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Kittens Swim Up To Fisherman’s Boat Looking for Help

Hide and Seek

Siblings Reunite After First Day of School

Dog reunited with owner

This gentleman proved that true love still exists in the world as he patiently stood at the airport with flowers and chocolates in his hands waiting for his wife to arrive

Alistair Brownlee gives up chance to win to help his exhausted younger brother Jonny over the finish line in the Triathlon World Series finale

Pure Class, he said after the race “It was a natural human reaction to my brother but for anyone I would have done the same thing. I think it’s as close to death as you can be in sport.”

And jokingly added

“I wish the flipping idiot had just paced it right and won the race. He could have jogged the last 2km.”

The loyalty of a dog

400+ students surprised their teacher battling cancer by singing outside of his house

Guy dancing alone, wait for it

“Girl gets a kitten for her birthday” 

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Gutted Tesla TROLLS the Streets

This finisher is a broken neck waiting to happen

Tim O’Neil explains how to drive a rally car

Motorcyclist saves a guy from suicide by offering to go for a ride

EPIC fan-cut video dedicated to Jon Snow

The Sex Chamber (2008) – On March 22, 1999 a woman, stripped bare save for a metal collar around her neck, was found running down a road in New Mexico. The explanation for the sequence of events was every bit as horrible as might be expected

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25 Moments That Changed America – Time

Model Elizabeth Turner Has The Eyes (And The Bod) That Will Easily Reel You In – Mandatory

How Friends Become Closer – The Atlantic

Selena Gomez showing off that booty in swimsuit – Popoholic

Sandra Kubicka In A Tiny Bikini Will Melt Your Eyeballs! – Yes Bitch

Overwatch introduces new game modes, hero improvements, and more – FanBuzz

The Life-Changing Habit of Starting Your Day With Clarity And Purpose – Medium

5 Steps to Get in the Zone and Be More Productive – Zapier

Ken Burns’ American Canon – New Yorker

Japan wants $1.6B in new weapons to shoot down North Korea’s missilesNorth Korea – VICE

Top MMA trainers admit to their biggest mistakes – ESPN

Trapped Mexican bakers make ‘pan dulce’ bread for hundreds of Harvey victims – Independent

3 So-Called “Superfoods” You Should NEVER Eat – Energy At Any Age

Good Guy Trump! White House says Trump will donate $1 million to Hurricane Harvey relief – Rare

25 Illustrated Ideas That Could Change Your Life – Darius Foroux

Curvy Girls Rock The World! (39 Photos) – Radass

China has reached its 2020 solar power target three years ahead of schedule, eclipsing Europe – Euractiv

Tipping Is an Abomination…Here’s How To Get Rid Of It – Slate

Emily Ratajkowski Is Boringly Hot – Hollywood Tuna

The Maker of the Infamous $400 Juicer Is Shutting Down – Fortune

5 Toxic Personalities Successful People Avoid – Success

A damn fine collection of bewbs, awesomeness and everything in between – Leenks

The 7 Scariest Mental Illnesses – Grumpy Sloth

9 Everyday Habits That Leave You Vulnerable Online – Mental Floss

This Is What Happens When You Put 300,000 Miles On A Tesla Model S – Jalopnik

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Hey guys, it’s Labor Day for everyone living in the US and I’m going to take this opportunity to recharge the batteries. I’ll be back in full force tomorrow. Enjoy your day!

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Instagram

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Ric Flair is out of the hospital and back to styling and profiling!

WOOOOOOOOO!

Houston handshake 

First ever 1440° front cork

Just do what you love 

Cat in a bag 

Ingenious cat toy

Skiing through the valley of death

Towing in Russia

Improperly loaded RV

Trailer weight distribution

Insanity on a Harley! (via @salfusco22)

Oddly Satisfying

Booty had me like…

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You can learn, have, or be anything if you are willing to pay the price.

You can be a millionaire in not a long period of time.

You could be an established expert on any topic.

You could be a successful business owner.

You could have deep spiritual understanding.

You could do an Iron Man triathlon.

You could be an empathetic, caring, and loving person.

You could have beautiful and meaningful relationships with your romantic partner, business colleagues, mentors, and other people who inspire you.

You could be the person you know within yourself you can be.

You can live the life you know within yourself you are meant to live.

But you have to pay the price.

