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It is difficult to prove someone’s mindset. Claiming what you did what you are accused of but it wasn’t illegal can be a strong defense. Pretty good chance he walks on the most serious charges with a white Wisconsin jury.
The simpler point that driving across state lines with a gun literally looking for trouble flies in the face of self-defense education.
I’ve come around to the opinion that you are dealing with two mentally ill people who have monetized their personality disorders. Polloquin was a big experimenter and there’s not a huge sample size of dudes on lots of PEDs and cockamamie dosages of vitamins.
Stallone will probably be the first jacked 90 year old, but he’s not out there playing jazz on his endocrine system.
did you try spending more time barefoot?
Before a few months ago my work was in an office, so extended barefoot time was impractical. I did do this on weekends, to no good effect.
Or are you saying that you fucked up some part of the running shoes that was independent of the sole of the shoe and the still viable lower portion was supportive enough to spare your back?
Yeah I ripped the upper in a spot that probably wouldn’t hold up to running. The support, heel cushion, etc. seems to have done enough to give the back time to recover.
I have family in the military. Back in March I was asking what the biggest concern was at the time. I was told that it was the situation in Afghanistan. What I was told then was that as US troops handed over control and exited an area, the Taliban would show up the next day. They would tell the Afghan army to lay down their weapons and walk away or they would kill them and their family. The Afghan army did not resist and just walked away. This was not an isolated incident. It happened in every case without exception.
If true, it’s even more of a correct decision to leave.
I find it unlikely, but if we knew the Afghanistan military would immediately collapse without constant US support, enduring years of additional “green” on blue attacks is nuts.
Crypto isn’t useful yet outside of crime or speculation. It’s impossible to know if it’s under or overvalued. This makes it speculation by definition. It’s also manipulated by the major holders.
I know some guys who have gotten very, very comfortable (on paper, still holding) betting early on BTC and they think they’re geniuses. I’m happy for them, but they aren’t.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong investing 5-10% of an investment portfolio in speculative stuff like crypto, TSLA, etc. But huge proportionate bets will eventually burn the bettor. The smartest investors in the world are, by and large, not investing. When something like BTC, Theranos, Magic Leap get huge techbro buy-in and the sharp money stays away, this is usually a clue.
upid to pretend this wasn’t utterly predictable. Biden is *definitely* a special kind of stupid, but those of us that have been paying attention have known that for years. This is an epic, utterly epic (presumably the idiot-in-chief has advisors…) failure. Period. -Stick
What course of action would you have recommended?
Jesus, man.
Gene, do you like French Fries?
Do I? Sure they taste good, but I mistrust any mis-classification of a an adjective into a noun. Why call them “fries,” when they are fried potatoes? Must that be the the name? Leaving aside the francophile description, and understanding that fried julienned potatoes doesn’t have the same ring, this distortion of language smacks of an Orwellian dystopia which, regardless of the enjoyableness of the product, must be considered.
Do you like that product? What do you call it? I don’t think you’ve thought about this as much as you think you have. And once the GMO products get involved, how can you really call it anything?
Coming late to this but I used to be a bad sleeper and am a now a very good one. A few things:
1. Alcohol not good.
2. Consider the possibility of sleep apnea. I dreaded my first sub-5 hour night of sleep in a long time and woke up relatively fine, because I’m not chronically tired. In my case this was a surgical correction due to a badly deviated septum and broken noses, but there are other options if you have it.
3. I’ve heard anecdotes of Tai Chi/qigong being useful, I think Cotter helped somebody’s kid back in the day.
4. Seems obvious but routine. A lot of my early bad sleep involved very inconsistent bedtimes between week/weekend. Comparatively boring fatherhood has been good for routine.
t a vaccination mandate for its health care workers, Biden is considering one for all federal workers, health care organizations and municipalities are implementing and considering the
Vaccinations are required to attend schools. Requiring it at employment places after this many American deaths is not going to be a constitutional problem so much as a conservative talkshow hissy fit one.
Our constitution and bill of rights allow for people to make stupid choices. I don’t see how requiring employees to be vaccinated will hold up in court.
The idea that people have a right to be dangerous assholes despite that behavior potentially killing another hundred thousand Americans is not really a historic view of liberty, it’s the modern “I can do whatever I want including fucking you up” view of freedom. We’ve drafted people to go fight in wars (and vaccinated them while we were at it), which is massively more invasive, so this isn’t a close call IMO.
