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  1. Don't do that; it's an impossible prediction to make accurately or with any consistency. Most people who do trading, especially those who don't do this full time day in day and out and beyond the regular work day hours, aren't overly successful and don't beat the index so it begs the question of why even bother
  2. Gonna stick with the cluster sets for some time. It's going really well for my legs. Did it back to back weeks with leg press for 5 sets. Then to squats. I did cluster set for shoulder barbell press yesterday after taking the previous week off. The weight was heavier than I could actually handle for 2x2x1 but I had a bit of a spot assist and cheated a bit trying to break the plateau. I've been adding some extra volume - barbell press for 6 sets - then DB press for a few sets - then smith machine behind the head for a few sets, then some laterals which do nothing for the press but help build shoulders in their own way
  3. I think if you keep doing what you are doing you will get there, maybe it'll take a little longer, but you will get there. At my peak, pretty much all I ever did was 5x5 sets, day in day out, year after year and it worked perfectly. Heavy squat 5x5, heavy leg press 5x5, leg extension and curls, and done. And at the same time I've also realized how little I do seem to know about weight lifting despite doing it for so long. That method always worked for me, I never needed to venture beyond that. And so much reading online is bro science and contradictory I didn't even bother - found what worked for me and kept rocking it.
  4. Not holding my breath but 70% of the population wasn't around (born, or too young to remember) when the Taliban last had control of Kabul. When they see the stark difference between US occupation and Sharia, perhaps they'll stand up for themselves.
  5. "It is not, however, guaranteed that they will prevent someone from becoming infected and transmitting the virus to someone else, even after vaccination. It stands to reason that those opting for the vaccine should have no greater liberty rights than anyone else. Forcing people to show vaccine passports to access services or to move about freely creates a two-tier system where some people have their rights and freedoms while others are shut out from theirs." "New data was released by the CDC last week showing that vaccinated people infected with the delta variant carry viral loads similar to those of people who are unvaccinated." "For people infected with the Delta variant, similar amounts of viral genetic material have been found among both unvaccinated." Directly from the CDC itself. Yes, you are still better off with the vaccine. No, you do not have the right or expectation for others to follow suit by provincially and federally mandated extortion if that above is your justification as demonstrated by the CDC itself. As mentioned to Rupert, for people who are supposed to be protected with near certainty, I've never seen so many people shake in their boots at the same time that they might get sick. Paranoia is manufacturing your mindset here. You're statistically more likely to get into a car accident and die but that hasn't stopped you from driving today, has it.
  6. Don't need to to know that logic doesn't even make sense.
  7. "A government threatening or mandating liberty restrictions against Canadians who do not want a Covid vaccine would, in our view, be a violation of the section 7 right to life, liberty and security of the person, and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice. Once established, the government would then have to prove that this serious rights infringement is demonstrably justified on a preponderance of evidence. It is not, however, guaranteed that they will prevent someone from becoming infected and transmitting the virus to someone else, even after vaccination. It stands to reason that those opting for the vaccine should have no greater liberty rights than anyone else. Forcing people to show vaccine passports to access services or to move about freely creates a two-tier system where some people have their rights and freedoms while others are shut out from theirs." It is an unprecedented situation and therefore wide open. "While employers can make vaccines necessary in their policies, whether those requirements would hold up if challenged is another matter, says Hermie Abraham, an employment lawyer and the owner of Advocation Professional Corporation." There are numerous legal arguments being made for or against the mandate by law firms across the country. This concept one has to simply abide is fallacious. That is one reason why it's such unnavigated water when demanding employees be vaccinated whether at the government level or a private institution as it opens the door for legal issues as stated above.
  8. Such a pathetically stupid stance. I've never heard of people in any facet of life convinced of something being so demonstrably effective across the spectrum yet so deathly afraid that it won't work at the same time. You do realize your stance is completely contradictory, right?. Obviously not.
  9. Juolevi, 2023 5th, 2024 6th, future considerations, $500 Best Buy card, half dozen left over egg rolls in Benning's fridge.
  10. I bet the Taliban laughed at his threat. They're like, what're you going to do about it, Joe, give us American made weapons again? Idiot.
