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Working on a procedural damage modifier in geometry-nodes. Trying to avoid the use of mesh-boolean cause still too slow IMHO. Full flexibility, plus I'll add control via weight-paint. Might then post it on Gumroad if people show enough interest. #b3d #geometrynodes

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I cannot thank you all enough for all the support you gave me on this post! So many people who I look up to supported me on this silly post. 🥹 I still can't believe it! I'm working on some anims rn but I'll make a vid on the journey of making this stick rig if you guys want!

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If you think this is just another silly demo made with AI, read this post. You might change your mind, because this demo is about MATH. What you see on the screen is not a render from Blender (obviously, it’s not that good). It’s a three.js app built with Toolcraft. Available on the web and rendered in real time(link in the comments). But Blender still has a lot to do with it. Blender has Geometry Nodes - a powerful node-based system for creating and manipulating procedural geometry. In other words, it’s math. And math is a universal language. And who do you think is pretty good at math? >>> AI. Now you can download or buy Blender files from marketplaces, and when they contain Geometry Nodes for procedural animations, objects, surfaces, or effects, you can transfer that logic to the web. Make it real-time, make it interactive. Materials are a separate story, of course. They can still suck unless you use the right tricks: PBR, HDRIs, material blending, displacement, and faked surface relief. So why is Blender important here? Blender is open source, and many tools around it are open source too. An AI trained on their code. That means it can translate the math from one environment to another quite accurately. If you’ve been struggling to reproduce some idea with AI that you had in your head or seen in some references, and it has something to do with Geometry Nodes, and you can find that idea or a close one in the Blender ecosystem - it means you can transfer it to the web. Thank me later.

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Arojinle

138,984 views • 1 year ago

Some personal/professional news: I'm launching "When the Facts Change - economics and politics in a fast-changing world". Click on the link in my X biography to read my first post. I'll obviously continue to write my weekly "Economics Agenda" column for the Telegraph, and co-present the "Planet Normal" podcast each week with the brilliant Allison Pearson I've been encouraged by lots of people, not least on X, to do more writing and broadcasting. So here goes .... "When the Facts Change" will initially be limited to written posts. But, as I find my feet, I'll add audio and video content too. So please check out my launch post via the link in my X biog and feel free to share this news. 🧵 1/2

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Liam Halligan

406,889 views • 1 year ago

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Finn McKenty

551,824 views • 5 days ago

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Hi FGC friends. I picked up a Brooks Wingman FGC 2 myself from to test some older sticks on PS5 cause of issues using them on PS5 for some games. Did a quick Firmware update through their website here: (Hold the side buttons while plugged into PC and grab the latest update) I then tested all of these myself that didn't work in game for Avatar before that are now working instantly. Hopefully a patch comes out before the event for legacy controllers but I wanted to test this as a backup option while I chat with Brook Converters directly about getting some loaners for pools at the event. So far no issues, timeouts or anything so this may be your a good option for the mean time to use all of your sticks/controllers on PS5 in general. If you're having issues please let me know what controller/stick you're trying to use and I'll see if I have it to try myself. Yes I'm one the greatest TOs of all time that goes through all the details when needed.

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fOx

104,594 views • 1 month ago

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MIKE

2,875,972 views • 1 month ago

OMG 😳😱 A 17 year white thug set fire on Walmart it lost $8.6 millions in damages 😳😳😱 Emma Smith a teen who had abet with her friend to prove the authenticity of a display flower in the mall Set fire on a flower by claiming if it catches fire it's definitely fake but if it doesn't then it's natural Fire spread damaging $8.6 million items plus damages,she denied the claims until she was shown the footage Disclaimer Ai voiceover We don't support any kinds of Violence We condemn all acts of Violence We post these clips to educate and create awareness about white criminality and brutality which is covered by white people for the safety of innocent people around them If mall security views such a clip they can act accordingly and monitor all teens to ensure the safety of all people and the business

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43,286 views • 1 month ago

It happened during a slow shift at a retail counter. An employee leaned against the register, phone tilted just enough to show the screen. On FaceTime with a friend, she laughed and casually read out a customer’s credit card details that were still pulled up on the system, the number, the name, even the expiration date. Another coworker overheard it all, frozen between disbelief and panic, knowing what they were witnessing could ruin someone’s life in seconds. This isn’t a harmless mistake. It’s a serious breach of trust and privacy. One careless moment can lead to fraud, legal consequences, and permanent damage to a company’s reputation. Some lines should never be crossed. How can customers trust businesses with their personal information if employees treat it like gossip?

