InternetLefty [he/him]

A few of my friends are doing pretty well as drain techs for plumbing companies. No formal training required (probably a high school diploma or equivalent), it can help you become a plumber if you’re into that. It’s hard work, can be pretty gross, but you make commission on jobs and there is some downtime during the day in between jobs. This is in Burgerland though, not sure about other places.

Will do. It’s cool to hear there is someone else here who does BJJ. The idea that someday I could be talented enough to just dump everything I know on some unsuspecting (but deserving!) white belt is another reason the sport is so interesting to me. The skill ceiling is really high. Thanks for chatting

For me, I did karate until I was 14 or so, and I was always interested in BJJ but never pulled the trigger for the sake of time/$$$. Now I have more time and money and my coworker said he started with his kids and they really love it, and all of a sudden I’m deciding to walk in and try it. Being able to handle myself in some kind of altercation is interesting to me, plus having some reason to continue keeping up my strength training and cardio is nice as I get a little bit older.

I have never been twistered, but I did get put into a mounted triangle by a no gi guy at the last open mat, which felt quite crazy lol. I mainly do gi but that’s mostly just what I’ve started with. The fundamentals classes are gi only at my gym. There seem to be WAY more no gi people, though (it’s an MMA gym as well).

I remember the first time I had a proper mount put on me. The panic was intense lol. Now, it’s just another Thursday. That’s the power of jits

That’s sick! I have been doing it for about 3 months. It’s hard to put it in exact terms, but it feels somewhere between horsing around with my friends as an 8 year old and being able to develop a fulfilling skill. I’ve been out sick recently but before that we were practicing the arm bar from mount and variations on that topic. My gym does a lot of positional sparring and depending on the class we tend to end with some full rolls.

I don’t think dealing with chuddy people is an issue for me, I am a white cis het man. This sport does have a habit of attracting cops and other men who are into violence though, but if you have good instructors you can count on them to keep things respectful, and disrespectful people do tend to be filtered out. That said, I’m not sure how I would fare if I was trans, queer etc. I’m sure each gym has a different culture - I’ve only ever trained at one.

Another rich white liberal telling the hoi polloi to lie down and take it

“I see you know your judo well!”

Sambo was invented after some Soviet comrades went to Japan to learn judo and said “you know what would be more fun? If we took our pants off!”

Real talk I started doing BJJ a few months ago. IMO all able people should give it a shot. With even a little training in grappling you can control someone the same size as you in an altercation. It’s also really fun. It does attract chuds though. YMMV

Ancient KKKrackers built the pyramids

Mr. Husseini is great. He’s the one always holding that ghoul Miller to account

People spend £12 a day on lunch. Don’t let the NHS make you feel bad for that. They’re a public welfare program that is currently undergoing neoliberal shock therapy. Soon they’ll be bothering you over paracetamol

Great job David!

Hemp hearts are really good, high in protein and fiber and totally VEGAN

I don’t really like the effects of THC, it makes my mind race and my body tense up

Steal what you can

This is why I don’t play fighting games. If I got 0-3’d by a button spamming robot I would explode with rage lol

The only thing the MIC can do is obtain a larger portion of the wealth of the Western economy. They can’t maintain themselves because before all else they must tithe to the church of their real religion, capital

Cook rice in rice cooker with two eggs, when it’s done I peel eggs and chop up some carrot/cucumber and eat it with Sriracha mayo. Impossible burger on a bun with Sriracha mayo and cucumber and corn chips on the side. Left overs, which are usually pretty good. Sometimes cheese pizza rolls.

How incredibly psychotic is it to cheerlead a war from a thousand miles away, and when the soldiers start to claim that all is lost you foam at the mouth and call them fifth columnists. “No, slavboy - fight until your own pointless death for MY vicarious edification!”

Embedded Linux is such a huge part of embedded software in every industry. I’ve done a bit with build root but mostly Yocto. There is just no replacement for the Linux kernel. If I need to know how the kernel actually handles a platform driver, I can just look up the relevant source. This is just impossible with Windows (IoT or otherwise)