You have to actually make a decision. If you try to be everywhere, you’ll end up nowhere. If you try to be everyone, you’ll end up no one.

You have to choose what you want to do and who you want to be.

You have to forego the trivial many for the essential few.

You have to forego the endless good options for the few best ones.

You have to manage your mind and your time.

You can’t continue to justify living beneath your dreams.

You have to really want it. Because once you do, nothing will be able to stop you from having it.

You have to let go of your bad habits.

You have to re-arrange your priorities.

You have to say “No” more.

You need to put first things first, every single day.

You have to pay the price.

If you’re willing to pay the price, you can have absolutely anything you want.

But you need to be uncomfortable enough with your current situation to get off Facebook. To stop consuming and wasting your time.

To focus on learning and creating rather than being entertained and distracted.

There are probably dozens are recurring activities you do on a daily basis that aren’t serving you.

You need to drop those activities from your life. Leave them in your past and fill your future with the activities that will take you to where you really want to go.

When you have 5 extra minutes, what do you do? Do you entertain and distract yourself? Or do you pay the price?

When your alarm goes off in the morning, do you hit the snooze button or do you pay the price?

When you know you should be creating, do you distract yourself or do you pay the price?

When you’re with your loved ones, do you look at your smart phone or do you pay the price?

Are you serious or still pretending?

Do you really want it or are you still unsure?

Are you moving one step in 20 directions or 20 steps in one direction?

How many hours did you waste today? How many hours were you paying the price?

What do you really want?

Are you willing to pay the price?

Nothing in life is free, especially your time. Everything has a cost. And when it comes to your time, the cost is heavy. You can never get even one second back.

You can live your life on purpose. You can spend your time on things you value. You can be who you intended to become. You can continue to progress and evolve, even after you’ve become successful and fulfilled.

But the price must be payed.

You can’t fake it.

It’s available if you want it. But you must choose it.

– Benjamin P. Hardy

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Police dog saluted before being put down (Middletown, CT)

Be there, if you can.

The vet can be a very scary place for animals – they don’t understand what all these noises and smells are, or why these strangers are poking and prodding them. Do you want them to experience that fear alone? And have it be their very last memory? Your pet doesn’t know what we are doing or why – they only know that you are there, that you said it’s ok, that you love them.

Lumberton, TX 9/3/17

When you don’t have flood insurance, but you do have fire insurance 

Grandmother being jet ski’d out of her living room in Houston 

Everyone from the assisted living center that flooded in Dickinson TX are all safe,warm, and dry.

Guy saves his BMW from the harvey flood waters 

How To Save A Flooded Car

Busses carrying pilgrims in Mecca looks like cassette tapes 

Lighthouses at Burning Man

How Was Burning Man?

Possibly the best concert/theatre location in the world…Red Rocks Amphitheater

Tokyo is Massive

This is a Serval (a 30lb cat from Africa that mostly eats rodents and birds). They can jump 10 feet vertically to catch flying birds.

Five generations of women in a family

A 1965 Aston Martin DBR1 was sold for $22,550,000 USD, making it the most expensive British car to sell at an auction.

The world’s smallest woman and her husband 

German Navy SEALs (Kampfschwimmers) during training in 2017

México has no net neutrality laws. This is what it really looks like. No mockup, glimpse into a possible future for the US

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The single hardest thing I have done in my life at the age of 31 was put down my lab, Angel, who had heart disease. I remember getting the call from my mom while I was at work and using the drive over the to vet to get all my crying out. This was my pup growing up and was the sweetest dog I’ve ever owned. Not a mean bone in her body and would absolutely light up the moment she saw me. Every time.

I remember pulling up to the vet and thinking I had everything under control but the moment I went into the room where she was laying on the table I lost it. Here is my pup breathing what seemed like slow determined breaths, dealing with pain in a foreign room without family around. My Mom walks in first and Angel immediately recognizes her and you can sense the relief. So then I come in right after and the tail wag alone was enough to break me down but the fact that she tried to stand up absolutely destroyed me. In that moment their was nothing strong about what I was projecting. I panic and turned around unready for what was happening regardless of my preparation. I wasn’t ready to lose my best friend. My family.

I walked over to Angel and let her sniff and lick my hand unable to hold myself together. I spent a few moments with her head rested in one hand while I petted her with another. I don’t think we broke eye contact until she passed. It absolutely killed me to be there and watch that moment but I would do it again in a heartbeat for her. She closed her eyes first and then took a few more breaths before passing.

