Starting Strength is a really good book/program for starting to build a base in weight-lifting, and is basic enough for pretty much everybody to start. It explains all of the lifts and does a good job of explaining them and coaching you through starting off. Lots of pictures and diagrams. I'd recommend it as a starting place for learning to lift and building a well-rounded base of strength.

I've had to do that for my wife sometimes. It's so fucking bad.

God, McKinney is fucking horrible.

I mean it's overblown but it happens.

No need. No one outside of the small super-online left saw it or cared.

Yeah, I tried that shit in high school too. It didn't go well. Thankfully, life is not a poorly constructed dichotomy, and I didn't have to choose between these two things.

you underestimate them

Fair enough. Thanks for the effort, even if I can't take advantage of it currently :)

That would be nice.

No phone, but thanks for the info, I'll keep it in mind :)

This former mormon will be listening closely :)

Is there any way to do this without it being a torrent thing? I'd love to check it out, but can't torrent anything :(

enduring the brunt end of being the spouse or child of the local cop

Not nearly enough....

And that was a common fucking reaction at the time, this was not some like crazy or uncommon response.

I'm good till sea level rises 230 meters, so I'm probably ok for a while....

I was plugged in then, and it's still so disturbing to go back through this type of stuff.

100% of the 1st world leftists I know have combat training, survival skills, navigation skills, discipline, willpower, and combat experience.

My kids are homeschooled. We took them out of school when they were repeatedly bullied, and school administrators did nothing about it. Small-town old boys club shit. There's no such thing as school choice, private schools, or any other options where we live. It's the local school or nothing. If my kids don't feel safe in the local school, then goddamnit, I'm not gonna force them to go.

I do feel you on the social side of it, and that's the part that we struggle the most with, especially with covid, it's hard to find social time outside of the family, but outside of covid, that was at least possible, and something we took very seriously. Homeschooling is not for everyone, and there are definite downsides, so I'm not an advocate of it, but I think we're making it work for our kids.

Husband treats wife life shit, like some combo of property, sex slave, maid, childcare, household manager, and spends his time working an easy 9-5, then relaxing while wife works her ass off.

Wife has been conditioned to accept this, but inside resentment builds up. Resentment comes out for this shit life they feel forced to live, husband resents wife for daring to resent him... vicious toxic cycle begins and then feeds itself for 50 years...

I don't believe any of those things. I grew up with GW Bush as my governor, and as is continually evident, the people running the show are fucking morons, and that was especially true of the Bush administration.