Where did I say anything about Jews not living there continuously? Idk what you’re talking about now

I’m not sure the point you’re trying to make…I was just pointing out that “voluntarily leaving what is now Israel” is wildly misleading and wrong

were descended from people who voluntarily left the area generations ago

There have been forced deportations from that area for millenia. They’re talked about in the Bible and the Romans did it.

This is how it plays out https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/05/what-happens-presidential-candidate-trump-biden-dies

picture of two guys kneeling in front of a wall

Bullshit feely caption that doesn’t make sense to any who understands the words being used

Internet: omg, so wholesome!

You are wildly naive if you view things this way

That doesn’t address the quality of hanging a TV. The things you mentioned are superficial. Being good at hanging a TV is structural. The only way one would know if another was good or bad at it is if the TV eventually fell off the wall or was loose, which one could not see from a FB post.

Bud, there’s a term around men over explaining things because it’s such a thing: mansplaining. There’s also a real big trope in many relationships about men trying to solve problems instead of saying “wow that sucks”. This behavior is so ubiquitous that it’s in sitcoms and has been for as long as TV has existed.

That didn’t involve you learning how someone can hang tvs better than you on Facebook. Having hung a TV or two in my day, I don’t know how one can learn to respect another’s ability there based on social media

Quick edit: I’m also super annoyed at op to tie it to ‘positive masculinity’ while describing the quintessential male trait - they like teaching or displaying their abilities. Go grill or work on cars with a group of men and see what happens. It’s a fucking trope. This nonsense wholesome schtick is gross.

Who notices that someone is better at mounting tvs? How does one notice this? What is this made up scenario?

Don’t most first aid kits have smelling salts?

Nope, for cutting bone

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainsaw

That article is pretty inaccurate overall… people have reliably lived beyond 40 for thousands of years

Bored toddler.

Slouched forward shoulders, weight on my heels, head back with a pained expression and small crying sounds.

Same except opposite for me. Communication on the right, info on left

Cheers bud

Fair enough. And I’ll give you the vs fat part. It was unfair for me to say anyway - what was in my head when I said it was that a pound of fat is considered worth 3500 kcal, which is more energy than most things in a body. It was a shit argument that mixed points.

Overall, I think my issue is just with the simple statement that “muscles are inefficient”.

The way I interpreted that statement is that “muscles waste energy”, since that’s all the context I could get from those words. I see muscles as super efficient, just like anything else in the body in that they do as little as possible compared to what is demanded. I view that type of laziness as ultimate efficiency.

Through the rest of the thread I got little additional context, so I kept on keeping on.

I still think the op of this thread didn’t get his point across very well

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2980962/

Heart & kidneys > brain > liver > skeletal muscle > adipose muscle

Pound for pound. But they all are efficient, which still goes against the original thesis

Then muscles are as efficient as they can be. They use as little energy as they need. They require energy to do things, just like everything else in your body. But they will only be as big/strong as required, nothing more - which is, believe it or not - efficiency.

Aside from fat. Or the brain. Or other organs

So from what context are we using the word “efficiency”?

Because from a muscle’s view, it is as efficient as possible. It grows and atrophies based on what is required of it. This is my problem with the main post: muscles are inefficient.

They aren’t, full stop. A muscle will be as efficient as possible - be as small and use as little energy as possible - to handle the regular tasks given.

If you are speaking from a holistic view of a human who decides what goals to set, whether it is useful to simply have large muscles for aesthetic reasons, then sure. Yeah. Big muscles burn more energy and aren’t needed to survive. I’d still say that’s not what efficiency is, but I’d concede there.