I’m an absolute wreck every time I tell that story or recount it. I’m crying while I write this. I will never forget that day; That excitement in her eyes at seeing me, the tail wag, the hand lick… and at the same time the calm she projected.

I now have two German Shepherd brothers that are a year old, Maverick and Sherlock, that I look forward to spending many happy years together with. I dread the day I have to go through with them what I did with Angel but I will 110% be there for both of them and hopefully I’m a little bit stronger this time around to make it easier for them then I made it for Angel.

– Bekkumz

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‘Predator’ with CONTRA sounds!

Have you seen a panda eating bamboo shoots before?

Guy buys two broken Teslas (One was flooded and other was crashed) and uses them to create a fully working Tesla

2017 Bugatti Chiron – Start Up, Exhaust & In Depth Review

The Heartbreak Of Not Having A Vagina

Out of Context Joffrey Baratheon

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What’s It Like To Go To Burning Man – Medium

Former WWE Star Torrie Wilson Is 42 And Still Killing It – Mandatory

Houston Rockets reportedly sold for $2.2 billion – Fan Buzz

10 Cars Proven to Get to 200,000 Miles and Beyond – Consumer Reports

Polina Sitnova Is So Hot, She’ll Blow Your Pants off – Yes Bitch

Sources: North Korea Has an ICBM on the Move And why Sept. 9 could be significant – Newser

A World Transfixed by Screens – The Atlantic

Congress is finally working to defund civil asset forfeiture – The Hill

20 Essential Tips to Make You a Better Cook – Bon Appetit

F.D.A. Approves First Gene-Altering Leukemia Treatment, Costing $475,000 – NY Times

Teach Resilience by Asking Your Kids for Help When You Have a Setback – Life Hacker

Fall Movie Guide: 35 Superhero, Scifi, and Fantasy Movies to Look Out For – Gizmodo

Now we know what Barack Obama wrote in his Oval Office welcome letter to Donald Trump – Rare

5 Mental Biases That Cause Poor Decisions – Medium

In Silicon Valley, Working 9 to 5 Is for Losers – NY Times

Can 10 Minutes of Meditation Make You More Creative? – HBR

Want to silence your left leaning friends in 17 seconds flat? Show them THIS – HSI

10 Insanely Toxic Habits You Need to Destroy to Be Successful – INC

It’s Never Too Late To Start The Week Bras Optional (41 Photos) – Radass

Meet Fashion Model Sophi Knight – G-Celeb

The 15 best business books of all time – Business Insider

People Who Said They Didn’t Want The Damn Cats – Sad And Useless

7 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Slavery – Grumpy Sloth

Melissa Debling…Dayuuuum! (nsfw) – Leenks

WhatsApp’s Cofounder On How It Reached 1.3 Billion Users Without Losing Its Focus – Fast Company

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Instagram

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How not to be a little bitch..Man refuses to be intimidated by a gangster

When taunting your opponent goes wrong

Incredible highlights of the extraordinary Prince Naseem Hamed

Robert Garcia corrects Jose Aldo`s uppercut form (immediate improved power)

Inmate fights with a dozen correctional officers

Mayweather vs McGregor post fight behind the scenes

Grandpa puts on a boxing clinic

This leg kick took out Carlos Condit’s knee!

Amazing flying armbar!

Sugar Ray Robinson’s Perfect Punches – Technique Breakdown

Floyd Mayweather candidly talks about his uncle Roger’s dementia

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Being a little bitch has nothing to do with sex. It’s about seeing yourself as a victim. And while different aspects of society are creating victims from thin air, you can’t fall into that trap no matter who you are or what’s been done to you or what you’re told has been done to you.

You can’t be a little bitch, an entitled little pansy if you expect to live a good, flourishing life. You won’t acquire any of the aspects of living a good life, be it happiness, accomplishment, purpose, or value, if you’re constantly whining and crying about your plight.

So rather than go through dozens of reason why you shouldn’t think of yourself as a victim or be a chronic-complainer, let’s discuss 5 simple quotes that if rehearsed can be life-changing.

1. A Gem Cannot be Polished without Friction

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man without trials. ~ Seneca

The disasters in your life that you want to avoid, the failure, the loss, are what will polish you into a better man. You not only need to endure them, you need to look for the opportunities within them.

