Patrick Wyman

I'm all about gassing people up when they're getting stronger and feeling themselves - participating in your buddies' accomplishments is one of the great joys of strength training - but if you're gonna claim a 315 deadlift makes you a gorilla I'm gonna laugh my ass off, poverty weight racist prick

I had a half dozen training partners who could CLEAN 315 (143 kg), not just deadlift it. Shut the fuck up, wannabe alpha male blowhards

I'm all about gassing people up when they're getting stronger and feeling themselves - participating in your buddies' accomplishments is one of the great joys of strength training - but if you're gonna claim a 315 deadlift makes you a gorilla I'm gonna laugh my ass off, poverty weight racist prick

Been reading about a lot of very bad but entirely ordinary people throughout history for the next season of Past Lives (Everyday Villains). This guy is utterly typical. 1) Doesn't think he's doing anything wrong. 2) Permission structure in a system of hierarchical authority. 3) Benefits materially.

Guys like Schielke follow orders when the permission structure tells them they have to, and don't necessarily surrender their sense of right and wrong. Guys like Stroop - and the cop here - think their brutality is objectively good, that they should benefit materially from it, and that they're moral

Been reading about a lot of very bad but entirely ordinary people throughout history for the next season of Past Lives (Everyday Villains). This guy is utterly typical. 1) Doesn't think he's doing anything wrong. 2) Permission structure in a system of hierarchical authority. 3) Benefits materially.

Schielke wasn't a great dude; he was a former police officer and had followed the orders he was given. He was not, however, an ideological Nazi like Stroop, nor was he a mass murderer. Moczarski often talks about the contempt Schielke had for Stroop, especially the material comforts he enjoyed.

Been reading about a lot of very bad but entirely ordinary people throughout history for the next season of Past Lives (Everyday Villains). This guy is utterly typical. 1) Doesn't think he's doing anything wrong. 2) Permission structure in a system of hierarchical authority. 3) Benefits materially.

I did the math on my rough chances of getting a tenure-track job in my field of history in 2013. Best case, it was about 6 percent, so I essentially gave up on academia and pursued other things. Writing MMA articles for a couple grand a month was a wildly more promising career path.

Had my PhD experience been better maybe I wouldn’t be bitter about it, but nobody with the ability to do anything about it at a structural level gave a flying fuck about what we were supposed to do with our lives. I don’t have a lot of sympathy for the field now that the train is hitting the wall.

I did the math on my rough chances of getting a tenure-track job in my field of history in 2013. Best case, it was about 6 percent, so I essentially gave up on academia and pursued other things. Writing MMA articles for a couple grand a month was a wildly more promising career path.

Programs were producing too many PhDs with zero plan for what those people could do when they got out of school between 27 and 32. It literally wasn’t crossing the minds of faculty in my department and they were puzzled when I raised the issue of a lack of tenure-track jobs.

Watched Gettysburg for probably the fiftieth time, but my first in a while, and the whole storyline with Chamberlain and the 20th Maine is just the most goddamned inspiring thing, it holds up beautifully, what a performance

The Blazers are murdering the Suns right now and I sincerely hope the audible despair from the Suns’ broadcast team continues throughout the year. Trade your tiny remaining draft capital for a violent domestic abuser who was suspended an entire season and you deserve to lose every game by 40

I won’t wear my Suns jerseys or spend a single penny on this dogshit organization until they ditch Bridges and issue a public apology for having anything to do with him

Time for my NBA season predictions that absolutely nobody is asking for: West: Spurs over the Nuggets East: Heat over the Pistons Finals: Spurs defeat the Heat for Wemby's first title (Last year my prediction was Thunder-Knicks)

Great question! Basically, skeletal muscle has a lot more growth capacity than the connective tissue holding it in place; when someone is on gear, they're bigger and stronger than that connective tissue can safely handle, which leads to uncommon tears of large muscles (pecs are another example)

I don't know if there are controlled studies on this, but it's baseline wisdom among strength-training communities where PED use has been anecdotally observed for 50+ years.

Wait, former UFC fighter, Special Forces doofus, and fabulist extraordinaire Tim Kennedy got shot three times while working for Erik Prince in the Democratic Republic of Congo?! defector.com/how-did-a-fa...

He's come a long way since making an absolute fool of himself by whining incessantly about getting knocked out by Cuban Olympic wrestler Yoel Romero. Simpler times.

I went ahead and wrote up my assorted thoughts on the great new paper from Bethany Potter, Savannah Hay, Archana Singh, and @jenniferraff.bsky.social, covering all the available genomic evidence on the peopling of the Americas. We know a lot more now than we did! www.patreon.com/PastLivesMed...

With this paper in mind, I keep coming back to the enormous glacial lakes just south of the ice sheets before the Younger Dryas cold snap. They would've been nice places to live, but in rapidly shifting climatic conditions, also incredibly vulnerable to apocalyptic flooding and glacial advance.

One of the many things I love about El-Sayed is that he's willing to engage with someone hostile if it gets them to admit the premises behind that hostility, to the extent that it becomes impossible to avoid the underlying bigotry. You want to go there, fine, but he's gonna make you own it.

Book recommendation: Kazimierz Moczarski's "Conversations with an Executioner." Moczarski spent nine months in a cell with the SS general who oversaw the annihilation of the Warsaw Ghetto, Jurgen Stroop, and spent that time questioning him about who he was and why he did what he did. Incredible.