It happened during a slow shift at a retail counter. An employee leaned against the register, phone tilted just enough to show the screen. On FaceTime with a friend, she laughed and casually read out a customer’s credit card details that were still pulled up on the system, the number, the name, even the expiration date. Another coworker overheard it all, frozen between disbelief and panic, knowing what they were witnessing could ruin someone’s life in seconds. This isn’t a harmless mistake. It’s a serious breach of trust and privacy. One careless moment can lead to fraud, legal consequences, and permanent damage to a company’s reputation. Some lines should never be crossed. How can customers trust businesses with their personal information if employees treat it like gossip?

Dr.L

725,957 views • 5 months ago

Pro-Palestinians who dared to find workarounds to lawfully protest were later found and swarmed by cops and escorted out (if they weren’t arrested, this happened too simply for walking in an area) This cop in particular had a “no fear” tattoo in Hebrew so I looked him up out of curiosity. Full on Zionist. 43 division. Pass it on if you’re in the Scarborough area. Muslims and Palestinians will want to avoid there if they need to report anything (Also, I fully support the way they’re speaking to the cops. In fact, I think it’s quite restrained. If I had to face someone who ideologically and/or financially was supporting the people who murdered my family, while also preventing me from lawfully protesting about it, while also treating me like a second class citizen, I don’t imagine I would have this type of control.)

Pro-Palestinians who dared to find workarounds to lawfully protest were later found and swarmed by cops and escorted out (if they weren’t arrested, this happened too simply for walking in an area) This cop in particular had a “no fear” tattoo in Hebrew so I looked him up out of curiosity. Full on Zionist. 43 division. Pass it on if you’re in the Scarborough area. Muslims and Palestinians will want to avoid there if they need to report anything (Also, I fully support the way they’re speaking to the cops. In fact, I think it’s quite restrained. If I had to face someone who ideologically and/or financially was supporting the people who murdered my family, while also preventing me from lawfully protesting about it, while also treating me like a second class citizen, I don’t imagine I would have this type of control.)

Tara

24,548 views • 2 months ago

This is what real America still looks like. A UPS driver in Deming, New Mexico sees a funeral procession coming for someone’s uncle… and shows pure respect. No rushing. No looking the other way. No “I’m on a tight schedule.” Just a working man who still understands dignity, community, and basic human decency. In a country full of people throwing nuclear meltdowns over anything and everything, this guy quietly does the right thing without needing a camera or applause. This is the America they’re trying to erase — the one that still knows how to stop, show respect for the dead, and act like adults. Real character isn’t loud. It’s this.

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DocumentingLibs

518,996 views • 11 days ago

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Reports of a U.S. A-10 Thunderbolt II going down near the Strait of Hormuz raise a key question: how easy is it to bring one down? At first glance, the A-10 looks like an easy target. It is slow, flies at low altitude, and lacks the stealth and speed of modern jets. But it was never designed to avoid fire. It was designed to survive it. Every part of it reflects that idea. The pilot sits inside a titanium armor “bathtub,” critical systems are duplicated, and the engines are placed far apart to reduce the chance of a single hit taking it out. Even the fuel system is built to limit severe damage. Its combat record proves it. During the Gulf War, A-10s often returned with heavy damage, damaged wings, failed hydraulics, and barely working systems, yet still made it back. Modern air defenses can hit an A-10, but destroying it is a different challenge. Flying low through terrain and battlefield clutter makes targeting harder, and its strong build means one hit is rarely enough. That durability is what keeps it relevant. While newer jets rely on stealth and speed, the A-10 depends on pure survivability. It is not invincible, but it was built with one expectation: it will take fire and still return.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Reports of a U.S. A-10 Thunderbolt II going down near the Strait of Hormuz raise a key question: how easy is it to bring one down? At first glance, the A-10 looks like an easy target. It is slow, flies at low altitude, and lacks the stealth and speed of modern jets. But it was never designed to avoid fire. It was designed to survive it. Every part of it reflects that idea. The pilot sits inside a titanium armor “bathtub,” critical systems are duplicated, and the engines are placed far apart to reduce the chance of a single hit taking it out. Even the fuel system is built to limit severe damage. Its combat record proves it. During the Gulf War, A-10s often returned with heavy damage, damaged wings, failed hydraulics, and barely working systems, yet still made it back. Modern air defenses can hit an A-10, but destroying it is a different challenge. Flying low through terrain and battlefield clutter makes targeting harder, and its strong build means one hit is rarely enough. That durability is what keeps it relevant. While newer jets rely on stealth and speed, the A-10 depends on pure survivability. It is not invincible, but it was built with one expectation: it will take fire and still return.