Trials are what make us. They are what teach us to grow, evolve, and win. While the masses try and avoid trials by living safe lives or by seeing themselves as victims of circumstance, become tougher.

As you dare mightier, you’re going to encounter mightier obstacles. The alternative is to exist in a safe space apart from differing ideas or challenging tribulations. Existence isn’t life, it’s a purgatorial state awaiting death.

Don’t be a little bitch and sell yourself short. You need trials, don’t run from them, aim higher so you’re taken through more of them.

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Is Kim Jong Un Crazy?

It’s clear that Kim Jong Un is not crazy. He’s acting logically and near-ideally from what someone in his position would want to do.

A big part of that is looking crazy. He wants to look crazy. Here’s why:

Let’s say you’re the dictator of an internationally condemned country. You didn’t intentionally choose this route – it’s just that your dad was the Dear Leader, and now he’s the dearly departed leader.

People in other countries spend some time reviewing military options to oust you. If your government collapses (or actually gets into a military conflict), the best-case scenario for you is a quick death. You have ambitious people all around you – some better connected and more well-respected than you are, as a young nobody. Any serious attempt at reform is only going to empower the people around you who are threatening to your assumption of power.

First order of business, you order a bunch of generals and family members killed. Anyone well-respected, powerful, really anyone who could even be thought of as “second in command.” The 2nd person can easily take over if they remove the 1st person. It needs to be clear that the well-being of the leaders and elites depends upon you being alive and in control, and them being subservient to you.

Check – this is exactly what Kim Jong Un did. He wasn’t deranged to kill a bunch of people immediately after assuming power; he was making sure nobody thought of replacing him, killing him, or otherwise taking advantage of “a new guy who doesn’t know how things work.”

But we’re getting off topic. What about nukes?

Well, a dictator would want to walk a razor line. We need to talk strategy. With all the other countries happy to see you removed and things changed, you want to make it really clear that:

• You’re not going to be a pushover; any conflict would come at terrible costs to all involved. Therefore, it’s best to let them be for now.

This is your goal above all others. You want the total summation of international politics to be “it’s not worth it,” when dealing with your country. To accomplish that, two things need to be true:

1) You need to have a strong military force. Not best-in-the-world, but strong enough to inflict serious damage.

2) You need people to believe #1. The best military in the world doesn’t help you if everyone thinks you’re weak and ineffective; critical to your goals is how other stronger nations perceive you.

So, what’s a good thing to do all the time? Military parades. Show the world all your soldiers, equipment, etc. Make sure the media is working for you; have the military do plays for you, whatever. Just make sure that whenever anyone even thinks about your country, their first thought is about your huge-ass military force marching down the street. Put a ton of artillery on the border, too. Hide some of it, but keep tons of it out to see. You want your neighbors to know there’s artillery pointing at them. Let Google Images show maps of your military emplacements. It doesn’t need to be a secret.

Is this matching the Kim family’s actions? Check. Think about all the crazy things they force their military to do. Is it starting to make sense from a calculated, logical perspective now? It should. You should be starting to think, “Hmm, maybe that whole family isn’t crazy. Maybe this is all on purpose. Maybe this is an act. Maybe they know exactly what they’re doing.”

But that’s not enough. Your technology is falling behind all the time. You know that a fading military force will negate your #1 and #2 rules above. But realistically, you can’t match other countries’ stealth bombers, or aircraft carriers, or submarines. But there’s a certain piece of 1945-era technology that might help even the playing field, and you hope it will make people forever say “it isn’t worth getting involved in North Korea.” Nuclear weapons. But getting there isn’t easy.

Here’s the razor line you walk: Don’t look dangerous enough, and someone will want to intervene before things get worse. Look too dangerous, and someone will want to invade because it’s inevitable, anyway.

So here’s an option: Don’t actually make or test WMDs, because that’s really hard to do and could be a red line. The response could be, “Oh shit, this dangerous place has nukes. We’ve got to stop them before they get more, even if it means immediate war. It’s only going to get worse in the future.” (This is the “don’t look dangerous enough” problem.) So, again, don’t make nukes – but make people think you probably have nukes, or are close to it.

