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If the scratches are invisible to the naked eye, then there is nothing that can be done on the manufacturing line, there is going to be too much random variation to fix that. The option would have to be getting rid of any plastic altogether in the design room, which likely would shorten the length of product shelf life to an unacceptable degree for these products.

I figured, but I was also curious so I looked into it lol

Given the make up of motor oil, and that it is not a carbide, I would think it would be considered organic.

The only thing they learn from our critiques is to bastardize and emulate our language.

I’m not too familiar with the combat sports scene, but it wouldn’t surprise me if something similar is going on. That said, those guys tend to be a whole other level of insane, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they aren’t necessarily doing PEDs, especially since technique is such a huge portion of what is going on there. But on the other other hand, even stuff like caffeine before a match could be considered a PED, and fighters do love their little advantages and then covering it up with talk of ‘superior genetics’.

I mean the same thing exists for me and workout influencers, since I enjoy working out and keeping limber, and they usually have some decent tips. Again, not all of them are going to be on them, but it is a much larger number than you’d expect. The ones you have to be suspect of are the ones that are constantly breaking their PRs and could be in contention for WR categories, but never seem to actually want to compete, or ones that repeatedly go through aggressive weight-gain/loss regimes. Guys who are slimmer and tend to just stay the same weight over long periods of time, while improving their techniques and flexibility are less sus. But it’s the extreme ones that gain the most attention. Even then it’s mostly a supplements or training regime scam at the end of the day. I know I will never look like them without PEDs but I know that I feel better when I try, move, do things and eat healthier.

Idk, I think the better thing to do is just to tune as much of it out as possible and just ask yourself, ‘Am I having fun? Do I enjoy this, even if the implications are bad?’ and if you don’t then find something where PEDs will never be as important as just time spent and technique, like dancing, music or other forms of art (including research and writing).

These are great insights! Thanks!

Yeah, as Russia didn’t intervene, there were a lot of people who thought they should try to stay as independent oblasts, and not connect themselves up with Russia. Pre-intervention the civil war was still occuring though.

I think it’s mostly due to the stigmatization of needle drugs as somehow being worse for you overall than orally or nasally administered drugs, even though they all can kill you pretty easily if you take the wrong dosage. My point is more that given what athletes especially professional athletes out themselves through on a regular basis, needles aren’t really considered to be a big deal in the clique.

See, and this is where you can have an actually constructive criticism of Stalin, as he was a big believer in pushing the national sovereignty of ethnic peoples because he was an ethnic Georgian, despite no one fighting longer or harder against forces of reaction. It was a blind spot in his theory that was created by his own personal experience under Russian chauvinism, but it was also supported by Lenin’s theories of political maneuvering and it was these kinds of ideas that bound him closer to Stalin than Trotsky, who was much more inclined towards Luxembourg’s ideas.

But it does lead us to ask, if the Bolsheviks didn’t give up their claim to inherit the Russian empire, would Rosa have just decried them as another imperialist? I only say this because much of her theories appear to simply be monday morning quarterbacking to Bolshevik ideas that actually got to be implemented, after all, today we could just as easily point towards the Balkans as a proof that not giving people their own national identities eventually leads to another kind of destruction and reactionary uprising, where the proletariat are easily pitted against each other by the ethnic bourgeois under ‘freedom from communist tyranny’. I think the national/ethnic question is an incredibly difficult question to answer, and it will take more than simply pitting 20th century revolutionaries against each other.

I am convinced that most star basketball players are on PEDs (LeBron especially sweats and acts like he is on anabolics, but it could just be because he is old) at least that help them ignore pain, because injuries in star basketball players used to be related to chronic knee and ankle pain which would force them to sit out for multiple minutes, but not generally devastating ligament injuries. I think it also can lead to side effects like distracted thinking, which is why Hallie would just essentially mentally drop out of games every now and then, though that could just be him playing through pain too.

The context for the Donbas existed long before Putin ever mentioned it. If anything, Putin did more deflection after they got Crimea and said that the Donbas regions didn’t want to defect despite the fact that the Donbas regions were very very interested in going the way of Crimea.

The lie is more that Putin wanted to go to war and is very interested in a conflict with the West. This is clearly not the case, if Putin had wanted war with Ukraine he would have pushed for it immediately after Crimea and taken the Donbas regions while the Ukrianian government was in the middle of a coup and disorganized. The fact is that Ukrianian Nazis and Nazism had been developing under Putin’s nose the entire time and he did nothing, it was only when the Russian military convinced him that not only was an attack on the Donbas imminent, that it could continue to roll into Russian territory if it succeeded, and that they could counter it with minimal force and expense that Putin ok’d the war, which is how this whole mess is now bogged down.

