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matt: 307 … 279

daria: 333 … 303

225 lbs 3x

225 lbs 3x

didn’t go so low, as suggested by the spot

not sure whether these are “legit”

matt: 302 … 360

daria: 332 … 317

matt: 201 … 218 … 232

daria: 447 … 376 … 323

205 lbs 4x

215 lbs 5x, with help from spot on the last three

spot said i’m letting the bar drop too low.

Hm… the primary thing is that I just don’t feel like I have all that much money now.  Even though I know very well that I could spare $100 for a year, there’s enough of a feeling of financial insecurity in my life right now that I’m inclined to lock all my money down as much as possible and be frugal.  Also, I’m just not clear on what the benefit is here, and to whom.  I suppose it is to the ultimate borrowers, those other parties (who may default, but will face no penalties for doing so).  If nobody gets interest, and there’s no investment, then… what?  Should I think of these as micro-loans?  Will the recipients be poor families, or something?  The promissory note actually made me consider, because it looks rather pretty, but it doesn’t seem like enough.  It seems like lending would create a minor logistical headache, but why create a minor logistical headache (that gives me no benefit) for myself when I could have no logistical headache at all?

posting to my tumblr from my phone. Hopefully you will find this news as interesting as I do. Huzzah.

I don’t agree with everything that John Young from Cryptome is saying here, but it’s a tasty bit of polemic. John’s right about the deep divide on the left between so-called “knowledge workers,” who work out in gyms and manipulate symbols for a living, and labourers who earn an income by carrying out tasks with their bodies. You can hear an argument roiling underneath this passage, around the question “What counts as work?”

Whatever talents Obama has, he knows little about physical labor and goes on too much about “the dignity of it,” as soft-handed intellectuals and office seekers forever yarp — adeptly avoiding sweaty hard labor in favor of ritual gym workouts, ambling links. They brag of sports playing, swimming, running, working the iron, watching their weight, but never the 8-16 hours put in over many years of backbreaking, muscle rending, mind numbing, pleasureless effort that exhausts beyond a chance at dignity and body tone.

Bosses and investors and hustlers talk about the dignity of labor, other people’s, while doing their best to equate the “hard work” to be in charge while charging others with the duty to make the “hard” easy for them. Photo-oping a paint roller, hammering a nail, daily gym ratting, insults workers who lack excess energy for that unproductive timewasting. No wonder the thin-muscled adore bailouts and praise, that’s all the layabouts know and expect.

Obama and his cabinet, Congress, the Supremes and corporate chieftains, could prove their sincerity of concern for the public by at least one 8-hour day a week of hard labor being screamed at to work harder and faster by laughing laborers for-the-day-being-bosses who know what it means to be threatened by pay docking, by being fired when complaining..

From http://www.cryptome.org

205 lbs 6x

205 lbs another 6x

i woke up

the internet was everywhere

185 lbs 6x

felt tired, went home