I mean, if you’re punk and you aren’t rebelling, then you aren’t punk.

Indirectly. It helps keep all the associated muscles in good shape. Kind of like not skipping leg day, or not skipping core day. Doesn’t matter how buff your biceps are if that’s all that’s built.

That being said, you may well already be doing a superb set of wrist and hand exercises, the explanation isn’t directed at what you are or aren’t doing, just talking about the usefulness of grip strength improvement. 9/10, if you’re already doing specific exercises, you’re also likely doing stuff that fills the same role.

Nah, not all monastic orders are the same at all

I’m gonna go on a tangent here.

While that is obviously what’s called compliant demonstrations, there is a degree of misconception about what a training partner is going to be doing during active sparring, or non compliant training.

See, grappling arts in general, as well as arts that feature throws and joint manipulations, include training in how to either counter or mitigate the effectiveness of the techniques being used. For one, if you run into it ina competition or real fight, knowing how to counter is always a plus. But training itself is risky. Even a really chill, friendly dojo means that at some point, you’ll be hitting the ground, or having your body twisted.

So, you learn not just how to fall safely, but to roll, flip, or otherwise use your body to reduce the effectiveness of a throw or joint manipulation. And when you’re doing that, it kinda looks similar to what the performers are doing in that video, just a good bit more energetic.

Those aikidoka throwing themselves around aren’t just faking it to make segal look competent. They’re using good techniques to counter the moves being performed, if it were all real, active sparring.

Tbh, when it comes down to the techniques being performed, he’s not even that bad. They’re being applied correctly, if with less than ideal footwork and mechanics. The problem isn’t that segal doesn’t so aikido well, it’s that he’s a fake in other ways, and aikido has never been a combat system. To phrase it the way some folks active in martial arts say it, it’s a do, not a jutsu. And that’s true. Aikido is less about fight training than it is self development. There’s nothing wrong with that at all. It just isn’t the same thing as something like jujitsu where there is fight focused training and methodology.

It could be. Aikijutsu exists. And some aikido is taught/trained with active resistance and cross training with other arts. When done that way, it’s not as bad as people make it out to be, though I’d still argue there’s better ways to reach a given degree of self defense or sport combat effectiveness.

But, yeah, that video is essentially an ego stroking demo, not even an actual demo of aikido techniques.

Dammit, now I’m at full chub

What really sucks is that the ps5 edge controller I have is maybe half as awesome, but damn near twice as expensive.

I don’t even play at my PC much any more, but I think ima shell out for one of these anyway

Yeah, if this wasn’t an abuse of power, or otherwise using his position, it’s just sex.

Yeah, fucking in the office is pretty stupid, but I don’t think anyone should be fired just for that. Demoted, maybe. Given a stern warning, absolutely (and eventually shit canned for repeats, but only because sex is messy and that’s shared space). But being punished for having sex? Fuck that, it’s stupid, and the idea can fuck right off

In “fairness”, all it takes to be an ice agent is two legs, a trigger finger and the ability to goose step with one hand raised. It takes a small amount of actual brain power to do real investigations

I dunno, it’s not perfect, but I tend to enjoy the experience of moonreader, librera, or other really solid apps on android better than the experience on kindles, or the others I’ve tried that aren’t android based.

That’s even on eink options; I have a boox, and a kobo that are eink, with the boox running Android, and kobo whatever they used. I tend to find less hassles on the boox, despite it being their cheapest model.

I don’t think any of them have really perfected the overall form and function, but I find the apps on android give better immersion and less hassle.

I was just checking it out. It really is nice, thank you!

Man, I just wanna be able to set my own icons for folders, and for them to have the same functionality. Haven’t run across one that works close enough to satisfy my day to day preferences in that regard.

See, the real killer feature of nova in that regard is turning a folder (or any icon really) into multi function switch with swipe directions. Most of the launchers out there, even if they offer similar functionality, you’re stuck with whatever folders look like, which is usually just a stack of icons in various orders. And fuck me for Canyon wanting my shit to be pretty as well as smooth and functional.

There’s a few that do “covers”, which is nice for what it is, but afaik (and I semi regularly retry launchers) they locks your options for using the folder to a single tap and single swipe, with one opening the folder and the other opening the first app in the folder. With Nova, I can even select an app that isn’t in the folder to be opened with a swipe.

Hyperion gets closest of the ones I’ve test driven, and it’s likely what I’ll end up using once I can no longer use the older apk of nova from before it was sold. Assuming it lasts long enough lol

This fucking quote

Everything seems absolute, and any opinion I respect is way more nuanced than these binary choices they keep putting in front of us. I don’t see the world in red or blue.”