But idk what you would expect from a nation who literally threw away their reason for existing, sold themselves to the highest bidder, and when that didn’t get them universal acceptance into the international capitalist cult, which is something that any amateur Marxist scholar could have told them would happen, try to make up another reason for having rejected the ideology that made their nation relevant on the international stage. At this point my only prognosis is that Russia is a cursed land and Russians a cursed people, to emulate Western lies and practices but not understand that you have to actually be stupid enough to believe the lie you are telling for it to work effectively.

What I mean is that they clearly aren’t doing much to actually hide the fact that they don’t really care about the samples. Having equipment and testing supplies is not that sophisticated if you aren’t bothering with a large public media charade. Hell, I have never even tested positive for THC byproducts on a job screening despite being an avid smoker for the majority of my adult life. People just don’t really care as much as they used to about this stuff. It’s all very clearly a ruse for rubes and insurance companies.

Not only are they probably aware that many people are doing it, they likely aren’t paid enough to care, and if someone wants to slip them more money for something higher risk, why should they care?

Intravenous steroids is not a ‘hardcore thing’ it is the fundamental basis of pretty much all of amateur and professional body building culture, and much of top-ranked college and highschool athletics. It’s basically ecstacy for athletes. Not everyone is on it, but if you are in the scene long enough you will know where to get it if you do want it. Most professional athletic organizations literally have steroid cocktails that they administer to their star players in the event they are injured. It’s one of the reasons why ligament and tendon injuries are so prevalent in today’s athletes, their muscular development is not in sync with their connective tissue development, which leads to devastating injuries. They are more sophisticated about it than they were before, you will rarely see huge hulking athletes way outside the statistical zones, but they will ride just into the freak athlete territory to be noticed. As well PEDs don’t automatically make you a good athlete, you still need to train diligently, especially at a young age, to be really good at the thing you are doing, which is why most players don’t really care if you are on them. It’s pretty ingrained into athletic culture at this point. It’s always ‘not everything is as it seems’.

I don’t understand how this is any different than what is done with PEDs in the US, where our professional athletes just blatantly cycle through different types of PEDs depending on what is or is not being tested for, they just do it under their teams supervision as to make sure to not run foul of the regulators. Literally the entire upper echelon of the professional biking world (including the entire US Postal service team) was shown to be doping little more than a decade ago, a better question is why should Russia even care other than to just do the bare minimum to pay lip service to western standards of ‘fair-play’?

Is it just because it is unsophisticated that it bugs you?

I think part of the problem is that they are so isolated that it is difficult for them to even create a common cultural understanding. It’s like the difficulty of Americans understanding of a respect culture, in that you show respect for your elders even if you do not agree with them simply for the fact that they may know something you don’t for having lived a long time.

Mind, respect culture developed outside of capitalism, where living a long time was not a given. It also goes against much of the youth fetishization of the U.S. but therein lies the hypocrisy of the American culture, is that it is a culture of youthfulness created by old men for the purposes of keeping you naive and exploitable, not a culture of respect that derives from a level of respect you are supposed to have for yourself.

My point is that that only China has been able to successfully do it, by mimicking and exceeding western standards of success. Other socialist countries likely don’t understand it, or if they do, they believe our definitions of success to be silly and short-sighted.

It’s like anarchists decrying the DPRK’s military parades, which, while understandable, misses that it takes a massive collective effort and culmination of years of practice and setup to pull off something of that. It takes more than the threat of violence to pull that off, it requires massive amounts passion, expertise and belief. Which we know now definitely because we’ve seen what the U.S. does to try to replicate even a fraction of the theatre.

Ah, I see the Radio Free Asia story is making the rounds of the mainstream media. Once again, I do not doubt there have been prosecutions of queer individuals over pornographic material, and it may even be disproportionally aimed at queer people, but calling it a ‘crackdown’ when it accounts for 12 books and an undefined number of people in a population that, given statistics, likely reaches into the 10s of millions with probably thousands of publications, is blatant exaggeration.

I will have to start listening again. This is a refreshing change, she may actually be critiquing him from the left.

Good for her! Maybe eventually she’ll abandon the idea of congressional electoralism through the Democratic party.

My completely have not been keeping up with her opinion is no, only because she got hella libbed up after Virgil got disappeared. It would be really funny if he actually helped run this campaign. I mean, Mamdani was literally on Chapo, saying some fucking bangers, I didn’t take him seriously at all but the dude pulled it off, this shit is wild.