Best of both worlds, right? No hard evidence to justify a pre-emptive attack, so you’re safe from that. No certainty about your capabilities, which discourages anyone from poking around your dictatorship. Problem: Some other dictator (who was smart and had power for decades) tried this. His ass got invaded in 2003. Nice try, Saddam Hussein. (People in his own government were convinced, up to the US invasion, that he had WMDs but was overseeing it personally.)

So, you’ve got to actually make and test the nukes. Roll the dice, and see where that gets you.

October 2006 – successful nuclear test. Oh. The world’s pissed off, but nobody sends in the marines. Perfect.

So now you’re a nuclear country. How do you walk that line? You need to look dangerous, right? You want to coerce minor diplomatic concessions for other countries to at least somewhat leave you alone. You’re pretty separated from the global economy to begin with, but you don’t have a stable economy yourself. You can’t afford to be entirely cut off, but you’re okay with the lower classes starving a bit because of a few UN resolutions.

You anticipate a problem. You can’t say “Do this or I’ll nuke you.” The response is obviously, “No you won’t. The rest of the world would tear your ass a new one.” North Korea is a little kid trying to bully a linebacker. But there’s one simple trick they don’t want you to know! Look crazy.

Now when the crazy kid at school tells you that he’s going to fight you unless you give him your applesauce, maybe you figure it isn’t worth your time to argue over it. If someone else said that, you’d figure your friends are joking, you’d figure the huge bully means it and could win, but the crazy kid… You don’t really know. North Korea’s threats and posturing are so much more effective if everyone thinks in the back of their head – you know, just maybe, they’d actually do it.

Again, if you actually look like you’re about to use the nukes, it’s possible other nations could attack pre-emptively. Don’t look like you’re about to use them, but look like you’re capable of using them first. Don’t posture your nuclear weapons as defensive provisions, which they really are. Utilize them as potential weapons of aggression when it comes to diplomacy. And since that’s obviously a crazy thing to suggest you’re capable of doing, you’ll have to look crazy to match.

From a large scale: North Korea is threatening to attack other countries unprovoked with nuclear weapons, when it knows it just can’t match the capacity that a half-dozen countries could respond with. It’s obviously a crazy threat. They aren’t suicidal from some religious zealotry. It’s a carefully crafted persona for diplomacy.

I’m sorry this turned into an essay, but it’s important to understand, because part of this whole charade depends upon people knowing it’s made-up. The un-nuanced view shown on the news is that they’re just crazy. If we believe that, we get into a 2003-era mistake all over again: Well, guess we gotta go to war because otherwise, this person is going to hurt us. God knows how many lives later, we see that “Oh, guess he wasn’t really going to do that.”

We have to see it for what it is: A country that isn’t perfectly stable is playing up that instability on a nuclear stage. They want us to leave them alone and let those in power stay in power. They do silly and unpredictable things so that we will continue to see them as silly and unpredictable. North Korea isn’t going to wake up one day and nuke California. But if we try something on the ground, they probably can hit Seoul – and with enough conventional artillery that it may not even matter if they get a nuke in or not.

It’s a horrific tragedy that for everyone except the North Korean people, leaving them alone may be the best option.

How would Japan have fared in a fight, had the USA landed on mainland Japan and continued WWII and had no nukes been dropped or developed?

Japan would have lost, horribly.

And it would have been a blood bath for the invaders. I personally question how much of Japan or Japanese culture would have survived such an invasion.

If the US had landed in Kyushu as originally planned, they would have been fighting against about 1,000,000 well fortified troops; troops that were well dug in. The Japanese would have been heavily bombed and heavily shelled for months, and it still would have been hell for the invaders and death for the defenders. Just like the battle of Okinawa, the Japanese would have lost inflicting horrible casualties.

By the planned invasion date, Nov 1945, there would likely have been mass starvation in Japan. The Japanese had been on short rations for years, there were zero food imports, the US Navy had destroyed a large portion of the fishing fleet and the 1945 rice harvest was expected to be poor.

By the summer of 1945 it [Japanese civilian food ration] was about 1,680 calories per capita. Coal miners and heavy industrial workers received higher-than-average rations, the remaining populace, less. The average diet suffered even more drastically from reductions in fats, vitamins and minerals required for balance and adversely affected rates of recovery and mortality from disease and bomb injuries. Summary Report (Pacific War)

Japan had very limited air capability – 10,000 planes sounds impressive, but they had very limited fuel and very few fully trained / experienced pilots. The assumption is that the planes would have been used as kamikaze against the invasion force. Given that the kamikaze were not particularly effective late in the war, and with the growing size of the US carrier force, superior US long range fighter planes, the vast supply of fuel for US planes, the large pool of trained US pilots, it is expected that would have been a very expensive slaughter of the less experienced Japanese pilots.

