This was the week working out in the great outdoors got real. Fall has come to inland southern California. Early morning lows have been in the high 30s and low 40s. Rain, the mythical falling of water droplets from the sky, came earlier than it usually does.
My gym is doing their damnedest to comply with Governor Nuisance’s diktats so they can stay open and their customers (i.e. me) can keep working out. It had to be a tremendous pain in the ass to move as much equipment outside as they did. They even moved a bunch of cardio machines outside and use a generator to power them. I imagine Nuisance, being an effete prima donna, never considered they can’t safely run a generator in the rain.
I don’t even think it is possible for the gym to move the largest pieces of equipment outside. Of course, there is no way they can bolt down the large pieces when everything is in a parking lot under portable tents. That means anything that uses cables stayed inside. The same goes for squat racks.
I have had to skip some exercises because they just can’t be done on the available equipment. For others I can make some substitutions in order to get in a half-decent workout. My mantra is something is better than nothing.
I was reintroduced to hammer curls this week. To do a proper hammer curl grab the dumbbells and hold them so your palms are facing the outside of your legs. Maintain that orientation while curling the dumbbells upward. At the top of the curl, rotate your forearms so the dumbbells are parallel to the ground with your palms facing down. Slowly, lower the dumbbells.
The last movement is an eccentric contraction. “Eccentric contraction refers to any movement that lengthens a muscle at the same time it is being contracted. It is a braking force that directly opposes the shortening of a muscle.” A regular curl has the same eccentric contraction (but without the focus on your forearms on the way down.)
With the limitation of available equipment, I’m looking for alternative ways to get the most out of my workouts. Candidly, I’m also looking to stay motivated. The gym, when we could go inside, wasn’t warm this time of year but it was fine. Having to be outside when its rainy or windy is not what I signed up for. What are you Glibs doing to stay motivated when you governors make it difficult for your workouts?
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Non-sequitur 1:
Nearly all of California’s propositions went down to defeat. This includes propositions sponsored by the state’s biggest unions, introduced by our Team Blue legislature, and supported by our governor with presidential aspirations. It makes me think that for all the stupidity regularly displayed by the electorate, there is in fact some limit. I’m grateful for small favors.
Non-sequitur 2:
While I hope to be wrong, it looks like we are getting President Biden. Here is one plausible scenario how Covid disappears as a problem. It’s served its purpose. A good number of states have giant holes in their budgets. Those holes are only getting worse under Covid restrictions. I strongly suspect Biden knows this crap has to end.
I’m currently watching Massachusetts shoot itself in the foot. They are literally testing their own shit. I have close friends who live there who voted for Biden. These friends are political centrists. I’ve already heard from one about his growing anger.
Which leads me to a silver lining in a Biden administration. Team Blue will destroy themselves in 2022. Pelosi claims Dems have a mandate. Remember what happened after the first 2 years of Obama’s first term? Pepperidge Farm does.
I’m not as convinced as some of you that Biden has dementia. But he is clearly in mental decline. The more the electorate hears from Kamala Harris the deeper the hole will be dug. She has trouble when her words are scripted. Without one, she is the living embodiment of progressive condescension. Team Blue will be the author of their own reckoning.
My earlier talk about prima donnas made me think of this so that’s what you get for music this week. Unless you’re MikeS who mysteriously reappeared this week after I asked Minnesota Glibs to give him a poke. Welcome home MikeS.
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/looks around for a mosh pit
/gets more irritated
Sorry for OT’ing. I just dead thread posted this:
Jesus Christ
Frat brother on FB posts this NPR article:
His comment: “I have no idea what the hell is with these people.”
My response: “Maybe they have different priorities than you do.”
His response:
And my final comment: “Yes, yes, my side is holy and theirs is demonic. One thing you have made clear is that you have no respect and significant antipathy for people who disagree with your politics and that would include me. I’m going to refrain from interacting with you on FB in the future. But as parting advice, I’d like to recommend The True Believer by Eric Hoffer. Read it like I did not only as something to understand others with, but as a source of self-reflection.”
True Believer is good recommendation for anyone. It’s on T.O’G’s Homeschool Curriculum*.
Were you guys close?
I have some of his attitude and rhetoric in my family. I suspect much of it comes down to brand loyalty, something Glibs probably lack. (e.g., Reese’s cups aren’t good anymore? Screw em, we’ll buy Justin’s now.) They’ve probably been Dem since ’63 if not ’60, well before they were old enough to vote, or even alive.
*theoretical
No, not really. I just recently starting interacting with people on FB. Trying not to be overtly on a political side, but instead pointing out where I thought they were being unreasonable. In fact, now that I think back on it, he was always kind of an asshole. He just picked his brand and gets off on hating the unwashed heathens.
I’ve come to the realization that most of the people I went to college with are wannabe technocrats with a superiority complex. The worst seem to be the ones with the middling grades and/or careers.
I don’t have to put up with that. My family are all either GOP voters, apolitical don’t vote, and one guy who still votes LP(not me).
I have some lefty co-workers, but they are not the hostile angry types who stink up twitter and go to whatever leftist rally is popular. They keep it to themselves.
Then how do you know? 😉 Lucky you, though.
You mean how do I know they vote dem? I think I posted about this a while back here, but I’ll recap it.
My project manager is just a longtime dem. He votes dem, but he is not any sort of lefty or anything in real life. He loves some signaling, but he’s a socialist who owns 6 cars including a couple of expensive sports cars and is pro-2A. His actual political leaning is closer to libertarian than anything else. He’s one of these guys who doesn’t see this affecting him no matter what, so he’ll do the signaling to keep up the good appearance with the cool kids.
