"They've got blood on that moneyBut I'll still count it."- Future Hendrix
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The NFL combine came and went. The strength test at the NFL combine is a bench press at 225 lbs for max reps. There was no player in the NFL draft this year that could bench press 225 lbs more times than me, and I am an old man now, and I don't use steroids or any PEDs, and many of them do. I'm still stronger.
There are fewer than 40 NFL players in all of recorded combine history that have done more than this.
mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)
It's #NFL #combine weekend, so you know what time it is. Time to flex on these young lions and show em that unc strength is still different! I'm old but I still have that fire in me!👴🏿 The strength test at the NFL combine is "How many times can you bench 225 lbs?" For me the answer is 42 times. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0VYP29Y97UE No, I don't take steroids, or pro-hormones, or any performance enhancing drugs. But thanks for asking. No, I don't judge people that do. Make your own choices in life.👍🏿 A lot of these NFL players are on PEDs. Happens. They still can't see me in the weight room.
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@mekkaokereke @artcollisions Haha I (a kinda skinny guy) am benching around 110 these days, and I will not attempt 225, not even once, I don't want to find out whether my max is 0 or 1
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And before anyone intentionally misreads this as "Oh, so you love VCs and tech bros?! You want them in charge?!
"No.
As I've said, VC is the fashiest, most racist, least inclusive form of capital allocation.
There are no crowds of Black women apologizing for getting millions in Epstein money.
@mekkaokereke Does private equity plundering established businesses count as VC?
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20% of science funding comes from private sources. The article unironically makes the claim that it would be better if this percentage were lower, at a time when the US government won't let you put the words bias, privilege, or gender in a paper, and is cancelling grants for racist reasons.
@mekkaokereke Canada is starting down that road with the latest budget making it clear they believe that all the federal level should be funding is guns and bombs and cops in our cities and at our borders.
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@mekkaokereke @artcollisions i must be "no one", because i care about every single assumption you've just made.
but then, that's a common weakness of idealist and liberal analyses. because it's not about individuals, or anecdotes. it's about material conditions and systemic power dynamics. for you to be successful in today's world, it is a sine qua non condition that you have to be ignoring some folks' suffering. and to be a billionaire, to take that arbitrary example, you have to have accepted, a long time ago, to profit off of others' suffering. you can still be a polite lifeless vampire, but more often than not fascism tends to land closer to what the billionaires in these conditions end up aspiring to (and/or vice versa).
I agree with the above reply.
Clarifying something for my non-neurotypical friends that read this and might be confused about the intersection of precise language and Black phrases.
When a Black person says, "Ain't nobody got time for all that." Or "No one does that." They don't mean that 0 people on earth have time for that.
So if I say "No one is spending $100K for a Cybertruck." What I mean is "Cybertruck sales are very low." Not "Elon has not sold a single car of that model."
This can be confusing, because people read it and think "
But some people *do* buy Cybertrucks! I've seen some on the streets! His assumption is incorrect! Maybe he doesn't know? As his friend, should I tell him? Would it be rude to tell him? Would it be rude not to? Maybe I should DM him?" -
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