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I love doing cardio, especially running gives me a rush like no other. If people don't want to do cardio you don't have to do it, you just have to adapt your calorie intake accordingly. But for those that don't mind it or even like it it's a neat way to squeeze out some more calories for a delicious meal or whatever.

I do agree that resistance training is important and often forgotten part of fitness. Having muscles means extra BMR and you will look better when you do lose that extra weight as opposed to that skinny fat look.

It's a vague question but an appropriately vague answer to that is media narrative is not to inform you of what's happening but to make you think the way the people who control those media channels want you to think - you can only form your opinions from what you see.

But in this case the media narrative is very much "this why we need everyone to join NATO/be West-aligned" whereas it's exactly the expansion of NATO that has lead to these conflicts. As much as we'd all like for everyone to do what they want, in reality you need to consider the position of your neighbours especially if they have power. For an alternative example - see how USA reacted to Cuba becoming communist aligned, very much pot calling the kettle black, no? ;)

Wow, some real hot takes in here. It's particularly funny that commenters here mention what happened in Georgia and Ukraine as reasons for Finland joining NATO, when it's exactly those countries cosying up to NATO/the West at Russia's security what lead to the conflicts.

Goes to show how people will happily swallow the media narrative without thinking about the big picture.

I was going to write up a lengthy reply arguing each of your points and then I realised your argument is just sophisms and nitpicking.

If you have to argue that:

- you actually need a PhD in dog psychology(or whatever "understanding dog behaviour" means) to have this specific breed

- that pretty much "yes breed determines traits and behaviours but also doesn't!"

- conflating play fighting with very pit bull specific action of biting down and shaking(a technique bred into them for bloodsports) to prove that no, pit bulls are actually not so dangerous and just like any other breed

...to prove that pitbulls aren't potentially inherently dangerous then I can't take your argument seriously.

Just the fact that pitbulls being a minority of the dog population in the US and UK and still causing the majority of maulings and dog attack fatalities should be evidence enough that something's fishy.

> There is no evidence that genetics is a direct cause of dangerous behaviour.

Haha, I'm sorry but this is hilariously false. All other working-dog breeds have genetically ingrained behaviours that no one teachers them - retrievers retrieve without anyone teaching them, border collies corral ducks and children without anyone teaching them, pointers point without anyone teaching them.

However pitbulls are always the odd one out in the apologists' eyes - somehow them being purposefully bred for fighting bulls, rats and dogs and having behaviour and features that would make them successful in these pursuits is nothing to do with genetics and everything to do with their owners. Despite there being many cases of pits being adopted by very kind and caring owners and the dog still mauling them.

The sub has stickies with pretty convincing evidence of the breed being dangerous. The posts by users mostly seem to be either news stories of someone getting attacked by pitbulls, users sharing their frustrations related to pitbulls and/or their owners, and a few social media screenshots where users claim that the way the dogs' owners behavior is unsafe.

Even if some users comment that the dog is dangerous based on how it looks, that doesn't refute the trove of evidence that pitbulls can be an inherently unsafe breed compared to non-fighting breeds.

What's wrong with the sub?

Completely agree. Unfortunately a ban unless strictly enforced doesn't lead to much - in the UK all pit bulls are banned except for staffordshires(which imo should be banned too), and you still see owners walking their bullies and american pitbulls down the street as if it was nothing, sometimes witnout a leash even.

The reason you're thinking of him as "deranged" is because American propaganda would rather omit the reasons for going to war that I've listed in the parent comment because that would make NATO and therefore the US also partially to blame for what's happening in Ukraine.

I assure you - Putin is not deranged.

That's partially true for propaganda used to drive population's support, politicians of that caliber don't get to their positions by being hopeless romantics and idealists.

This is very cringe. To even imagine that the reason a country got invaded, knowing full well the repercussions that will follow, was because jealous old Putin got all shaky with impotent rage that his beautiful girlfriend called Ukraine with a blue dress and flaxen hair has left him.