The other one is one of those ‘liberals’ who cannot wait to tell you how liberal she is the minute she meets you. I told her ‘I’m a libertarian politically’. She got this quizzical look, like no one really knows what that is, but she has a good friend who is libertarian, so she sort of gets it. She says ‘Oh, so you’re a just leave me alone guy’. And I said ‘Yeah, you basically got it’. The best way I can describe her is a 60s flower child left over. She’s like the sweetest person you’d ever meet.
The 3 of us sort of have our own little click going where we meet up occasionally about non-work stuff and we don’t talk politics. They both know I’m a Trump supporter and so is her hubby. So politics is a no go topic.
The asshats on twitter who have started threatening people to put them on lists? Fuck those assholes, if I have any discourse with them, it will be to tell them to fuck right off.
Only thing I would add is to read The Culture of Narcissism. Whereas Hoffer’s work is timeless about human nature, Lasch is so spot-on about where we are today (which is amazing for a book written 40 years ago). But both of these will be rejected by people who don’t think the authors are talking about them and their noble beliefs.
Oh, suddenly the left cares about Xi? When did that start? Must have been after they cashed the checks and found the strings attached.
I’m going to try to get back in the gym starting this week. The kidney stone took me way off track, but now I’m feeling the increased tension and laziness from not getting exercise.
All I have to do is not hurt myself. Wish me luck.
Good luck!
Got back into the spin studio on Friday after skipping a couple weeks (due to potential Covid exposure, and trying to respect their rules), pretty middle of the road performance from me, but it felt good to get the legs working and have interactions with random people.
Weight is still trending down, average weight last week stayed the same, but I hit a new post-lockdown low.
Motivation is the real killer, and that’s where I keep running into issues.
Motivation – entirely unrelated to relatively minor COVID restrictions (mask required to enter Y, but not while exercising) – is my biggest problem. No apparent tangible progress toward goals. Lots of “why bother?” in the back of my mind. Hoping I can get myself to Y classes more often while I’m off work for a week-and-a-half starting Wednesday. Just put on a particularly snug pair of old jeans while washing the usual ones. We’ll see if that gives me any motivation other than to get the laundry done.
Back in the before times, motivation for spin classes was to keep me from losing too much ground over the winter months when I couldn’t ride outside. This year, when I could ride outside. It wass a crap shoot if the place I’m going to is going to be open, I have to plan for stops, as water fountains and bathrooms are still closed. The initial goal for the weight loss was to be able to fit into my old bowling/work shirts for Viva this year… which was pushed until September of next year.
But if I just give up, I know I won’t be ready by next year.
Oh! Oh! Oh! I know this one! 6 more years of malaise ala Carter? What do I win? 4 more years, at least, of that again!
Demonization of the Tea Party?
Occupy?
And the poor kept getting poorer.
The Republicans won some races, did nothing much, the President was re elected?
If your best case scenario is Obama . . . .
Maybe it’s okay to shoot yourself in the foot if you’re counting the votes.
Posted just as the other thread died.
Nobody has any love for the Lautenberg Amendment? That POS law makes any conviction, including misdemeanors, for “domestic abuse” a total lifetime forfeiture of your 2A rights. Except the law is so vague and so misused by prosecutors the idea of DA is stretched past all sense of reality.
An example from my own life experiences. A Soldier hosts a Super Bowl party and is a strong fan of one of the teams. One of the guests and he are doing high volume non stop shit talking during the game. One of the jabs used was “I’m gonna fucking kill you.” to the other shit talking guest. His neighbor, one of the proto-Karens, calls the police with a noise and DA complaint. The cops show up and tell them to keep it down some. A cop asks if there are other people in the house and he says “yes” and mentions that it includes his wife and kids, plus some other wives and kids. Then it turns into “Sir, please step out the door with your hands raised.” Because the neighbor said a potential for DA somebody was going to be arrested. The other Soldier we were saying it to each other, Cops don’t care. Soldier 1 is arrested in front of his wife and kids.
Fast forward to court. Prosecutor is “tough on DA”. Wife, kids, Soldier 2 are all willing to testify on Soldier 1 behalf. Prosecutor knows he won’t get a felony conviction so says if you plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge I’ll let you go with a judges warning. Soldier 1 takes the deal against lawyers advice.
Next thing cops show up and seize his firearms because under the LA he can no longer posses them. Prosecutors minions show up at Ft X with a court order to never issue a military owned firearm to Soldier 1 because of the LA. Military lawyers research and yep, no issue military firearms. Upshot Soldier 1 is tossed from the Army. The family, who was never threatened, now has a near unemployable male head, guy had about 15 years in and lost all that future retirement.
What other Constitutionally recognized right can you lose for a misdemeanor? You can be damned sure the “pre-Harris administration” will be using the LA and the Harris Admin will double down.
I have an idea of what I might do in that situation, but I’m not discussing it on the internet.
It’s a true story, many times over. Only gonna get worse. Cops still ain’t your friend, especially the one who might be vice president.
Related, also from the dead thread.
https://cssrc.us/issue/apps
This is who will be demanding that the Harris administration enforce the law even harder.
Sorry about what Gauleiter Newsome is putting you through.
What are you Glibs doing to stay motivated when you governors make it difficult for your workouts?
As much as I bitch about the Clown Prince, he really isn’t fucking over gyms all that much. Capacity is limited, there are equipment distancing requirements, staff have to wear masks, members have to wear masks in the lobby area. Some municipalities have mask ordinances which require masks in the gym.
