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On December 11 2021 21:50 Spitfiree wrote: I don't understand why you even bother discussing eating habits and veganism when that 'problem' has been solved for quite a while. Veganism is literally the only long-term solution we have right now when it comes to food considering the impact of animal-produced food on the climate. There is no debate. Even if we sack all the pollution outside of the food industry, the food industry alone makes too big of an impact on climate, things are THAT bad. It's not even a moral question of killing animals or whatever anymore, it's literally about the survival of our species.

There is debate on this in the climate sciences though. Many climate scientists argue that a plant rich diet or vegetarianism would be OK for a carbon neutral strategy. Veganism would be wasteful for agro ecological farming methods as well. Generally you want to get the most out of the animal if your using it for farming. That's why a huge part of India is vegetarian and not vegan.

What is not debatable is that we need to seriously change agriculture.

Please please please let me eat mango lassy and rice pudding. I promise I'll get the Chana Aloo and not the Murgh Tikka Masala.

How do we change agriculture?

Stop subsidizing agribusiness, externalities based tax, and incentive farmers to make the switch or at least stop cutting down trees for more land.

Japan, USA and moat of Europe are all massively protectionist in agriculture last I checked, and it's caused a huge amount of suffering in the world.

Agriculture methods are a technology and you could provide feed in tariffs for the ecological ones the same way Germany did for solar.

I could go on and on ranting about how unjust the global food system is. Aside from animal cruelty for billions of cattle, you have massive food insecurity, deforestation, methane emissions, ecological collapse, food toxicity, obesity, food waste. Water pollution, land degradation, lots of other things.

Man, I think that is one way people in the USA would organize if 85/15 ground beef were like $20/lb. or more and McDonalds's was double.

I know where I live Carolina Gold Rice used to be the ticket. No idea how much arsenic is in that rice but vegan Hoppin' John with the Sea Island Red Peas is the shit.

Besides going vegan and only supporting local heritage food I feel vastly impotent on this matter.

On December 11 2021 21:50 Spitfiree wrote: I don't understand why you even bother discussing eating habits and veganism when that 'problem' has been solved for quite a while. Veganism is literally the only long-term solution we have right now when it comes to food considering the impact of animal-produced food on the climate. There is no debate. Even if we sack all the pollution outside of the food industry, the food industry alone makes too big of an impact on climate, things are THAT bad. It's not even a moral question of killing animals or whatever anymore, it's literally about the survival of our species.

veganism is long term in the sense that you can eat lentils forever and short term in the sense that any children you have if you're still fertile on a vegan diet will grow to be manlets and womanlets

if you think the food "industry" (eating) alone can destroy the climate, so can electricity (heat), industry (economy), or transportation (economy + security + globalization + freedom). any excess emissions inevitably tend to an infinite build up.

you're not saving the planet by not eating a burger. you're not killing the planet by driving a car.

On October 27 2021 22:33 hiems wrote: few months gym progress. First pic May 27th other pic yesterday. Started working with online coach in August I think. Been on a cut since then planning every meal measured with food scale. 500caloric deficit per day which should yield roughly 1 lb per week. Probably need to stay on cut for longer.

As promised, an update on my transformation. I did not measure my food intake at all, did not have a coach, and had to deal with covid gym closure issues for 3 months, so I'd say I was disadvantaged compared to hiems. But hiems is also an idiot who doesn't know how to train. So this is my 4 months transformation. One month was just calisthenics, 3 months was calisthenics + weightlifting. Never skipped a workout; just adjusted when gyms closed and did what I could while I waited for the stuff I needed to build my home gym.

I didn't change the program I wrote on here aside from rotating a few accessory exercises in and out and reducing deadlift frequency to one set per week after about a month. Weights have gotten up consistently session to session; I only had to deload once on my overhead press and once on my squat recently (too much accumulated fatigue). I think I'm about to be finished with the newbie gains though as the weight is getting really heavy. Pretty happy with the gains. Leg gains not shown here but consistent with upper gains. Could have probably gotten away with putting on a little less fat with the same muscle gains if I had been more careful with diet but no real regret there.

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lol...

go spend 100+ days a year in a hotel see how easy it is to train. im in great shape for my job like I said to you already.

you should focus on the big picture of things and try and be a more well rounded person. 1st step4 u would be to get a car...

Lol what a dum loco...

Good job Loco

ROFL, your transformation is insane and hiems looks like even more of a little piggy than he did before.

On February 28 2022 21:30 RiKD wrote: ROFL, your transformation is insane and hiems looks like even more of a little piggy than he did before.

