Not who you’re asking to, but I would always recommend to use a free weight barbell when deadlifting. The Smith machine is something I always avoid because it takes away the factor of stability, and when you don’t train it you will notice if you switch to free weights after training with the Smith machine that you will lift less. As for dumbbells, I honestly do not think there are any of those heavy enough to practice the deadlift with them, and even then I think your form would suffer heavily from it.

If you need some theory on how to perform them with good form, I think this video is ideal for it.

Just tell them to fuck off. It is really that easy to push away people who are not worth being around.

Ice cold take: Ukraine establishing that Kiev should be called “Kyiv” in all languages is as much of a cringy move as when Turkey did the same with “Turkiye” years later.

A simple one: being able to hit 1/2/3/4 by the beginning of summer.

If you ever return - Play jazz in the background. Something chill that you would hear at a lounge. Your mood changes completely and you go from tense and raging to feeling at your most laid back mood. For me it turned multi player FPS games into a relaxing activity.

It’s the 1st flag by the left in the 4th tier If a country by that name existed then people would talk about it. And no one ever talks about Laos.

It’s a bit biased according to personal criteria, tbh. Also, the tierlist can be interpreted in several ways, like “knowing that these exist” but also as “knowing how do/did they work, their history and so on”. According to how you interpret it, a few flags may move one tier up, one tier down.

You must now print a picture of Sukhbaatar and another of Choibalsan, hang them on the wall of your bedroom and beg them every night to forgive you for your sins.

No worries! To be fair I did considering putting in Democratic Kampuchea, as it wouldn’t be the only dumpster fire under the name of socialism that is on that list. However I decided not to, on the basis of not wanting to repeat several iterations of socialist (or “socialist”) states encompassing the same geographical area. Otherwise, there would be many, many more chinese communist flags from the Civil War era in there and I didn’t want to be redundant.

Shoo, shoo. Go away, HOI4 player.

Reading too much theory like me leaves you with the sight of a mole for things that are far away, but also with the eyes of a falcon for very tiny and small things that are close. That is the flag of the People’s Republic of Kampuchea, not to be confused with the Khmer Rouge’s Democratic Kampuchea. The flags are slightly different.

Probably, although reading books specifically on modern Korean history isn’t that much of a popular activity. I won’t lie, it should have been one tier up, but the need to have all ephemeral countries shoved together into one single tier was stronger than I was.

nah we talking about the Caballero government not the dang CEDA! its “underground” in the sense reds were running an ostensibly bourgois republic with a liberal president for 2 years or so

You see, “bourgeois state run secretly by reds” would make a lot of countries get into the list and it was somewhere that I had to put the line to decide which states are in and which ones are out. At first I even considered putting inside every country that ever made a reference to socialism in their constitution, but that would put Portugal in, despite having been nowhere close to work socialist state the likes of the USSR. I even had to discard countries that ran on arab socialism like Lybia.

no spanish republic

Funny you say that, because I had the same complaint from a person who made the role of test audience. The 2SR is the best period of Spanish history, but it was no socialist state and CEDA’s rule from 1934 to 36 is proof of that.

no mexican liberal party

That learns more towards the side of anarcho-communism, and I decided to not include those (even if they also have their little hidden projects that have been forgotten by history).

Sükhbaatar my beloved

Watch out spoilerinos!!1!

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You seem sad. Would a 90 kyats banknote cheer you up?

I only accept if the name of the country is actually and officially “USSR 2”. Not even “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 2”. I want it in that exact form.

My favourite type of video game journalism is pirating the game to find out if it is good myself.

It sure is nice to see that the sheer brutality of Israel’s actions is making them unable to gain the sympathy even of Reddit. I think never before a country with so much western support has lost the PR war so resoundingly.