I mentioned a week or two ago my gym got ratted out by member. Nothing else has happened beyond the staff now wear masks at all times as the Clown Prince requires. The staff still ignore the municipal mask ordinance which requires members to wear a mask except when actively working out. I wear a bandanna in a half-assed manner while moving through the lobby area. The staff are fine with that. I’m certain many municipal cops work out at my gym, so the city knows my gym is ignoring it. But, the city police are the ones responsible for enforcing it and they won’t.
It would be nice for the gym to be back at full capacity. I’ll admit it, I like looking at good looking women working out while I work out. I’d have more to look at.
About the California propositions: It’s a silver lining.
I have a bad feeling Biden is going to impose nationwide restrictions. I have no idea how they would be enforced, but I see them coming.
Some municipalities in New Hampshire are testing wastewater in the municipal sewer systems for Lil Rona. I think Durham is one of them, but I can’t remember. I’m not going to go looking.
Weight is back on a downward track. Lean mass is up, body fat is down. I deadlifted with a trap bar last Friday. Only 55 lbs, but I had no trouble with it, and no pain the next day. The trainer I’m working with decided to have me continue squatting with kettlebells for the time being, and to continue doing floor presses. He wanted me to try out bent over rows. I think I overdid things there, but the pain faded quickly.
I think this week will see my weight go up. Roselynn Homemade Ice Cream opened up this weekend for a breakfast social for friends and family, and to sell baked goods. I stopped by to show some support for them as they try to survive under the Clown Prince’s rule. I bought some baked goods. They’ll drive my weight up, but I don’t care. I like supporting places like this. Their pumpkin bread is delicious.
Countdown until I’m unpersoned for liking pumpkin baked goods…..
“He really isn’t fucking over gyms all that much”
Followed by a long list of ways he is fucking over gyms.
Compared to other states? It’s not that much.
Hi Chafed! Thanks and greetings from NOCal. Weather has turned to autumn here too; with the cool and windy. I think we are still locked down, but I don’t really care.
Boy, did Cali represent in the election. Everything fell in line for the ballot counters up here including a sales tax increase for the childrens or hospitals..WTH. Biden out pointed Trump 8MM to 4MM according to the judges. I told my wife if it wasn’t close (2MM or more), I won’t bother voting here again since my view is extremely outgunned and my intended time in Cali is limited. Oh well, I got more pressing concerns if I am going to execute my plans…
“When you stop thinking; you stop trying…” I think a large portion of Cali has stopped trying without knowing they stopped thinking for themselves 4 yrs ago. That is why I like this site, it makes me think and these G-fit articles make me want to plan.
To me, being G-fit is both body and mind fitness. It requires planning, both long and short range:
Short range plan is to continue status quo: Sleep as first priority with the goal of 9 hrs/nite…no exception. Food priority, highest quality proteins (no refined carbs), less than 12 feeds/wk within 5hr feed window/day. Limit alcohol consumption to weekends (that’s a toughie!). Exercise daily with hiking, stretching and whatever bands/weights/calisthenics’ that I can dream up with stuff around the house to burn 2600 cals/day before bed. Continue using as many Wim Hoff/meditative techniques that are beneficial to my perceived resilience including breathing exercises, fasting and cold adaptions.
Long range plan: Continue to refine my “F*ck it..go with the flow” attitude without pissing off my wife too much. Quit working within the next 18 months. Become fluent in another language. Investigate and increase available options for our life for the next decade or three. Stay in shape and avoid preventable sickness. Do interesting and exciting things…Spend all the money!
I am off to continue executing short/long range plans.
¡Todos, salven una gran semana! Sáltate una comida o tres …
Only worthwhile way to vote in CA is with your feet.
Just need to beat the exit tax. I think a Biden elect will buy more time with the probability of a fed bailout.
On the plus side, wife mentioned today whether home improvements make sense if we are not planning on staying for long…
Only the ones that will get you a little more cash after what you spend and increase chances of a quick sale. Curb appeal of course, and anything about kitchens. In the future, we’ll all have a tent in the back yard to sleep in and our entire home will be a 7000 sq ft kitchen that costs us 1.2 million dollars.
My goal is to do nothing in order to sell; including cleaning. Preferably to some kid of a Chinese billionaire.
You must live in Cali.
I like this.
Time to be uber healthy and really smart.
I strongly suspect Biden knows this crap has to end.
SRSLY?
I have close friends who live there who voted for Biden. These friends are political centrists. I’ve already heard from one about his growing anger.
I hope he gets what he voted for good and hard.
He will, the problem is the rest of us get it also.
Chafed: (innocently) “Ida know, apparently voters approved of that part of their platform.”
I am off for a sail. Brisk Trades today and a fresh bottle of black rum should help restore some sanity. (At least in the short term.)
Today’s poke selection? Wasabi scallops. Mmmm Mmmm good.
I’ll check back in later.
Sounds like a good day.
Fair winds and following seas.
Speaking of double eagle – we had a sighting, hell, you couldn’t miss them – on our horseback ride today. Sitting up in a tree 30 and 40 ft above us. The one at the top had just flown up off a deer carcass, and jesus that sucker was huge.
We saw a pair fighting crows up at Bass lake. Beautiful creatures in person and in the wild. Two years ago, we saw a nest with tiny white heads sticking out. I figure it’s the same two birds all growed up. I got some pics, but they’re not very good. Better at seeing than photgraphing.
When we go boating in the islands between the San Juans and Bellingham, WA we see a lot of them.
I have been in Indianapolis for several weeks (family stuff). For the past couple of weeks I have been doing a daily morning 5 miles in 15 minutes on my dad’s recumbent stationary bike. It’s better than nothing. Gets me heart rate up.
Gazing down at me from the bookshelf every morning is a copy of “The Myth of the Rational Voter.” I’m either going to read it, or burn it. I haven’t decided which.
