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  • Phenotype vs biological normative.

    Deaf people will decry “fixing” a person hearing impaired in the womb. Yet, it’s a correction to biological normative.

    Adjusting a gender to a different one in the womb would not be.

    Adjusting physical traits for looks wouldn’t be.

    Adjusting a physical trait like spinal deformity would be.

    Adjusting for general height would not be.

    If there is something diagnosable in the ICD-10 codes we have, and it’s preventable in a population, it would not be eugenetics. Remove gene editing as the tool, but just say “magic” a cure. Cures apply to diseases, not traits.

    You don’t cure being black. You CAN cure sickle cell.

    I think the line is pretty clear.

    You simply use existing diagnostic criteria of deviation from biological normative function.



  • Aight. You do you.

    I for for a fact I can work anyone breathing to the point they are maxing their heart rate and can’t stand for a half hour after we are done.

    If you are not hitting that at home it’s on you.

    I did 10 miles today on a stationary bike at a 3 minute mile pace. Then I set target heart rate of 145 and never dropped below it for 1 and a half hours as I did my circuit and strength plan.

    Get creative with it. You can use nothing but a foam roll and get a completely wrecking aerobic workout.



  • I have chronic pain. I was instructed by the pain clinic I went to, under no uncertain terms, to exercise 5 times a week. No taking a day because I feel sore or tired or because the overwhelming blinding pain is screaming at me not to. I just have to do it.

    That was a year ago.

    I am still going.

    I went from sedentary for a decade to a healthy BMI and muscle mass because of 1 rule.

    Don’t let how I feel guide how I act.

    Fuck me it was hard. It is hard. It was hard today. It was hard every single day.

    I have currently a torn labrum, a torn rotator cuff, 3 torn things in my knee, 4 bulging disks in my back, a herniated disk, arthritis in 5 joints, and a titanium cage holding part of my spine together.

    If you can commit to tracking every single thing you eat in the app MyNetDiary ( it scans barcodes and is free), and exercising 5 times a week; I guarantee two things will happen.

    1.) I will do the same and have an accountability buddy to keep me going.

    2.) You WILL be successful in the weight loss and gaining a healthy life.

    Your call if you want to transform your life.

    I have PT exercises and low impact options for days. I have whole fitness plans and diet plans from distinctions, and hundreds of hours with PTs. I have so much to share with someone whose life I can help gain so so much…

    You just have to commit to joining me.

    A year from now you could be vastly different than you are now. So could I. IF we keep our promises to ourselves and one another.




  • Talk about jumping 4 steps down the road.

    They are uniformed. No global convention or agreement mandates those elements be on a uniform. The nametag, unit patch, and other items on the uniform are just ways that force happens to enhance identification within the unit.

    They are identified as uniformed members of a military force. This satisfies the convention.

    None of this matters or applies at all given that there is no combat occurring that would fall under the Geneva convention. So they could be plain clothes officers and it wouldn’t apply.

    Trump is a sack of dog turds, and what he is doing is largely stupid speed run overreach, but this hyperbolic shit just harms credibility of the already massive list of shit he is violating.



  • I went for surgery that was to repair a urethral stricture, with the expressly stated reason for doing it as being able to be catheterized in a future spinal fusion procedure. I told every single member of my care team this information, and all knew about the spine instability. A Spondylolisthesis diagnosed by their same hospital system.

    I woke up in agony screaming before I could see. They put me in a position that allowed my back instability to shift. I was screaming to drop the bed. The nurse told me to calm down.

    When I was finally laid flat, I noted I could not feel my genitals and I could not feel about half of my legs or any of my feet. Totally numb.

    I was discharged from the hospital 3 days later with a walker because I couldn’t feel my feet and needed assistance to walk for a proc sure that never should have required it.

    They billed me $250 for the walker, and never followed my requests to ascertain why I was paying for a walker that was the resulting need of malpractice. This was sent to collections.

    I get phone calls weekly about a walker I should never have needed, and should not have been billed for as “outside of network” because it was not pre-approved for an urology procedure.

    Who in the fuck assumed a loss of leg function from an urology surgery? Who gets that pre-approved?

    Fucking cunts.








  • Worked at a major company you would instantly know the name of.

    They were a large corporation but were not public ally traded. Trillions of dollars in assets with more than 60k people employed.

    DEI was a MAJOR push, with not just required corporate training but also sessions held often for minority groups of all types to speak their minds in forums about how to connect with them etc.

    DEI initiatives and campaigns were a thing, VP of DEI was hired and they had a whole subsection under HR. Corporate events, entertainment, whole virtual bands playing to the theme of inclusion.

    This same company did nothing when facing the burning obvious culture of being yes men to their bosses. They did nothing different than most any other massive rich company for how they treated workers, tracking their activity, location, and even physical assess login to buildings for reviews or as excuse to fire.

    In an large address by a major leader in the organization I personally gave virtual written innocuous feedback, that they asked for, only to have that be met within minutes with being told never to do that again. The message wasn’t even seen by the speaker. It was just purely culturally unacceptable to offer any constructive criticism of any kind to people in high enough authority.

    More than half a dozen people messaged me to tell me they appreciated I gave it public ally and it needed saying. I didn’t know any of them.

    So if people are so important and we value voices being heard equally so much, why would you have people desperate to be treated like people and any such statement be met with greats of reprisal?

    Yeah. DEI is fan fare in the same way the office cafeteria and gym were. They are designed to entice talent to come or stay while costing the company minimal amounts to do so.




  • The numbers I gave are the model outputs for the state as of yesterday off his subscriber based model talk page.

    So no.

    Of course these are the likelihood of a win and not polling differences. That’s why I said model output, not a poll aggregate.

    An 8 point spread in a state for polling averages is incredibly large. For reference Ohio is as deeply spread red in polling averages as Nee Jersey is blue. You think New Jersey votes red this year in any reasonable reality? No.

    For an even more crazy but accurate comparison: Alaska has the same mid point statistical odds of going red as Ohio, but its error bars are more than double Ohio. Meaning? There is an incredibly slim but massively more possible chance Alaska goes blue than Ohio.