He just doesn’t get it

Yeah, that’s how I got my first racoon baculum. Fox too.

There’s even a fairly brisk if low cost trade in them, and is generally going to come from either winter deaths after spring thaws, or road kill.

Yeah, that’s not how conversation works, my lemmite acquaintance. One isn’t required to slavishly pound away at the initial focus of a comment. It’s not only acceptable to work tangents and expand on sub-topics, it’s expected to some degree or another.

People seem to think that every interaction online is a debate. It isn’t. Me? I’m just drifting along, chilling, shooting the shit with other human beings.

In that spirit, why do you think “goodness” is either a singular thing that is the totality of a person, or that there aren’t gradations of it? Not all saints are of equal goodness, nor are all villains purely evil. In terms of the human condition, nobody is so completely single faceted that it’s useful to apply good/bad paradigms to the entirely of the person unless the entirety of their actions so heavily skew things that good or evil is such a large percentage that it’s moot that other aspects exist.

I think we can agree that there’s difference between someone like Trump and someone like bezos. Both absolutely horrible people overall, but the degree of horror is not the same.

As such, when you look at the bad of a given person, it has to be taken along with the good.

Now, I think we’d also agree that billionaires as a thing is a net evil so horrid as to need abolishment. But it doesn’t preclude individuals from being the same kind of mix that you and I are. See, I know I have the capacity for darkness and evil. I also know that I choose, even when darkness is lapping at the shores of my true self, to do the most good I can. I hope that the opposite is true for you, that your inner goodness is so great that only puddles of evil reside which are easily relegated to meaninglessness.

But people are never so purely good that they’re incapable of bad things. The same is true of even the most vile examples of humanity from history. In the worst cases, any good may have been accidental, but still.

The ruling class of the ultra wealthy should indeed be abolished. But it’s just silly to pretend that they aren’t human, and thus a spectrum of good and bad

Not really though

When you’re talking about hoarding wealth, the problem isn’t just different from hoarding money, it’s a deeper and more complicated problem.

Assets in the case of these assholes is ownership. If they just held onto cash, all they could do is buy shit, which isn’t really a problem.

What they own is vast amounts of the economy, land, and the labor of people.

They think they own the people as well as the labor and products of that labor. They do to a large extent.

When you start whittling down a tier list of which billionaires are worse than others, and there are layers of shittiness there; it’s about their impact and how they wield that wealth as power.

I’m not sure billionaires actually have billions of dollars just sitting in a bank account.

It’s usually assets that contribute to net worth, not actual cash

How the fuck did steam invent gambling for kids? That shit started back in Facebook games.

!writingprompts@literature.cafe :)

Yeah, I suspect that’s what I’ll end up doing. But for now, dual boot ftw?

It’s one of those things where screwing around with an otherwise stable system just seems pointless unless I don’t have a choice.

Mad rant props!

For real though, flatpak exists partially for exactly your use case. Simple to use, won’t break shit, and pretty much available everywhere.

You’re kinda lucky in a way. Linux in all its flavors have steadily improved over the years. Even when win10 came out and I jumped ship for all but a few niche uses, it was a higher learning curve, and came with much disappointment in what I couldn’t do that I had been able to on win 7 (which was my favorite version of Windows overall).

Now, while I still have my win 7 drive for the two things I can’t get working on linux reliably, I can do everything else. I also have a win10 partition on my laptop for one single piece of software because it’s easier to just keep it for the rare usage than try to figure out how to get it working (is Amazon’s shitty kindle author program, and since I only crank out a book every three years or so [and only one that I’ve felt like selling there], it just isn’t worth fucking with for that tiny amount of extra space.

Linux, right now, is the best it’s ever been. It’s also on par with windows. Enough so that I can’t see myself ever going back. At some point, win7 won’t work on new hardware, and I’ll have to jank a musicbee install on linux, and tackle the character sheet generator that I use formy absurdly over crunchy home brew TTRPG that I’ve yet to find a replacement for that isn’t a compromise.

Anyway, I suspect that in a year or two, you’ll be in a similar space. You’ll have figured out the bullshit, abandoned windows habits, and actually be satisfied with your distro of choice.

Truth? If I had spent as much time on linux back in the nineties, I would likely have has equal difficulty adapting to windows if things had been in reverse.

Hypothetically, having access to older gene stock could make sense. As would a source of disposable labor. Or repopulation after a catastrophe.

Plenty of reasons.

But I can about damn guarantee it wouldn’t be just because they want to be nice