Defense Intelligence

57,768 views • 4 months ago

"My arms aren't growing no matter how hard I train them." No matter how hard. Yes. That will be it. Because clearly the missing ingredient is effort. Twenty sets was not enough, the four angles were not enough, the drop set at the end was not enough, and the answer is presumably a fifth angle and a whole additional evening. What your arms actually get in a normal week: - Heavy tension from every row, chin and pulldown - Heavy tension from every press, dip and close-grip - Twenty isolation sets piled on top of that - All of it at the end, when the weight has to be light - All of it at length, where damage is highest - A drop set, because they are stubborn - Four days of soreness - One training exposure, seven days later Biceps and triceps are the most damage-sensitive tissue in the building. Two small muscles with almost nothing there to absorb the work. Damage is not a growth signal. It is a repair bill, and repair spends the exact recovery you were hoping to build with. So no, they are not growing no matter how hard you train them. They are not growing because of how hard you train them. What they need instead: - One or two hard sets - Early in the session, while you can still load them properly - Twice a week - Add weight when you can Two of those sets are all the direct arm work I do. The bloke on his eleventh set of pushdowns has been at that machine since I walked in.

"My arms aren't growing no matter how hard I train them." No matter how hard. Yes. That will be it. Because clearly the missing ingredient is effort. Twenty sets was not enough, the four angles were not enough, the drop set at the end was not enough, and the answer is presumably a fifth angle and a whole additional evening. What your arms actually get in a normal week: - Heavy tension from every row, chin and pulldown - Heavy tension from every press, dip and close-grip - Twenty isolation sets piled on top of that - All of it at the end, when the weight has to be light - All of it at length, where damage is highest - A drop set, because they are stubborn - Four days of soreness - One training exposure, seven days later Biceps and triceps are the most damage-sensitive tissue in the building. Two small muscles with almost nothing there to absorb the work. Damage is not a growth signal. It is a repair bill, and repair spends the exact recovery you were hoping to build with. So no, they are not growing no matter how hard you train them. They are not growing because of how hard you train them. What they need instead: - One or two hard sets - Early in the session, while you can still load them properly - Twice a week - Add weight when you can Two of those sets are all the direct arm work I do. The bloke on his eleventh set of pushdowns has been at that machine since I walked in.