Japan had virtually no remaining navy, so absent Japanese airplanes (torpedo bombers) the US navy could sit within range of shore and shell targets – this was done. Also, all of Japan was within range of B29 bombers, and the US was building air bases on Okinawa so the pace and intensity of bombing of targets in Japan would have continued to accelerate up to the invasion date. The army air corp was concerned about running out of targets in Japan – prior to Hiroshima they had already completely destroyed 41 Japanese cities and severely damaged 60 plus more. One assumes they would have burned Kyoto, which had become a manufacturing center. Presumably the bombing would have completely destroyed Japan’s remaining rail lines / rail hubs, bridges, harbors, etc.

Civilians would have been involved in defenses – school children were given sharpened pieces of bamboo to use as spears – you can image how that would work against GIs with semi-automatic rifles and machine guns. One can also imagine that in response to guerilla attacks, troops would burn or destroy Japanese villages and cities.

The US was discussing moving the first landing to Honshu – near Tokyo – rather than Kyushu – this would have meant dramatically less air cover for the invasion fleet, but far fewer fortifications, and the bulk of the Japanese troops and artillery were hundreds of miles south in Kyushu. Japan would have had a shortage of fuel, trucks and rail to move troops long distances. The area around Tokyo is the largest flat area in Japan – the Kanto plain – in November it would be dry or frozen and would have been one of the few places in Japan that US armor could have been used en masse.

Fortunately Japan surrendered prior to any invasion, prior to widespread famine.

– George Sawyer

What is it like to train on steroids?

This answer is based on testosterone. Other steroids can vary… although broadly similar.

Once they start to kick in, you’ll notice:

1. Improved strength – nothing crazy, but you will consistently increase your current max weights every week of your cycle. In every exercise. If you have hit a plateau anywhere you’ll smash through it. You need to be careful you don’t damage joints and tendons (although with testosterone the added water helps with this).
2. Improved endurance. You’ll be able to do more reps and more sets before you run out of power. There’s just more gas in the tank.
3. Improved focus. It’s much easier to make the mind-muscle connection. Rather then dragging your tired ass through a difficult workout – you’ll be fully focused on every movement and what muscle you are hitting. You’ll be able to channel the added focus/aggression to your goals.
4. Improved recovery. You’ll be able to hit it hard in the gym every time – because you won’t be sore from the previous punishing you gave yourself. You can train every day of the week without significant soreness. Sometimes you feel like you can train twice a day. I always give the example of my leg day. On cycle I can do an insane squatting session, then wake up the next day like nothing happened. Normally that would be me effectively disabled for a couple of days. I get bad DOMS in the legs… but not on cycle.
5. Improved libido. Be careful which hot gym girls you look at and what you let wander into your thoughts, because you’ll have yourself a giant unwanted erection. It’s happened to me on a treadmill before to the point where I had to stop!
6. Overall feeling of well being and that “everything is gonna be ok”.

What they won’t do:

1. Change your personality. If you are getting “roid rage” then chances are you are a jackass already.
2. Improve your shit form. Learn the correct moves before you start.
3. Turn you into the Hulk on your first cycle.

Don’t forget that this is all temporary – when you stop taking them you’ll face a steady journey downhill to weakness. Sure you can keep SOME gains, but not anywhere near as much as you’ll want to. Your body strives to return to it’s natural baseline. This is not pleasant and it will make you want to stay on the gear 24–7 for life.

Of course there are some other major “safety” considerations, but the question was specifically about what it feels like so I’ll leave it there.

– Dave

What are the downside of living in Japan?

