“Competitive sports should remain pure sports and shouldn’t be used to announce a political position.”

They won’t go to any competitions with his present? That’s one less team for the others to deal with. Not to mention not needing to walk on glass when talking. Sounds like a win to me. 

there is absolutely no quick way to answer this like at all. at least with Hong Kong you can google all the unrest they had in 2019. for taiwan the extremely quick and dirty reason is china considers taiwan as apart of its state. as far as they’re concerned there IS NO taiwan at all. its why when taiwan participates…

Oooh, I totally skipped that paragraph somehow.

so there are inklings that folks are taking issue with the ‘have to be chinese dog’ comment but in at least a couple of the weibo posts from the team managers, the one china policy was reiterated. so seems like column a/column b.

Soooo they’re throwing their matches? I mean, that’s on them if they want to do that, right? Did he literally just use the words “Hong Kong” and “Taiwan”? Or did he say something disparaging to China and/or Chinese people?

Also, I wonder if that’s the position of the players or just the people above them.

Can you compress Awkward Zombie more? I can still read some of the text if I squint just right.  Thanks!

This loop of “women showing up in outwardly male dominated areas and financially succeeding which makes men get super fuckin’ butt-hurt” is just literally never going to end, is it? We’re just destined to do this forever, aren’t we?

Yeah, no. A few years ago I really got into running/jogging, to the point where I could easily run 10k at a very decent pace (my best time was just over 50 minutes). Obviously there were changes in my body, especially the legs, but my beer belly and double chin were still there. I didn’t get rid of most of that fat…

Its really not. People in general have a bad concept of calories and how much eating outweighs excercise. A 10k run will burn ~600 calories. That’s two slices of pizza. TWO.

That’s not buff.

I notice he changed his diet which was probably about 90% of the work. That said the body strength workout everyday like that is definetly good for toning

You can combine walking and running. Just run as far as you can, walk until you’re ready to go again, and keep alternating like that. It’s going to be a lot of walking early on.

For looks and weight loss? Definitely. For actual strength, especially in his upper body? No way. He now has what I as a former climber like to call “functional” muscles. He might not have “show” muscles like a bodybuilder, but I’m sure he is 10x stronger than your average skinny guy (which I reverted back to, sad).

Start at level 1, 10 push ups, 10 sit ups, 10 squats, 1km. And then move onto level 2 when you’re ready and so on.

Not sure I would call that buff? Seems like he just lost a ton of weight instead.

As long as they provide an enemy “other” their base will continue to vote just on fear alone and not on any issues.

Because the Republican platform is based around hurting someone. It doesn’t really matter who it is. The people that they cater to, the people that they court for donations and votes, are the people that need to feel that they are better than someone. They will support anything as long as it makes someone else’s life…

Our state leadership is an embarrassment. At a time when so many Texans are hurting, do they focus on helping? No, only more hurting.