Sama Hoole

32,804 views • 3 days ago

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CoachTopia

15,290 views • 1 year ago

This post about bench press safety escaped containment and got a lot of people commenting in disagreement that safeties/spotter arms would've saved him. And in truth, my language below was a little too absolute: safeties MIGHT have saved his life (though even if so, would not have prevented all damage), but it's far from certain that they would have, so I stand by the overall sentiment. I will explain in detail below. The spotter arms have to be set below the top of your arched chest or else they’ll interfere with every rep - you'll clang the bar on the safeties, which not only severely interrupts proper technique and performance, but can also be potentially injurious in its own right as the clanging against the safeties takes you out of the rhythm of the rep and leads to uneven and chaotic force application demands mid-rep. The safeties can’t be set a mere milimeter or even a half inch below the chest: both because most racks have 2-3 inch hole spacings that don't allow such finely calibrated setting, but even if they do - also because as a gross movement pattern, not a fine movement pattern, you can’t control the movement of the bar precisely and accurately enough not to clang the safeties if they’re so close to your chest. Human beings performing gross movement patterns simply lack such fine control: on heavy sets, the bar might be slightly uneven on one side, you might lose a touch of your arch over the course of the set, etc... and end up clanging the safeties anyway, if they're set so close to the top of your arched chest. These issues are not form errors that can be prevented with proper training, but are inherent limitations in the human capability to control gross motor pattern movements at a heavy weight. Thus, the safeties have to be far enough below your chest in order to not interfere with the set itself, such that they can’t possibly catch the bar before it hits your chest in the case of a sudden catastrophic drop. The proper placement for the safeties is far enough below your chest so as not to interfere with the normal execution of the set and so the bar never touches the safeties at all during the set, even with the inherent human limitations of gross motor pattern control. But high enough such tha - if you find yourself unable to successfully press the bar to lockout - you can bring the bar under control back down to your chest, exhale and drop your arch, and the bar will ideally now rest on the safeties instead of your chest and you can crawl and slither out from under it. Worst case, you can roll the bar slightly upwards and the safeties will soon take it, well before it would lie on your neck. I have an example of using the safeties this way in the video below, with 485 lbs. The ability to set this position with precision and accuracy depends on the equipment you're using: Some racks/benches have 1 inch spacings for this purpose, which is excellent and allows greater precision in safety placement, but most common racks have 2-3 inches between holes and thus people must often have the safeties a little lower than they'd ideally be. The main point is the proper use and purpose of safeties in the bench press is not really to catch a very rare catastrophic sudden drop onto your chest, but to allow you to survive the much more common situation of a normal failed rep. Could they theoretically save your life in such a situation where you drop it? Yes, they might. They won't stop the bar before it hits your chest but they might reduce the impact by stopping the bar from going further down and reducing the impact. This may or may not save your life in this rare catastrophic drop situation - it's good to have them there, set up anyway, but it's far from a sure bet. The most important things you can do are to learn and practice good technique, which involves stiff wrists in a very slightly bent back position, and thumbs around the barbell - NO SUICIDE GRIP. The safeties won't catch the bar and stop it from hitting your chest, so it's best to reduce the chances of dropping the bar on your chest from almost zero to even closer to almost zero. I've been bench pressing regularly for well over 20 years, always put my thumbs around the bar, and have never dropped it on myself. Nor has anyone I have coached to the best of my memory, over tens of thousands of sets and hundreds of thousands of reps. I have used safeties to successfully avoid getting trapped under the bar after a failed rep. In the video below, I tweaked my pec while pushing through a rep at 485 and had to set the bar on the pins to avoid getting trapped under it. This kind of situation is the primary use for the safeties. It's good to have them set up regardless - they might indeed save you if you somehow still manage to drop the bar, but they also very well might not.

This post about bench press safety escaped containment and got a lot of people commenting in disagreement that safeties/spotter arms would've saved him. And in truth, my language below was a little too absolute: safeties MIGHT have saved his life (though even if so, would not have prevented all damage), but it's far from certain that they would have, so I stand by the overall sentiment. I will explain in detail below. The spotter arms have to be set below the top of your arched chest or else they’ll interfere with every rep - you'll clang the bar on the safeties, which not only severely interrupts proper technique and performance, but can also be potentially injurious in its own right as the clanging against the safeties takes you out of the rhythm of the rep and leads to uneven and chaotic force application demands mid-rep. The safeties can’t be set a mere milimeter or even a half inch below the chest: both because most racks have 2-3 inch hole spacings that don't allow such finely calibrated setting, but even if they do - also because as a gross movement pattern, not a fine movement pattern, you can’t control the movement of the bar precisely and accurately enough not to clang the safeties if they’re so close to your chest. Human beings performing gross movement patterns simply lack such fine control: on heavy sets, the bar might be slightly uneven on one side, you might lose a touch of your arch over the course of the set, etc... and end up clanging the safeties anyway, if they're set so close to the top of your arched chest. These issues are not form errors that can be prevented with proper training, but are inherent limitations in the human capability to control gross motor pattern movements at a heavy weight. Thus, the safeties have to be far enough below your chest in order to not interfere with the set itself, such that they can’t possibly catch the bar before it hits your chest in the case of a sudden catastrophic drop. The proper placement for the safeties is far enough below your chest so as not to interfere with the normal execution of the set and so the bar never touches the safeties at all during the set, even with the inherent human limitations of gross motor pattern control. But high enough such tha - if you find yourself unable to successfully press the bar to lockout - you can bring the bar under control back down to your chest, exhale and drop your arch, and the bar will ideally now rest on the safeties instead of your chest and you can crawl and slither out from under it. Worst case, you can roll the bar slightly upwards and the safeties will soon take it, well before it would lie on your neck. I have an example of using the safeties this way in the video below, with 485 lbs. The ability to set this position with precision and accuracy depends on the equipment you're using: Some racks/benches have 1 inch spacings for this purpose, which is excellent and allows greater precision in safety placement, but most common racks have 2-3 inches between holes and thus people must often have the safeties a little lower than they'd ideally be. The main point is the proper use and purpose of safeties in the bench press is not really to catch a very rare catastrophic sudden drop onto your chest, but to allow you to survive the much more common situation of a normal failed rep. Could they theoretically save your life in such a situation where you drop it? Yes, they might. They won't stop the bar before it hits your chest but they might reduce the impact by stopping the bar from going further down and reducing the impact. This may or may not save your life in this rare catastrophic drop situation - it's good to have them there, set up anyway, but it's far from a sure bet. The most important things you can do are to learn and practice good technique, which involves stiff wrists in a very slightly bent back position, and thumbs around the barbell - NO SUICIDE GRIP. The safeties won't catch the bar and stop it from hitting your chest, so it's best to reduce the chances of dropping the bar on your chest from almost zero to even closer to almost zero. I've been bench pressing regularly for well over 20 years, always put my thumbs around the bar, and have never dropped it on myself. Nor has anyone I have coached to the best of my memory, over tens of thousands of sets and hundreds of thousands of reps. I have used safeties to successfully avoid getting trapped under the bar after a failed rep. In the video below, I tweaked my pec while pushing through a rep at 485 and had to set the bar on the pins to avoid getting trapped under it. This kind of situation is the primary use for the safeties. It's good to have them set up regardless - they might indeed save you if you somehow still manage to drop the bar, but they also very well might not.

