Who will you help today?
It's very difficult for 1 person to survive in the forest by themselves. Even a relatively mild forest like the Pacific Northwest.
It's much easier for 6 people to survive. Humans naturally want to work as a group and help each other.ππΏ
600,000 people is called Portland.
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Pour one out for the US Digital Service.
This amazing team was founded during the Obama administration. They convinced some of the best and brightest minds in tech, to give up wealth and RSUs and free lattes, to dedicate their professional lives to service.β₯οΈππΏ
It just got renamed to DOGE.
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Yes, nazi salutes can hurt you. But nazi policies can hurt you much more.
How're people more agitated by a nazi salute than by nazi policies? I don't get it.π€·πΏββοΈ
π¨πΌ"Well, now it's open fascism!"
Why is closed fascism any better? The same policies are happening.
Your assignment hasn't changed: Protect the most vulnerable.
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Running a losing election strategy, then sinking Kamala's chances with the anchor of that failure, then pardoning your own family members on the way out, is like letting zombies into the compound, and then driving away from the carnage that you created in a reinforced and armored school bus.
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Why you don't need to train with super heavy weights at low reps to get stronger, and why pilates and bodybuilding are effectively the same thing. I train in the 10 - 20 rep range. This is the first time I've used 405 lbs on the bench in months.
And you don't have to train to absolute failure to get stronger. I don't train to failure. You just have to know where you would have failed (eg "I could have gotten 2 more").
Picture an elephant standing on a square platform, happily eating hay.π
The platform is suspended 3 feet off the floor by chains at each corner.
The chains connect to a bundle of 200 ropes, that each go through a hook in the roof. The ropes are each securely tied to mooring cleats on the floor.
If I have enough force on each of those 200 ropes, I can gently lower the elephant 3 feet to the ground, then raise it back up again, then reattach the ropes to the mooring cleats.ππΏ
It's about 75 lbs per rope to lower an elephant under control.
If I have 20 school kids, that's... not enough kids. But if I have 600 school kids, that's more than enough kids!
But... if the kids just run into the gym and start untieing ropes? Someone is going to get hurt.π¬
The kids have to be coordinated.
I both need enough kids in the gym, and I need the kids to be able to apply their little force in a coordinated way, that sums up to the weight of the elephant.
Muscle mass is a physical attribute. It can be developed. (Add more kids!)
Strength is a skill. It can also be developed. (Practice taking up the slack and pulling at the same time!).
Training close to max strength builds muscle mass, but in a risky way. You can add mass with lower weights.
One of the best ways to build muscle mass, is "stretch mediated hypertrophy," and "lengthened partials." That's a fancy way of saying "Stretch! But stretch while holding a moderate weight!"
Pilates and bodybuilding are almost the same thing. Your butt looks better because you added muscle to it.π€·πΏββοΈ
In the elephant gym analogy, this is "Use a longer rope! When kids find out there's a live elephant in the gym, more will naturally want to join the 'lower the elephant' project! So make sure that there's room on the rope for them to join!"
(Sarcomeres. The kids are sarcomeres).
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225 lbs X 8 is strong.
315 lbs X 8 is Beast Mode.
405 lbs X 8 is Certified Megafauna Status.
8 wheels. 8 reps. 5 sets.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yd-yh3I9FMc
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As a Californian, let me tell you right now, that we don't let you outsiders bully our governor. Only we bully our governor.
Pay for recall elections and lose, then watch him go in even harder than beforeππΏ
We elect him to fight him on his homelessness policy positions, and to get us cheaper homes.
When New York was letting its Black people die from Covid, California was sourcing free N95 masks for everyone.ππΏ
When other states were pretending that Black people just didn't want to get vaccinated, The Bay Area was setting up walk up vaccine locations.ππΏ
California has a lot of problems. True.
None of those problems are solved by Fox watching, Ivermectin sipping, drone hunting people in other states, pretending that DEI made fires happen.
We're going to keep the expectations on our elected officials high. They're used to it.