Rikd u r a dumb, fat, broke guy with health issues...

I'm in shape, healthy, functional adult.

Loco is also broke...look at him he looks like he hasn't shaved in ages looks like a homeless guy. Idk why u guys r so dumb.

hiems is like the protagonist in Fight Club who never meets Tyler Durden.

Lol rikd I'm sorry ur such a loser.

BTW love how u make fun of Trump for being a trust fund kid when u thats what u are basically. At least Trump starts businesses and accomplishes stuff like becoming president lol.

U pretend u r "working class" while u spend all ur money on luxuries while being bankrolled by ur right winger daddy lol...

There seems to be two categories of people:

1) Those who think such beards make you look like a hobo.
2) Those that think it makes you look like a Nordic warrior.

My mom belongs in the first category. It was a covid lockdown beard which I ended up shaving a few days ago btw. Kinda miss it now.

Thanks Erling & RiKD!

Damn Loco got them guns LOL.

Good job Loco :D

It's really bizarre to work out every day for several months so you can come back to a defunct poker website and post your results to one-up an internet troll. Were you thinking "I'll show hiems! I'll show all of them!" between each set? Why can't you all just live your lives...

On March 01 2022 19:18 blackjacki2 wrote: It's really bizarre to work out every day for several months so you can come back to a defunct poker website and post your results to one-up an internet troll. Were you thinking "I'll show hiems! I'll show all of them!" between each set? Why can't you all just live your lives...

Hit the nail on the head.

On March 01 2022 19:18 blackjacki2 wrote: It's really bizarre to work out every day for several months so you can come back to a defunct poker website and post your results to one-up an internet troll. Were you thinking "I'll show hiems! I'll show all of them!" between each set?

Nice use of the false cause fallacy.

Worked out so that you could post it here... --> no.
Worked out and posted it here .... --> yes.

I don't think that a retard who would be principally motivated by a dysfunctional idiot like hiems would have the intelligence and discipline to achieve the kind of results that I got. Obviously I had other reasons and if this doesn't come naturally to you to understand there must be something obscuring your judgment.

Why can't you all just live your lives...

Kind of ironic, no? Why did you not just shrug your shoulders when you saw my post and abstain from posting your opinion? Aren't you trying to one-up me in some way? This is a rhetorical question, don't bother answering it. Obviously you are, especially with that imbecilic last part that attempts to infantilize me.

I posted my results because I said that I would and I am a man of my word. I would have just as easily gone on with my life without this brief comedic episode. If you don't believe that to be the case, you are not very bright.

There is value in contributing before and after pictures for me beyond just pissing off hiems and having him throw a hilarious hissyfit for the entertainment of us all. It backs up what I said about training (I hope) and nutrition and if just one person finds some kind of clarity or motivation from it or achieves something they are proud of as a result then I am happy to have contributed to that. 100% worth, unlike responding to your post, so gonna cut my losses here.

On January 24 2010 16:09 Loco wrote: Show nested quote + On January 24 2010 08:25 Nazgul wrote: very classy to leave LP and request students to PM you in the same post I don't owe this site anything. In fact, I would think it is the people on this website that owe me something -- a little bit of decency. If anything in the past year, it has mostly brought negative emotions in me. I've left LP once because I wanted to do other things more productive, and it is the same here. If I stayed here I would be going against myself. I'm thinking about myself here, you people can call this selfish and whatever you want, but you would just be an hypocrite. There is nothing you do in this world that is for anyone else. Your unconscious behavior is dictated from your Ids just like anyone else, which means that you try to avoid pain and get pleasure from whatever you do. That doesn't change that any kind person by nature will want to help someone out. So it's not about selfishness but the way we're 'programmed'. It's pretty obvious that I've been thinking about leaving so don't think that I'm trying to play martyr and make Nazgul feel bad here or anything. It has just given me the additional push that I needed to make it happen. It officially became unacceptable for me to keep posting here after that. I obviously am never getting a green star after this too, so what is there left for me to work on? Nothing. My game has improved by itself because I dedicated the hours in the past months. I have literally learned nothing at all from LP in these past months, simply because there is not much HU content here and the discussion is made via MSN with fellow HU grinders. If you believe that because I've improved so much I somehow owe it to the site to stay here, I strongly disagree. What LP gave me I feel like I have already given back threefold. It has become apparent that it does me no good for my personal life and I have done my time with internet communities. Thank you all for your posts, some of you are great dudes and I look forward to meeting you guys and playing some StarCraft 2 with you.

^from over 10 years ago.

"I posted my results because I said that I would and I am a man of my word."

Lol...