sagrotan ,
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That's right, men are far to heavy these days.

TankovayaDiviziya ,

"Useless red circle" is there to accommodate both the lower attention span and attention to detail of younger generations who have been conditioned with ever increasing faster pace of life.

Thcdenton ,

I hate it because I have adhd. Shit like that makes it worse. Makes me feel like cattle.

TankovayaDiviziya ,

I'm not just justifying the use of red circle BTW, I'm just explaining as to why it's common these days in the age of Internet.

Moneo ,

“Useless red circle” is there to accommodate both the shitty eyesight and impatience of older generations who have been accustomed to everything being handed to them on a silver platter.

Generalizing generations is fucking stupid.

TankovayaDiviziya ,

Do I think boomers are materialistic? Yes. Do I think every boomers are handed with everything on silver platters? Ask those who grew up in the 60s and 70s Asia, Africa and Latin America undergoing wars and social turmoil of what they think. Just because your country is part of the WEIRD acronym it doesn't mean the "entitled" boomer stereotype applies to everyone else in the world. My parents certainly had to struggle and grew up in a dictatorship.

Attention span is decreasing in younger folks-- that's the broad consensus. Thanks to the Internet and granting instant gratification. That's just a fact, so deal with it.

I agree that generalising generations can be stupid, but it is though environment don't shape people and culture, huh?

Diplomjodler3 ,

My wife is about half my weight. Guess I'll just get beheaded then.

FlyingSquid ,
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Don't knock it 'till you've tried it.

Drivebyhaiku ,

Women are generally pretty capable of lifting twice their weight. Stand back to back and link arms (you may need to crouch) and if she leans forward and you tense your core and lift your legs you will end up directly over her center of gravity. It's essentially her lifting you like a backack. It isn't a super comfortable lift for the guy in the equation if he's got a weak core but we used to do this all the time at fight night. A teen girl who is maybe 120lbs soaking wet can easily pick up a 6'5 215lbs guy and walk down a city block with him on her back.

In period women were generally muscled as fuck. Fetching household water, hand milling grain for bread and doing laundry were female coded tasks on top of doing whatever yearly hard labour tasks were required. They would absolutely be trucking their favourite guy out of town even if he was big.

Diplomjodler3 ,

Cool. I'm sending my wife to the gym tonight.

Drivebyhaiku ,

Well everyone should probably be hitting the gym from time to time these days since activity in general has become kind of optional. Going as a couple can make for the best gym partners. Me and my partner have a good time.

PugJesus ,
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In period women were generally muscled as fuck. Fetching household water, hand milling grain for bread and doing laundry were female coded tasks on top of doing whatever yearly hard labour tasks were required. They would absolutely be trucking their favourite guy out of town even if he was big.

Hard labor for survival's sake can put you above even athletes

Drivebyhaiku ,

I feel like we as a culture do not appreciate the raw physical potential of women. The whole "weaker sex" propaganda was way too successful. Like people have no idea what laundry actually used to entail. I am a history enthusiast and I got ropped into a recreation of a full Tudor washday for an Arts and Sciences competition in the SCA. Like I was working as a concrete former lifting and tying rebar for my job at the time and was stronger than about 70 percent of the folks in my group... But Holy fuck my muscles BURNED from weilding a paddle. Not just stirring but beating clothes with something like a cricket bat and then wringing bedsheets by winding them around posts. By the end of the day I was absolutely done in.

I was given an amazing cheesecake for my trouble in helping out for the task but the real take away was an appreciation for the washing machine that I will never forget.

ZombiFrancis ,

See back then and for centuries after even: the default mentality for existing was not as zero-sum as it is today.

Resources and generally speaking: 'the world' was seen as expansive and functionally infinite. I.e.: non-zero-sum. One's acquisition of resources did not inherently detract from another's resource. Societies would just exile people and consider them dead and gone into the ether.

So a warlord could easily let some shit like this slide. No fight, free castle.

MeDuViNoX ,
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I'm really hoping this type of thinking comes back after we start to explore the solar system & galaxy.

ZombiFrancis ,

We could still have this thinking today.

The scarcity of resources is largely one of distribution and access: not production or availability. There are more than enough resources. We destroy clothes and food for going unsold. People go homeless and hungry for lack of money or employment, not a lack of shelter or food. Famines are policy decisions.

Only in the immediacy of natural disaster scenarios where infrastructure itself breaks down are we really faced with the kind of reality where there isn't wasted excess.

If you're interested I suggest an easy but short read: Operation Manual For Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller. It is old as hell but it does a good job of portraying how such a mindset could work for modern civilization.

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