Homeless sweeps are a non-solution. Aesthetic, not empathetic.
Give someone a home, and they will SWEEP THEMSELVES.π€―
Seriously!
They'll gather up all their "junk," and take it off the streets. By junk, I mean all the same things that you yourself would cry about if you lost them in a house fire: legal documents, phone and laptop needed for work, memories.
Some of the people that lost their homes in Altadena, will be living in their cars or tents 6 months from now, with the few possessions that they could save.
If tomorrow, I cited them for sleeping in public, and then threw the rest of their stuff away? You'd call me evil! But in 6 months? Sweep!
You know for a fact that people made homeless by the fire, could support themselves, maintain a home, and live in sanitary conditions. Because they were doing it the day before the fire.
You know that restoring a home for them, would result in the homeless population durably going down by 1.
Now extend that thinking to other homeless people in LA, who lost their homes to other, less famous fires.
Or to medical bankruptcy.
Or to rent that rose much more rapidly than they could anticipate or react to.
Or to loss of vehicle needed for work due to being struck by an uninsured motorist.
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This is fine:
π΄π»I want to say whatever I want! I don't want to have to consider other people! (But then I must accept that other people might leave).
Also fine:
π΄π»I don't want other people to leave! (But then I must consider how my words and actions affect others).
Not OK:
π΄π»You just have to take it!
This isn't complicated.
I feel like a lot of folk, usually people with privilege, have an underdeveloped sense of empathy, and a dangerously incomplete knowledge of the concept of consent.
They want "free speech" for themselves, but not "freedom to choose not to listen" for others.
Which is how we wind up with weird inconsistencies like:
"The people who bleat the loudest about free speech... are the very same people that think that you shouldn't be able to block."
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What they really mean is "I can say whatever I want, and you just have to take it."
I don't have to take anything.
I don't even have to debate you or fight you. If you talk out of pocket, I can just walk away.
This isn't some "Just ignore them!" Or "Turn the other cheek!" nonsense.
This is "I can choose to be in places specifically where you are not. Reclaiming my time."
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This is a big deal! ππΏ
Eugen going full Cincinnatus. This is harder than it looks.
https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/113820526480156595
I won't even give up the TV remote in my house! I am the high Lord Emperor of all televisual entertainment in my domain. You can watch whatever you want on the TV, as long as you want to watch exactly what I want to watch. Otherwise, go get a tablet from one of my kids, or use your phone. The gods favour me! If Predator is on again? Then we are watching Predator again! But... it's not on again. So I decree that we are watching Bluey. I have spoken!
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I know this feels like an invitation to debate, but I promise you it's not. I'm tired, and will be muting people on this.
This is not an invitation to debate. It's just another futile attempt to try to get people to see what Biden looks like from the perspective of someone who lives on the other side of his criminal justice policies.ππΏββοΈ
It's not "π΄π»Black men don't know all the good that Biden did like I know it! He rescued the economy! Why don't they get that? I know more about his policies than they do!"
It's "π΄π»I don't know the horrific scale of what Biden policies have done. I don't know anyone that has had their life savings stolen by asset forfeiture, or who has been shot by police, or who is innocent and in jail at the moment. These things aren't real to me."
It doesn't matter whether you agree or disagree with Black men who are disappointed in Biden. But you should at least understand why. You should at least know the specific policies that Black voters are upset at.
https://theappeal.org/covid-funds-police-prisons-arpa/
Because as I said before, Dems cannot win an election without the Black voting block. For any Dem candidate: If you do not create sufficient distance from these Biden policies, you will lose.
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The US spends a lot on jails, and many jails charge cities and states a minimum occupancy penalty if they're not filled. Seriously. And then Covid dropped the prison population by 157,000 people.
https://eji.org/news/private-prison-quotas-drive-mass-incarceration/
I've told you before that Black folk mainly get pulled over for systemic racism, not interpersonal. Court fee revenues are a lot, and traffic ticket revenues are approx $14B a year.
