Kettlebells! Kettlebells are a great tool to have for home workouts. You might want to start with a lighter one–even if you’ve worked out some, you can still wear yourself out with even a 35 lb. kettlebell.

There is a long historical tradition of artists using images like this to mock the powers-that-be getting too big for their britches.

Well I just got a wave of nostalgia crashing on my head.

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This is nice! Just started watching BBC Nature.

This is cool!

Note to folks: you can zoom in with the mousewheel if you’re on desktop.

Hey I’m old too!

I’d guess that the majority of the initial users for this site will also be old folks who remember the old days before the internet was essentially owned by a handful of major corporations with the same handful of billionaires trying to profit off of ever single digital interaction we have with the internet.

Shit, I remember when there weren’t even ads on the internet. And I appreciate OP–it truly did feel like a treasure hunt, and there was actual treasure tucked away into so many little corners.

I have a great deal of respect for the warez folks online who burrow into premium software and dig out the license calls so that the rest of us can install high-end software on our systems without paying for it at all.

I’m happy to financially support independent software developers with great ideas, and I absolutely love stealing software from companies that charge exorbitant ‘subscription’ now-you’ll-pay-us-forever prices (and then still show you ads and farm your data for AI).

Steal software! Steal what you need! It’s not only good for you, but ultimately will be good for everyone.

p.s. anyone who’s getting annoyed by the ads should download the ublock origin and Privacy Badger plugins for their browsers.

Interesting information!

Yeah, I thought that would be a good generic example.

I went ten years without driving or owning a car.

Another day, another reason to point out that ***Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers *** is now up to the 54th installment with 1,350 entries of people either in, voting for, or directly affiliated with the Republican party. Evidence for their Republicanness is presented with each entry. The list is comprised primarily of police, government officials, teachers, religious officials, and politicians.

This guy, and many others of this ugly breed, will likely make the next list.

It’s useful to remember that his actions are not an anomaly—this is who they are.

We fully entered the realm of the hyperreal, a world where simulations of reality seem more real than reality itself. Our digital representations of reality have more influence over us than our actual material conditions…at least until we can no longer afford to eat or have a home.

It’s worth keeping in mind that the people who made this decision at Columbia are, themselves, wealthy. They are behaving as wealthy people do–they only respond to power, they only care about power, and they will do ANYTHING to maintain power.

It’s never about non-monetary things with wealthy people. They don’t care about other people, even each other, or about high-falutin’ things like academic freedom or free inquiry or free speech because unless those things bring them more power, more money.

They will sacrifice everything, anything, and anyone to maintain their status and they will ALWAYS bend the knee to anyone with more power, more capital, than they have. They have no investment otherwise. You can’t keep your power if you have any focus other than your own power.

Nothing run by wealthy people is ever safe for the rest of us.

Yes, I love that movie. Great science fiction and somehow always seems to remain relevant.

This woman grew up wealthy and privileged–she comes from a family in Wyoming that was always connected and always had money. She’s an attorney married to another attorney.

She is nothing like the people whose concerns she’s laughing at and calling embarrassing. She doesn’t have the same life experience as them, and she’s never, for a single second of a single day, had to worry about paying her bills or lacking necessary things.

So she laughs when her constituents worry about these things, and she mocks them when they voice those concerns.

Because the people who bought these cars paid $100k (at least) for them and they drive them around as symbols of technological power and efficiency.

Meanwhile, the rest of us are traveling around in a $19k Toyota Camry that works just fine.

I think that’s the issue–the current ‘Republicans’ in the Executive Office don’t give a single shit if any of the smaller Republicans can ever return to their home districts. They are plundering all the bank vaults of government and keeping as much as they can for themselves. It’s a party made up of powerful narcissists–the only thing keeping any of them in check is the greater power of other narcissists. They will eat each other once they’ve eaten all of us.

The issue with any of this is that we’re assuming that we’ll have another election in four years, and I’m not so sure about that.

How much actual power do you have in this regard?

Did you get to choose your job? Can you also choose not to have a job?