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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • Power is addictive, but its addictive properties are interesting because it becomes “normal”.

    It’d be like every girl you’ve ever dated has H cups, and then you go out on a date with a girl with E cups and you’re like, “wow, she’s got small boobs”, when really her boobs are large, you’re just so accustomed to H cups that anything smaller seems small.





  • I’ll just keep repeating this, but your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) is not scientifically set in stone.

    While it’s accurate for I would say 90% of the population, rough estimate, there are many things that can cause your BMR to not be accurate, like thyroid issues or lack of musculature due to sedentary lifestyle or due to hormone imbalances or any number of myriad things.

    I went and had mine tested and it cost me I believe $70 at a sports medicine place, and I burn approximately 200 calories less than my BMR chart says that I should.

    So if I wanted to maintain my weight, and I ate the calories the internet says that I should every day, I would actually gain almost 20 lbs a year (a nice rough estimate is every 10 calories a day you cut from your diet you lose one pound a year).

    And as I am working on losing weight, and I’m eating 500 calories under my BMR, I’m actually only eating 300 calories under my true BMR, which means my weight loss is incredibly slow.

    So yes, while calories and calories out is true, there are external factors that make it difficult to get accurate numbers to compare against.

    Therefore calories in calories out is much simpler to say than it is to do for some percentage of the population.


  • I’ve tried to bring this up before, but I personally don’t believe everyone should be treated the same.

    In an ideal world where we had an objective way to measure this, I would prefer that we lived in an absolute meritocracy.

    Some people are a better fit for a particular purpose than other people due to racial advantage, gender advantage, physical advantage, age advantage, or any other number of advantages that they have been gifted by the miracle of life and talent, or that they have earned from dedication and struggle.

    In my ideal world, if you remove all of the things that are not important to the task at hand, and only judge based on who is most fit for the task at hand, then the people who are the best fit would get the most appropriate reward for their capacity.

    As a nonwhite male IT worker, my ability to lift heavy objects is secondary to my ability to fix a printer. If a female can fix printers better than I can, she’s more than welcome to have the job at the same pay they would have paid me for it.