The current science seems to show either you get vaccinated or you will eventually get COVID. The idea that I may have to share a workplace with somebody certain to get COVID, while having family members at home who can’t be vaccinated, is dumb.
I agree there will be some very, very noisy objectors to this, but they can go work together somewhere else. As long as they aren’t getting darted with Pfizer guns at Cracker Barrel, squawk away.
I get the sense if we had the Chinese on the way over to fight a war the Patriot Party would be complaining that the draft and national defense is an impingement on muh freedom and rights.
You could say they don’t care about anything but themselves, but this is actually against their own self interest. They don’t care about anything but cultural signaling. I didn’t know there were so many conservative talk show hosts except so many have died of COVID.
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Drag to see the karate final end in a DQ on a knockout. I don’t recall seeing somebody score a KO with a lead leg round kick. Dude was fast.
Any links? And how did they handle the similarity between Olympic taekowndo and karate? And overall, what did you think of Olympic karate? Was it successful both as a sport and spectator event?
Wrote this long ass thing and it didn’t post. That’s aggravating.
Any links?
10 sec before KO here: https://youtu.be/A1HQDP-tkxo
And how did they handle the similarity between Olympic taekowndo and karate?
It’s pretty different. The rules are farther apart then Greco vs. Freestyle Wrestling. TKD you can’t score head punches, can’t sweep, no takedowns. IIRC they also don’t necessarily stop to score by default.
And overall, what did you think of Olympic karate?
It’s more “sporty” than when I was in, and the rules are a little different, and they’re conforming to a rule set. The challenge is with striking tournaments is you have to figure out a way to have a large field and not wreck all the competitors. You can:
a) remove head punches of any contact, like TKD or Kyokushin
b) increase protective equipment and open up contact, like boxing/MT
c) Limit protective equipment and restrict head contact – WKF/Olympic karate.
d) MMA rules – K.D./K.O. limit number of matches in a week. I don’t know how you do this with a large field.
The main problem that comes up is people end up with tooth/facial bone injuries, cuts, etc., and at the international level refs hate DQing people so things used to get out of hand. In the late 90s early 00s guys were getting multiple concussions in a day and you could see them still a little punchy days later. Fractures around sinuses, orbital bones etc. all shitty stuff. Even now they had an Italian lady get a pretty bad cut on the head and got blood everywhere, German dude broke his elbow I think, and there’s only 3 weight classes per gender right now.
In that gold medal match, they basically had to DQ *somebody* because you pretty much have to blast somebody to KO with a lead leg like that, and if that’s permitted the competitors will escalate since it’s easier to fight a guy once his nose is broken. Arguably the other guy was coming really careless, but the Saudi was very, very fast.
Was it successful both as a sport and spectator event?
I’m probably a bad judge of that. I find Olympic TKD uninteresting and I suspect most people find the same about this, minus the injuries.
At least a couple people are accepting Karate Combat contracts so that will be very interesting.
So do you think that karate will replace TKD as the “Olympic sport with people punching and kicking in white outfits”?
It’s already not in the Paris Olympics, which was decided before the competition, so quite unlikely. Also, Olympic TKD has been around forever now.
Also, do you follow Karate Combat? I posted some fights from there back in the day and am glad to see it advancing.
I have a little bit, I GIF’d that one back in the early ones of the Spaniard, sweeping and wrecking that guy. It was pretty sweet. It sounds like they have GSP, Bas, and Machida coaching, which is awesome, as it reflects stylistically the three guys who found success (maybe less so GSP who’s really a grappler to me but still).
It’s almost inevitable to me that the optimal fighting style will move towards whatever the gear and rules reward. At the moment, they are using some really big gloves, so I think it will look a lot more like kickboxing in a short period of time. Less risk of a one-punch knockdown will narrow stances and reduce need for range control. For me, that sort of flies in the face of the coolest part of karate. Watching early UFC Machida bouts where he’s controlling distance and bewildering people was great. Make them kickbox and you’re probably going to see mediocre kickboxers. Machida talked about competing in this at some point and I think he will do terribly with gloves that big.
I would somewhat prefer smaller glovers like UFC sizes, as the stance there will more closely resemble a karateka’s fighting stance, and the risk head punches goes way up.