Read, then burn if necessary? I have heard the title but don’t know anything about it.
“Those holes are only getting worse under Covid restrictions. I strongly suspect Biden knows this crap has to end.”
I don’t think it’s going to end. It’s too useful as a control mechanism and they have to claim the Biden fixes it. So there will be hard lockdowns and travel restrictions and then maybe after 6 months, we get out of prison if we can all start voting blue and give up our guns.
They don’t care about economic damage. They care about reductions in tax collections.
Which are easily fixed with federal bailouts.
Money printer goes BRRRRRRR!
Which are easily fixed with federal bailouts.
That’s just shuffling money around. The tax will still come due, someday in some form.
I too expect a round of national lockdowns and mask requirements for a period time. Then the narrative and data collecting/reporting will change to show improvement (as described in the tweet linked here somewhere). As long as the states and big businesses are quietly guaranteed bailouts, they will go along with it.
This allows the Dems to point out how bad OMB was and how easily he could have saved hundreds of lives, how dumb the anti-maskers are and a possible added bonus of getting rid of some more small businesses.
Doing a little more walking at work, as much as my arthritic ankle can manage.
I splurged and ate cheesecake purely as self-pity “Fuck it, I’m eating cheesecake!” reaction to team Blue’s blatant trashing of truth and law. Figured I’d be up a few pounds. But I held steady somehow.
My blood pressure is at 120/78 lately. I’m supposed to email that fact to my doc so he can decide to adjust my medicine or not.
Blood pressure used to be more like 130/85.
Stir fry for lunch. Deep dark chocolate cake on the counter cooling down, waiting for chocolate buttercream frosting. All from scratch, of course.
Pro-tip: dont come to Hayeksplosives’ house to lose weight.
I would come to gain weight, it all sounds so good….
Come out to the coast! We’ll have a few laughs…
You could meet at Nakatomi Plaza!
Not until after Thanksgiving!
Some municipalities in New Hampshire are testing wastewater in the municipal sewer systems for Lil Rona.
I have seen several stories about this. I haven’t a clue what it’s supposed to accomplish, other than muddy(!) the waters.
They got the idea from collectively testing Europe’s pee for drugs?
Glibfit, is that what this article is? I lost 9.5 lbs, almost all from walking and not drinking beer. I seem to be stuck there, I need to up my game.
That’s great that a simple (although difficult-beer) changes gave good results. Maybe another simple change (sleep or food) might knock you off the plateau. Experiment and give it a couple weeks to see.
Worst case scenario: Biden wins EC. House stays Democrats. Both of the GA Senate runoffs won by Ds, resulting in 50-50 split. Which means the VP breaks all ties.
Which means Ds narrowly control everything but SCOTUS. But now they can court pack, and then run the tables for future elections by requiring all states do all mail in ballots and ballot harvesting.
That would be political nuclear war in the Mutually Assured Destruction sense.
It might even cause the GOP to grow a spine.
The GOP might grow a spine unless it flips back to the establishment RINO GOP with Romney and crew at the helm.
Because you know they are going to claim that they would be winning if not for Trump. Which most of us know is complete BS, if not for Trump, they’d get clobbered all around.
Does the GOP even have leadership?
So it’ll flip back to RINO GOP with Romney and crew at the helm.
The really sad thing is that the GOP had four years to learn Trump’s methods of winning elections, and to adopt them for themselves. Not one single GOP politician did.
If the GA Governor doesn’t have state troopers ensuring observers access to Atlanta count sites, he deserves to be impeached.
This the Congress that can’t even pass annual budget and appropriations on time. And in two years, they’re going to completely up-end our Constitutional order?
The Virginia model.
Ram it all through when you can. They learned from dithering Obama’s first two years away on Obamacare.
Worst case: The dems never lose another race, except to keep up the appearance of plausible deniability. R’s just go along to avoid being labeled. Our money and rights get usurped in an increasingly rapid manner. All other nations follow our lead and the world sucks. The GOP will Never grow a spine without a Trump like figure leading them. There ain’t no others that look good for this role. There ain’t gonna be another for a long assed time.
Yeah, sadly, they go with Jeb in 2024, and he loses of course, because he’s Jeb.
The Bush legacy lives on!!
Two matches in two days. Woof.
Next year, I’ll pick a Kayaderrosseras match and designate it a Glibs meet-up. It is an excellent introduction to practical shooting, and much lower-pressure and attracts a much more laid-back “competitor” base. How much so?
-Yesterday, Kayaderroseras match: I placed second out of 35 people.
-Today, USPSA match: I placed 19th out of 28. I would have done better, but there were three classifier stages today, and the word “classifier” is a voodoo curse that makes me do something supremely stupid. Like forget to do a mandatory reload and wonder why the gun ran dry at the end.
In the apocalypse, you can be on my team. You know where to find me.
Congrats on 2nd.
According to the website, there are Steel Challenge clubs in Fleetwood and New Tripoli. Grab/build an AR or AK in 9mm and have fun! I plan to be doing that all winter (though in .22LR for money’s sake)
SCSA.org
I’ve got a scorpion evo. I have looked at those clubs before. Just never got around to going.
You get to shoot fast at multiple targets. I like it.
Congratulations on the Kayaderroseras match placing.
Eh, the point was to contrast it with a “serious” local match — that people shouldn’t be afraid to come and shoot at it.
Or the “serious” local match, either. Come out and shoot, whatever you have in your area!
That whole thing about the last-place shooter at a USPSA match having to sexually service the top three, that’s just an ugly rumor…
I work in the Great outdoors, all seasons and conditions, it’s good for you, Buying a broken Vacuum cleaner and making it work? Priceless…
/Actually 8 Bucks,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/jX5ywfj3M6xzcHFf6
Also, PC! I can drive again! I love having a home,
Does it work on cat vomit?
