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

I am from there and tbh I have never seen or eaten one of these things. Jello is for dessert

A lot, of course. But you can’t buy yourself out of OCD, PTSD, addiction, etc.

“No way to tell the difference” you can ask the people it helps

So providing evidence based care to people with severe mental illness is making mud pies? I get why people here are critical of the “therapy industry” as it is populated with sheisters and bad experiences abound, but there are many who do help people suffering from OCD, PTSD etc everyday. Plainly I just disagree

Ancient KKKrackers built the pyramids

3D printing tech has done leaps and bounds over the last 5-10 years, but my understanding is that printing high quality parts takes lots of time, and hitting the same volume as injection moulding, machining etc is still not possible. Regardless of available tech, an incredible push would need to be done to develop the capacity, and that push needs to materialize yesterday. Short answer, not shot baby

Everyone deserves socialism but anglos last perhaps

In spite of the position here that power doesn’t need to listen to its own rules, and that the state isn’t a chess board but rather a tool used to maintain class society, it is still somewhat scary to me that this is happening, because it makes things a bit harder to predict.

Is this just hot air to distract us while his cronies shock doctrine the US public sector?

A few weeks on the grand scale of getting stronger is not much time at all comrade you got this!

Foucault’s Boomerang Perestroika let’s go baby

That’s what the article says!