Lots of mindless, pointless paperwork for everything. If you want a new phone contract, for example, come back in two weeks because the phone company had to contact the manager of the branch, who has to contact the district manager, who has to contact the regional manager, who has to contact the president of the company to approve it, and all of them have to hanko (sign via a special stamp) the documents approving you. (This may be slightly exaggerated, but only slightly.)
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Houses are generally built on top of each other. Most places you can literally reach out your window and touch the next house… assuming you can find a house and not just a tiny apartment. Houses are also not an investment here. They’re more like cars–once you drive them off the lot, they depreciate in value immediately. No one wants a “used” house, here. After 30 years they just tear them down and build new ones. (Or they just keep living in dumps for years and years because of money/legal reasons.) Land is what is valuable, but they have loads of rules about how much you can own, what you can build on it, and so forth. If you want a modest house with a big yard for your dog, don’t come to Japan. (Case in point, I live in a cute, tiny old run down Japanese house by myself. All of my American friends, upon seeing photos, say, “It’s so cute and small!” All of my Japanese co-workers say, “Don’t you feel lonely by yourself in that big house?”)

No napkins or paper towels anywhere. Also, no trash cans. You have to carry your trash with you until you find either a convenience store or your house to throw it away. (Also they take recycling to an extreme here. Which I totally approve of. But making sure you’re properly washing and sorting your garbage and disposing of it on the right days can be an ordeal.)

Because I am not Japanese, I will always be a foreigner. Even if I live in Japan for 80 years and learn perfect fluent Japanese and have a Japanese spouse and Japanese kids, I will always be assumed to be an ignorant foreigner and treated differently as such. Obviously people I see every day would eventually know better, but it’s frustrating to say “konnichiwa” and have a stranger go “WOW YOU SPEAK SUCH GOOD JAPANESE” based on that single word. Or questions like, “Can you use chopsticks?” or “Can you eat sushi?” etc can get tiresome. Not the end of the world, but worth mentioning.

The price of fruit is really high, usually. I suck it up and deal, but it is a downside, especially because I really like fruit.

EVERYTHING is “seasonal.” (Not EVERYTHING but almost everything.) If it’s not the season for corn, you pretty much can’t find corn in the supermarket. If it’s not the season for strawberries, forget it. If it’s not the season for grapes you can’t find them. Some of it makes sense, some of it has taken a lot of getting used to. Japan LOVES it’s seasons, and really celebrates them with a changing menu. I’ve learned to embrace and look forward to the changes, but it can be frustrating.

Cars are expensive, parking cars is expensive, and toll ways/freeways are even more expensive. This isn’t an aspect I deal with much because I don’t have a car, but it is part of the reason why I don’t. Too expensive!

Gay rights are lagging behind the rest of the world, if that bothers you. The country isn’t very religious (and the dominant religion is not Christianity) so there isn’t bigotry for gays in the way that there is in America, but same-sex marriage isn’t recognized here, and it’s extremely rare to see openly gay people out and about. Partially due to Japanese intensely private home lives, but also due to a general attitude about gay people kind of just not existing. (Which is obviously false.) It’s getting better, but it’s still got a long way to go.

Censored porn. With the internet it’s not really a big deal, but it is still nevertheless mind-boggling.

Racism is real here. Not so much against blacks (though there is some of that), but against other asians. All Japanese seem to hate Chinese and Koreans. There’s good reasons for it too, considering the wars and the hoards of rude tourists from those countries… but it’s a blanket statement that tends to bother me. “I hate rude Chinese tourists” is very different than “I hate Chinese people”, you know? Most of my elementary school aged students hate Korean and Chinese people–for no reason other than that their parents do.

Which leads me to the fact that individuality and critical thinking is not valued well here. Japan works well the way it does because of the “group think.” The reason people don’t steal your wallet is because they wouldn’t want someone to steal THEIR wallet. It’s a polite world where no one wants to stand out. They have a saying that the “nail that sticks out gets hammered down” and so forth. Conformity is key. Don’t express your opinions, don’t stand out, don’t draw attention to yourself. This is great when you’re on a super crowded train and everyone is quiet and polite and it’s almost peaceful despite the crowds. It’s not so great when you’re trying to encourage an eight-year-old to think for themselves, to express their opinions. Even getting them to say what their favorite fruit is sometimes can be difficult. By the time they’re in junior high school, it’s impossible. They don’t want to ‘think’… they want to know the right answer so they can regurgitate it to me.

The education system here is all kinds of broken… but that’s true of America as well. They’re broken in completely different ways, but they are still both quite broken. The Japanese education system is maddening. Too much focus on tests and memorizing answers.