The first reason Russia invaded Ukraine is because Ukraine joining NATO(in before "but Ukraine could never have joined NATO!!" - yes it would have and NATO was pursuing that, look it up) would be catastrophical for Russia's defense. At that point the only option for defense from any invasion would have been nuclear armageddon - if say in 20 years NATO comes back and decides to annex Crimea would it be an easy choice for whoever's responsible to press the big red button or would it be nicer to defend it through conventional means?

Secondly, Ukraine has found natural oil/gas reserves that would have competed with Russian exports.

Thirdly, Ukraine has turned off water supply going from Dniepr river to Crimea making it very difficult for Russia to supply water to that area.

I'm not saying that this justifies the invasion - war is a terrible thing and people on both sides are suffering, but would we also be surprised if USA invaded Mexico or Canada to stop it getting aligned with China? I wouldn't.

I'm sorry but you can't tell me you weren't aware of wars in Afganistan or Chechnya?

And I'm pretty sure Lomonosov and Dostoyevsky don't care about what passport if any you have, please renounce it already and stop this soppy drivel.

How dare you speak in such disrespectful manner to kvass, you philistine!

On a serious note, most of store bought kvass might as well be Coca Cola but the real thing is good for you - it's a Russian kombucha. The sugar gets all used up in the process of fermentation and the bacteria are good for you.

Thank you for your expert confirmation and no less from such a reliable source as BBC.

Please enlighten us on your opinion on what otherwise happened..

The real money is in the US - their wages dwarf UK's and Western Europe's programmers' salaries no matter how you look at it.

Oh yes - though each time his opinions backfired on him he went and did a 180 on them in some way as long as he gets dry out of the water. What an amazing role-model indeed.

And you can have your opinions quietly instead of standing on the rooftops and tooting songs in your own name. If people find out that someone, say, does charity work that speaks a lot more powerfully than someone that does a photo-op and then advertises to everyone what a truly generous person there is. So which out of these is having opinions, which is virtue signalling, and to which column does Mr Neil Young apply to?

I really like Young's music but his political posturing and "virtue" signalling has been so annoying since forever.

Just the one's I know about is the whole 'Southern Man' song controversy, then another one is when Trump purchased the rights to play "Rocking in the free world" for announcing his run for presidency and Young first claimed that Trump did it without permission and then when confronted about that statement avoided it like a weasel saying "everybody can use it if they like it", and now this.

If you don't want to be on a platform don't be there, just leave quietly instead of trying to garner attention for yourself by jumping on the hating Rogan bandwagon.

Poor cyclist but the anecdote is hilarious

Surely you can't believe that this will be as effective as stopping someone...

Police having poor training, being too trigger happy and having very little repercussions for having done terrible things is a completely different topic.

It's a lot more different - you're very unlikely to continue speeding immediately after you got the zing of a fine and some points on your licence.

Yes, if someone is speeding on the streets and a police officer sees that - that's fine, let them go, we'll send them the bill later.

Of course, they might catch a few mothers with prams on their way to said home, but that's a reasonable price to pay for not wasting so much time pulling people over!

I don't understand what you're saying - say someone has a busted headlight or is speeding. Police stop the car, which gives them a chance to talk to the person and let them know what's the problem. If it's their headlight - maybe a warning given that the driver promises to change their headlight. If they're speeding the cop can ascertain if the driver is for example sober or not. By this stop the road is indeed policed to be safer.

The being able to stop a serious criminal is just a bonus.

Yep, this guy solved it - let's let all our streets devolve to Mumbai roads level madness because apparently it's unfair for police to stop cars for such "minor" infractions such as speeding.

There's no laws for having a light on your porch. Police can however enter a house if they hear sounds of distress from the inside.

How is stopping a car that's breaking road laws lead to someone getting killed?

Stopping gives the police officer a chance to find something else

Or maybe you should not take everything you read on the internet so close to heart - plenty of anons are black, Jewish and some are even women. The difference between them and you is that they have a sense of humour.

The culture of 4chan is also self-deprecating, why don't you rise up against that too and say that it's bullying against young un-successful males that can't get girls to stand within 10m distance of them?

4chan often had(maybe still has, dunno haven't checked up on anons for a while) a fantastic feel for irony, satire and parody(including of themselves). People unfairly disregard the true internet comedy gold that 4chan has gifted to society.