  11. Maybe. I'm trying anything at this point to try and stimulate some further progression. Dumbbells, barbell, high reps, low reps, cluster set, even cheating a bit with a spot assist on sets with more weight or reps to try and get something going. My shoulder strength has completely petered out too. Basically, my push strength has completely plateaued the last month or two. Back when I used to do more all I ever really did was heavy presses for the usual 5x5 deal. I also did tricep exercises regularly which seldom is a thing anymore. Maybe I have to get back to doing more tricep exercises and building that strength power there. That, and eating more is the only thing missing from when I was my best. you could try dips. I found doing plated dips allowed me to blow past 185 eons ago right comfortably into the 225 range. I still do them to this day and think they're hugely underrated.
  12. The irony being the US funded the Taliban yet again to fight ISIS years ago. Oh, and our administration left Canadians stranded yet again. Abandoned to be executed by terrorists, abandoned to the Chinese government, abandoned in Afghanistan. abandoned domestically in many regards such as affordable housing. Basically, if you're Canadian and need help, you're &^@#ed.
  13. Neither were women, blacks, and other minorities but the tune changed on that. Don't be quick to forfeit your rights, they're continually dwindling down over time. What this mandate does is condemn those based on absolutely nothing other than your own paranoia. It is a contemptible position and everyone endorsing it should be ashamed. It is a conviction, a presumption of guilt in a liberal democracy without any demonstration of wrongdoing other than exercising your right of bodily autonomy and without fair trial. "Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects our right to “life, liberty, and security of the person.” It guarantees our legal rights, which protect our personal autonomy and bodily integrity from laws or actions by the government that violate those rights." Notice the feminists arguing for abortion rights since forever. The argument being made is that you are free to make your own choices and live by the consequences. With that logic then extortion by all means should be legal. By that logic, I should be able to come over there are strongarm you for something I want. Because that's what this is. Or is it only valid when Big Daddy does it for the "greater good." Nobody is forced to do anything but once you apply compelling forces such as the freedom to go about daily life, restrict their livelihood, their ability to make a living and provide for themselves or their family then it will force them to do things against their will.
  14. The relief was negligible in most cases considering what was wrongfully stolen from them. Clearly I'm talking about something you don't understand or don't care to. It is gross overreach and a violation of rights, the dwindling and ever receding rights we have in this country which is another discussion for another day. Many businesses, most businesses, the vast overwhelming majority of businesses were not and are not demonstrable cases of Covid including those mentioned. Instead of continuing the appropriate approach of mask mandating in public venues and limiting numbers which that same majority would agree is reasonable and allows the continuation of business and does not discriminate against any large swath of the public, the government instead went to the little authoritarian playbook and decided to discriminate against that large segment of the population for exercising their right to freedom of movement and freedom of bodily autonomy, and at the same time dictate what private entities can do with their own business and who they can allow into their establishment. Yes it is. See above.
  15. I get that also. But at the same time if you are making more you are also spending more simply to live there when it may not be necessary at all so it's a wash. So the benefits truly, without any doubt, have to outweigh the costs. Lots of people my age have next to nothing saved. Anyway, this is simply my advice in a scenario. Don't financially hamper yourself if you obviously don't need to #duh
  16. I wouldn't do that. Even if it can - so what? I doubt you'd have much left. Living is more than barely scraping by. And if you can't afford things besides the necessities then you are slave to your environment - a self-inflicted wound at that in this case. Plus, you'll never be able to put any money away for retirement, which the sooner you do the better, if you are left with pocket change at the end of each month.
  17. Or not. There is also the theory humanly technological advances has a ceiling and eventually we'll meet our demise we can't technology our way out of.
  18. Except the vast majority of cases this didn't happen and no business willingly did it to themselves like the government enforced just because they can. There's a whole lot of this "who gives a $&!# - it's not me" mentality from the pro-mandate crowd around here as well.
  19. The government mandates overreach. They shut down businesses province wide across the country that were in no way affected by the virus including several that I go to. Those hairdressing salons and other small business owners crying on BNN late last fall how they were unlikely to make ends meet because Ford decided to punish them yet again for no reason. What the hell are you even talking about.
  20. But, but, that's just more antivaxer talk: majority of this thread.
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