– JustVan

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Filip Muller, is one of the rare survivors among those condemned to work in the Sonderkommando (The members of Sonderkommando, composed almost entirely of Jewish inmates, were forced under threat of death to do the most disturbing work for the SS: dispose of the countless corpses of the victims killed in the gas chambers.) . Born in 1922 in a small town (Sered) in Slovakia, Muller was only twenty years old when he was brought to Auschwitz in April 1942. After a short while, as punishment, he was assigned to dispose of the corpses of the victims. Many of them had wasted away to skin and bones in Auschwitz or in Polish ghettos; others had died of typhus and other diseases in the concentration camp; some had been brutally beaten and shot by the SS, others were hung to set an example for other prisoners, but by far most—hundreds of thousands of men, women, children and babies–were collectively massacred in the gas chambers. As Muller recalls, the sadism and brutality of the SS soldiers knew no bounds: “Shouting and wielding their truncheons, like beaters at a hunt, the remaining SS men chased the naked men, women and children into the large room inside the crematorium. All that was left in the yard were the pathetic heaps of clothing which we had to gather together to clear the yard for the second half of the transport”. Here he is describing a gassing:

As people reached the crematorium they saw everything – this horribly violent scene. The whole area was ringed with SS. Dogs barked – machine- guns. They all, mainly the Polish Jews, had misgivings.

They knew something was seriously amiss, but none of them had the faintest of notions that in three or four hours they’d be reduced to ashes.

When they reached the undressing room they saw that it looked like an International Information Centre. On the walls were hooks,and each hook had a number. Beneath the hooks were wooden benches. So people could undress more comfortably, it was said. alise his son lay beneath him”.

And on the numerous pillars that held up this underground undressing room, there were signs with slogans in several languages – “Clean is Good”,” Lice can kill”, “Wash Yourself”, “To the disinfection area”. All those signs were only there to lure people into the gas chambers already undressed – and to the left, at a right angle, was the gas chamber with its massive door.

In Crematoriums II and III, Zyklon B gas crystals were poured in by a so-called SS disinfection squad through the ceiling, and in Crematorium IV and V through side openings. With five or six canisters of gas they could kill around two thousand people.

This so-called disinfection squad arrived in a truck marked with a red cross and escorted people along to make them believe they were being led to take a bath. But the red cross was only a mask to hide the canisters of Zyklon B gas and the hammers to open them.

The gas took about fifteen minutes to kill. The most horrible thing was when the doors of the gas chambers were opened – the unbearable sight – people were packed together like basalt, like blocks of stone. How they tumbled out of the gas chamber.

I saw that several times- that was the toughest thing to take – you could never get used to that. It was impossible.

You see, once the gas was poured in, it worked like this: it rose from the ground upwards. And in the terrible struggle that followed – because it was a struggle – the lights were switched off in the gas chambers. It was dark, no one could see, so the strongest people tried to climb higher. Because they probably realised that the higher they got, the more air there was. They could breathe better. That caused the struggle.

Secondly, most people tried to push their way to the door. It was psychological – they knew where the door was, maybe they could force their way out. It was instinctive, a death struggle. Which is why children and weaker people, and the aged, always wound up at the bottom. The strongest were on top. Because in the death struggle, a father didn’t realise his son lay beneath him”.

Scratch marks of victims on the wall of the Auschwitz gas chamber

And when the doors were opened?

“They fell out. People fell out like blocks of stone, like rocks falling out of a truck. But near the Zyklon B gas, there was a void. There was no one where the gas crystals went in – An empty space. Probably the victims realised that the gas worked strongest there. The people were battered – they struggled and fought in the darkness. They were covered in excrement, in blood, from ears and noses.”

“One also sometimes saw that the people lying on the ground, because of the pressure of the others, were unrecognizable. Children had their skulls crushed. It was awful, Vomit, Blood – from ears and noses, probably even menstrual fluid. I am sure of it.

There was everything in that struggle for life, that death struggle.  It was terrible to see. That was the toughest part.”

“It was impossible to save people. One day in 1943 when I was already in Crematorium V, a train from Bialystok arrived. A prisoner on the Sonderkommando saw a woman in the undressing room, who was the wife of a friend of his.

He came right out and told her – “You are going to be exterminated. In three hours you’ll be ashes”. The woman believed him because she knew him. She ran all over and warned the other women – “ We’re going to be killed. We’re going to be gassed”.

Mothers carrying their children on their shoulders did not want to hear that.

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