I don’t really have a stance on weather THC is performance enhancing for some (it wouldn’t be for me) but it’s kinda mind blowing someone at that level would risk all the work she put in for her whole life and have it in her system during a competition period. I’m a very medium level competitor in a drug tested sport…

Ya fair. My sample size is probably mostly the people who have either seen or researched what happens when women lift

Before I became a weightlifter (the sport, not like a bodybuilder type that lifts dumbbells and things) I mostly taught myself to powerlift through reddit and youtube, and yeah, there is a TON of “start with the bar until your form is perfect” narrative. Most people can move up way more quickly than they think, and…

I don’t see that happening. We wasted a year and a half of our lives over this waiting for the vaccine to come out and let us get our lives back. If this isn’t the solution, oh well, I guess I’m getting covid. We can’t live like this forever.

Which province did you learn about them in? I grew up in BC and if I learned they existed (which I’m not certain I did, I don’t remember it if I was taught it), I certainly did not know what they were like. My friends who grew up in SK did learn about them though.

This school was open until the late 90s. Someone on one of my social media accounts posted something about how while we were watching Friends and the Fresh Prince, kids were coming up through this residential school (let’s not call them boarding schools, I went to a boarding school and those are country clubs, nothing…

Yeah, I was surprised to see that.  That’s kind of how they got glossed over while I was in school, which is absolutely part of the issues still on today.

I’m an olympic (the sport, not the actual olympics) weightlifter so I don’t bench a whole lot but every time it’s programmed my coach corrects the height almost all of us set up for benching.  My gym has these awesome competition benches that you can move while loaded and they are a game changer when you are sharing…

lol virtue gatekeeping. I actually have an environmental science based undergrad and there was a time probably about 20 years ago that I believed the hype and thought the end of fossil fuels was near. For my own lifetime, I’d prefer we get our fossil fuels from my country over Saudi, but apparently my country doesn’t…

This has been the case for a while in the energy sector in Canada. I’m not sure what to expect over the next couple of years, but I’m planning for the worst at the moment (including a possible move - to where, no idea.) I’m not a new grad by any means, but we are all pretty at risk of unemployment at the moment. I…

Mining is dying? You might want to look into what is needed to produce the device you typed this from.

maskholes; “muh raghts”; literal quoting of facebook memes.... are you under the impression these things are helpful? Or that shrieking these things into your social media is doing anything but reinforcing the echo chamber you are already in?

I hate trump as much as the next person who comments on this website, but acting like Biden is doing well in any of this is just.... giving me flashbacks to your last election.

For sure. People should definitely go to jail for giving someone a super contagious virus that spreads by breathing. I’m sure that would go well for a whole lot of people.

Ya, me too.  Also my somewhat strained relationships with my dad means no man is getting called daddy by me.  I can’t get behind that one at all.

I can’t call anyone daddy in any context, so I’m somehow unbothered by this one.  I’m pretty happy I have yet to have this requested of me lol

Neither of my gyms did.  But I’m not in the US.  (One crossfit, one more of a regular type looking commercial gym space)

eh. Hypocrisy is still hypocrisy. Call your own side out or you are doing the same thing you are complaining about.

I look forward to the Lifehacker article that explains why this is actually bad news that means we need to lock down harder through 2022.

If this is “good” I’m glad I haven’t seen it on anyone else.