Deep Squats, Shallow Thoughts

924,757 views • 8 months ago

You don't need arm days to build big arms. Pure heresy in the bro-science scriptures, I know. But 30 sets, six different angles and a conga line of finishers won't build them. That just buries the muscle in fatigue and damage faster than it can repair. Arms are small. They already take a beating from every row, chin and press you do. Pile an arm marathon on top and you sail straight past stimulation into the swamp, where the body is too busy patching torn tissue to build anything new. Here is the entire programme. One biceps exercise. One triceps exercise. Two heavy sets each. Twice a week. Lift heavy enough that the weight does the talking, then stop before fatigue muscles in. Give the arm one hard, clean reason to grow and leave it alone to get on with it. Four working sets a week, per arm. Watch them grow.

You don't need arm days to build big arms. Pure heresy in the bro-science scriptures, I know. But 30 sets, six different angles and a conga line of finishers won't build them. That just buries the muscle in fatigue and damage faster than it can repair. Arms are small. They already take a beating from every row, chin and press you do. Pile an arm marathon on top and you sail straight past stimulation into the swamp, where the body is too busy patching torn tissue to build anything new. Here is the entire programme. One biceps exercise. One triceps exercise. Two heavy sets each. Twice a week. Lift heavy enough that the weight does the talking, then stop before fatigue muscles in. Give the arm one hard, clean reason to grow and leave it alone to get on with it. Four working sets a week, per arm. Watch them grow.

Sama Hoole

75,409 views • 2 months ago

🚨 THIS IS END OF AI BUBBLE The S&P 500 keeps hitting all-time highs. But almost nobody sees the systemic crisis brewing. Wall Street has built a giant debt pyramid. Just like in 2000. How it works: Companies borrow billions using inflated assets as collateral. Then they give that money right back to buy more of the same assets. On paper, it's a masterpiece: Stocks report record valuations. Buybacks show explosive returns. Markets keep skyrocketing. In reality, a big part of the demand is fake. It's a circular loop. And it only works as long as cheap money keeps flowing. When rates stay high long enough, the collateral loses value fast. Even worse: most companies still aren't making enough to justify these huge costs. This is not "if". It's already starting. Remember, I warned about the last three major reversals before they happened. My next call will be the biggest one this cycle. Turn on notifications. Most people will follow me too late.

🚨 THIS IS END OF AI BUBBLE The S&P 500 keeps hitting all-time highs. But almost nobody sees the systemic crisis brewing. Wall Street has built a giant debt pyramid. Just like in 2000. How it works: Companies borrow billions using inflated assets as collateral. Then they give that money right back to buy more of the same assets. On paper, it's a masterpiece: Stocks report record valuations. Buybacks show explosive returns. Markets keep skyrocketing. In reality, a big part of the demand is fake. It's a circular loop. And it only works as long as cheap money keeps flowing. When rates stay high long enough, the collateral loses value fast. Even worse: most companies still aren't making enough to justify these huge costs. This is not "if". It's already starting. Remember, I warned about the last three major reversals before they happened. My next call will be the biggest one this cycle. Turn on notifications. Most people will follow me too late.

Wimar.X

66,459 views • 2 months ago