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/five-facts-about-fines-and-fees-revenues
Some small cities like Ferguson Missouri get 23% of their city revenue from these tickets and fines. This doesn't only happen to Black drivers, but it disproportionately happens to Black drivers.
https://finesandfeesjusticecenter.org/articles/dismantling-policing-for-profit-how-to-build-on-missouris-post-ferguson-court-reforms/
Many of these local criminal justice departments and city governments nationwide were worried that they were about to go bankrupt during the pandemic, because there was so little traffic, and so few Black motorists and families to prey upon, that their revenues dropped. Just like public transportation revenues dropped. And bar and restaurant revenue dropped. And drug store revenues dropped.
https://www.dcfpi.org/all/raising-revenue-through-fines-and-fees-is-unsound-and-unsafe/
The thing that Biden rescued most with his "American Rescue Plan," cop fund diversion stunt, is this awful, racist, predatory criminal justice system. This money covered these local government budget shortfalls, as well as expansion of more policing.
As we can see now, the "crime spike" was a lie. And they knew it was a lie at the time. Like Black folk have said, police don't do what you think they do. By time, by number of arrests, most of what police do (~80%) is giving tickets and fines to poor people, disproportionately Black, and arresting them for low level offenses, creating court fees and prison revenue.
https://www.vera.org/publications/arrest-trends-every-three-seconds-landing/arrest-trends-every-three-seconds/findings
We keep up the pretense of crime waves, to keep this wealth extraction from Black folk going. Because local governments are financially dependent on it. Because they don't want to tax rich people.
You might think that "Biden had no control over local governments." But Biden himself, even as a senator, bragged about how much control he had over how local governments spend their criminal justice money, and set policy, even though it was on paper only a federal bill. So please don't argue with me on this point. Argue with Biden himself.
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As your friendly neighbourhood jock-nerd, I'm here to remind you once again that nerds have always been more misogynistic than jocks, and it's not particularly close.
I said what I said.
Y'all act surprised every time this gets revealed to be true.
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Periodic reminder of the Native American approach to minimizing the power of forest fires.
They say the California forests are not "natural." They were planted by humans, 10,000 to 20,000 years ago.
They learned that if you don't do controlled burns, that in
~100 years, you get fire tornadoes.π¬
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mby72d2Vz30
It's difficult for many US people to accept that native Americans planted entire forests. They seem too big.
But just in the past 20 years, we've seen multiple examples in many countries, of one individual human creating entire forests. In India. Brazil. Indonesia. China. Etc.
Like this dude:
https://youtube.com/shorts/APL35AVtWqM?si=Zoqo8tJnKD4ptwuN
The Karuk tribe says, "Making forests is easy! Just plant a few trees every day for a few years. But some years are drier, hotter, and windier. You can't let fuel build up. If you don't do controlled burns, then 1 year within about 100, you will pay a terrible price. The sky will turn red."
Indigenous people learned this the hard way when they were starting out planting forests. They said that the biggest fires crossed entire rivers by raining burning embers for miles, and "created their own weather of wind and lightning." Entire villages disappeared.
Of course we didn't believe them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q92H5PHsWQY
I guess what I'm saying is, all those feel good videos of people planting entire forests in Brazil and India and China and Mexico etc, are probably making the same mistake that indigenous people in those same places made checks notes 20,000 years ago, before they figured it out.
Yes, we do some burns. No, we don't do enough. There's still too much fuel.
And we stopped burns for the better part of the past 100 years. We started limited burns again in large part due to the advocacy of people like Dr. Frank Lake, a Karuk person who also has a PhD in Environmental Sciences.ππΏ
https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/franklake#orgs-tab
To put it in perspective, in 2023, California treated 700,000 acres. That's a lot! But California has ~33 million acres of forest.π€―
For much of the past 20,000 years, many parts of that 33 million acres were treated regularly. Then for the most recent 100 years, they were mostly not treated at all.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/01/08/california-forest-management-hotter-drier-climate/
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Everyone is cooler than me, part 1000:
Co-worker casually drops that before they worked in tech, they were a professional aquatic acrobat for Cirque du Soleil! π€―
I considered sharing that I can do a sick cannonball that can splash people sunbathing all the way on the other end of the poolπ
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Sometimes when I talk to homeless people in the Bay Area, I ask them how they became homeless.
