SeanE

Long time fan of the show here, seems we hold similar values on a lot of things so I have an out of lane question. If you were to start life over, where would you do that?

I’m 24 based in Ireland, the political situation is pathetic, bureaucracy is choking every facet of life, state funded immigration has turned our cities brown, while homelessness and unemployment are off the charts. ‘It’s going down the tubes’

What would you say to someone looking to work hard, start a family, shoot some guns, drive some cars, live life with as little BS as possible? Or at the very least not suffer a slow humiliating death under communism.

I’d appreciate your thoughts.

Mark Rippetoe

Oklahoma, USA. You'll like it there.

novicejay

Homelessness is off the charts in Ireland? The statistics say otherwise. Ireland's homelessness rate is less than the USA. The homeless rate has increased in 2022, but isn't as high as it was in 2019. Some of this is attributable to the lack of affordable housing but since you are a capitalist, you are not in favor of rent control or affordable public housing, right? But, don't let these facts get in the way of your opinion.

Your other comments are too full of general nonsense to comment on, but the racism is apparent in your brown reference. And even that silly comment doesn't seem to hold water as you had 94.27% white in Ireland in 2011 and in 2016 you had 92.37%.

I suspect you pulled all these stats in your original post out of your ass and probably spent too much time on facebook and other non-intellectual sites telling you that you've been invaded by a bunch of black and brown people who are all homeless and taking your job.

Mark Rippetoe

By the same token, Jay, he lives there and you don't. Perhaps your sources are not as reliable as his first-hand observations. And I don't think it's racist to note the demographics of a phenomenon.

aschaul10

Quick question with regards to skipping lifts. Working through the NLP and am supposed to lift today, however for the first time in a while I pitched fast pitch softball in a tournament this weekend and am pretty sore in the shoulders, glutes, etc. and all around pretty stiff. My lifts have been pretty heavy (for me) the last few weeks, and I worry that if I lift today I will not be able to make my weight jumps/overloads and may fail due to the soreness/fatigue from the weekend.

In a situation like this, am I better off trying to push through my lift today, or skipping a day to get to feeling 100% before I lift again?

Mark Rippetoe

As I have pointed out several thousand times, your subjective perception of how you feel is irrelevant, because it is unreliable. If you don't want to train today, don't train, but if you can't train when you're tired and sore, you're going to have a very short career under the bar.