Comment by disgruntledphd2
1 day ago
> maybe you can count Zuckerberg
I think that you definitely need to count him. He's always been a massive nerd, his attempts to bulk up and become a MMA competitor notwithstanding.
1 day ago
> maybe you can count Zuckerberg
I think that you definitely need to count him. He's always been a massive nerd, his attempts to bulk up and become a MMA competitor notwithstanding.
>his attempts to bulk up and become a MMA competitor notwithstanding
a lot of us nerds value physical strength, it's 2025, we're not mouthbreathers anymore.
My body is just the vehicle that carries my brain around - and my brain deserves a smooth, luxurious ride.
Your brain doesn't live in isolation, your body and the fitness of it are crucial to fueling that brain.
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> a lot of us nerds value physical strength, it's 2025, we're not mouthbreathers anymore.
Sure, I don't disagree. I just put that in to prevent people from claiming he was a jock now because of that (which would clearly be absurd).
The nerd/jock dichotomy is at best loosely pointing at some genuine clusters of interests and predilections that exist among people in the world, and is more often taking a set of tropes from 80s Hollywood movies about high school and using them to try to explain how real people in the world are today, which is stupid.
(Who wrote all those 80s movies? Bookworms! Who acted in them? Theater kids!)
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I couldn't care less about muscles but I do go to the gym 3 times a week.
My dad died from a heart attack in his fourties and my mom only has 30% lung capacity left thanks to smoking.
Your health always catches up with you and it's better to prevent trouble.