Comment by lagniappe
2 days ago
>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.
2 days ago
>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.
> Your brain doesn't live in isolation
Well, we can't completely prove that...[0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat
> 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!)
The jocks at my school (Championship Winners) were also simultaneously the smartest kids at it. Most went to Ivy Leagues on academic scholarships. I know a few of them were the first engineers on several well known unicorns.
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Life imitates art. The dichotomy is stronger than ever especially with the rise of incel rhetoric in mainstream circles.
Indeed. People who use this terminology in earnest have a maturity problem. It’s a juvenile way of classifying the world that silly people like to use to channel their petty resentments and envies. Time to grow up.
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.