Edit: And for good measure, this is yet another successful leftist campaign that happened likely because nobody has mentioned the ‘dirtbag left’ yet. They have either forgotten we existed (most probably) or they are saving that for the election (long shot but if I am right about this I should go into politics). Unfortunately I think this means, Mamdani needs to basically do what he did on Colbert until election time, but he didn’t have to go on Chapo, but that white male NY demographic is probably a core constituency (what you think they just vanished?).

Honestly dude should go on Rogan if he’s gonna run center. (Though I personally will never listen to another episode of Rogan). No no, dude should go on the Adam Friedland Show. They had a Cuomo on! They didn’t even endorse him!

Lol there might be some level of that as well, I am not exactly personally knowledgeable on how these things are done, I am just guessing based on my father’s experience with Chinese companies, my personal manufacturing and construction experience with summer seasonal workers, and general economic knowledge of China.

I’ve had at least two pure mathematics majors people argue strenuously with me that statistics, being applied mathematics, isn’t really math, but that isn’t really my point here.

The part here is that you completely missed actually reading the Marxism part. Statistics is math that is derived from empirical observations, the actual data you collect in the field. Without that actual data, statistics as pure mathematics is completely meaningless to the engineering process. I’m not saying math isn’t involved, though in some areas, I have seen people just eyeball things and nail them due to experience. I’m saying there is a materialist dialectic that proceeds between the empirical, physical, observations made, and how math is then used to then depict, formulate and transform those observations into more empirical measurements, which then continues to transform those depictions. Quite often these days the math precedes the observation, but particularly before the advent of electronic computers it wasn’t uncommon for the observation to precede the mathematics. For example, you absolutely cannot have transistors without the Fournier transformation, but you also cannot have transistors without the observed phenomenon and concept of electrical conductivity (or more usually talked about resistance), which was not originally conceptualized mathematically at all, though is now.

Math is not dealing with literal objects, it deals with the concepts of objects. For example, 1+1=2 doesn’t have to reference any kind of object at all in order to be self-contained, logical and true. This can be explicitly shown in things like statistics, where you have a mathematically logical statement that is ‘people in the U.S. have on average 1.5 children’. A nonsense statement if taken purely empirically, but the idea of how an average is mathematically created can make it logically sound, however it is also completely meaningless to us if that average wasn’t generated from real data.

It is in this way that we know all kinds of things, like the tensile or compressive strength of 1045 steel, or the creation of formulas like the amount of time it takes a concentration of carbon to disperse in steel at a certain temperature. It is conceptualized mathematically now, but it didn’t start as that, it didn’t start as a formula, it came from some other ideas like ‘lets make a more durable iron’ and through our physical interaction with it has come to a point of conceptualized mathematics, and even then the mathematics doesn’t always get it exactly correct, it often represents the ideal situation, which means that there are likely other, more complex methods of mathematics to conceptually represent any specific interaction, or maybe even some other kind of conceptual understanding that we can’t even conceive of yet because we haven’t encountered it’s empirical predecessor (which I doubt, but my point is the current conception of the math isn’t actually a perfect representation of the real).

Scientists and their benefactors wouldn’t build the Hadron collider if just knowing the math was the answer. Math is not some dictating Hegelian universal ideal that we seek to appease.

I am specifically arguing against the idea of Marxism being opposed to mathematics, but I am also arguing that mathematics likely isn’t the end-all be-all understanding of accurate conceptualization, which is why I understand why some Marxist economics people are math adverse, specifically when it comes to economic conceptualization, as economics is notoriously rife with edge-cases, ‘rules’ that have absolutely no historical statistical backing, and empirical observations that help little with understanding cause and effect, which comes from the problem that economics cannot ever actually isolate it’s variables at scale in the way that scientists and engineers can. It can provide insights into human behavior, much like psychology can, and even attempt to model them mathematically, but again, it gives us about as much insight into human behavior as psychology, which is a problem because reading about psychology and economics has a tendency to alter your behavior, thus potentially creating a different outcome from the population should your study become popular and widespread. Hell if this wasn’t the case, advertising wouldn’t work. I know I certainly approach things economically differently because I have read things like Marx, since it is like playing a card game while having some general idea of the odds. Doesn’t mean I will win, but it certainly influences my strategy. It’s like how insurance brokers, despite using highly complex statistical mathematics for conceptualizing individual risk and profitability, can still sometimes go bankrupt. They too, are playing the odds, in a conceptually different way than I do.