I would say yes, let it dry a bit,
/ha ha
Nice!
I’ll take it, I’m super broke buying this place and will be for a while, no Microwave, no dishes, no cookware, very minimal and Spartan, I don’t like it, but I like Buying instead of renting, thanks DEG!
Also my 12 channel mixer won’t fire off, neither the Power supply or USB, so it’s internal, yikes! I like it, and can’t afford another, and I need it it run my synths all at once, Yikes!
They have a lot of garage sales in that part of the country. Just saying, you can typically pick up all sorts of stuff at really bargain prices. Mostly happens in the warmer months though.
they are still happening, more shops and restore stuff, but I’ll get some goodies, it’s fun for me…
Good for you. It is fun.
I have a set of canisters that I bought in IN in the 80s, they’re made in Mexico in 1978. I think I paid $10 for those. My wife told me if we ever split up, the only thing she wants is those canisters. A mint condition set on Ebay is about $100 now. I found a lot of really cool stuff at garage sales. My mom was religious about going to them. She’s a painter and so she was always after paintings. She bought one for like a dollar that she sold for $3300. It happens.
I mean people just run of of space for all the stuff they collect over the years.
I saw the photo from your deck the other day. Looks like got a real nice spot there. Good on you.
I mapped the kayak trip to the Great Lake, only 3 miles, but enough to see to make it a half day anyway, and put out is 5 minutes from Sister to get me home, I might try it this year if we get another break in the weather, Full wetsuit, PFD, waterproofing etc. nuts? maybe…..
I was just at the gym. A gym buddy of mine walked in visibly upset. A huge guy in his 40s who works in the defence industry. Upset not at who they say won but how it happened and how nobody is doing anything about it. I tried to commiserate with him because I have nothing to say to make him feel better about our country becoming a banana republic.
Did you tell him to calm his tits?
No, I preferred to remain conscious and concussion-free today.
? to add to your workout playlist
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CsxaoXHe9Xc
Another one:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8S0_DppB14
Last one:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fyz-bOqmwIo
This the Congress that can’t even pass annual budget and appropriations on time. And in two years, they’re going to completely up-end our Constitutional order?
President Cartoon Villain and his attack poodle McConnell wouldn’t let them. It’s clear sailing, now!
I’m out for awhile. I gotta got try and break my neck at the skatepark with my kid. Irony is, it’s a lack of traction that makes you end up in..traction!
lack of balance you mean, you need to be able to slide your wheels without busting your ass Old Man!
Another 4 days of workout classes this week, making it 8/10 for the weekdays since I started caring more about habit than intensity. New kiddo obviously makes for some complications, but next week im shooting for 3/5 weekdays and one day where I workout in the morning and also in the evening.
Good job on the habit and congrats on the new spawn.
Before and I forget- Obligatory.
And in case all the court battles are lost, and OMB loses, and Biden-Harris really do get the reigns? This.
Man1 I’m doing Pandora right now! don’t ask me to change moods!
Sup Brother! Tall Cans and a great day!
About time you got to the proper time-zone, even if it is in Michigan.
Better than Ohio, come up I’ll prove it…
On the plus side, wife mentioned today whether home improvements make sense if we are not planning on staying for long…
Only if there is a net positive financial return.
Home improvements now,
Ammo
Bulk Food
Energy supplies, Propane, Butane, Wood, generators etc.
Guns
Good footwear
Outerwear
Towels
Chlorine Bleach
Toilet paper
You should have all these thing anyway, if you don’t, get them, if you do.. buy more,
Answering a question from the dead thread:
Intel’s decision to outsource production was very much according to trend. Diminishing returns hits hard, and Moore’s law hasn’t been riding to the rescue for a while now. Each node is more difficult to justify economically than the one before. Intel and Samsung were the only two people in-housing their 14nm, and of the two Samsung is just so much larger that it could justify the capital layout to go smaller. You have to produce so much product to recoup the equipment costs it’s absurd. We’ve got a huge production space, but if we don’t produce at least 75% of our theoretical maximum (regardless of equipment downtime, yield loss, or lack of orders) we lose money.
The good thing about being a pure foundry is we don’t need to have X market share to justify production. We just need a total client mix that has that combined.
All I know is there will be no 3080ti. That’s all we need to know to let us know we are going back to the dark ages.
Fuck, I could use two of those to run AC Valhalla when I get two of these to replace my 34″ and 2×27″ displays:
Samsung 49″ HDR 240hz Gsync monitor
I’m not paying twice list for a 3080. I can wait until next year.
I’m waiting until next year also. Possibly until late summer, or fall.
They won’t go down much though. Hopefully a little though since there’s no more bit coin miners hoping to make a fortune.
We Fabricate and refurbish Propane tanks, we own at least 3k that can/are refurbished as well as new, and cannot keep up with demand, not a foundry per se, but definitely a manufacturer of some note, I wish we could get better Workers,
I’ll be real curious to see what happens to Intel on a new node. Historically, it has been mixed how that CPU performs.
They need it now as AMD’s new architecture now has an absolute advantage on a single core on most every application. And on the enterprise side AMD is now more power efficient with the same workload.
It will still be an Intel design. In fact outsourcing their design will allow them to use the proprietary tech of whichever foundry they partner with, so they’ll have more options for improvement.
Like AMD does now *koff* *koff*
That would be my hope, but they’ve f’d that up on several past node changes. They got higher yield, but users got higher prices and little additional performance.
Competition is a good thing so I don’t want AMD running unopposed either.
