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Gillette is more likely to sponsor women in science, to fight toxic masculinity:

@cubsfan, no one is going to convince you otherwise. But SS is a beginner program for young people. Weightlifting can and should be done by older people, but you've drunk the SS cool aid. I have Rippetoe's book and videos, I've done the program, I even have some of his intermediate books. He's awesome. But any sort of 5x5 program (and yes, I know that Rippetoe's is actually a 3x5 program) going three times a week is way too tough for a 68 year old guy. Even Rippetoe says that you need to eat like a pig to recover, he recommends GOMAD. A program like Pavel's Power to the People is much better for older people. I like fitness. I still do squats and I can still dunk a basketball even though I'm in my 50s. But yoga is the only exercise that actually makes my body feel better.

Starting Strength is designed for young men. It requires a huge calorie surplus and is designed to be a 4 or 5 month program at most. I'd go with a program like Pavel's Power to the People instead. Much easier on the body and you don't need to eat like a pig.

I find their zero covid policy mind boggling.

(That comment was for UK)

I wouldn't put any importance to the sentiment of ma and pop investors (or cobf investors). It's the sentiment of the major institutional investors, pension funds, hedge funds, etc., that matter. The billionaires control the markets, not the random retail investor you're talking about.

Thanks for the replies. I was initially thinking there might be room for one bankruptcy / restructuring, which could cause panic and huge drop in the shares of the others to allow investors to scoop up shares on the cheap, not multiple! Sounds like general consensus is that there is a lot more pain on the way for this sector.

Cruise line companies are almost back to March 2020 lows, and CCL has dropped even lower. Makes me very interested in how low they might go and how much potential this sector represents. My thesis is fairly simple: - the demographics are great for cruises: old people love cruises, so the sector should continue to grow as boomers retire - there is pent up demand - people who cruise have not been going as much due to Covid - Covid is (mostly) over - mandates, etc., are mostly over Because of the above, I think the sector should be in position to grow. However, this sector involves discretionary spending so it is very economically sensitive. With a recession predicted, there could be more short-term pain for the sector. But again, I assume that this should be short term. The big dream is that one of the big ones (CCL or Norwegian, etc) file for bankruptcy and the whole sector tanks. Curious to know what people think are the best and worst investments in this sector? I think that LIND represents the best opportunity - it is small and involves more elite-style cruising, so it might be less sensitive to recession (the rich people who take their cruises are less sensitive to recession).

If you think there will be a lost decade, you can always shift most of your investments to high dividend stocks as a hedge. Stuff like PM.

Sorry for your losses, Parsad. We're dealing with a complex problem here, made more difficult by the emotional components. I think it's best to agree to disagree.

Exactly. If you played some pickup basketball during Covid, you were labelled a murderer. But people having orgies with strangers during monkeypox are immune from criticism.

I don't mean to pick on you Parsad, but this is a joke. Canadian hospitals were already overwhelmed before Covid - patients in hospital beds in the hallways has been a regular sight for 20 years. We went into debt a trillion dollars due to Covid, with CERB et al., but we didn't increase hospital capacity at all. Perhaps the first shutdown was needed to give time to react, but after that we should have focussed on creating space in the system for patients. For a trillion dollars, we could have built dozens of mega hospitals, huge wings of ICU care, and completely modernized the medical system. Instead, we paid people to stay home and crushed small business. It was bad policy, but governments focus on re-election and no politician wanted an image of a covid patient being turned away and sent home to die because that would kill their hopes for re-election.

Doom and gloom sells. Fact is that there is way more than enough food for the whole world - the problem is distribution, not supply. Food rots in one country while there is a famine in another.

Got it. Closing bath houses in the 80s didn't slow down HIV, so massive gay orgies should be perfectly fine in 2022 during monkeypox. Wouldn't want to stigmatize anyone, after all.

You are acting like the AIDS epidemic didn't overwhelmingly affect gay men. Why is it so hard to admit that monkeypox is also being transmitted mostly through gay sex? Science says so: a study of recent transmission in 16 countries showed that 98% of those infected were gay men: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2207323 So no, monkeypox will not be as easily transmitted between Greg and his wife as it will between a group of men engaging in anal sex at an orgy.