@VintageNaginta I have no idea how screwed up you were. After the last guy I've given up on trying to figure that out.

Its probably a good strategy to make money efficiently and then to fill in the gaps with lifting (like we do). In the end I see it as a simulation. Simulation doesn't have to mean virtual (and that isn't what I meant). In the modern world its possible to make such a stream lined money making process that there really isn't even a need to put on underwear all day while killing it. Then all of a sudden you have some motivation to do push ups but realize that your dick will be awkwardly and painfully hitting the ground, so you should probably suit up first. In such cases wearing underwear is just pure unrestrained ambition. There isn't much point for the laziest fucks.

Step it up some levels to fully clothed go-getter and even going around taking walks is just to simulate actually needing to go somewhere, because you need to do something that requires getting there. Maybe its just me but its super easy to have life dicked and its just incredibly easy. Its so easy that most of the people who have it as easy as me are in abominable condition. All your calories, information and even women belong to be me (click click click). It can be depressing or funny.

@VintageNaginta A non-"lifting" farmer is generally pretty tight unless he just pounds so many beers on top of his heavy meals that he still ends up fat. The real threat is for people like myself who are basically professional brain-in-a-jars doing glorified sodoku puzzles all day. Its absolutely not enough to feel good if I just hop into a car, sit on my ass all day, then hop into a car, then lift weights, then hop into a car again.

Forty five minutes of gym time isn't enough to make me feel good when I'm doing jack shit in all other aspects of my life. When factoring in safety at all hours, Easter Europe is by far my favourite because I can get in an easy half hour of walking on the laziest days. Often times its 90 minutes or more added up. Add in some pushups and stretches on quick computer breaks and no we're talking something approaching a sustainable level of activity.

People who do physical work probably have other problems like not knowing enough, particularly about the wider world. I think that telling a guy who walks around ten hours a day lifting moderately heavy things to LIFT is a ridiculous thing that could only be thought up by people like us who are in situations where life meaning needs to be derived from simulations of harder times.

Foreign employers are going to get hosed in China. BREAKING NEWS: China Issues New Employment Rules For Dealing with the Coronavirus.

I need to get up on Kyle Bass's China market doomsday predictions (before this black swan). Between last years unprecedented pig culling, Hong Kong and the now 56 million person lockdown/quarantine in Hubei it seems like it would be difficult to prevent an unwinding.

If the virus is prevented from getting out of control in the US then the dollar should get more than its usual boost up from a large crisis. The virus is now in Malaysia, which also has large numbers of Chinese businessmen and high population density. Its appearing to be solidifying that the virus has a two week asymptomatic period. That combined with a ~3% mortality rate makes it quite a menace to productivity and free travel.

The thing is that so much of the world is now perma-Japan with the can kicking money printing. Its been a long time since a correction so the question is will this virus be the event that forces it out. Additionally, the elites who have profited on everything just love to (pay people to) pin the cause on the donkey as they walk away from blame.