X market
I would always laugh at the management and ownership that they’re shocked, surprised by these trends, when I was in Tier I automotive. Tier 1 bleeds: you’re shock-absorber for the entire value chain with all of the responsibility and none of the flexibility. If Ford hates me, I’m screwed because the dash off an F150 won’t fit on a Prium, but the guy who molds it for me can fire me as a client in a heart-beat and change over to pumping out trash cans for Target in 36 hours.
There is a reason Apple and to a lesser extent Tesla have so much stuff in house.
Tesla makes its own seats. Rumor on that one is that as they ramped up the existing makers said two the Tier I guys, build for them don’t build for us. But I’ve no idea how true.
Of course, the example I gave was fairly custom product: highly tooled to fit. No one wants to be a commodity supplier, but it’s fair to say that hoses, tires, seating, and other items can be quickly modified to move from Chevy to Ford.
The other game I’ve seen is to give competitors each half of the business; if you’ve got to build two sets of tools to meet capacity anyway, it’s a free play, and then they can pit those two suppliers against each other for the duration of the run.
At last, we are free from the ominous shadow of fascist authoritarianism!
As Utah’s coronavirus case counts soar and hospitals warn that rationing care is all but inevitable, health experts say that state officials for weeks have rejected their recommendations for more severe restrictions to prevent further spread.
“Given the trajectory we’re on, we need — at a minimum — a two-week stay-at-home order to interrupt this transmission,” said Dr. Eddie Stenehjem, an infectious disease physician with Intermountain Healthcare.
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Infectious disease experts have for about two weeks called on state officials to ramp up restrictions, especially on businesses like bars, gyms and theaters, said Dr. Andy Pavia, chief of pediatric infectious disease at University of Utah Hospital, who has served on various state groups in Utah’s coronavirus response.
But those recommendations stalled amid objections from political leaders, Pavia said. In fact, the state’s new guidelines, launched in October, eliminated previous restrictions that required gyms and pools to close, and bars and restaurants to suspend dine-in service, at the highest levels of infection.
Asked whether medical experts supported throwing out those rules as they advised Gov. Gary Herbert and other state officials who developed the new guidelines, Pavia said: “Absolutely not.”
“The removal of those restrictions came entirely out of the political levels” of the state’s Unified Command over the coronavirus response, Pavia said. “We weren’t really asked about it, specifically — so we assumed they would remain the same.
Who said you could do that?
“more severe restrictions to prevent further spread”
But first, some actual scientific support, pls.
Do you not see our hair on fire, right on top of our heads? How much more science do you need buster?
Top Men
Do we have any New Mexico Glibs? Any thoughts on Albuquerque as a relocation destination? I’m pretty sure I want this Winter to be my last serious one, plus I feel like I need a change…
NO, Albuquerque is a gang ridden shithole, really, suburbs maybe, but really you can go to better places,
I’ll tell you what I know since I’ve been looking everywhere all over the country for months to decide on a new location. There’s not much there. In any way at all. There’s nothing there and there are no homes I could find that I wanted to buy. It’s cheaper, but it’s a crap hole.
If you want the desert SW, go for AZ. It’s not cheap, but there’s a lot there to do and some beautiful homes for sale.
I’m with you on winter, I hate it. We’re probably going to opt for SC, that’s almost a sure thing. Although it still could be TN or FL. AZ is probably out because my wife has soured on the intense heat and scorpions. And FL, gators you know. SC is probably it, it just has too many perks. A tolerable climate, still red state, many many beautiful affordable properties.
Kentucky has something right to elect Rand Paul and Thomas Massie.
I lived in the same county as Massie for about 10 years. It’s beautiful there, but there’s nothing there except tobacco and weed, and rednecks. It’s almost a libertarian paradise if they would bet rid of what paved roads they have.
But seriously, if you ever lived in eastern rural KY, you’d understand how they actually elected the 2 most libertarian congress critters ever.
I’ve only been in Louisville area for work. It was…not my cup of tea.
If I didn’t have to live near a job, I could see the appeal of Eastern KY. Go off grid on salvaged Tesla batteries like Massie did..
Louisville is a different planet.
The only reason I was in E KY is that my grandfather and his partner were building sub divisions in the mountains there. When I was working on the road crew and we were building the roads and laying the utility tiles, it was back breaking work that only young men could survive. Damn blue clay in sweltering heat, lol. Then we’d all smoke weed and drink beer until the next day.
No desert for us. We just (as in, last Thursday) bought a house in Alaska.
Sweet! congrats fellow cold one!
Congrats!
Right on!
Yay for global warming!
Congrats Animal!
Congratulations!
Enjoy!
I’m up here in Anchorage this week, enjoying the beautiful gray weather.
Woot! woot!
and the award for Glibs Truest Libertarian goes to ……………
Bearded Hobbit. From what I’ve heard it has become a reliably blue area.
That’s kind of the impression I was getting, so I guess that’s out. Unless MI goes even crazier.
I lived in Santa Fe and a nearby small village for a decade. Would go back in a heartbeat. Some of the small villages around Santa Fe to the north are quite beautiful and affordable.
Sure, you have winter at 7000+ feet, but if it isn’t actively snowing, it’s sunny. And in the sun it feels 30 degrees warmer than it actually is. Roads drive off very quickly because it’s high desert.
Hobbit lives quite a bit further north than Santa Fe. Commodious lives in ABQ. As does Deadhead, who hasn’t been on the site in a long time.
I loved Taos, but I was there in summer. Very cool place, but a little on the small town/backwater side for me. ABQ is a flat no, both literally and figuratively.
