. 30+ word sentences virtually went extinct. From Henry Oliver's "The triumph of logical English" worksinprogress.co/issue/the-logi…

2 paragraphs I’d want everyone to internalize open.substack.com/pub/scottsumne…

Moses Kagan Most people: "I don't care about money". Also most people: work 40+ hour weeks for a paycheck.

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Tom Cruise delivered a line that instantly froze the entire room: “Put your manners back in.” It wasn’t scripted. During a 60 Minutes interview, when the reporter pushed him about Nicole Kidman, Cruise never raised his voice. He simply held his ground and said, “You’re

“If you think $140K is tough, you should check out Guatemala” tylercowen with a very disappointing reiteration of the party line. No, CPI is not a conspiracy; also, CPI is a terrible metric for measuring baseline participation.

The $140K Poverty Line Debate is Missing the Point Michael Green's viral claim that $140,000 should be the new poverty line has been thoroughly debunked. Scott Winship, Noah Smith, Tyler Cowen, and others have picked apart his methodology: he used Essex County, NJ data (94th

I mastered getting strong with dumbbells and barbells.. Hit - 120 lbs dumbbell shoulder presses for 6 - 315 lbs incline barbell press for 2 And holy shit machine training is so much better…. I enjoy my sessions so much more doing machine alternatives. And it’s way more

I’m going to push back *very* hard here. It’s clear to me that a *lot* of people are not familiar with Simon Baron Cohen’s assortative mating theory of autism. (By “autism” I mean spectrum-like behavior - “autism” is not necessarily discrete, but rather continuous; and autism