I hope someone you love gets that diagnosis so that you can spend the days counting down their demise while they slave away at a job they HAVE to do.

Vinaigrette Broke

Hi! Lifelong climber (grew up on doing free climbs) and I have some thoughts.

First off, please go to a climbing gym or two and take a beginners class. I can't account for someone being an asshole but I can tell you that older climbers are definitely excited when someone's interested in their thing, like most usually are. With that said, I want to give you a fair warning. My number one concern for someone of your stature would be foot/ankle injuries and pulley injuries (fingers) with rotator cuff being second.

With that said, I completely think you could do bouldering and frankly the fact that you're already a frequent gym goes/weight lifter means you have a, forgive the pun, a leg up on most who are gonna walk in that gym. Take it easy, don't try and do anything absurd, and have a good time. If you're renting shoes from the gym then keep in mind that climbing shoes are a WHOLE thing and finding a pair that work and don't completely murder your feet is a project in and of itself even with average sized feet, your size 16s might be a bit of a secondary project tbh. But spend some time on a wall and see how you feel about it truly after having someone give you some pointers as it's an activity that is closer to 75% technique and 25% strength so knowing some beta (climber speak for "meta" - knowledge of a route/problem) actually goes a long ways.

Edit: Seriously though, the difference between an everyday rental shoe and a shoe that is higher quality and fitted properly to your foot actual does make a tangible difference in how you "feel" and whether you get positive response from the wall/foot connection. Good traction will ensure you can get grip even on the face.

Anarchist here. Sorry, not a democrat. I was in the streets literally fighting for them and others. Nice try though. Anyways, I have people to go feed. Good luck with this useless bullshit.

The point is not “how dare they betray people who were already failing them.” The point is that, in trying to save themselves through a desperate gamble, they still made a choice that helped hand more power to someone whose openly stated agenda threatened a whole lot of other vulnerable people, including many who had nothing to do with their abandonment.

You can understand why someone makes a desperate choice without pretending the consequences disappear. Those are two different things.

So yes, the Democratic Party absolutely deserves blame for abandoning them, lying to them, and treating their lives as disposable. But that does not magically erase the fact that voting for Trump meant accepting the risk, or certainty, that immigrants, queer people, women, leftists, and plenty of others would be crushed harder too.

Here’s an alternative perspective on that alternative perspective.

Their Hail Mary as you described it relied on a known factor of persecution of immigrants of all types, the LGBTQ+ community, the entirety of anyone who is (or is perceived to be) a “leftist”, and women as a whole.

So, they were willing to sell out all those people to be thrown in known horrors that were only going to ratchet up even further for their Hail Mary.

Sure it’s a Sophie’s Choice situation maybe I guess but also. Fuck em.

They gambled with the future of so many people. Including their own.

Don’t worry I still blame the base of American voters who we all know are the ride or die’s for this bullshit but there’s enough blame to go around to look at those margins that pushed it past the tipping point.

Yeah, I “get it”.

But, as someone who’s in a few of those above categories it’s not something I’ll soon be forgiving nor forgetting.

lmao. You called a dude's actual real life face a racist caricature. Oof.

Well if you’d like to know, not too terrible. I have a partner who loves me, a Mom who’s just the best, a community of friends who support me, and I’m intellectually fulfilled. These days I’m pursuing a new career as well as a new series of degrees. Switching from IT to healthcare with a focus on teaching.

Thanks for asking!

They’re a small minded case study in Dunning-Kruger leading someone to fall for Malthusian propaganda spread by bigots and fascists.

Other than that? No idea what their problem is. Maybe not enough fiber in their diet.

Let me introduce you to Stackoverflow...or well, what it used to be.

Honest question. Do you trust this administration, our systems as they stand, and do you understand the historical significance of such measures?

Because I can answer those.

No. Yes. Yes.

And in no way, shape, or form would I grant them this power. Especially since we literally have a talking head on the main network that our current president literally hires from that straight up suggested just killing homeless people because it’d be easier.

So, I understand and can respect your good faith interpretation, and I understand how you could believe this could be used for good but with all that said, are you outta your god damned mind? Of course they’re gonna end up abusing that power. It’s a literal inevitability.

Michelle Obama is an immensely qualified and insightful human being for a number of reasons and BitchBoyBurr sold his soul to bonesaw McGee and the oil bunch without a second thought and then whined like the pathetic little supplicant he is at heart when people called him out for it. Fuck him forever.

Talked mad shit about those billionaires until they offered him a check finally. Turned out he was just jealous.