Leaders in the state’s pandemic response contend that the viral spread isn’t happening in public settings. They have blamed social and family gatherings for the current surge in infections.
It’s heads-on-spikes time.
You go first, I’ve been that guy, not pretty…..
Having a few of your buds over and drinking a some beers, unacceptable; being an atomized individual in the public space, fine and dandy. What an age we live in.
Defy and ignore, works for me….
Any thoughts on Albuquerque as a relocation destination? </em.
i lived there for a while, almost thirty years ago. It wasn't bad, at the time. It reminded me a lot of living in Colorado Springs.
I dated a woman in college we nicknamed “Eccentric Contraction”.
I assume that was in the Ohio, because there’s no way that could happen anywhere else.
It was in Brazil.
Oh, if you would have just said it was Windianer.
I haven’t been to Brazil there yet. I have been to Peru, Mexico, and Chili though.
And if I recall correctly, in IN it’s pronounced PAY-roo.
LOL, you are right!
I had a friend whose given name was Immaculate Conception.
We called her Emma.
American born daughter of Catholic parents from India.
Strangely, Im aroused.
I don’t think she’s made that way.
Enough!
Wood chippers?
Lamp posts?
Heads on Spikes?
Are you all ready to do that?
Are you willing to kill and die?
Think about it, where’s the real tipping point?
“When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose”
Dylan was right but I’m the opposite and so are the vast majority of people so it’s going to take a good bit more.
The real tipping point is when you or your family lose their jobs and home because you resist the State.
But we will all reach that point (of civil war violence) at different times and thresholds.
So what is a nearer term, less violent corrective action? Can it be done?
Like . . . voting?
not anymore, but as Wizzletits says above, when you ain’t got nothin’……..
I think it start slowly and gradually turn into an avalanche. Resentment is building up like a pressure cooker right now. Peaceful separation is the answer, but not happening.
A bunch of my friends—suburban women!—are announcing their Parler names on Facebook in preparation for leaving. They are all GOPers, but were very polite this election cycle as the rest of their leftie acquaintances spewed hate.
I keep getting some Parler errors. That platform had better brace itself for social media refugees.
Polite suburban GOP women? pas possible!
Apparently, they’ve had problems the past few days because of 2 million visitors, lol.
I’ve been on Parler for a while. My problem with it, is that no one will pay much attention to what you post, no matter how much significance it has. All they seem to care about is cute memes.
There are some good folks there, though, like Dinesh D’Souza, the guy is pretty brilliant and a great speaker and debater.
Yeah, I just read that they are scrambling to upgrade their servers and other hardware to keep up with the TWO MILLION new people who signed up this week!
I googled to take a look and will suggest to my wife since she deactivated Facebook. The highlighted summary is
I need to deGoogle my life. I set up my email at Proton a couple years ago but have unfortunately forgot the unique password I used at the time.
I’m Hyperion the Unwoke. Just wanted to make a record of that so that the establishment media know I want them to go eat a big steaming pile of dogshit.
Is it pronounced parlor or parlay?
Parlor, I’m told. Tom T. signed up a while back but hasn’t used it very much yet.
Parler. Parlay is the equal verb to ‘tweet’.
I’ve been discussing options with Mrs. T all day. Cancel this, change that, etc.
Parler, Gab, BitChute, and so forth. I just want to avoid anything that is white supremacy/racist shit.
There was a post here long ago (2 plus years!) about services to use. I guess I should have paid attention.
Liberty.me?
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
The free speech services are always going to have that issue because the risqué and the banned tend to concentrate where they won’t (and shouldn’t) be banned. Just don’t watch/interact with that stuff. Bitchute for example is an excellent site but the comments can be a little rough, not ZeroHedge rough usually but you know.
You are not going to find a free speech platform without seeing things you find distasteful. Don’t bother trying. Block people you don’t like, or just go talk to people in meat space.
This is exactly correct
and why I’ve never understood why most Glibs whine about facebook and twitter content. You’re smart dudes and dudettes. The platform may set thresholds, but whether one enjoys his play within those lines is purely his responsibility.
I’ve never understood why most Glibs whine about facebook
I’ve been on facebook a decade or so.
It is the primary means to keep track of the scores of people around the country that my hobbies bring me into contact with. It is very effective for that.
But, even with Adblock going, a full third of me feed is sponsored advertisements. And over the last 3-5 months, those ads have been overwhelmingly democratic/liberal causes. I report the adds (not just block them as) violence, sexually inappropriate, and misleading. But facebook can’t be trained. It just gives me the same shit over and over again.
And facebook has pretty much stripped content from my news feed from all my friends that I know to be conservative, while feeding me constant shit from the friends that are blatantly liberal.
There is no fixing this. There is no working within the system.
Facebook is actively suppressing all content that doesn’t meet some fucking social justice mindset.
The only question is when I dump the platform.
Gab has exploded and had vastly expand their server capacity.
Think about it, where’s the real tipping point?
For me, its far, far away. Too much to lose, too little to gain. The situation can quickly change, but I’m not gonna be the first or even the 10,000th to violence.
So, I’ve been trying to get my head wrapped around this whole election clusterfuck and decide how we proceed with this.
In my mind right now, we have to give them a taste of their own medicine. Not my president. Viva la resistance! Seriously, how about some sanctuary states that resist every single mandate of the federal government? Try defeating that. Send the feds in? LOL, sure go for it. Not my president, we’re the resistance, fuck off you fascist nazis!
They don’t need to worry about that, because in the circles they travel no one with those kinds of opinions is visible. The quiet few dissenters will stay quiet to keep their jobs and social standing. The imbalance of cultural and economic power does not favor those who would complain.
Rural counties will do their thing, and they’ll probably just get ignored unless/until the news can drum something up to force the issue.
