Yoga is a general stand-in for light isometric exercise. If you have a pinched nerve, adapted exercises including specific yoga poses and low-impact exercise are still recommended to help recover. For moderate exercise to get the endorphin-powered stress relief, swimming and upright/recumbent stationary cycle with good posture can be appropriate for someone with a pinched nerve.

I hate it too, but tailored exercise is kind of a magic bullet.

The joke is the poorly constructed version of a stereotype that stopped being relevant over a decade ago.

1. It’s poorly constructed because the joke is the nerd is oblivious/has misplaced priorities, but the joke would only work if the image showed the woman expressing obvious interest in the man, instead of having her back turned to him. As is, the image is literally just two rando’s on the subway doing their own thing.

2. Nerdy looking guys being too oblivious to engage with hot women stopped being relevant after incel culture, startup bros, PUA, and nerdy-looking billionaires became commonplace.

Yes, but the implication that feelings and truth are mutually exclusive is often used to bury, dismiss, or invalidate the truths around what feelings people experience, their meaning, importance, and roles in human lives/society.

It’s not about stripping feelings from discovery to arrive at truth, but rather charting the truths that feelings are actually pointing to in order to discover more complete truths.

Argument is a form of communication. And like all forms of communication, there are better and worse ways to do it.

What do you mean by “arguing”?

That’s not a shadow government, that’s just government. They weren’t even trying to be subtle about it.

Yes that is how you get to modern US pre-Trump. There’s still corruption, it’s more hidden, and managed enough that the less marginalized middle/upper class have relative safety/stability. Compare that to the other large economies, it was doing retty well for its size, and certainly much better than centuries past.

But you don’t have aluminum foil over there. You only have aluminium, it’s a completely different situation, you wouldn’t understand.

They learned from the best!

Honestly, it’s starting to feel kinda tongue and cheek. All the photos they use are quite flattering. I think it’s just rage bait engagement-mining both sides or malicious compliance.

Yes, that’s part of the parallel. Both videogames and snacks involve multiple markets.

It’s still stupid, but he’s talking about review bombing forthcoming AI games across all platforms because they disclosed on steam vs forthcoming AI games that aren’t listed on steam that don’t disclose on other platforms.

“If you want to launch a gamesnack, and get it as widely publicized as possible, you’ve got to put it on Steamstore shelves so people can wish listsee it and if you want to play it on Steameat ot, then you have to get this Scarlet Letter of AIingredients attached to your product, and now there is a hater community [of parents] trying to kill the gamesnack. … I think it’s really irresponsible of Valvethe FDA. They shouldn’t do it, because it makes it much, much, much harder for a game developer snack company to have a chance of success. You have to choose from either not using tools that can make you way more productiveyour product way more addictive, and probably failing due to competition that does [in less regulated markets?]."

Humans are meaning-making machines. If you feel like life is meaningless, that’s on you bro. Go make some meaning.

Cheers, you too!

Right… My original comment you responded to was pointing in that direction, which is why it’s confusing. It sounds like you’re debating against yourself 😅

What are you taking about, I wish I could afford Chinese flagships just for the camera systems.

Depends on whether or not you live on stolen land, buy products made with stolen labour, use services run on stolen resources, or enjoy entertainment expressing stolen voices on devices manufactured with stolen minerals, if your life is completely free of benefit from the human exploitation that permeates every aspect of the modern world, then sure I have nothing to say to that.

If not, well there’s usually at least a little debate to be had about when and how people should reconcile and recompense such tainted benefits they have but for which they don’t feel personal responsibility for because it was someone long in the past or far away.

Just to be clear, I think people and nations do bear responsibility for the legacy of their past/forears. I think the stolen jewels should be returned, but I’m also not in possession of them and I’m not British or from one of the places where the jewels were stolen from.

I also don’t think it’s realistic for the US government and non-indigrnous population to just return all the land to indigenous nations. So against a debate about when and how.

Sorry, I’m not really sure what you’re saying, considering your comment I was responding to. Can you rephrase?

Sry, what exactly do they have a monopoly on?