Sometimes, they say that they lost their homes in a wildfire.
More painful than seeing people lose their homes in a forest fire, is watching them lose their humanity, as our empathy for them evaporates.
https://www.redding.com/story/news/2019/06/11/annual-count-helps-identify-some-origins-homelessness/1409772001/
In the immediate days after someone loses their home in a wildfire, our talk is full of empathy.
But as days turn to weeks and months, we stop caring why someone doesn't have a home, and only care that they don't have a home.
We start planning to throw away their remaining possessions.
https://www.calhealthreport.org/2022/08/03/as-wildfires-grow-so-does-californias-housing-and-homelessness-crisis-here-are-some-solutions/
Homeless people aren't different people than us. They are us.
Many homeless people just experienced a sequence of unfortunate events that led them to this place.
"No! They're drug addicts! They did this to themselves!"π€‘
Again, ask people with addiction how they became addicted.
They'll tell you
https://www.sfcityattorney.org/2023/05/17/san-francisco-city-attorney-announces-230-million-settlement-with-walgreens-after-victory-in-opioid-litigation/
There's a pervasive myth that people still believe about California homeless: that homeless people "come to California for the weather."
That's a lie that fortunate people ππΏββοΈ tell ourselves.
California homeless are almost all California residents (90%) who just had a bunch of bad luck in a row.
https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/our-impact/studies/california-statewide-study-people-experiencing-homelessness
Anyway, I skipped the "burrito taxi" discourse, AKA the meal delivery discourse.
Because if tomorrow you lost your home and your job to wildfire, and only had your car and a few hastily gathered possessions, and you needed to earn some money?
Your car would become a burrito taxi too.
I don't care if you know how to cook food for yourself for cheap, or if you treat yourself by having burritos delivered to your house.
I care that we live in a country so cruel, that some people deliver food in the cars that they live in, while those receiving the food don't even know or care.
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Atlantic ocean? No! More like the AMERICAN ocean! πΊπΈπ¦
Cape of Good Hope? Pshh! More like the Cape of AMERICA! πΊπΈπ¦
Strait of Gibraltar? Not any more! Strait of AMERICA! πΊπΈπ¦
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"In 2024, it cost $N to run a Mastodon instance with ~1000 active users for a year. By the end of 2025, that figure had dropped to $0.5N, due to the launch of X, Y, Z."
What are X, Y, and Z?
In terms of cost, consider systems administration and moderation as paid work, even if the admin is not paying themselves for either of these things.
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A long time ago, on the Arabian peninsula, Abdulaziz bin Rahman, AKA Ibn Saud, conquered the four regions of Arabia: The Hejaz, Najd, Al-Ahsa, and Asir.πβοΈ
Ibn Saud unified the four regions into a new nation: Saudi Arabia. He named himself its 1st king.
The very next year, Chuck Grassley was born.
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"Though we are told to mourn it, we must know that it was a noble sound."
"If you give me a fair chance, I will help you better understand the meaning of democracy."
"There are some of us who donβt accept the dreams of dragons as their own, no matter how grand those dragons might say they are."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D1wxH5r2_gY
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Bill Belichick's 1st 6 seasons:
6 wins, 10 losses (loser)
7 wins, 9 losses (loser)
7 wins, 9 losses (loser)
11 wins, 5 losses (Yay! Finally!)
5 wins, 11 losses (loser)
[Hired by Jets and Patriots! 2 jobs!]
5 wins, 11 losses (loser)
Jerod Mayo 1st 6 seasons:
4 wins, 13 losses
You're fired get out!π€‘
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