The new resistance doesn’t have multi-billion dollar media conglomerates putting them on the front page everyday.
Parler has a significant user base of Trump supporters, conservatives, and Saudi nationalists. Posts on the website often contain far-right content, antisemitism, and conspiracy theories.
Just the facts, Ma’am.
Saudi Nationalists? There’s a lot of Brazilians on there.
But let’s not get any actual facts get in our way of our reality.
so you’re saying there’s like a brazillion Saudi nationals on there?
Yes, Kathy.
Barf.
Wrong Jack Webb role – we need his D.I.
I’m thinking of taking up ham radio.
Also thinking of ways to send messages that don’t appear to be messages at any but the intended recipient(s).
Navaho code talkers?
If any of you knuckleheads ever encounter something with “The Digital Pimpernel” written on it, take a closer look.
Just saying.
I have captured this note on a sticky. I shall be vigilant.
Numbers stations.
Hard to tell which one was posted first.
There are a lot of open source steganographic software out there that lets you, for example, hide text in the form of an audio spectrograph or embedding text inside of a jpeg, etc. etc..
Lots of good (and bad) used ham radio gear out there. This digital, online world ain’t what I was promised at the turn of the millennium.
As an addendum, I too have been thinking about ham radio, but I’m trying to figure out if I can go the SDR (Software-Defined Radio) route for it. Still don’t have a good grasp of the tech . . .
Your own numbers station?
First class mail?
IIRC, during the Georgian period, Jacobites made great use of symbolism and optical illusion in art and household objects to express loyalties that would get them imprisoned in England.
I’ve decided to just talk to more people in person without my phone nearby.
What, you don’t like getting ads for items you were just talking about?
Same.
Ancient sumerian maybe?
Ooh! A third season of Suburra exists. IIRC, season 2 ended kind of definitively.
Suburra Horra Theata? I do enjoy a good SHT.
Damn your nimble fingers!
Ooh, Suburra Horror Theater!
As usual, I blame the Irish.
No Irish
Yes or no: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urIsx9rxZ4U
Now that’s a tweet. I look forward to following him on Gab
“And just like that the rioting and looting has ceased overnight. And now the half of the country that pummeled America like a battered wife is telling her to put on sunglasses, hide her black eye, be a good girl, and “come together as one.” Her answer? “Go fuck yourself.”
– James Woods
The man’s a surly national treasure.
Thanks, Chafed!
I think you need to either get the stuff at home, or find a friend that will let you use their home. These stupid motherfuckers are never gonna let us be healthy and strong.
I texted Mike, but Fourscore had already sent the bat signal. We got you, man.
Have a good week GlibFitters!
“Gov. Cuomo says politicians will take ‘different tone’ on COVID-19 after Trump loss”
https://nypost.com/2020/11/08/cuomo-politicians-will-take-a-different-tone-on-covid-19/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow&__twitter_impression=true
And away we go!
“now that Mr. Trump is out of office.”
Well, not for another 10 weeks. But let’s not get tied up in details.
Just about to say that…
Already onto Mr. Trump I see. Libertarian momemt here we come! Oh…just not going to honor him forever like you do everyone else with their former titles.
Got it.
OMB was never president!!
What’s Cuomo’s title? I’m going to go with “asshole.”
Well, duh. It’s not like they could come up with anyone to present an alternative viewpoint to the Luv Guv besides that loser Trump in a single sentence at the end of the article.
Months and months of lockdown incoming in NY. Well, especially for the jews.
Anything to this or am i grasping?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/p_CoiPCSvbs
Didn’t watch but that’s the CIA or NSA or whatever program that flips votes in nations where we want to meddle, correct? It’s certainly a possibility I would think but proving it would be very difficult and run of the mill fraud that is more easily provable is far more likely along with a systematic glitch in the software that has already been identified as a probable issue. There was definitely fuckery of some sort going on.
I am developing a visceral hatred of Jim Tressel and Urban Meyer with their “slow the spread” PSA that is running in constant rotation.
And the next person that says “in these trying times” is going to get drilled and tapped.
I just saw a sign in Soldier Field – you know, one of those jobs that covers the seats that no one is allowed to sit in anymore – that read “Masks On, Chicago!”
I almost lost it.
Subservience is noble and strong!
You didn’t hate them just for being associated with TOSU?
“New Normal” is a request for a kick in the balls.
For those keeping track at home, this is Day 98 of the Great 100 Day Plant-Based Experiment. Still no stepping off track at all. And I will be continuing in this vein indefinitely, but allowing myself to have what I want for special occasions, like Thanksgiving, assuming I can still tolerate the dairy in my favorite Thanksgiving dish, OMWC’s celeriac gratin. There is just no way to veganize that one.
We have dinner reservations at our favorite place next weekend (weather permitting since it’s outdoor dining ?), and I may give myself permission to have a little cheese in one dish.
Nice work!
Numbers continuing to do what they should?
Not really. Had a change in medication and it’s not working very well. Whatever. This too shall pass, one way or the other! 😉
So on Wednesday it’s finally all-you-can-eat meat!
Ill carry this over to the new post later after all the yummy suggestions get in.
In Nevada, you have to live in the state 30 days prior to be able to register. We noticed in the 3 weeks prior to election day, the DMV suddenly opened up walk-in hours for new residents (established residents have to do appointment only and with the Wu-Flu the wait is 3-4 months). My crazy theory is that the DMV opened up the walk in hours for all the new people coming into the state and registered all those folks to vote. Not that it will turn the tide, but I think is an example how a large urban center can really tilt the balance.
No idea. Some days, like today, I’m ready to be done. With everything.