Spyke

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So while I really hate performative tough guy bullshit as a former MMA practitioner, I would really caution you against thinking the guy in the picture on the left is not really fucking strong. the guy who's all cut up and striated with the ideal visible body often isn't stronger than the dude with a couple layers of fat over his muscles that has been lifting his heavy body around his whole life. There's also a class of dude I run into that just have some kind of genetics for absurd super colossal strength without any particular background in weightlifting or anything to justify why they are that strong (I'm sadly not in that cohort).

Additionally, we have weight classes for a reason. There was a fight recently where a chunky out of shape dude was put up against two female fighters and he won pretty handily. The gold medal winning women's soccer team got absolutely destroyed by a boy's 15-year-old club. Having trained with plenty of women in the gym over the years, none of them have ever expressed a rhetoric where they think that they can realistically fight a man in a venue where grappling is allowed. I will definitely take a lady Thai fighter over Joe barstool in a stand-up only bout though. There's plenty of footage of foreigners in Thailand trying their hand and getting absolutely pasted with some devastating leg kicks.

I give this starter a pack only a 5 out of 10.

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Mental health

For anyone who's struggling, I just want you to know that I basically permanently cured my depression, the semi-powerful mushroom trip. During the trip essentially took a side step left in my brain that didn't fix my problems but fixed the way that I perceived them and how I tackle them. It has since been about 4 years since that trip and the effect s on my attitude and personality have been long lasting. I will say as a word of caution that my attachment to traditional capitalism and some other more normal things in life has definitely waned but I still make my payments and stuff without incident but I just care less. This shit should not be illegal especially compared to alcohol and cigarettes.

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Anon is given an ultimatum

Did anyone tell him SF is really fucking cold at night. It's not like socal homeless beach sleeping, it's miserable.

This would be a punishing miserable existence and hence is obvious bait. If you fell for it, I suggest more education on the homeless experience.

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If you grew up poor in America this is what government issued food stuffs looked like. They realized having this stuff was humiliating to the people that needed it and replaced it completely with snap cards you can use to buy whatever. Government cheese and peanut butter and milk were big staples.